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In the Money Corner

How a Berkeley-based religious sect sold feng shui to the country

By Laurel Wellman

Published: August 26, 1998

In 1986, Thomas Lin Yun founded his own religion. Of course, in California, that's not particularly unusual. But Lin Yun has achieved an unusual degree of success. Lin Yun's religion is...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: August 26, 1998

Reflecting on Fashion Fashion is having one of its bohemian moments this fall, and Dog Bites would like to offer one year's free subscription to SF Weekly to the first reader to spot either of...

Letters

Letters

Published: August 26, 1998

Privatize Housing Authority I hope everyone in San Francisco reads "Crime and Patronage" (Aug. 19). You are beginning to put the problems of the San Francisco Housing Authority into...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: August 26, 1998

Absence of Alice Corey Mason has been easy to spot among the suit-and-tie lunchtime crowd striding around the Embarcadero. Wearing a large summer shade hat and sporting long, braided hair, two...

Music

Sad

By Jeff Stark

Published: August 26, 1998

Elliott Smith XO (DreamWorks) A few months ago now, Elliott Smith played an extremely sold-out show at Bottom of the Hill. He'd performed at the club before, both on his own and with his...

Music

Hear This

By Ira Steingroot

Published: August 26, 1998

Ray Brown It was just after his 19th birthday that bassist Ray Brown, who had recently left Pittsburgh for New York, made his first recordings with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie. Later, he...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: August 26, 1998

The Coup The Coup, the East Bay political rap group, are back and keeping things closer to home. Known for scathing lyrical attacks and a laid-back West Coast sound, the band took the last four...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 26, 1998

It's been four long years since worshippers of The Billy Nayer Show have been supplied with fresh physical evidence of the San Francisco band's progressive genius. We've clung to infrequent...

Music

Reviews

By Dave Clifford, Martin Johnson

Published: August 26, 1998

Jarboe Anhedoniac (Self-Released) In the short time since the cathartic obliteration of Swans at the beginning of this year, each of the band's two principals has issued a solo album that...

Eat

The Book on Byblos

By Naomi Wise

Published: August 26, 1998

Byblos 1910 Lombard (at Buchanan), 292-5672. Open daily from 5 to 10 p.m., Fridays and Saturdays until 11 p.m. Reservations recommended, especially on weekends. Wheelchair accessible. Parking:...

Film

Second Time Around

By Tod Booth

Published: August 26, 1998

Scarface-san: Two More by Tai Kato Ya gotta love those bluntly explicit Japanese movie titles. Swordplay-film master Tai Kato's 1966 Korean-vs.-Japanese gangster movie A Man's Face Shows His...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: August 26, 1998

Genealogies of a Crime The luck of an attorney famous for losing every case changes -- and not for the better -- when she takes on the defense of a young man who's evidently killed his aunt, a...

Film

Hellfire

By Peter Rainer

Published: August 26, 1998

Your Friends & Neighbors Directed and written by Neil LaBute. Starring Ben Stiller, Aaron Eckhart, Catherine Keener, Amy Brenneman, Jason Patric, and Nastassja Kinski. At area theaters. As...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: August 26, 1998

One Night Stand Wesley Snipes' bodyguard is smaller than your humble correspondent, but he's a pillar of Zen calm, even as his employer sits for an interview 15 feet away. Maybe it's his...

Night&Day;

(Sub)human Remains

By Robert Arriaga

Published: August 26, 1998

When it was announced, the Subhumans reunion raised both limp spikes and a healthy dose of suspicion. With the rash of 1997 and '98 filthy lucre reunion tours it was easy to be a little jaded when...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: August 26, 1998

Wednesday August 26 Khan Man Bluesman Paul Pena first heard Tuvan throat-singing after he tuned into Radio Moscow on shortwave. He spent the next nine years researching and teaching himself...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: August 26, 1998

Hey, Faggot: I've got this predicament. I'm a 21-year-old lesbian who has worked at my present job for about a year. For the last month, I've been working with a 17-year-old boy intern who has just...

Night&Day;

Pre-Zines and Yearbooks

By Marcy Freedman

Published: August 26, 1998

You wouldn't think a bunch of self-published magazines sitting in a glass cabinet on the sixth floor of the Main Library could contain anything terribly threatening or wild. But where the...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: August 26, 1998

Beat Nicks "I hate all those fucking wankers," says Aidan McManus with as much venom as a man can muster on a Sunday morning that follows a long Saturday night. The caustic 36-year-old from...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: August 26, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): Maybe you've heard this one: What did the Buddhist monk say to the hot dog vendor? "Make me one with everything." But now here's the rest of the story. The vendor gives...