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Gonna Fly Now

Trading with the enemy helps a Berkeley geneticist divine the secrets of the fruit fly

By Philip Dawdy

Published: January 27, 1999

Gerald Rubin is an unpretentious man with an open face behind his glasses, a patch of gray in his brown beard. On occasion, a hint of Boston slides into his speech, betraying his eastern roots....

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: January 27, 1999

Outside the Box With the Chron! Oh, Wait ... Lately, after having triumphed in a protracted and bitter battle with the Chronicle's home delivery service, ultimately succeeding in getting our...

Letters

Letters

Published: January 27, 1999

Educating George OK, Cothran, you want to call land economists "pointy-headed," huh ("Assholes on the March," Cothran, Jan. 6)? Well, you're nothing but a blinkered, biased, agenda-pushing...

News

Out of Sight, Out of Minds

Local Republicans band together for safety

By Greg Hugunin

Published: January 27, 1999

They call their meetings in "secret," just like the old Freemasons used to do. They represent a powerless, often despised minority in San Francisco. They have been laughed at, ridiculed, lambasted,...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: January 27, 1999

If nothing turns you on like the smell of motor oil, sweat, and Jack Daniel's, this is the show of the year. Los Infernos, the low-rider monster rock quintet from Riversdale -- whose last album I...

Music

Air Canada

Behind his back, Kevin Dabbs' home-brew tape of his air drumming has drawn a growing cult in San Francisco

By Mark Athitakis

Published: January 27, 1999

Pounding out aggression Turns into obsession Cannot kill the battery -- Metallica, "Battery" Nobody told Kevin Dabbs. Nobody tracked him down a year-and-a-half ago to say, "Hey,...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 27, 1999

Mats Gustafsson Even in the most adventurous music circles, it's rare when a player invents a radically unique sound on his instrument. But that's precisely what Swedish saxophonist Mats...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis, Craig Smith

Published: January 27, 1999

For the Record Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom are both 25, and already they're starting to dread the aging process. When the local electronic-pop husband-and-wife team, which records and performs as...

Music

Ankle-Deep in Big Muddy

The Mississippi: River of Song offers a compelling, if thin, glimpse into a musical river culture

By Sam Prestianni

Published: January 27, 1999

From the gut-wrenching moan of the Delta blues to the brassy fire of New Orleans jazz, the Mississippi River has given birth to some of this country's finest homegrown sounds. But for...

Eat

Brotherly Love

By Naomi Wise

Published: January 27, 1999

Zare on Sacramento 568 Sacramento (at Montgomery), 291-9145. Open for lunch weekdays 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., for dinner Monday through Thursday 5 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday until 10:30 p.m....

Eat

Industry: One Haute Sauce

By Matt Smith

Published: January 27, 1999

Until around five years ago, every time we came back from Mexico we would stuff a dozen or so baseball-sized cans of Herdez chipotle chiles into our suitcase and smuggle them to our home pantry....

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: January 27, 1999

"Kill the bunny." -- Vince Vaughn, in Swingers What the hell is hip? What's trendy, in, retro, mod, kickin', bitchin', sweet, dope, or rad? And what -- in the name of all that was once simply...

Eat

Zodiac Arrest

By Paul Adams

Published: January 27, 1999

The Zodiac Club is a fine place to be if you're not looking to eat. It has lavish otherworldly decor -- designed by the team behind Backflip and the Red Room -- loud beat-driven music, tasty...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: January 27, 1999

Feeling Dizzy Vertigo owner Nancy Mootz almost choked on her canape when casual cocktail-party conversation turned to the departure of her chef. Apparently, Mootzie was caught unawares when...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: January 27, 1999

Purple Noon David Siegel and Scott McGehee might be the best filmmakers you've never heard of. It's hard to prove, though, since the S.F. State grads haven't been able to make a movie since...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Frako Loden

Published: January 27, 1999

Into Insects We live with insects, yet know next to nothing about them -- except that they disguise themselves, invade our homes, and can make us sick, and must therefore represent pure evil....

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: January 27, 1999

Primal Screen When, in the opening of the 1971 western McCabe & Mrs. Miller, a lone horseman wades through snowdrifts to arrive in a small town consisting of a few shacks full of hostile and...

Film

How Strange Fruit Got Its Groove Back

By Bill Gallo

Published: January 27, 1999

Still Crazy Directed by Brian Gibson. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Starring Stephen Rea, Jimmy Nail, Juliet Aubrey, Bill Nighy, and Timothy Spall. At the Embarcadero Center....

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: January 27, 1999

Wednesday January 27 Deco Dance Romain de Tirtoff's ladies were lovely, long-stemmed beauties, dramatically accessorized with ropes of pearls, matching greyhounds, ostrich fans, and...

Night&Day;

Lock and Keys

By Gary Morris

Published: January 27, 1999

This week's opening of Ernest Dickerson's Blind Faith (see our Movie Capsules in the Film section), combined with Media Alliance's monthlong "Critical Resistance: Prison Film Festival," provides a...