Archive Search

Feature

The Fairfield Wives

Dr. John Parkinson, a civic and religious leader in the perfectly suburban town of Fairfield, told women they needed pelvic exams. Long exams. Several times a week. For years. And they believed him.

By Lisa Davis

Published: August 5, 1998

Fairfield, California, is situated between the San Francisco Bay and the Central Valley in such a way that a near-constant warm breeze blows through on summer days. It's as if a giant hair dryer,...

Letters

Letters

Published: August 5, 1998

Check-In Time Congratulations on having the balls to publish the article about the Kerouac estate controversy ("The Kerouac Obsession," July 29). Jack Boulware did a great job. Please let...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: August 5, 1998

And Bonds Spanks Another One ... It's no secret that Giants left fielder Barry Bonds can be, and frequently is, an arrogant jerk -- as well as an annoying crybaby to boot. What remains unknown...

Music

Whitechocolate What?

By Bill Wyman, Natasha Stovall, Andi Zeisler, Dave McCoy

Published: August 5, 1998

Liz Phair whitechocolatespaceegg (Matador) Gun Shy One of rock's most nagging problems is the negative self-selection of honest rock stars. It doesn't pay, financially, socially, or...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 5, 1998

There are a number of artists claiming to be the "Godfather of Ska," but Laurel Aitken is the real thing. Aitken -- born in Cuba in 1927 -- was one of five musical siblings including guitar...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: August 5, 1998

Synchronized Pickaxes For 30 years the resilient songs of the Grateful Dead have repelled the assaults of hundreds of copycat jam bands, the indignity of flabby covers and so-called tribute groups,...

Eat

Picnic Time!

By Naomi Wise

Published: August 5, 1998

Gira Polli 659 Union (at Powell), 434-4472. Open daily 4:30 to 9:30 p.m. The restaurant is wheelchair accessible. Parking: the pits. Muni via the 15 Third, 30 Stockton, 41 Union, and 45...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 5, 1998

The Decline of Western Civilization Part III The first Decline of Western Civilization, filmed by Penelope Spheeris in 1979, spotlighted a thriving L.A. punk scene that blasted out of the box...

Film

Hot and Bothered

By Peter Rainer

Published: August 5, 1998

Snake Eyes Directed by Brian De Palma. Written by David Koepp. Starring Nicolas Cage, Gary Sinise, Carla Gugino, and Stan Shaw. Opens Friday, Aug. 7, at area theaters. Nicolas Cage has never...

Film

Second Time Around

By Tod Booth

Published: August 5, 1998

"Blossoms and Swords: The Films of Tai Kato" Samurai and yakuza films dominated Japan's movie screens for decades; but here in the U.S. most people think the genres begin and end with a couple...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: August 5, 1998

Shadows Make room on the fridge, film buffs, for another repertory calendar: On Aug. 28 Landmark Theaters' Lumiere earmarks the largest of its three theaters for one-week runs of new indie,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: August 5, 1998

Equinox Flower This 1958 Japanese film was Yasujiro Ozu's first in color, a form he had rejected a dozen years earlier as "all right once in a while, but if you see it all the time ... you get...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 5, 1998

Wednesday August 5 Pressing the Flesh Rumors of the Fleshtones' demise have been greatly exaggerated, although widely perpetuated. It's not that the band stopped recording after the IRS...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 5, 1998

The Thrill, the Agony Thirty-six-year old John Daniel came out of the closet while sitting inside a pleasant bar in Little Rock, Ark., owned by Norma Kristi, founder of the Miss Gay America...

Night&Day;

Eddie, Steady, Go!

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 5, 1998

The Eddie Izzard you see in the upcoming remake of The Avengers won't be the Eddie Izzard you see doing stand-up in his one-man show Dress to Kill, which the British comic will finally perform on...

Night&Day;

First Thursday Report

By Marcy Freedman

Published: August 5, 1998

Photographer David Perry shows off the large-format black-and-white portraits that he shot crisscrossing border towns between Brownsville and Tijuana. The photographs transmit signs of life...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 5, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): This would be a fine time to stand beneath a lover's window and serenade him or her with a tear-jerking yet funny song. It's also an excellent astrological moment to...

Stage

Stage

By Michael Scott Moore, Apollinaire Scherr

Published: August 5, 1998

Charm and Bite Marga Gomez's Gag Reflex. Written and performed by Marga Gomez. At Josie's Cabaret and Juice Joint, 3583 16th St. (at Market), through Aug. 9. Call 861-7933. Marga Gomez is a...