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Telling Fortunes

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

By Matt Smith

Published: January 20, 1999

A mammoth computer monitor sits atop a pulpit in the conference room of KMV Corp.'s Montgomery Street office. Studying it, one imagines peering for the first time at a foretelling Mayan calendar,...

News

No More Free Ride?

Sierra Club wants BART parkers to pay

By Helen Gao

Published: January 20, 1999

On a teeth-chatteringly cold morning, acres of parking lots at the Dublin-Pleasanton Bay Area Rapid Transit station are filled with cars glistening from a thin coating of ice. The only...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: January 20, 1999

SUV-PF: A Big Bunch of Chickenshit Crybabies The Sport Utility Vehicle Proliferation Fellowship, after a brief bout of faxes, e-mails, and posturing, has suddenly dropped off the Dog Bites...

Letters

Letters

Published: January 20, 1999

Lame Willy Just a quick note to wish you all luck in your joint suit against the city regarding the newsrack ordinance ("Why We Are Suing the City," Mecklin, Jan. 6). During my six years in San...

News

Ordinary People

Blessed comfort marks historic lesbian union

By Matt Smith

Published: January 20, 1999

Aside from the more than 100 pastors, three dozen police officers, 1,200 spectators, and knot of national media reporters, Saturday's historic holy union ceremony between Methodist lesbians Jeanne...

Music

Reviews

By Dave Clifford

Published: January 20, 1999

(Young) Pioneers Free the (Young) Pioneers Now! (Lookout) It's a common misconception that punk rock is nihilistic and destructive. On the surface, punk's language and style certainly...

Music

Riff Raff

By Silke Tudor, Mark Athitakis

Published: January 20, 1999

Axed By Jan. 30, the nightclub-recording-rehearsal space formerly known as Klub Komotion will be disassembled and then vacated, making way for new owners, who will begin remodeling the...

Music

Poet, Knows It

Spoken-word artist Beth Lisick found her calling in live poetry. With her jazz combo the Beth Lisick Ordeal, she found an audience.

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 20, 1999

Beth Lisick was an aimless storyteller until she encountered one of the Chameleon's infamous Monday-night poetry jams. "It was like a whack-ass circus," she recalls, "a crazy free-for-all where you...

Music

Bombing Maneuvers

Bomb Records' David Paul single-handedly created a successful hip-hop magazine, launched artists' careers, and rescued the DJ from obscurity. Now what?

By Craig Smith

Published: January 20, 1999

Getting around David Paul's Noe Valley apartment isn't easy. Simply walking through a hallway means maneuvering past dozens of cardboard boxes filled with records and compact discs. Reach the...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 20, 1999

When Stuart Brotman moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, the Bay Area gained one of the most accomplished proponents of ancient Jewish music in the nation. With Brave Old World, Brotman helped...

Music

Hear This

By Robert Arriaga

Published: January 20, 1999

DJ Craze DJ Craze is a musical trickster, but it's not his ability to manipulate beats with a magician's touch that makes him one. As 1998's DMC champion, his command of hip hop is well...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: January 20, 1999

I'm 31. Thirty-one years, one month, and 27 days at the time of this printing, to be exact. So that's about a year and change since I crossed over into the dreaded black hole that many consider...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: January 20, 1999

Make 'Em Beg Just last year, Val 21, a stalwart on Valencia Street for eight years, underwent some major changes after being sold to a pair of its employees. These gals up and added meats and...

Eat

My Dinner With Attitude

By Naomi Wise

Published: January 20, 1999

Acquerello 1722 Sacramento (at Polk), 567-5432. Open Tuesday through Saturday from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Wheelchair accessible. Reservations strongly advised. Parking: private garage a few doors...

Eat

Perfection in Waiting

By Paul Adams

Published: January 20, 1999

First, a note to restaurateurs, with a personal anecdote by the author: Hire good waitstaff. Spare no expense. It makes a difference. You are selling both food and service, and the quality of...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: January 20, 1999

The Lonely Crowd The nearly complete series of the films of Michelangelo Antonioni screening at the Castro for two weeks beginning this Friday offers a great opportunity to engage the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gary Morris

Published: January 20, 1999

Lather, Rinse, Repeat R&B; fans have long lamented the habit of certain white performers of the '50s (think Pat Boone) of "covering" -- i.e., sanitizing -- the songs of black artists (think Fats...

Film

You'll Laugh! You'll Cry!

By Bill Gallo

Published: January 20, 1999

The Theory of Flight Directed by Paul Greengrass. Written by Richard Hawkins. Starring Helena Bonham Carter and Kenneth Branagh. Opens Friday, Jan. 22, at the AMC1000. The coldhearted among...

Film

Love for Sale

By Bill Gallo

Published: January 20, 1999

Playing by Heart Directed and written by Willard Carroll. Starring Angelina Jolie, Ellen Burstyn, Dennis Quaid, Gena Rowlands, Sean Connery, Ryan Phillippe, and Gillian Anderson. Opens Friday,...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: January 20, 1999

Freeway Smaller distributors typically make a play in the first quarter, while the major studios are dumping last year's rancid leftovers (a la At First Sight) on an unsuspecting public....