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Falling for the Gap

San Francisco gave away the store to help The Gap Inc. and its politically connected chairman build an upscale headquarters with a bay view. But more than $18 million in subsidies apparently won't bring the city anything it couldn't have had free.

By Chuck Finnie

Published: May 28, 1997

If you walk from the foot of Market Street south along the Embarcadero, you become part of one of the views that keep bringing the tourists back to San Francisco. To your left is the blue of...

News

The Pain of It All

Bay Area bread-makers challenge the French for world baking supremacy

By Laurel Wellman

Published: May 28, 1997

Craig Ponsford is a world champion, and he has the trophy to prove it, an enormous silver cup that dominates one corner of his cluttered Sonoma office. "Bread's a big deal in Europe," he...

News

Dog Bites

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: May 28, 1997

Stamp Out Crime Where should an aspiring Perry Mason troll for clients? Where the criminals are, of course. At least that's the message from the savvy programmers at United Reporting...

Letters

Letters

Published: May 28, 1997

Let Antoinetta Decide As a transsexual I applaud your respectful treatment of Antoinetta Stadlman in Matt Smith's cover story "Queen of Sixth Street" (May 21), but wonder why so much focus was...

Music

Heavy on the Lite

By Curtis Bonney

Published: May 28, 1997

Ultra Lounge: The Lexicon of Easy Listening By Dylan Jones Universe Publishing 144 pages, $19.95 "Easycore" is what he calls it -- see him there, present day, still staggering around...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Michael Batty, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Bill Wyman

Published: May 28, 1997

And Now a Word From the Billboard 200, as of May 24, 1997 No. 1: Spice Girls, Spice. Hot Shot Debut: Hanson, Middle of Nowhere. Greatest Gainer: Yanni, In the Mirror. Pacesetter: the Evita...

Music

Recordings

By Curtis Bonney, Martin Johnson, Cath Carroll, Michael Batty

Published: May 28, 1997

Cheap Trick (Cheap Trick/Red Ant Entertainment) Before we bog ourselves down in the bubble gum, let's get the disclaimer out of the way: The purpose of this essay isn't to compare Cheap Trick...

Music

Racket

By Andi Zeisler

Published: May 28, 1997

"Sex: In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact," Marlene Dietrich once said. Female sexuality seems to be the obsession of the moment, in the sense that more and more women (like...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 28, 1997

Two men in polyester-satin blends gaze through the door of the 16th Street McDonald's. Between bites of their Big Macs, they keep an alert eye on a small gray mouse that sits in the center of the...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: May 28, 1997

Om Lounge Despite the recent success of DJ Shadow, recognition of hip-hop DJs as artists in their own right has been less than forthcoming, with most of the attention going to rap and the MC....

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 28, 1997

Scott Rosenberg The first time I saw Scott Rosenberg he was crawling under tables and knocking around bottles on the floor of Radio Valencia Cafe while an ad hoc group of his peers attempted to...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 28, 1997

Although many astroheads have come to regard Saturn as the god of toil, for the Romans he was the highly celebrated god of agriculture -- that means grapes as well as wheat (wine is of key import...

Eat

Bird on a Wire

By Naomi Wise

Published: May 28, 1997

Peregrine 642 Irving (at Eighth Avenue), 566-5515. Open weekdays 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., weekends 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Weekend brunch is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Credit cards accepted. Parking very...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: May 28, 1997

The Adventures of Prince Achmed Eighty minutes or so of pure viewing pleasure await filmgoers adventurous enough to attend a silent animated film done entirely in cutout silhouettes....

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: May 28, 1997

Lost Horizon The Castro Theater's Frank Capra series concludes with his audacious film of James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon, certainly the most ambitious attempt at realizing a utopian society...

Film

Second Time Around

By Michael Sragow

Published: May 28, 1997

On Her Majesty's Public Broadcasting Service Most Americans got their first taste of Beyond the Fringe comic Alan Bennett's eloquence as a dramatist with the hourlong 1983 BBC film An...

Film

Magical Mystery Tour

By Michael Sragow

Published: May 28, 1997

Rough Magic Directed by Clare Peploe. Written by Robert Mundy, William Brookfield, and Peploe from the novel Miss Shumway Waves a Wand, by James Hadley Chase. Starring Bridget Fonda, Russell...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 28, 1997

wednesday may 28 Life Is a Cabaret, Damn It Those lashes, those lungs, that Liza-with-a-Z! A life's worth of comparisons (many unfavorable) to her late mother, Judy Garland, never dissuaded...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 28, 1997

Can't Afford No Shoes On a recent trip to Manhattan to promote their new HardWired book about the Burning Man festival, event co-founder Larry Harvey turned to author Brad Weiners and mentioned...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: May 28, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): You're at the heart of the learning season. And what better way to celebrate this pregnant moment than to develop a 20-year plan for your future education? Brainstorm a...