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  1. Feature

    Splendor in the Court
    How lavish can $20 million in cost overruns make a federal court- house? Let's start with the $33,000 desk.
    By Tara Shioya
    Published: December 10, 1997

    At the core of the renovated federal Court of Appeals building in San Francisco is a new library. The room is furnished in a rich, butterscotch-colored maple that stretches from custom-built...

  2. News

    Dog Bites
    By T. S., Laurel Wellman
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Talk About Mud Flaps! My Gang's Got 'Em! In a breathless Page One story last week, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that a dangerous new Chinese crime syndicate from Canada has arrived in...

  3. Letters

    Letters
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Poison Pen The recent article "Poisoned Probe" (Dec. 3) written by George Cothran is rife with inaccuracies and lies. I am the chief investigator for the Rat Dog Dick Detective Agency and have...

  4. News

    The Name is Nino. El Nino.
    Investigation unmasks worldwide James Bond weather-disaster conspiracy
    By Matt Smith
    Published: December 10, 1997

    It has come to SF Weekly's attention, through sources we do not wish to reveal, that James Bond, United Artists, Ian Fleming, Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, and Pierce...

  5. News

    Three Hours on a Saturday Morning
    UC may drop the flawed SAT as an admission requirement. But are the other options any better?
    By Michael Scott Moore
    Published: December 10, 1997

    When Henry Chauncey entered Harvard in 1924, the Ivy League was dominated by a WASP aristocracy. Many of the students were wealthy young men who walked away from college after four years of heavy...

  6. Music

    Reviews
    By Sam Prestianni, Jeff Stark
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Charming Hostess Eat (Vaccination) On Eat, Charming Hostess' intense three-voice harmony radiates female energy enough to terrify the average Johnny Rocker. The women whose voices...

  7. Music

    The House of Tudor
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Although most adults have given up finger painting and hide-and-go-seek, there's no doubt that big kids need frolicsome fun to distract them from the stress of multiple parking tickets and...

  8. Music

    Hear This
    By Robert Arriaga
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Portishead The beautiful rolling textures of trip hop owe everything to the dub and hip hop captured within a few elegant blue lines. Blue Lines, the 1991 debut record from Bristol's Massive...

  9. Music

    Quadraphonia
    The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time
    By Jim DeRogatis
    Published: December 10, 1997

    It all started at the most unlikely of places: a concert by Kiss and Uriah Heap many years ago at an Oklahoma City enormodome. An impressionable teen named Wayne Coyne was milling about the stadium...

  10. Music

    Riff Raff
    By Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, Bill Wyman
    Published: December 10, 1997

    INXS Frontman Michael Hutchence Did Not Die of Autoerotic Asphyxiation But police sources insisted that the singer with the Australian band INXS had killed himself and was not the victim of an...

  11. Eat

    Fading Flower
    By Naomi Wise
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Hong Kong Flower Lounge 5322 Geary (at 17th Avenue), 668-8998. Open daily for lunch from 11 a.m. (weekends and holidays 10 a.m.) to 2:30 p.m., for dinner from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Parking extremely...

  12. Film

    Second Time Around
    By Gregg Rickman
    Published: December 10, 1997

    "Big City Dreams" Those of us who are city dwellers live in a community of strangers, free perhaps of small-minded mores and the whip hand of gossip, but also free of a sense of responsibility...

  13. Film

    Out of Africa
    By Michael Sragow
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Amistad Directed by Steven Spielberg. Written by David Franzoni. Starring Djimon Hounsou, Morgan Freeman, Stellan Skarsgard, Matthew McConaughey, Anthony Hopkins, and Nigel Hawthorne. Opens...

  14. Night&Day;

    Night+Day
    By Heather Wisner
    Published: December 10, 1997

    wednesday december 10 Space Cowboys In the four years since experimental jazz guru Sun Ra officially left this planet -- he always said he was just visiting from Saturn anyway -- members of...

  15. Halloween

    Slap Shots
    By Jack Boulware
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Porn to Be Mild Tommy Lee, tattooed drummer for the heavy metal band Motley Crue, sits buck naked on a powerboat knifing its way through an unknown body of tropical water. His young bride,...

  16. Halloween

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World
    By Rob Brezsny
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Aries (March 21-April 19): Is the cosmos a great soulless machine? Is it a product of blind forces that just happen, through a prodigious number of stupendous accidents, to have conjured up the...

  17. Stage

    Stage
    By Michael Scott Moore, Apollinaire Scherr
    Published: December 10, 1997

    Madame Bitch Portraits of a Black Queen. Written and performed by Craig Hickman. At Josie's Cabaret & Juice Joint, 3583 16th St. (at Market), Nov. 19-23. Call 861-7933. Craig Hickman is a...

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