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Trophy Boys

When older gay men of means want youthful companionship, they seek out the ...

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: November 18, 1998

An attractive man makes his way across the wooden deck of the Castro's Patio Cafe, dodging waiters who are serving diet Cokes and Bloody Marys garnished with oversized celery stalks to a roomful of...

Letters

Letters

Published: November 18, 1998

Spirit of Wittenberg Congratulations, and thanks, for Matt Smith's thorough and insightful article "The Holy War Over Gay Marriage" (Nov. 4). We agree that the holy union of Jeanne Barnett and...

News

In Glide's Path

A Bayview neighborhood squares off against Cecil Williams

By Lisa Davis

Published: November 18, 1998

Virtually nothing that happens in the 1500 block of McKinnon Avenue escapes the notice of a small band of longtime residents who vigorously defend their slice of the Bayview. For more than 25...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: November 18, 1998

Hello, I'm Calling on Behalf of the San Francisco Chronicle ... Despite those incessant dinner-hour telephone solicitations promising special introductory subscription rates, things are looking...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: November 18, 1998

Peter Whitehead Without formal training, composer and multi-instrumentalist Peter Whitehead makes sense of the vast world of music by finding harmony in the most unlikely places. He...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: November 18, 1998

Born from the free-flowing house band that first made the floating nightclub "Giant Step" a Lower Manhattan institution, Groove Collective combines the best of NYC's groove-heavy young guns --...

Music

Hear This

By Will Hermes

Published: November 18, 1998

Virginia Rodrigues If Ivan Lins' jazz-lite, Gilberto Gil's Bob Marley covers, or Sean Lennon's bossa nova gesturing have left you hungering for something more substantial in the way of...

Music

Reviews

By Dave Clifford, Brian Alcorn

Published: November 18, 1998

Jets to Brazil Orange Rhyming Dictionary (Jade Tree) Blake Schwarzenbach carries a heavy weight on his shoulders. With Orange Rhyming Dictionary, the former singer and guitarist for San...

Music

Blood on the Career Tracks

By Mark Athitakis

Published: November 18, 1998

Gang of Four 100 Flowers Bloom (Rhino) Gang of Four wrote protest music for people who didn't think they had anything to protest. On the surface, the characters in their songs were the...

Music

Still Giving It Up

Delbert McClinton has something better than a record deal a sound all his own

By Marty Jones

Published: November 18, 1998

Delbert McClinton has delivered close to 40 years of all-American rhythm and blues and roots rock, and penned more than his share of moneymaking songs. But when it comes to his relationship with...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner

Published: November 18, 1998

The Check -- and the Fragile Master Tape -- Is in the Mail On Nov. 9, the Kingsmen, authors of the mush-mouthed party classic "Louie, Louie," scored a victory for composers' rights. The U.S....

Eat

Leftovers

By Paul Adams

Published: November 18, 1998

Even if you've dined out every night for years, sometime you're going to find yourself puzzled by a term on a menu. Oh, sure, you probably know the meanings of, say, "flan" and "gnocchi," but...

Eat

Mission: Possible

By Naomi Wise

Published: November 18, 1998

Panchita's #2 3091 16th St. (at Valencia), 431-4232 (other branches at 3216 17th St. at South Van Ness, 431-8852; 3115 22nd St. at South Van Ness, 821-6660). Open daily from 9:30 a.m. to 11...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: November 18, 1998

Chalk Circle The Man Who Came to Dinner will visit all kinds of interesting people in the Bay Area -- as long as they cook him a meal. The fact that Rob Nilsson isn't a household name may...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: November 18, 1998

Heavy Roti-ation Roti's hot new menu is courtesy of James Ormsby, who formerly filled the booths with his surprising cooking at Bruno's. The Steuart Street restaurant will unveil a new look and...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: November 18, 1998

40 Karats Raise a glass to Film Quarterly, hitting the streets this month with its 40th anniversary issue. Founding Editor Ernest Callenbach launched the Berkeley-based film journal as the...

Film

Reign Check

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: November 18, 1998

Elizabeth Directed by Shekhar Kapur. Written by Michael Hirst. Starring Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Christopher Eccleston, and Joseph Fiennes. Opens Friday, Nov. 20, at the AMC 1000 Van...

Film

Starr Chamber

By Andy Klein

Published: November 18, 1998

Enemy of the State Directed by Tony Scott. Written by David Marconi. Starring Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, and Loren Dean. Opens Friday, Nov. 20, at area theaters. Here we go again....

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: November 18, 1998

The Sources of Pi Darren Aronofsky's clever film won immediate cult support when it opened earlier this year, and as Pi (or 3.14, to use its proper title) reaches repertory theaters and passes...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gary Morris

Published: November 18, 1998

Tranny Fest '98 San Francisco is the land of the niche film festival, and the Tranny Fest must be one of the niche-iest. Now in its fourth year, this daylong event celebrates drag kings and...