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  1. Music

    Sinatra: The Voice, the Spark, the Image
    By Michael Sragow
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Frank Sinatra never gave a better performance as an actor than he did in The Man With the Golden Arm (1955) as Frankie Machine, a hotshot poker dealer and junkie who emerges from prison hoping to...

  2. Music

    Riff Raff
    By Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, Bill Wyman
    Published: May 20, 1998

    The Swing Set Folks carousing through North Beach during the Velvet Lounge opening last week might've noticed a bustle at the Off Broadway (soon to be the Black Cat), activity at the Chi Chi Club...

  3. Music

    House of Tudor
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Even under threat of dismemberment, someone has to say it: Av' Some of This is not only the quintessential Phantom Rockers album, it is the essential psychobilly album. Even with two relatively...

  4. Eat

    Miller's Crossing
    By Naomi Wise
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Loongbar Power Building, Ghirardelli Square, Beach near Polk, 771-6800. Open daily from 6 to 10 p.m., weekends until 10:30 p.m. Beginning May 21, open for lunch daily 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. The...

  5. Film

    Of Vice and Men
    In Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, immature auteurs take over Hollywood -- until the empire strikes back
    By Gregg Rickman
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Once upon a time, about 30 years ago, Hollywood films were less about grabbing a big opening weekend gross than they were about challenging audiences with dark and adventurous themes. To many this...

  6. Film

    Zoom Lens
    By Tod Booth
    Published: May 20, 1998

    New Asian Cinema Starting the second edition of the New Asian Cinema series on the same day as the Godzilla invasion may be like shooting rubber bands at the big lizard, but then again, the...

  7. Film

    Zoom Lens
    By Michael Sragow
    Published: May 20, 1998

    The Monster Mash The American remake of the beloved Japanese monster movie has the faux sophistication to tell us that the creature should be called "Gojira." The new film should be called...

  8. Film

    Second Time Around
    By Gregg Rickman
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Two by Penn For a few years in the late 1960s, director Arthur Penn employed Method acting, nouvelle vague filmmaking, and his own intuitive left-liberal sympathies to make three landmark films...

  9. Film

    The Good Creepiness; the Bad Creepiness
    By Michael Sragow
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Repulsion Directed by Roman Polanski. Written by Polanski and Gerard Brach. Starring Catherine Deneuve. Opens Friday, May 22, at the Castro. Gummo Written and directed by Harmony Korine....

  10. Night&Day;

    Night + Day
    By Heather Wisner
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Wednesday May 20 Sticky Fingers Three couples in a Winnebago covered each other with saliva and lipstick last year in Smackers, Soon 3's outdoor performance piece about sex and voyeurism....

  11. Halloween

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World
    By Rob Brezsny
    Published: May 20, 1998

    Aries (March 21-April 19): The Chilean poetess Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) was the first Latin American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. She was also an educator, diplomat, cultural...

  12. Night&Day;

    Wicked Fun
    By Gary Morris
    Published: May 20, 1998

    The Spike and Mike's Sick & Twisted franchise gets some stiff competition from "General Chaos: Uncensored Animation," the adults-only anthology of shorts that sample every style of animation. It's...

  13. Night&Day;

    Larry Yung: Master of Incongruity
    By Tim Kingston
    Published: May 20, 1998

    The Jetsons zipping through a classical Chinese landscape? A geisha posed to hurl a curveball at a baseball-bat wielding samurai warrior? Pez dispensers sporting not Popeye but Mao. Bay Area-born...

  14. Stage

    Stage
    By Michael Scott Moore, Apollinaire Scherr, Carol Lloyd
    Published: May 20, 1998

    King of the Jungle King Lear. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Val Hendrickson. Starring John Robb, Trish Adair, Allyson Kulavis, Cat Schaulis Thompson, Brian Linden, Jonathan Gonzalez, Jack...

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