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Esprit de Court

How Susie Tompkins Buell built, wrecked, and sued San Francisco's legendary Esprit de Corp. clothing company, and why she still gets to sit next to President Clinton

By Matt Smith

Published: October 8, 1997

The dashing blonde in the loose-fitting, autumn-colored leisure ensemble has been having a stressful week. First, there was the visit from the FBI investigators; "I can't remember, it was...

News

History of the Dead

A photographer's view of the unwanted graveyard under the Palace of the Legion of Honor

By Tim Kingston

Published: October 8, 1997

Museums are usually thought of as places where history is preserved and the past -- or at least the past chosen by the museum curator -- is displayed and explained. But sometimes the museum's...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran, J. M, T. S.

Published: October 8, 1997

You're Slipping, Warren Last week, SF Weekly writer George Cothran made an involuntary appearance in a local political conspiracy exposed by columnist Warren Hinckle in the pages of the...

News

Practice What You Teach

UCSF students wish the medical school would tend to their health

By David Pasztor

Published: October 8, 1997

When she developed a vexing rash over most of her body, Liz Haswell figured at least she was in the right place. A graduate biochemistry student at the University of California, San Francisco,...

Letters

Letters

Published: October 8, 1997

Not Like Mike As a reader I could have been better served if Michael Sragow had taken a recent lesson in manners, the manner in question being, "If you don't have anything nice to say, change...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: October 8, 1997

Bring the Noise Live music venues are rare enough in San Francisco, but hip-hop clubs are scarcer than rubies on Twin Peaks. For years now, occasional gigs at indie rock or dance clubs have been...

Music

Reviews

By Jill Stauffer, Martin Johnson

Published: October 8, 1997

Stereolab Dots and Loops (Elektra) You could compare the lyrics and music on Stereolab's new Dots and Loops with 1992's Switched On or other of their early works and conclude that the...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 8, 1997

"Words do not express thoughts very well," Hermann Hesse once wrote. "They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish." The quote...

Music

Apocrypha

By Martin Johnson

Published: October 8, 1997

Miles Davis Black Beauty: Live at the Fillmore West Miles Davis at Fillmore: Live at the Fillmore East Live-Evil Miles Davis in Concert: Live at Philharmonic Hall Dark...

Music

Deuces Wild!

When it comes to improv, two's a charm

By Sam Prestianni

Published: October 8, 1997

If so-called avant-garde jazz doesn't shake listeners with new, unfamiliar structures, it's not doing its job. Contemporary improv can overwhelm novice listeners, especially when it features...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: October 8, 1997

Muzsiks & Marta Sebestyen After earning 67 seconds of fame by singing the opening theme of last year's most unaccountably popular art-house hit, Hungarian vocalist Marta Sebestyen's record...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 8, 1997

Greg Garing wears a lot of black -- black leather pants, black shoes, big black belts, long black coats. Occasionally he breaks up the moody tedium with a sassy splash of gun-barrel gray -- but...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: October 8, 1997

Future Primitive Soundsessions A Future Primitive Soundsession is the hip-hop equivalent of Mandelbrot fractals: The sporadic parties always produce collages of sound that swim in beats of...

Eat

Plate Tectonics

By Naomi Wise

Published: October 8, 1997

Zarzuela 2000 Hyde (at Union), 346-0800. Open daily noon to 10:30 p.m., until 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Parking by miracle only. Muni via the 41 & 45 Union and the Powell-Hyde cable car. Not...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: October 8, 1997

Shock Corridor For about a decade, from films like Pickup on South Street (1953) through to the incendiary Underworld U.S.A. (1961), Sam Fuller was a very disciplined artist, able to turn out...

Film

Second Time Around

By Tod Booth

Published: October 8, 1997

Shotgun Freeway It's turning out to be the Year of L.A. The two best American movies of 1997, Boogie Nights and L.A. Confidential, both plunge headlong into Los Angeles' mythical,...

Film

Tribute

By Michael Sragow

Published: October 8, 1997

Little Big Moviemaker Barry Levinson's Diner won plaudits like "minor miracle" when it opened in 1982. The qualifier "minor" turned up because critics like myself who loved the film didn't want...

Film

Valley Ho!

A critical guide to week two of the Mill Valley Film Fest

By Gary Morris, Gregg Rickman, Tod Booth, Michael Sragow

Published: October 8, 1997

Bad Manners This is a wonderfully funny, brittle update of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Director Jonathan Kaufer, adapting David Gilman's expertly engineered play Ghost in the Machine,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Steve Mobia

Published: October 8, 1997

The Sandglass Of all the films that delve into the realms of dream and hallucination, none is more masterfully realized than Wojciech Has' The Sandglass. Drawn from short stories by Polish...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 8, 1997

wednesday october 8 Slippery When Wet The bidding war to push big shots into the pool should be fierce at this year's TNDC Celebrity Pool Toss -- candidates include San Francisco 49ers...