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Net Loss

How LatinoNet -- the poster child for Washington's attempt to empower the poor with technology -- wasted money and networked almost no one

By Matt Smith

Published: February 18, 1998

Dr. Armando Valdez leans from a stuffed hotel armchair and sweeps at the air jaggedly with both hands, punctuates his speech with glottal stops, and occasionally repeats and re-repeats his...

News

Naked Poets Society

The moribund local scene leaves town in search of rejuvenation

By Jack Boulware

Published: February 18, 1998

A gas fireplace flickers noiselessly, illuminating the "Above Paradise" poetry night South of Market, the oldest continuous reading series in the city. Faces of the gathered artistes bask in the...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: February 18, 1998

No, No, the Other Millionaire Candidate Sure, Dog Bites has had some fun with gubernatorial wannabe Al Checchi. And we don't regret it, either. But we've started worrying that we haven't given...

Letters

Letters

Published: February 18, 1998

Alvin & the Armenians In Jack Boulware's cover story on the William Saroyan collection ("Snatching Saroyan"), he writes that Saroyan penned the Rosemary Clooney hit "Come On-A My House." This...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 18, 1998

During Megadeth's Youthanasia tour, bass player David Ellefson (the only non-hair-farming band member) began posting his journal entries to the Web. They were often funny, sometimes instructional,...

Music

Hear This

By Jeff Stark

Published: February 18, 1998

Momus In mythology, Momus was the god of ridicule, driven from Mount Olympus for criticizing the gods. Momus couldn't find fault with Aphrodite's naked body, the tale goes, so he condemned her...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: February 18, 1998

Unwound Seven steps toward making an ultracool indie-rock band: 1) Bass, guitar, and drums. A minimal three-piece combo is ideal -- no pretentious frontperson to distract from the music. Extra...

Music

Reviews

By Jeff Stark, Jeff Kaliss

Published: February 18, 1998

X Trocadero Saturday, Feb. 7 Between two identical, blistering sets at the Trocadero, fortysomething X frontman John Doe stepped away from a party in the band's dressing room. Several...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: February 18, 1998

Swing Low After years of toil and custom tailoring, the New Morty Show are on the brink of breaking into the big league -- the band's first major-label release, Mortified, is due out on Atlantic in...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: February 18, 1998

Toy Dolls A Toy Dolls show is the musical equivalent of a whiskey bender: Singing and dancing with strangers is encouraged, beer is thrown with glee, and not remembering the last time you've...

Eat

Magnetic Poles

By Naomi Wise

Published: February 18, 1998

Old Krakow Polish Restaurant & Art Cafe 385 West Portal (at Wawona), 564-4848. Open for dinner daily 5 to 10 p.m., for brunch on weekends from noon to 3 p.m. Reservations recommended. The...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: February 18, 1998

The Brothers Taviani For 10 years after their masterpiece Padre Padrone (1977) was first shown in the United States, the films of Vittorio and Paolo Taviani were staples in the dwindling number...

Film

Second Time Around

By Tod Booth

Published: February 18, 1998

A Tribute to Robert Wise One of the last of the old-style Hollywood craftsmen, Robert Wise made his share of both gems and junk. There wasn't always a lot of choice back in the '40s and '50s --...

Film

Venus Envy

By Michael Sragow

Published: February 18, 1998

Dangerous Beauty Directed by Marshall Herskovitz. Written by Jeannine Dominy, from the biography The Honest Courtesan, by Margaret F. Rosenthal. Starring Catherine McCormack, Rufus Sewell,...

Night&Day;

Liver Than You'll Ever Be

By Bill Wyman

Published: February 18, 1998

Mighty Marty Perez, the rock photographer, grew up in Chicago, but got his start in Seattle in the crucial late '80s, as the American independent scene flourished; Perez became the court shooter...

Halloween

Beat the Press

By Bill Wyman

Published: February 18, 1998

Sphere of Influence In Citizen Kane, after Kane's paramour gives a dreadful opera performance, Orson Welles finds Joseph Cotten back in the office, passed out drunk on top of a half-written...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: February 18, 1998

Wednesday February 18 The Artist Formerly Known as Yo! In How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, the comic, captivating first novel by Julia Alvarez, four sisters take turns describing...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: February 18, 1998

To Love and Love Not An old friend once called San Francisco the land of misfit toys. Being a misfit toy herself, she meant this with great tenderness. Still, it's not difficult to see how our...

Night&Day;

The Classics Reclassified

By Heather Wisner

Published: February 18, 1998

T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland isn't the first work theater people might consider adapting; it doesn't lend itself to dancing kitties, after all, and is so dense, so richly packed with literary...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: February 18, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): According to an old tale about the Danish king Canute, he once had his throne moved to the beach. Seated regally in his power spot, he addressed the tide. "Stop your...