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Dial Saddam for Murder

Sargon Dadesho survived an Iraqi assassination plot. Now he's out for blood money.

By David Pasztor

Published: March 4, 1998

One bullet through the head, then a quick drive to Mexico. That was the plan. If it lacked artistry or cunning -- qualities one might expect of an international political assassination -- the man...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 4, 1998

Nothing But Net SF Weekly's feature story on LatinoNet ("Net Loss," Feb. 18) was indeed a net loss for your readers. Instead of dealing with the important questions of what LatinoNet tried to...

News

Uno Mas

Ed Rollins fights another round in California state politics

By Matt Smith

Published: March 4, 1998

It's said that the great boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, following the first of his many retirements, spent entire days hitting tennis balls to nobody, staring vacantly at the court between serves....

News

Dog Bites

Published: March 4, 1998

Speechless in San Francisco The Peninsula Press Club sent out this call for entries in its "professional" journalism contest. We didn't know what to say. Speechless and Agape Copy...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: March 4, 1998

The Lechers With the major record companies now washing down a gluttonous feast at the punk/ska banquet table with polite sips of swing, good ol' rock music isn't even getting invited to...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 4, 1998

Imagine ska as a sort of primordial soup into which someone has cast a big oyster cracker. We are very little, standing at the edge of the bowl. The fourth wave of ska is just beginning to lap at...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: March 4, 1998

Black Comedy To outsiders, goths might seem like angst-ridden drama queens parading around in vampire pajamas. Well, they are. But goths share a dark, festering secret beneath the cloud of doom...

Music

Reviews

By Philip Dawdy, Robert Arriaga, Martin Johnson

Published: March 4, 1998

John Lee Hooker The Complete '50s Chess Recordings (MCA/Chess) The blues is food for worms. Dead. Axe-murdered by Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and their ilk, who captured...

Music

Oh, the Horror!

By Tim Kenneally

Published: March 4, 1998

The Long Hard Road Out of Hell By Marilyn Manson, with Neil Strauss (Regan Books/HarperCollins) The 1970s were no doubt a particularly scary and bizarre period in American history, but...

Eat

Gluttons for Punishment?

By Naomi Wise

Published: March 4, 1998

At the 23rd Winter Fancy Food Show in Moscone Center two weekends ago, from a booth of exotica called Victoria's Pleasures, a young East Indian hawked the wares, chanting "Hot, hot, hot!" with the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: March 4, 1998

These Are the Damned Pale children, cold to the touch, are the deadly center of this mysterious science-fiction film of 1962. Radioactive and locked away in a seaside bunker, they are educated...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: March 4, 1998

Where Eagles Dare "There is a relationship in my mind between extreme sports and sex in the '90s," Jeffrey Friedman claims, and it's easy to see his point: They share an adrenalized mix of...

Film

Beauty and the East

A critical guide to the 16th San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival

By Gary Morris, Tod Booth

Published: March 4, 1998

Ancestors in the Americas, Part II (U.S.A., 1998) The men who left China to come to California in the mid-19th century were called "gold mountain men" by the wives they left behind. But their...

Film

The Dude's Big Score

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 4, 1998

The Big Lebowski Directed by Joel Coen. Written by Joel and Ethan Coen. Starring Jeff Bridges, John Goodman, Julianne Moore, and Steve Buscemi. Opens Friday, March 6, at the Kabuki and the...

Night&Day;

Master Mime

By Heather Wisner

Published: March 4, 1998

Thanks to Marcel Marceau, you can't walk down certain urban streets in certain parts of the world without tripping over some silent guy in whiteface frantically palming the air, trying to push down...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: March 4, 1998

Wednesday March 4 Time Has Come Today Writer/performer Michael Goldfried understands New Yorkers who call Californians hopeless flakes and Californians who describe New Yorkers as uptight...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 4, 1998

Night of the Locust The cars stretch down three blocks of 16th Street, around the corner, and down two blocks of Guerrero. Hundreds of flickering taillights declare that traffic is at a...

Night&Day;

First Thursday Report

By Marcy Freedman

Published: March 4, 1998

Refusalon Some say San Francisco is the Lost in Space of the Art World, with minimalist, post-structuralist, realist, installation, new genre, and interactive forms all bumping up against and...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: March 4, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): According to my astrological calculations, you're in a phase when you'll benefit from reviewing your past. Armed with that info, I probed my crystal ball on your behalf....

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: March 4, 1998

Hey, Faggot: I would like to respond to BB, the white woman with the African-American boyfriend who wrote in about her Amistad/slavery fantasy [Jan. 28]. I saw Amistad and I think some scenes were...