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The Fall of Love

Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.

By Jeff Stark

Published: August 13, 1997

The fog clouded over the empty soccer fields at the west end of Golden Gate Park in a thick gray mass as Chet Helms attached a tiny microphone to his lapel. A CNN reporter in expensive shoes and a...

Letters

Letters

Published: August 13, 1997

On the Bus or Off the Bus? What is Jeff Stark's motive in his music article "Tragic Bus" (July 30)? Why does he waste two whole pages on human garbage like Anton Newcombe, when there are lots...

News

Monsters of Drag

Craig Breedlove teams with SOMA performance artists to regain his land speed record as the fastest human on Earth

By Matt Smith

Published: August 13, 1997

There are some things in this world so wasteful, so dangerous, so dramatically irresponsible they deserve only praise. Speed-of-sound land rockets driven by 60-year-old real estate salesmen...

News

Dog Bites

By Bill Wyman, P. O, L. D.

Published: August 13, 1997

Ex Big Gun Shoots Opera Sure Allan Ulrich's paean to the refurbished War Memorial Opera House ("Days will soon be charged with anticipation") in last Sunday's Examiner was a bit swoony. But...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: August 13, 1997

Sam Rivers' Living Legend Tribute Jazz in Flight has dedicated the last two nights of its Eddie Moore Jazz Festival to Sam Rivers for being a living legend, whatever that means. For more than...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: August 13, 1997

Some Friendly Advice to All Baby Boomers From the Music Editor Concerning the 20th Anniversary of Elvis Presley's Demise Upon That Fabled Toilet, and the Inexorable Passing of Their Youth Let it...

Music

The Wanderer

By Greil Marcus

Published: August 13, 1997

Elvis Presley remains a singer. Just below the surface of the popular imagination, he remains a traveler. This is not the story as it is currently reported. Elvis Presley, one will read...

Music

Reviews

By Victor Haseman, Michael Batty

Published: August 13, 1997

The Specials, Undercover S.K.A. Fillmore Thursday, July 31 Have you ever dreamed about going back in time to one of the creatively crucial moments in modern music history? Maybe to the...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 13, 1997

Soon after writing the remarkable autobiography No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, John Lydon began to record Psycho's Path, a deeply personal collection of songs that were perhaps an excrescence...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: August 13, 1997

Youth Brigade If Green Day are the young new purveyors of punk, then Youth Brigade are its grumpy old men. Youth Brigade have been hammering out good, fast punk rock for the last 17 years with...

Eat

Exuberantly Italian

By Naomi Wise

Published: August 13, 1997

Laghi 1801 Clement (at 19th Avenue), 386-6266. Open Tuesday to Sunday 5 to 10 p.m. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible. Reservations strongly advised. Parking difficult. Reachable on Muni...

Film

A Couple of Clowns

By Michael Sragow

Published: August 13, 1997

Box of Moonlight Directed and written by Tom DiCillo. Starring John Turturro, Sam Rockwell, Catherine Keener, Lisa Blount, Annie Corely, Alexander Goodwin, and Dermot Mulroney. At the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: August 13, 1997

Contempt There are but three sequences (and 149 shots) in this literally legendary Jean-Luc Godard film of 1963. In the first we are introduced to Michel Piccoli, a hack screenwriter working on...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: August 13, 1997

Until the End of the World Wim Wenders went decisively out of fashion with this 1991 film, an interesting international road movie that becomes a desert-island meditation about life and dreams...

Film

Flunking Out

By Michael Sragow

Published: August 13, 1997

187 Directed by Kevin Reynolds. Written by Scott Yagemann. Starring Samuel L. Jackson, John Heard, Kelly Rowan, Clifton Gonzalez, and Karina Arroyave. At area theaters. 187, a number favored...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 13, 1997

wednesday august 13 The Dub Factor Through 23 years, a half-dozen labels, and three lead singers, Jamaica's Black Uhuru have done their part to keep reggae on the international radar with...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: August 13, 1997

The Fettered Web The next battle in the war over free speech on the Internet is going to be fought in our public libraries. That particular battle has not yet begun in San Francisco; at...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 13, 1997

As a warm, summer dusk settles over SOMA, hints of ukulele and roast pig waft through the intersection of Harrison and Eighth Street. Trader Joe's shoppers looking for parking in the lot nearby...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 13, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): About the fifth month of pregnancy, the mother-to-be starts feeling the growing fetus kicking her. It's often a breathtaking event: the palpable evidence that there's a...

Stage

Stage

By Michael Scott Moore, Julie Chase, Carol Lloyd

Published: August 13, 1997

Pfui! The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. By Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Nicole Malkin. Starring Frank Torrano, Nick Sholley, Wendy Wilcox, and Erin Merritt. Presented by Unconditional Theater at...