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Sex and the Singular Swami

Since the '60s, the Ananda Church of Self-Realization has grown from a Northern California commune into a worldwide New Age empire. Its leader has grown fond of sex with young believers.

By Helen Gao

Published: March 10, 1999

The pews are steadily filling up, and the Sunday service is about to start. The parishioners, mostly middle-aged, ordinary-looking couples, sit quietly, their graying, balding, and silver heads...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 10, 1999

SFPD Power Trip? This story is a perfect example of the well-known theory that cops have the most closely matched personality profiles to criminals than any other profession ("The Mission...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: March 10, 1999

Me, Myself, and I Last week's complaints and questions about our use of "we" have touched off ... more complaints and questions, as in this letter from Lorri Leon, who writes, "I, too, have...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 10, 1999

Following in the footsteps of great girl groups like the Slits and the Runaways, Tokyo's eX-Girl didn't let a little thing like musicianship get in the way of its music. In September of 1997, the...

Music

Reviews

By Dave Clifford

Published: March 10, 1999

Country Teasers Destroy All Human Life (Fat Possum) When we think of misanthropic music, the first things to come to mind are probably punk, industrial-noise, and heavy metal. After all,...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis

Published: March 10, 1999

So Chuck D and About 100 Lawyers Walk Into This Bar ... In the near future, says Spinner.com CEO David Samuel, you'll be able to download the entire catalog of a single artist for a flat fee --...

Music

Beyond and Back

The Tin Hat Trio's unclassifiable music spans the globe, which is just the way they like it

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 10, 1999

In turn-of-the-century Vienna, a popular chamber group combination was guitar, accordion, and violin. In contemporary Argentina and northeastern Brazil, the same group of instruments is the norm...

Music

Swede Victory

Conductor Herbert Blomstedt rescues an obscure composer from the classical dustbin

By Stacey Kors

Published: March 10, 1999

In the early 1850s, a German music critic asked Franz Berwald if he was still a composer. His surly reply was, "No, I am a glass blower." Such was the sorry fate of Berwald's career....

Music

Hear This

By Dave Clifford

Published: March 10, 1999

Ink and Dagger Meshing the social politics of hardcore punk with vampire themes may seem like an aesthetic stretch, but Philadelphia's Ink and Dagger makes a clever argument for its, er,...

Eat

Finnegans Cake

By Naomi Wise

Published: March 10, 1999

O'Reilly's Irish Puband Restaurant 622 Green (at Stockton), 989-6222. Open Monday through Friday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Irish breakfast until 4 p.m. every...

Eat

Leftovers

By Paul Adams

Published: March 10, 1999

Circadia or Starbucks? Reports have been trickling in that patrons of the new crypto-Starbucks restaurant, Circadia (at 2727 Mariposa), are confused as to whether they are actually in a...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: March 10, 1999

Thank you, Mistress, may I have another? Thank you, Mistress Anneka, may I please have another? Thank you, Mistress Anneka. May I please have another slice of this delightful manchengo cheese...

Eat

Char Broiled

By Dianne Jacob

Published: March 10, 1999

Colorfully painted and plastered with festive travel posters, Zinzino has the air of an authentic Italian restaurant magically transported to Chestnut Street. Its casual atmosphere manages to be at...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: March 10, 1999

Pardon Me Do You Have Any Grey Poupon? Ahh, nothing like a trip out of the city. Sonoma during the Mustard Festival reminds me of an overgrown lawn just before the gas mower coughs into life....

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: March 10, 1999

Deep Crimson Reel World's tireless one-man campaign on behalf of overlooked auteur Russ Meyer must wait another year, as the San Francisco International Film Festival (April 22 to May 6) has...

Film

Just When You Thought It Was Safe ...

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 10, 1999

The Deep End of the Ocean Directed by Ulu Grosbard. Written by Stephen Schiff, from Jacquelyn Mitchard's novel. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Treat Williams, and Whoopi Goldberg. Opens Friday,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: March 10, 1999

Platinum Blonde This 1931 proto-screwball comedy places hard-boiled newsman Stew Smith (Robert Williams) in the luxurious lap of millionaire heiress Jean Harlow, a cushy fate the "Cinderella...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Frako Loden

Published: March 10, 1999

Local Karma This year's Asian American Film Festival has hit it big by predicting local winners. One of the best is Rabbit in the Moon (Sundance Cinematography Award), not just a revisionist...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Frako Loden

Published: March 10, 1999

Fanatics and Lunatics Director Yasuzo Masumura has been called the missing link between the humanism of Kurosawa and Ozu and the nouvelle vague of Oshima and Yoshida -- but Masumura's work is...

Night&Day;

Film Fights Back

By Gary Morris

Published: March 10, 1999

Radical voices are hard to hear in an era in which leftists drive SUVs, and NAFTA-pushing, welfare-smashing, Iraq-bombing Bill Clinton is called a liberal. 'Twas not always thus, as shown by "An...