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Death of a Multimedia Phenomenon

How the boys at OSC -- the hippest high-tech start-up ever -- created the magical software that lets any garage band in America record studio-quality CDs. And then lost the magic almost overnight.

By Matt Smith

Published: December 24, 1997

In the cool dual worlds of movies and rock 'n' roll, the boys of OSC -- the so-coolly named Our Stinking Corporation -- were the hippest dudes of all. When the founders of OSC strode through...

News

Bag It, Larry

No one seems to want a grocery store in the Presidio except Larry Buck

By David Pasztor

Published: December 24, 1997

It's tough being a wise guy in a city of fools. Take Larry Buck. Buck's in real estate -- commercial real estate. He's just looking to do deals, ink contracts, broker some office space. When he...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman, D. P

Published: December 24, 1997

Hype Overboard Luckily for them, our daily newspapers have all the pre-release hype about Titanic to provide filler in the slow news days before Christmas. Why, the Mercury News even ran a...

News

Take BART, Please

We make Henny Youngman answer hard questions about regional transit and his mother-in-law

By Matt Smith

Published: December 24, 1997

If there's anything that gets SF Weekly's goat, it's people who shirk their duty, then show up first in line when accolades are being handed out. That's why we were appalled enough to catch a...

Letters

Letters

Published: December 24, 1997

Splendid Work Just a few words to praise staff writer Tara Shioya for her instructive and informative article dealing with the opulence in the courthouse ("Splendor in the Court," Dec. 10)....

Music

Baby, It's Him

How can Burt Bacharach make a comeback when he never went away?

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: December 24, 1997

In person, Burt Bacharach seems smaller than he does when you see him on television or in old photos, standing next to ex-wives Angie Dickinson and Carole Bayer-Sager. His arms are twig-thin, and...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: December 24, 1997

We came whirling out of nothingness Scattering stars like dust The stars made a circle In the middle we dance -- Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi It is said that upon walking through the...

Music

Reviews

By Jeff Stark, Martin Johnson

Published: December 24, 1997

Various Artists TV Terror (Re-Constriction/Cargo) Among the panoply of youth subcultures, goths are amusing because they use self-inflicted alienation from mainstream society to create a...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: December 24, 1997

Welcome to the Majors On Saturday, Dec. 6, Creeper Lagoon drummer Patrick Mangan took a day off from recording songs for a new album at Sony Studios in Santa Monica to headline a show at the Bottom...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: December 24, 1997

Here it is, Christmastime. There's a chill in the air. Friends and co-workers have flown off to their hometowns. Your family is tucked away safely in some far-off prison compound. You've got a few...

Eat

French Impressionism

By Naomi Wise

Published: December 24, 1997

American Bistro Restaurant and Wine Bar 2373 Chestnut (at Divisadero), 440-2373. Open Tuesday through Thursday 5:30 to 10 p.m.; Friday 5:30 to 11 p.m.; Saturday 5 to 11 p.m.; and Sunday 5 to 9...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: December 24, 1997

Walsh at Warners The Roxie's weeklong series of Warner Bros. films of the 1940s (Friday, Dec. 26, through New Year's Day) spotlights four films by action specialist Raoul Walsh, three of which...

Film

Movie of the Weak

By Michael Sragow

Published: December 24, 1997

As Good As It Gets Directed by James L. Brooks. Written by Brooks and Mark Andrus. Starring Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, and Greg Kinnear. At the Kabuki. The ad line for As Good As It Gets is...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: December 24, 1997

Early Animation This weekend's six programs of classic American animation (curated by archivist Dennis Nyback and presented at the Minna Street Gallery) feature over 25,000 drawings -- and...

Night&Day;

Wicked Flicks

By Heather Wisner

Published: December 24, 1997

Sexism, racism, plagiarism, Mormonism: The mostly animated mini-film festival curated by film archivist and historian Dennis Nyback has 'em all. This three-day screening spree features rare works...

Night&Day;

Cole for the Holidays

By Kelly Silbernagel

Published: December 24, 1997

Tributes to Cole Porter are not particularly hard to find. Folks from Kiri Te Kanawa to Ella Fitzgerald have done Porter; his work even has cachet in the modern pop world -- witness the 1990 Red,...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: December 24, 1997

Hey, Faggot: My question involves my present and ex-girlfriends, as I've had the same problem with both. Both say I'm a very good lover. Lovemaking sessions have lasted hours. However, neither...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: December 24, 1997

wednesday december 24 Sweet Dreams Are Made of This 'Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house/ All the children were flipping out from the sugar high they got at the third...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: December 24, 1997

I, Too, Have a Dream Eleven score years ago, a township began on the dunes of Yerba Buena and the muddy shoreline of promise. It was a great beacon of hope to hundreds of immigrants who had...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: December 24, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): After hunting everywhere for the right metaphor for your fate in 1998, I found it in a tabloid newspaper, the Sun. The editors there recently ran a story on a wart that...