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Building a Better Bomb

While condemning India for its nuclear testing, the U.S. government quietly funnels billions to research programs aimed at creating an ever-more-virulent nuclear arsenal

By David Pasztor

Published: May 27, 1998

It's difficult to pinpoint an exact moment when we stopped worrying about The Bomb. Maybe it was during the winter of 1989, when the Berlin Wall came down. Or two years later, when the Soviet...

Feature

Unlocking the Secrets of Fusion

By David Pasztor

Published: May 27, 1998

Ted Taylor was a youthful genius in nuclear weapons circles, a whiz kid who started working at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1949 and established a reputation for his uncanny ability to divine...

Letters

Letters

Published: May 27, 1998

Circuit vs. Substance Tara Shioya's piece on circuit parties ("Tales of the Circuit") reveals some of the worst that gay men have created for themselves. It is a piece of writing whose...

News

Dog Bites

By L. D., P. D., Matt Smith

Published: May 27, 1998

Truth in Advertising ... Reader Dylan Salisbury writes: "I'm confused about Godzilla. Is his jaw as long as the 21 Hayes bus or the 38 Geary?" Well, Dylan, that's a darned good question....

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: May 27, 1998

Big Winners In a flash of apathy unwitnessed since the early 1990s, Riff Raff's First-Ever Big Contest ended last week with three entries -- and three winners. We are ashamed. Pittsburg's Rick Pyle...

Music

Reviews

By Jim DeRogatis, Mark Athitakis, Martin Johnson

Published: May 27, 1998

Smashing Pumpkins Adore (Virgin) Like Don Quixote and his windmill, the leading lights of alternative rock defined themselves by what they were fighting. To varying degrees and with...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 27, 1998

If your birthday last year was constructed around a gift certificate from Bed & Bath, a bucket of KFC, and a free movie rental, you might want to reassess your sexuality. See, if you were to share...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: May 27, 1998

Slayer Slayer's back and the goats are nervous. Throughout the '80s these denizens of dark metal sang Satan's praises with piercing solos and mad-bunny drumbeats, inspiring myriad hairy...

Music

Unextended Play

Putting the compact back in compact disc

By Will Hermes

Published: May 27, 1998

Whither the EP? Withered, mostly. Hardly anyone records these precious little anachronisms anymore, and that canon-making Village Voice's Pazz & Jop Critic's Poll doesn't even include an EP...

Music

Hear This

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 27, 1998

Oval and Jim O'Rourke A musical polygamist, Chicago multi-instrumentalist Jim O'Rourke inhabits at least two worlds, relentlessly and prolifically poking at the boundaries of modern folk and...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: May 27, 1998

The Young Composers Collective Seattle's Young Composers Collective takes the starch out of the typical orchestral production. The wind, string, piano, and percussion ensemble of 12 to 20...

Eat

Your Favorite Foods

By Naomi Wise

Published: May 27, 1998

Rick's Restaurant & Bar 1940 Taraval (at 30th Avenue), 731-8900. Open for dinner Monday through Thursday from 4:30 to 10 p.m, Friday and Saturday from 5 to 10:30 p.m., Sunday from 4 to 10 p.m....

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: May 27, 1998

The Kingdom: Part II At the midpoint of this four-part, five-hour centerpiece of Lars Von Trier's projected 15-hour serial called The Kingdom, the dapper director appears in front of some red...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: May 27, 1998

Kundun and Horse Thief Martin Scorsese has allowed that his 1997 film about the early life of the Dalai Lama, Kundun, was influenced by his screening of Chinese director Tian Zhuangzhuang's...

Film

Disco Duck

By Gregg Rickman

Published: May 27, 1998

The Last Days of Disco Directed and written by Whit Stillman. Starring Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale, Chris Eigeman, Mackenzie Astin, Matt Keeslar, and Robert Sean Leonard. Opens Friday, May...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 27, 1998

Wednesday May 27 Speed Kills Traveler is artist Lewis deSoto's variation on a theme in the group show "Dromology: Ecstasies of Speed": a baby crib containing a toy truck activated by...

Night&Day;

Do No Harm

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 27, 1998

While Jack Kevorkian is hauled into court again for helping a terminally ill patient commit suicide, and Oregon continues to debate an assisted suicide measure that has already seen two elections,...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: May 27, 1998

Hey, Everybody: Once again it's column time, and once again ... I didn't take my Viagra. But I've decided to take it now, as I sit down to write this week's column, as the suspense is killing me....

Night&Day;

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 27, 1998

Like any good night at The Rocky Horror Picture Show, screenings at the new late-night movie series "Midnight Mass" will look and sound like a raucous party, with moviegoers in outrageous costumes...

Halloween

The Grid

By George Cothran, John Mecklin

Published: May 27, 1998

They Endorse; We Demand Stare at the watch. The watch is swinging. Back and forth. Forth and back. The Grid commands. You must obey. Repeat: The Grid commands. You must ... Evil, Minus 2...