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Death Ray From Outer Space

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

By David Pasztor

Published: October 7, 1998

In mid-September, a small group of engineers carted a rack full of electronic gadgets out to Sutro Tower, hoisted it up, and affixed it to the gangly landmark, which beams radio and television...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: October 7, 1998

Amos Brown Is Gandhi! Rescue Muni -- the citizens' group that wants to reform San Francisco's transit system -- held a candidates forum for eight of the city supervisor hopefuls, following...

Letters

Letters

Published: October 7, 1998

Huzzah, Good Sir! So, who wrote the subheadline for the cover story "Hostile Takeover" (Sept. 30)? Your attempt at wit didn't work too well. "Grabbeth" is an archaic way to write "grabs,"...

News

Farewell, Factsheet 5?

Longtime publisher of the magazine of the zine world burns out; publication's future unclear

By Michael Van Vleet

Published: October 7, 1998

After five years of producing Factsheet 5 magazine, Publisher R. Seth Friedman is surrendering his mantle. With him goes Christopher Becker, the current editor. Citing burnout, among other reasons...

Music

Reviews

By Mark Athitakis, Martin Johnson, Dave Clifford

Published: October 7, 1998

Amy Rigby Middlescence (Koch International) On 1996's Diary of a Mod Housewife, Amy Rigby was pushing 40 and running for her life. Singing sweetly, with a stunning batch of...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner

Published: October 7, 1998

Give Me Royalties or Give Me Death Inc. Three of the four former members of the Dead Kennedys, the long-defunct San Francisco political punk band, announced last week that they intend to terminate...

Music

In Heaven There Is No Beer

Polkacide is San Francisco's longest-running musical in-joke

By Tim Kingston

Published: October 7, 1998

When Polkacide plays live, punks, hippie chicks, and grandparents alike drink way too much beer, polka terribly, and go home with mad grins stamped on their faces. The band -- a San Francisco...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: October 7, 1998

The Dropkick Murphys For Boston street punks the Dropkick Murphys Irish pride is the only thing more important than a good, cold lager. Like their British oi forebears, the DMs believe that...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 7, 1998

The voice of Pinetop Seven singer Darren Richard sways delicately between the pale, sophomoric timbre of Jonathan Richman and the pregnant, melancholic intonation of Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry....

Eat

Loud & Proud

By Naomi Wise

Published: October 7, 1998

Elroy's Folsom & Beale, 882-7989. Open for lunch weekdays 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., for dinner Sunday through Wednesday 6 to 10 p.m., Thursday to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday to midnight....

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: October 7, 1998

Lost in America These are prosperous times for our funkiest art houses, with hit revivals like Nights of Cabiria and Touch of Evil at the Castro and a steady stream of quirky first-run...

Film

Last Picture Shows

Week 2 of the Mill Valley Film Festival

By Tod Booth, Michael Fox, Frako Loden, Joe Mader, Gregg Rickman, Michael Sragow, Sura Wood

Published: October 7, 1998

The second week of the Mill Valley Film Festival, running through Sunday at various venues in that town and also at Larkspur's Lark Theater, features some of its best offerings, including a repeat...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: October 7, 1998

Frankenstein and His Bride A marvelous tracking shot of a town in full carnival joy gives way to a similarly filmed shot of a monster rushing through the woods in one of the many cinematic...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Michael Fox

Published: October 7, 1998

Desert Clich on Film Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' film program, one of the most exciting in town since Joel Shepard moved over from the Cinematheque, scores again with a powerhouse...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 7, 1998

Wednesday October 7 The Body Never Lies Stripped of the fanciful fool's costumes they wore in last year's Caravan of Dreams -- a deconstruction of Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha -- physical...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 7, 1998

Eternal Zest The people of New Orleans are on intimate terms with death. It surrounds you, hanging in the air, buried within the thick spongy heat, seeping from the molds of decaying buildings,...

Night&Day;

Feelin' Greasy

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 7, 1998

You won't be able to swing a cat this week without hitting Deke Dickerson, the self-proclaimed "lady-killin' papa" with the double-necked Mosrite gee-tar. Dickerson and his trio the Ecco-fonics...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: October 7, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): It should be a rewarding week for all you aspiring temple goddesses and tantric wizards. Have you been practicing your Kegels? Are you ready to put more heart in your...

Night&Day;

Winsome Ways

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 7, 1998

As its title suggests, Mules doesn't glamorize the life of a drug runner. Clean Break Theater Company commissioned the drama from British playwright Winsome Pinnock, who based it on true stories...

Halloween

Cothran

By George Cothran

Published: October 7, 1998

Sex, Lies, and Terry Hallinan The more I read the article in the San Francisco Examiner, the less sense its story line seemed to make. To say the least, the premise lacked logic. A liberal...