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Dr. Howard Thornton bragged that his state-of-the-art computer system let him take on 1,000 patients a month, scattered across Northern California. But do his patients get anything like quality medical help?

By Lisa Davis

Published: November 26, 1997

Nancy Smitherman never knew all that much about her father's brother, Richard Walker, and it had been a long time since she had seen him. Her uncle lived with her grandmother and walked to work at...

Letters

Letters

Published: November 26, 1997

Another Pal of Al It was a pleasure and a privilege to run across a copy of SF Weekly at the San Francisco airport. I say privilege because one of our weekly newspapers in the Twin Cities was...

News

Dog Bites

By Matt Smith

Published: November 26, 1997

Wired for Action From the looks of it, Roberta Jacobs, a consultant for Wired Ventures, is a hard woman to please. In this month's issue of Glamour magazine, for example (Dog Bites swears, it...

News

A Pollution Breakthrough

Powerful new environmental cleanup regime relies on expert use of votive candles, flowers

By Matt Smith

Published: November 26, 1997

Pour poisonous gunk into the ground, let it stew for a few decades, then spend millions of dollars trying to extract it. Sounds like a recipe for lunacy, doesn't it? Well, San Francisco has...

News

White on White

As Prop. 209 kicks in, whiteness studies draws attention to UC Berkeley

By Denise Dowling

Published: November 26, 1997

Perhaps because university ethnic studies programs grew in parallel with the 1960s civil rights movement, Caucasian scholars in those programs traditionally averted their gaze from the ghost in the...

Music

Reviews

By Robert Arriaga, Martin Johnson, Andi Zeisler

Published: November 26, 1997

Various Artists Audio Alchemy 2 (Ubiquity) DJ compilations promising new experiments in beats and sampling are about as rare as furniture and equally exciting. In the past two years, two...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: November 26, 1997

Are You Sure, Keith? Our quote of the week comes from a communique released by the self-hyping Marginal Prophets, the local hip-hop outfit that tries to turn every show into a news item. The...

Music

The Last of the Hipsters

By Michael Ullman

Published: November 26, 1997

The Complete Atlantic Recordings of Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz & Warne Marsh (Mosaic) Jazz pianist Lennie Tristano died on Long Island in 1978 at the age of 58; but he'd withdrawn years...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: November 26, 1997

DJs Z-Trip and Radar Pollution, endless freeway construction, and suburban sprawl make Phoenix, Ariz., look like a budding Los Angeles; on a cultural level, though, the city's reputation is...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 26, 1997

Sometimes, when you're wishing for a week of Sundays, you wind up with seven Wednesdays. This year the cornucopia of pre-Thanksgiving events should be perverse enough to insulate you from even the...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 26, 1997

WAMMIES '97 Winners: SF Weekly applauds the bands our readers call the best unsigned groups in San Francisco: Americana Kuntry Kunts Hard Rock Idiot Flesh Hip Hop Marginal...

Eat

Thanksgiving Valentine

By Naomi Wise

Published: November 26, 1997

Valentine's Cafe 1793 Church (at 30th Street), 285-2257. Open for dinner from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., until 10 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Brunch is Saturdays and Sundays 9 a.m. to 3 p.m....

Film

State of Siege

By Michael Sragow

Published: November 26, 1997

Welcome to Sarajevo Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Written by Frank Cottrell Boyce, based on Natasha's Story by Michael Nicholson. Starring Stephen Dillane, Woody Harrelson, Marisa Tomei,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: November 26, 1997

High School Every year for the past 30, it seems, documentarian Fred Wiseman has flung another deceptively shapeless film profile of one major institution or another onto the PBS screen, where...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: November 26, 1997

wednesday november 26 The Santa Cause Are you known for your big beer gut and your hearty chuckle? Call the Cross Cultural Family Center, quick: They've got empty red Santa suits they'd...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: November 26, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): Come the holiday season, everyone becomes more receptive to the possibility that miracles can happen. Even the nihilistic party-poopers who dominate the media seem...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: November 26, 1997

Crimson Tide Founded in 1636 with a grant from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Harvard University is America's oldest and most prestigious institute of higher education. There are larger...

Stage

Stage

By Apollinaire Scherr, Michael Scott Moore, Julie Chase, Carol Lloyd

Published: November 26, 1997

Dancing the Talk Erratic Eroticism. Choreography by Huckabay McAllister Dance. At ODC Theater Performance Gallery, 3153 17th St. (at South Van Ness), Nov. 14-22. Call 863-9834. London's DV8...