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Recycling America

As the millennium approaches, the country is engulfed in a bicycling craze that's reminiscent of our last fin de siecle. A Bay Area street kid named George Mount helped start it all. Savior on Wheels

By Matt Smith

Published: July 30, 1997

I have started many stories about bicycle racing but have never written one that is as good as the races are. -- Ernest Hemingway in A Moveable Feast On a tree-lined street of a Silicon...

News

Press Passes Pass Away

No more free parking for the city's journalists

By Tara Shioya

Published: July 30, 1997

As of midnight Dec. 31, San Francisco's press corps can kiss their precious pink parking passes goodbye, under a recent California Supreme Court ruling that revokes special parking privileges for...

Letters

Letters

Published: July 30, 1997

Bard of the Books Though McDonald's proprietor Itzhak Volansky "doesn't care at all for the store or, for that matter, books," according to George Cothran ("All Booked Up," July 23), he plays a...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran, Matt Smith

Published: July 30, 1997

In Like Clint Political consultant and real estate baron Clint Reilly dropped by our swank new offices the other day, dragging behind him several suits. Seems Reilly, who was looking fit...

News

Spokesman Without a Cause

For the media, Christian Lackner has equaled Critical Mass -- even though he's deeply disliked or feared by many cycling leaders

By Steve Boland

Published: July 30, 1997

Participants in Critical Mass, the monthly rush-hour bicycle ride that turned into chaos last Friday, say they have no single leader and no single representative. Yet for the past four years,...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 30, 1997

A young woman walking down Howard Street with her freshly fluffed miniature poodle smiles pleasantly when she hears a man call out: "We like your dog. Bring the dog inside." The smile is...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: July 30, 1997

The Crystal Method For those wishing to hear breakbeat, listening to mainstream offerings can mean staring at a looming wall of equipment and lights a la the Chemical Brothers -- or, worse yet,...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 30, 1997

At this point, the stalwart lads from Undercover S.K.A. have been awaiting the "big ska revival" for over a decade and a half. They clocked into the club circuit around the same time that the...

Music

Tragic Bus

Dope(s), guns, and urine on the Brian Jonestown Massacre's summer tour

By Jeff Stark

Published: July 30, 1997

All night long Anton Newcombe babbled like an arrogant schoolboy. The singer/guitarist berated the seated Starry Plough audience with tales of his own grandeur and then insulted them when they...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: July 30, 1997

Mickey Hart's Planet Drum Regardless of what you think about the Grateful Dead, you have to give props to drummer Mickey Hart for his legitimate ethnomusicological enterprises. It seems a youth...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: July 30, 1997

Ingenuine Draft For the record, that was Dave Grohl -- the guy who played drums in Nirvana -- onstage at the Fillmore doing a Miller commercial during the MGD Blind Date concert on July 18. After...

Eat

Stars-Studded Affair

By Naomi Wise

Published: July 30, 1997

Farallon 450 Post (at Powell), 956-6969. Open for lunch daily except Sunday from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Open for dinner every day from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Reservations strongly recommended. The...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: July 30, 1997

World on a Wire Walnut-headed engineer Karl Lswitsch makes some disturbing discoveries while supervising a computerized "artificial miniature world" of some 9,000 "identity units." Colleagues...

Film

Highland Fling

By Michael Sragow

Published: July 30, 1997

Mrs. Brown Directed by John Madden. Screenplay by Jeremy Brock. Starring Judi Dench, Billy Connolly, and Antony Sher. At the Embarcadero Center. In the not-so-brave new world of independent...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: July 30, 1997

The Last Picture Show On July 20, a Sunday night quiet even by San Francisco's somnambulant standards, the Northpoint theater closed. A modern pinnacle of wide-screen exhibition with a huge...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: July 30, 1997

wednesday july 30 Antwerp's Finest Maybe it's the difficulty in crossing the Flemish/English language barrier that makes dEUS lyrics seem so nutty, or maybe the band is nutty in Flemish,...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: July 30, 1997

No More Hemorrhoids With Attitude Starting July 28, Live 105 morning listeners will have a new voice on the air to replace the cranky Alex Bennett, who has officially "moved on to bigger and...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: July 30, 1997

Hey, Faggot: This letter is in response to your criticism of the female condom in your reply to "Frisbee of Love" [June 18]. As the manufacturer and distributor of the Reality female condom, we...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: July 30, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): Recipe for Jelly Bean Soup: Wait for a morning when you wake up in an irrationally cheerful mood. Put on the clothes you'd wear if a fairy godmother had given you the...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: July 30, 1997

Mickey Mouse at Channel 7 Channel 7 (KGO-TV) News scored a real coup recently. Evening anchor Terilyn Joe broke into regular programming with stunning live coverage (complete with shots of...