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36,000 Feet Under the Sea

The strange quest of San Anselmo's Graham Hawkes, who will dive a two-man submarine to the deepest point in the ocean. If someone gives him $7 million.

By Lisa Davis

Published: June 10, 1998

It's a Thursday afternoon in an unremarkable garage workshop in Point Richmond, where some of the world's most advanced underwater technology is parked, as if it were a weekend boat on a trailer....

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman, P. D., Matt Smith

Published: June 10, 1998

Chronicle of Disgruntlement For a dull newspaper, the Chron sure has a lot of grumpy staffers. Not that the gripers ever seem to take much action. A few huffy memos, a little bad blood, and...

Letters

Letters

Published: June 10, 1998

Photo Finish I picked up the Weekly this morning and I was so impressed by the photographs accompanying the feature story ("Perverted Justice?" June 3) that I had to let you know. I have been...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: June 10, 1998

John Lurie & the Lounge Lizards John Lurie has written, directed, and produced his own films, appeared in a crop of unusual cinematic ventures as both a lead (Down by Law, Stranger Than...

Music

Reviews

By Andi Zeisler, Martin Johnson

Published: June 10, 1998

Jeff Buckley Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk) (Columbia) It was only a little over a year ago that Jeff Buckley became a cliche: the promising young rocker dead before his time....

Music

Oh, Silver Deities!

Jewel's poetry smacks into a screen door like, uh, a moth

By Keven McAlester

Published: June 10, 1998

Few pop-culture developments have been so inevitable as a book of poetry by Jewel, rock music's reigning queen of dime-store spirituality. A ripe tomato of a woman and a rotten apple of a...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 10, 1998

Chances are anyone who has stepped into a New York jazz club in the past 35 years has felt a tingle created by Olu Dara, the dapper don of the cornet. His arrival in NYC in the mid-'70s harmonized...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: June 10, 1998

Lemonade Map of Wyoming can take a sad song and make it better. Last month, Jeff Stark reviewed the band's debut CD (see below). Two weeks later, the group placed an advertisement for an upcoming...

Eat

Bird of a Different Feather

By Naomi Wise

Published: June 10, 1998

Peregrine 642 Irving (at Eighth Avenue), 566-5515. Open for lunch Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Open for dinner Sunday through Thursday 5:30...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gary Morris

Published: June 10, 1998

"Kim Ki-Young: Master of Madness" In a just world -- or one with better international film distribution -- Korean auteur Kim Ki-Young would be ranked in the B-movie pantheon with Sam Fuller or...

Film

Two If by Sea

By Andy Klein

Published: June 10, 1998

The Land Girls Directed by David Leland. Written by Keith Dewhurst and Leland; based on the novel by Angela Huth. Starring Catherine McCormack, Steven Mackintosh, Rachel Weisz, and Anna Friel....

Night&Day;

Outsmart the Art

By Heather Wisner

Published: June 10, 1998

Art is supposed to be moving, but a new four-part exhibit at Yerba Buena inverts the relationship, so that viewers move the art, or the art moves all by itself. Collaborative digital technology...

Night&Day;

Time Signatures

By Heather Wisner

Published: June 10, 1998

Jupiter, the king of the gods, risks the wrath of two women in Jean-Philippe Rameau's Platee when he raises the hopes of a grotesque (and gullible) marsh nymph by pretending to seduce her to teach...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 10, 1998

Ready, Aim, Inspire "All three of my brothers are missing one of their front teeth," says R. Burns, a gracious, broad-shouldered rogue who has spent most of his morning imparting firearm...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: June 10, 1998

Wednesday June 10 Cups and Pints Threats of Islamic terrorism, the sidelining of drunk and injured players, and striking Air France pilots in the host country have already made this year's...

Halloween

Mecklin

By John Mecklin

Published: June 10, 1998

Chronicle of Failure One wonders what it would take for the San Francisco Chronicle to publish negative news about Willie Brown. Perhaps if Willie shot Dianne Feinstein three times in the...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: June 10, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): In my opinion, you'd look great with a shaved head. I'd even be interested to see you with multiple eyebrow piercings, a conical wizard's hat, and a purple silk bodysuit....

Stage

Stage

By Apollinaire Scherr, Michael Scott Moore

Published: June 10, 1998

Utopian Terrain Scratch. Created and performed by Harriet Dodge, Shannon McGuire, Miranda Mellis, and Alessandra Ogren. Live music by Carolyn Cooley, Stormy Knight, Alicia McCarthy, and...