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Universal Health Scare

Proposition J promises medical insurance for everyone in San Francisco. It's a laudable goal -- but do you really want Willie Brown doctoring your insurance premiums?

By David Pasztor

Published: October 28, 1998

The war council has been meeting twice a week lately to plan strategy, and when angry retirees gather, "war" is only a modest exaggeration. Men and women who spent decades toiling as cops,...

News

Beat the Schlock

Artists who mock suburban banality may have new seated duck to shoot -- North Beach

By Matt Smith

Published: October 28, 1998

Darrell Fletcher and Jon Rubin, those wacky chroniclers of Bay Area banality, may soon turn their tal-ents toward perhaps the most hackneyed corner of San Francisco -- North Beach. The city's...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: October 28, 1998

Dan Lungren in Universal Soldier! If Matt Fong's $50,000 donation to the Coalition for Traditional Values was bad news for his Senate campaign, just think how gubernatorial hopeful Dan Lungren...

Music

Reviews

By Mark Athitakis, Chris Baty, Michael Ullman

Published: October 28, 1998

Bang on a Can All-Stars Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Wednesday, Oct. 21 When Brian Eno spoke at the Imagination Conference here in 1996, he credited two San Francisco-related incidents...

Music

Riff Raff

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

Published: October 28, 1998

Scream III Just in time for the season of ghouls, Chris Cobb and fellow San Francisco Art Institute student Paul Quinones offer up "All the Screaming You Will Ever Need." Cobb, the 28-year-old...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 28, 1998

To call the Raincoats post-punk's most exhilarating all-girl band would be an insult. In 1978, the members of the inspiring group were already in their mid-20s (guitarist Ana da Silva was nearly --...

Music

Spooky Running Wild

The world's most eclectic spinner on music theory, DJ culture, and the narrative human voice

By Robert Arriaga

Published: October 28, 1998

DJ Spooky chooses his words methodically, with the same kind of care he uses to pick samples for his deeply atmos-pheric hip-hop records. Posed with a question, the young man also known as Paul...

Music

Melding Pot

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

By Sam Prestianni

Published: October 28, 1998

Serrated strings of ear-bleed intensity saw through the silence like air raid sirens. Then a sharp decrescendo reduces the din to a faint, tormented echo. The music's dynamic rocks back and forth...

Eat

Monkey Food

By Naomi Wise

Published: October 28, 1998

The Blue Monkey 2424 Lombard (at Scott), 776-8298. Open Monday through Friday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 10:30 p.m., weekends 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Reservations for weekend nights recommended....

Film

Stake Tartare

By M.V. Moorhead

Published: October 28, 1998

John Carpenter's Vampires Directed by Carpenter. Starring James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Thomas Ian Griffith, and Sheryl Lee. Opens Friday, Oct. 30, at area theaters. When Montoya, one of the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: October 28, 1998

These Are the Damned Pale children, cold to the touch, are the deadly center of this mysterious science-fiction film of 1962. Radioactive and locked away in a seaside bunker, they are educated...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Michael Fox

Published: October 28, 1998

Film Under Fire: An Evening of Objectionable Art The NEA's had a free pass this year, as America's self-appointed moral watchdogs have sharpened their incisors instead on the presidency. Far...

Film

Shouting for Attention

By Gregg Rickman

Published: October 28, 1998

American History X Directed by Tony Kaye. Written by David McKenna. Starring Edward Norton, Edward Furlong, Avery Brooks, Stacy Keach, and Elliott Gould. Opens Friday, Oct. 30, at the Presidio....

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: October 28, 1998

The Shuttered Room The Regency I on Van Ness will be the next single-screen San Francisco movie theater to fall, according to informed sources, with the last show unspooling Nov. 6. Operated by...

Night&Day;

If the Spirit Moves You

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 28, 1998

Like Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday, the heathen revelry of Halloween is shadowed by the sobering introspection of Catholic-based holidays All Saints' Day (Nov. 1) and All Souls' Day (Nov. 2), which...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 28, 1998

Info: Night Crawler By Silke Tudor Superheroes in Our Midst It's a bright, sunny Friday afternoon in South Park. The grass is green, the birds are boisterous, it promises to be a lovely...

Night&Day;

Creatures From the Black Leather Lagoon

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 28, 1998

If the Cramps really wanted to give people a fright, they'd play under bright lights with no makeup, revealing the havoc 20 years in punk rock can wreak on a body. That won't happen when the band...

Halloween

Cothran

By George Cothran

Published: October 28, 1998

Ethics, Anyone? It's very rare to see a political constituency openly break the law in the full light of day, offer total nonsense as an excuse, and suffer no legal consequences whatsoever....

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 28, 1998

Wednesday October 28 Bringing You the World The BBC will broadcast the State of the World Forum worldwide as an international collection of panelists discuss human rights and the...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: October 28, 1998

Aries (March 21-April 19): I suggest that this Halloween you costume yourself as a phoenix -- you know, the scarlet, heronlike bird that (according to myth) regularly burned itself in a purifying...