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A Tale of Two Neighborhoods

With his motorcycles and his tattoos, Jon Bryce LaPierre is almost prototypically blue-collar. He's also an almost archetypal bully, and he's got the yuppie neighbors scared witless.

By George Cothran

Published: May 7, 1997

"Oh my. Oh no," Jay Sciarra mumbled as he flipped through a criminal case file in a records room at the San Francisco Hall of Justice. The file concerned a 1996 probation violation. One document in...

News

Dog Bites

By Matt Smith, George Cothran

Published: May 7, 1997

Peruvian Chopping Expedition The shopping's great in Peru again now that the government has freed hostages from the Japanese ambassador's residence, according to a press release from the San...

Letters

Letters

Published: May 7, 1997

Nebraska's Learning Japanese I'd like to correct a misconception expressed in Matt Smith's eulogy to Dudley Perkins in your April 30 issue ("Life Cycle," Bay View). It is debatable whether the...

Music

Racket

By Andi Zeisler

Published: May 7, 1997

In the ongoing high art/low art debate, comic books have gained increasing respect over the years, but are still held at a distance by many people. It's not the art form itself that's unpalatable...

Music

Recordings

By Curtis Bonney, Martin Johnson, Bill Wyman

Published: May 7, 1997

Karp Self Titled LP (K) There are those who would say this country is in dire need of a presidential address on the State of Metal. So many unanswered questions linger: Whatever happened...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Michael Batty, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Bill Wyman

Published: May 7, 1997

Soft-Boiled Riff Raff likes it when boomers try to be hip. Exposes them as poseurs. Take the new Lively Arts column in the Chron. News tidbits on the arts, compiled by feature writer Jerry Carroll....

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: May 7, 1997

Liquid Soul When the thirst arises for true funk, one can feel as if trapped in a bar with only Coors Light on tap. Fortunately Chicago's Liquid Soul have brewed a fresh sound with their...

Music

You Talkin' to Me?

By Andrew Lentz

Published: May 7, 1997

Unsane, Kiss It Goodbye, Sweet Diesel Trocadero Sunday, April 27 When an evening's headliner is a niche-defying noise act like Unsane, it's odd that a band like Sweet Diesel would open....

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 7, 1997

Despite crops stretching to the horizon, life is parched in Hollister. It is as if the sun is closer to the ground here, an hour and a half away from San Francisco where the fog keeps us moist. We...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 7, 1997

Corky Hale has played harp for Liberace and piano for Billie Holiday; she has accompanied Mel Torme, Peggy Lee, and Lena Horne; sung for Harry James, Ray Anthony, and Clark Terry; recorded with...

Eat

River of Dreams

By Naomi Wise

Published: May 7, 1997

The Ganges Restaurant 775 Frederick, 661-7290. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 5 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. Credit cards accepted. Reservations advised on weekends. Parking chancy. Served by the 6,...

Film

The Choir Visible

By Michael Sragow

Published: May 7, 1997

Paradise Road Written and directed by Bruce Beresford. Starring Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins, Jennifer Ehle, and Julianna Margulies. At area theaters. No one has exploited...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 7, 1997

wednesday may 7 Digging the Scene With a Quantum Lean Over the course of an evening's cocktails, characters in Going, Going, Gone begin to find that everything's relative. Sparked by...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 7, 1997

Table for One Our second in a series of nocturnal mayoral sightings finds us at Powell's Place fried chicken joint in Hayes Valley. The MO remains essentially the same -- the mayoral limo...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: May 7, 1997

Merc Stages Shootout in Gulch A little more than a year ago, the San Jose Mercury News reported that the San Francisco Examiner was about to fold. The Ex is still alive, though barely, with a...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: May 7, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): Although you'll never find an advertisement for Coke or Nike within the hallowed confines of this column, you will find lots of hype for more spiritual commodities, like...

Halloween

The Grid

By George Cothran, Chuck Finnie

Published: May 7, 1997

Questionable Developments Earlier this year, when political infighting threatened a compromise effort to gain federal funds for extending the Bay Area Rapid Transit system to San Francisco...

Stage

Stage

By Carol Lloyd, Michael Scott Moore, Frederick Luis Aldama, Julie Chase

Published: May 7, 1997

The Audience Is The Thing Shear Madness. By Paul Portner. Directed by Bruce Jordan. Starring Matt Callahan, Francine Torres, and Christopher Tarjan. At the Mason Street Theater, 340 Mason, on...