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Unappreciated at Any Speed

Seventy Bay Area enthusiasts -- and thousands more across the nation -- don't care what Ralph Nader says. They want their Corvairs.

By Tara Shioya

Published: August 20, 1997

The first thing a visitor sees upon entering Dave Newell's apartment in El Sobrante is the red-and-white vinyl front bench seat from a 1964 truck. But this is no ordinary seat, Newell explains...

News

Spammer-Jamming Hammered

The Internet's version of the Hatfields and the McCoys just escalated

By Matt Smith

Published: August 20, 1997

Tens of thousands of university students, network professionals, and other avowed enemies of the bulk electronic sales pitches known as "Spam" opened their e-mail boxes earlier this month to read:...

News

Dog Bites

By T. S., P. O

Published: August 20, 1997

Speed 3 Tuesday, June 24, was a particularly bad traffic day for the San Francisco Fire Department, according to minutes from a recent Fire Commission meeting. The score card:...

Letters

Letters

Published: August 20, 1997

2000, Clown It was interesting to see the article and cover story by Matt Smith "Recycling America" (July 30). Unfortunately it began with the words "As the millennium approaches," so I...

Music

Reviews

By Paul Kimball, Martin Johnson, Jeff Stark

Published: August 20, 1997

Old 97's, Blueland Great American Music Hall Thursday, Aug. 7 Aside from being the most visually satisfying place to see bands in S.F., the Great American Music Hall, by virtue of its...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 20, 1997

The pale, antiseptic lobby of the Union Square Holiday Inn makes the hotel seem an unlikely place for a celebration of Oriental dance. Luckily, a small, electronic billboard and a gaggle of German...

Music

Grope for Merit

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

By Michael Batty

Published: August 20, 1997

Before that pasty altrock stew bubbled over into their arena, it seemed the Melvins could do no wrong. Not because their odd, abbreviated albums were ever perfect, but because they showed...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: August 20, 1997

The Drummer Vanishes In a moot juxtaposition of publicity spin and state propaganda, Riff Raff offers the two pictures seen here. One we received in the mail, in announcement of an impending...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 20, 1997

Even a simple Idiot Flesh performance would be well-worth a flag-waving testimonial -- but the Friday, Aug. 22, Idiot Flesh show at Maritime Hall is being headlined by Giant Robot and opened by...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: August 20, 1997

Anthony Braxton's Ghost Trance Festival Braxton never thinks small. He realized long ago that if music ("jazz") is to retain its vitality and forward motion, it must be subjected to...

Music

Hear This

By Jeff Stark

Published: August 20, 1997

Beth Orton Perhaps a few words from the liner notes to Beth Orton's beautiful Trailer Park contain the key to understanding the British folkie's work: "One more thing ...," the singer/guitarist...

Eat

After the Moguls

By Naomi Wise

Published: August 20, 1997

Indian Oven 233 Fillmore (at Haight), 626-1628. Open daily from 5 to 11 p.m. Reservations strongly advised. The restaurant is not wheelchair accessible. Delivery and takeout available. Parking...

Film

Open Your Mouth and Say "AH"

By Michael Sragow

Published: August 20, 1997

Mimic Directed by Guillermo Del Toro. Written by Del Toro and Matthew Robbins, from a story by Donald A. Wolheim. Starring Mira Sorvino and Jeremy Northam. Opens Friday, Aug. 22, at the Kabuki....

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: August 20, 1997

Silents at the Stanford One of the nicer attributes of Palo Alto's Stanford Theater is its insistence on reviving the lost art form of silent cinema. On the far side of the sound barrier films...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: August 20, 1997

G.I. Jane Josef von Sternberg once said that he wished his movies would be projected upside down, so that viewers could appreciate their beauty without regard for their often sketchy stories....

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 20, 1997

wednesday august 20 Fly Girl "I'm half Latina, half lesbian, and I don't like labels," offers comedian Marga Gomez on her first comedy album, Hung Like a Fly. The introduction is hardly...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 20, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): While on vacation in Maui, I've made a point of floating for hours at a time in the womb- temperature sea. During these hypnotic outings, I've struck up conversations...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: August 20, 1997

Union Hits at KGO Recently, Channel 7's newscast has had something worth watching: genuine, unscripted, spontaneous moments. This was not, however, a result of journalistic enterprise. Rather,...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: August 20, 1997

Here Kitty Kitty After publication of a recent Slap Shots item on the proposed eradication of feral cats in the city, this column was deluged with letters on the subject. (Well, there were a...

Halloween

The Grid

By George Cothran, John Mecklin

Published: August 20, 1997

The Map of Kaufman Anyone who has attended a San Francisco Board of Supervisors meeting knows what it is like to be bored by the board. Committees and committees of the whole convene and report...