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Baseball's Orphans

Why are 74 old-timers -- players who helped create the multibillion-dollar business called Major League Baseball -- still without pensions?

By George Cothran

Published: April 15, 1998

Former Brooklyn Dodger Dolf Camilli's toy poodles are up on the couch again, running back and forth and barking their little brains out at everyone and everything that passes the Camilli...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 15, 1998

The Insubstantial Hinckle and O'Donoghue Just read your column on O'Donoghue and Hinckle ("Vanishing Acts," Mecklin, April 8) and wanted to give you a quick word of support. I rather...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman, J. B., George Cothran

Published: April 15, 1998

Don't Hate Her Because She's Beautiful The Cult of Jane Metcalfe is well-established at Wired, where it's common for staffers to speak swooningly of the magazine co-founder's amazingly toned...

Music

Woodstick

Three (small) days of peace, love, and psychedelia

By Jeff Stark

Published: April 15, 1998

It took a fanzine editor, a record store owner, and a small-time concert booker to make Terrastock II happen. And each of them will tell you that the three-day festival celebrating several variants...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: April 15, 1998

Trouble in Clubland It's too early to put nails in the coffin, but it looks like V/SF, the dance club at the corner of 11th Street and Folsom, is about ready to get buried -- just as the Trocadero...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 15, 1998

Without his runway good looks and his New York address, it would be easier to regard Jim White as a genius, but no one said the world was fair. On Wrong-Eyed Jesus, White's 1997 debut for Luaka...

Music

Hear This

By Jeff Stark

Published: April 15, 1998

Freakwater Freakwater were one of the bands that made it OK for hipsters to admit they liked country music. Even more than country-influenced bands like Uncle Tupelo, Freakwater, with their...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: April 15, 1998

Gianni Gebbia Sicilian saxophonist Gianni Gebbia channels the history of the Mediterranean in every note he plays, almost as if he were speaking in tongues across the centuries. His tone and...

Music

Extremities

By Natasha Stovall

Published: April 15, 1998

Diamanda Galas Malediction and Prayer (Mute) Sue Garner To Run More Smoothly (Thrill Jockey) Here is the Diamanda Galas story: She is a supernatural diva triumphant. She fears...

Eat

The French Connection

By Naomi Wise

Published: April 15, 1998

Bistro Clovis 1596 Market (at Franklin), 864-0231. Open for lunch Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday 5:30 to 10 p.m. Reservations advised....

Film

The Lying Game

By Michael Sragow

Published: April 15, 1998

Suicide Kings Directed by Peter O'Fallon. Written by Josh McKinney, Gina Goldman, and Wayne Rice. Starring Christopher Walken, Jay Mohr, Henry Thomas, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jeremy Sisto, and...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: April 15, 1998

Money Talks "They were the last clean pair of pants in my closet," protested S.F. International Film Festival Artistic Director Peter Scarlet, spotted sporting a pair of Dockers Khakis. The...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: April 15, 1998

Possessed Life in an industrial whistle-stop is too confining for vibrant, wild-eyed Joan Crawford -- it's 1931, she's young, and she's free to do just about anything. In this film, directed by...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 15, 1998

Wednesday April 15 Woo Woo! In honor of the Rolling Stones and British rock's talent for spectacle, "Popscene" and "Lush" co-present "Symphonies for the Devil: A Rock & Roll Circus '98."...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: April 15, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): It won't be a good week to blow bubble-gum bubbles while you're passing a big truck on a two-lane highway. Nor should you read the newspaper while a loved one is...

Night&Day;

A Fine Whine

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 15, 1998

British playwright Steven Berkoff has a tart comeback for anyone who shrugs and says they can't complain: Sure you can. You probably will anyway. In Berkoff's comedy Kvetch, married couple Frank...

Halloween

Beat The Press

By Bill Wyman

Published: April 15, 1998

Here at the Examiner Magazine The most unintentionally fun read of the year has to be the Examiner Magazine's remembrance of New Yorker Editor William Shawn, written by local author Bill Barich...

Night&Day;

The Fellows Who Love Music

By Bill Wyman

Published: April 15, 1998

On the inside of their most recent album, A Tribute to Music, there's a photo of an ecstatic Scott McCaughey, the leader of the Young Fresh Fellows, jumping off a stage -- and about to crash face...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 15, 1998

Truly, (S)he Has Risen In Collingwood Park, a harsh drizzle assaults a motley band of pious scalawags, who are assembled for the Stations of the Cross, an annual Easter celebration hosted by the...

Stage

Stage

By Michael Scott Moore, Apollinaire Scherr, Julie Chase

Published: April 15, 1998

Grudge Match The Widow's Blind Date. By Israel Horovitz. Directed by Paul D'Addario. Starring James Palermo, Finn Curtin, and Peggy Lopipero. At the Actors Theater, 533 Sutter (at Powell),...