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Poisoned Probe

How police bungled the exotic poison-for-profit case known as Foxglove

By George Cothran

Published: December 3, 1997

When indictments against members of the Tene-Bimbo Gypsy tribe were handed up early in November, Bay Area daily papers responded with appropriate enthusiasm. They played up the disturbing -- and,...

Letters

Letters

Published: December 3, 1997

Riff Off Sigh. When, oh when, will Riff Raff can the pompous literary masturbation that is being passed off as journalism? You know exactly the kinds of pieces I refer to: the "This...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman, George Cothran

Published: December 3, 1997

More Holiday Fun in Cyberspace The mass layoffs at Wired Ventures may have been a blow to the 33 employees who lost their jobs, but they represented an entrepreneurial opportunity for at least...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: December 3, 1997

Back to Mono! A couple of weeks ago in Los Angeles, San Francisco Neil Diamond cover group Super Diamond played their third sold-out House of Blues show this year. Reason for frontman Randy...

Music

Reviews

By Victor Haseman, Sam Prestianni, Martin Johnson

Published: December 3, 1997

Gravediggaz The Pick, the Sickle and the Shovel (Gee Street) The plan was simple: Ally two talented but unsigned hip-hop veterans (Poetic and Frukwan) with an underground renaissance man...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: December 3, 1997

Refuse twirls down the gutters on Second Street in Oakland: a Cajun-spiced bagel dog wrapper, an American Spirit carton, two Mountain Dew cans, a newborn's disposable diaper -- all gaining speed in...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: December 3, 1997

When most rockers would be busy deconstructing the eye hooks on some bimbo's bra strap, the five overeducated lads in Jonathan Fire*Eater probably sit around on their tour bus debating the merits...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: December 3, 1997

Mumble & Peg The players in Mumble & Peg are a screwy lot, mutant offspring of the late '60s and early '70s, mixed up from birth with the delusions of mass media and hyperconsumption. Yet...

Music

The Lonesome Death (and Life) of Souled American

Dank, dark, and sad with Chicago's weird country band

By Jeff Stark

Published: December 3, 1997

The telling of party stories reminded me of a band named Souled American. As our stories mounted, we grew quiet in the conviction that what we think of as "life" was deceptive. In truth the...

Eat

Cypress Club Undercover

By Naomi Wise

Published: December 3, 1997

Cypress Club 500 Jackson (at Montgomery), 296-8555. Open 5:30 to 10 p.m. daily, until 11 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible. Parking: $5 valet, street parking...

Film

Send in the Clones

By Peter Rainer

Published: December 3, 1997

Alien Resurrection Directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Written by Joss Whedon. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Ron Perlman, Winona Ryder, Brad Dourif, and J.E. Freeman. At area theaters. You can't...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: December 3, 1997

Films by Nicholas Ray Nicholas Ray was the tormented genius of excessive 1950s cinema. His finest work might have come not in his celebrated color melodramas -- Johnny Guitar, Bigger Than Life,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gary Morris

Published: December 3, 1997

"Voices of the Visionaries" When Andre Breton first saw the paintings of Kay Sage in 1938, he assumed the artist was a man. Why? Because they were "too strong" to be done by a woman. Leonor...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gary Morris

Published: December 3, 1997

An Average Little Man Like film noir, neo-realism continued to thrive long after its "golden age," as Mario Monicelli's blistering 1977 drama shows. The great Alberto Sordi is Giovanni Vivaldi,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Bill Wyman

Published: December 3, 1997

Dont Look Back "I am another," wrote Rimbaud. There is perhaps no better documentary of the separation of self from self than Dont Look Back, D.A. Pennebaker's portrait of Bob Dylan just before...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: December 3, 1997

wednesday december 3 Hazmat Alert Nine artists examine how we continue to suffer from technology we originally created to help ourselves in the group show "Biohazard." Results include...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: December 3, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): I'm conservative about ingesting mind-altering substances. Still, my vote for the Millennium's Smartest Prophet goes to Terence McKenna, who believes that psilocybin...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: December 3, 1997

Jazz, Blues and Patty Hearst It's a cold late Monday afternoon at the new Boom Boom Room on Fillmore at Geary, the revamped Jacks Bar now owned by Bay Area blues legend John Lee Hooker....

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: December 3, 1997

Hey, Faggot: In response to Wish I'd Known [Nov. 12], I'd like to put in a word about being a "diseased fuck." I contracted herpes and warts about 16 years ago. The genital warts I got from one sex...

Stage

Stage

By Michael Scott Moore, Apollinaire Scherr, Frederick Luis Aldama, Carol Lloyd

Published: December 3, 1997

Love Bites Vampire Dreams. By Suzy McKee Charnas. Starring Penny Benda, Nick Scoggin, Esther Feuerstein, and J.J. White. At Bindlestiff Studio, 185 Sixth St. (at Howard), through Dec. 6. Call...