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Eat This Logo, Sucker

ValueStar wants businesses to pay for the privilege of sporting its seal of approval. Is it a public service, or a shakedown?

By Lisa Davis

Published: March 24, 1999

Info:Correction Date: 03/31/1999 Info: Eat This Logo, Sucker ValueStar wants businesses to pay for the privilege of sporting its seal of approval. Is it a public service, or a shakedown? By...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 24, 1999

Stop Picking on Our Swami Do you folks not have a clue? Quite aside from the countless errors of fact in your story on Swami Kriyananda ("Sex and the Singular Swami," March 10), are you...

News

A Night at the Webbys

Backstage, Mistress Tiffany takes the prize

By Jack Boulware

Published: March 24, 1999

Tension perfumes the backstage air at the Herbst Theater. The Webby Awards draw nigh. Comedian Marc Maron sits in his dressing room, shuffling index cards filled with jokes. He will MC the event....

News

Strike While the Iron Is Hot

Bike messengers organizing for April 15 walkout

By Matt Smith

Published: March 24, 1999

Imagine this coming tax day not as death's dreary counterpart, but as a delightful springtime street pageant filled with amazing sights. Like herds of slate-suited bankers trundling through the...

Music

Reviews

By Mark Athitakis

Published: March 24, 1999

Joaquina The Foam and the Mesh (Future Farmer) Joaquina's Jeff Klindt and Dennis Mitchell are rural refugees, and who can blame them? The bright lights of San Francisco certainly have...

Music

Riff Raff

By Stacey Kors, George Cothran

Published: March 24, 1999

End of an Era Next week, Peter Pastreich will relinquish his post as executive director of the San Francisco Symphony. After 40 years as an orchestra manager, 21 of which were spent with the SFS,...

Music

Fiddling With Tradition

For local klezmer musicians, experimenting with Jewish music's history is just as important as embracing it

By Ezra Gale

Published: March 24, 1999

Violinist Kaila Flexer is billed as a klezmer musician, and for a couple of songs during her February performance at A Traveling Jewish Theater in San Francisco, that label made some sense. The...

Music

Return of the Prodigious Son

Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter revisits the Bay Area, energized and uncorrupted by the bustle of New York City

By Jonathan Seff

Published: March 24, 1999

Some might say that a person would have to be crazy to abandon life here for New York City. But for Charlie Hunter, the beautiful Bay Area was a barren wasteland. "I felt that as a musician it...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: March 24, 1999

Steve Lacy The clarity and integrity of saxophonist Steve Lacy's vision as a jazz composer/improviser have inspired fans and musicians alike for more than four decades. Eminent Bay Area reedmen...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: March 24, 1999

Awaiting Ghosts of Hallelujah -- the third CD in the Gourds' Comfort, Texas, trilogy -- I listened to last year's treasure, Stadium Blitzer, over and over again while my saliva rose like sour mash....

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: March 24, 1999

Aww, Shucks A coupla hundred other foodies and I jammed Eastside West last week looking for free oysters. Bidden by the bivalve, Harry ventured down to Fillmore and Greenwich to check out the...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: March 24, 1999

Here's one: A lawyer, a witch, and an artist walk into a bar .... Well, actually, it was a lawyer, a witch, and an artist who invited The Man Who Came to Dinner -- to this week's dinner....

Eat

Grecian Formula

By Dianne Jacob

Published: March 24, 1999

When you walk in the door at Kokkari, you immediately see how the owners spent $5 million renovating and decorating the place. Never mind that the real Kokkari is actually a small fishing village...

Eat

Aix and Paeans

By Naomi Wise

Published: March 24, 1999

Bistro Aix 3340 Steiner (at Lombard), 202-0100. Open for dinner Monday through Thursday 6 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday until 11 p.m., Sunday 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wheelchair accessible....

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: March 24, 1999

Books to Go Books have lives of their own, as do literary reputations. The Mark Twain Company, screening Saturday at Artists' Television Access, is a look at what's happened to Twain's...

Film

No Score

By Michael Sragow

Published: March 24, 1999

20 Dates Directed by, written by, and starring Myles Berkowitz. Opens Friday, March 26, at the Lumiere. Self-serving confessionals are a mainstay of best-seller lists; now we're doomed to see...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gary Morris

Published: March 24, 1999

Train 86, Where Are You? Pop culture's given us glory trains, cocaine trains, trains to nowhere, and hell-bound trains, but Argentine director Gustavo Mosquera manages to wrap them all into one...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: March 24, 1999

A Better Tomorrow Congratulations to Film Comment and Bay Guardian contributor Chuck Stephens on his recent induction into the National Society of Film Critics. Stephens joins SF Weekly's own...

Night&Day;

Striking Chords

By Heather Wisner

Published: March 24, 1999

Not since the '80s, when toy instrument purveyors Pianosaurus reduced Chuck Berry's "Memphis" to a precious symphony of pint-sized pianos, tiny snare drums, and children's guitars, has toy...

Night&Day;

Radical Retread

By Heather Wisner

Published: March 24, 1999

The utopian ideal of street theater lives on with In the Street, an annual June festival of free, in-your-face performances staged with the Tenderloin as its ragtag backdrop. But as organizers the...