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Pleasantville

Over the years, homeless squatters have claimed the Albany Landfill as their own. Now it's time for them to leave ...

By Greg Hugunin

Published: April 7, 1999

The steady rumble of Interstate 80 falls behind as you walk out onto the Albany Landfill, until the cars seem to float silently in the distance like ghosts. Half a mile out into the bay, the...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 7, 1999

The Business of Sex Is Business You can add your "Web Rouser" cover story (March 31) to the ever-growing list of subtle morality tales about Inter-net porn. By choosing to focus your story on a...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: April 7, 1999

The Girl's Own Annual Over a month ago, our Spot the Chronicle Book contest was won by Ann Marie Davis. We promised her the very next Chronicle title to hit our mailbox. And, after some anxious...

News

We're Honored

Published: April 7, 1999

SF Weekly Associate Editor David Pasztor has placed third in this year's John Bartlow Martin Awards, a competition sponsored by Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism to recognize...

News

Coming Clean

Environmental group targets Stanford investment muscle

By Helen Gao

Published: April 7, 1999

Fresh off organizing campaigns at two other universities, a national environmental group is hoping Stanford University will be the next incubator for its nationwide campaign to breed social...

Music

Disco 'Round Midnight

Gianni Gebbia's out-there saxophone mastery masks a deep and surprising respect for all musical genres

By Sam Prestianni

Published: April 7, 1999

Roving with Gianni Gebbia down the cobblestone streets of Palermo, we rarely pass a cafe, restaurant, or bar without hearing someone call out, "Gianni!" A local celebrity who's been performing...

Music

Grace Under Pressure

In Monsters of Grace, Philip Glass and Robert Wilson may have created theater for the next century. Not easily, of course.

By Stacey Kors

Published: April 7, 1999

You rarely get ideas by yourself," admits Philip Glass. "Things happen much more collectively." "Collective" aptly describes the development of Monsters of Grace, the latest work by Glass...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: April 7, 1999

Oumou Sangare Female vocalists have dominated Mali's vibrant music scene ever since the West African country gained independence from France in the late 1950s. However, a strict caste system...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis

Published: April 7, 1999

Turning of the Tide Like that old line about death and taxes, there are two guarantees at rock concerts that play out regardless of the band, the venue, and the audience. To wit: 1) There will...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 7, 1999

A recent New York Post article commended Kid Rock for following in the "big steps" of the Insane Clown Posse on his debut album. What?! Kid Rock's debut -- Devil Without a Cause -- is his fifth...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: April 7, 1999

I'll take Local Politicians for 200, Alex. A: 38. Q: How many phone calls does it take to schedule a dinnertime "interview" with Supervisor Gavin Newsom? Local Politicians for 400:...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: April 7, 1999

Soooo Loong I'm sure you've already heard about the closing of Mark Miller's Loongbar at Ghirardelli Square. You probably don't care because you, like most other city dwellers, never went there...

Eat

Finally Fusion

By Naomi Wise

Published: April 7, 1999

La Moone 533 Jackson (at Columbus), 392-1999. Open Tuesday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tuesday through Thursday 6 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 6 to 11 p.m. Reservations strongly...

Eat

Industry: Working 9 to 5 (a.m.)

By Greg Hugunin

Published: April 7, 1999

It is just after 2 a.m. in the VIP room at "Release," and Martel and Nabiel are hard at work. Of course, to the untrained eye, Martel and Nabiel don't appear to be working -- at the moment, they...

Film

True Drew, Edgy Go

By Hal Hinson

Published: April 7, 1999

Never Been Kissed Directed by Raja Gosnell. Written by Abby Kohn and Marc Silverstein. Executive produced by Drew Barrymore. Starring Barrymore, David Arquette, Michael Vartan, Molly Shannon,...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: April 7, 1999

It Should Happen to You Those of us who are city dwellers live in a community of strangers, free, perhaps, from small-minded mores and the whip hand of gossip, but also free of a sense of...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: April 7, 1999

O Lucky Man! Simon Overton has an impossible dream. The 59-year-old English expat and former projectionist wants to turn the shuttered Royal Theater into a year-round venue for British films....

Film

Second Time Around

By Frako Loden

Published: April 7, 1999

A Tribute to Larry Cohen It's hard to put a claw on what makes some moments in Larry Cohen's films so disturbing -- maybe it's a stretch of hysterically off-kilter dialogue and clumsy...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 7, 1999

Wednesday April 7 Get on the Bus New York isn't just a location in Bennett Miller's documentary The Cruise; it's more like a central character with whom Miller's protagonist, Timothy...

Night&Day;

Giant Steps

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 7, 1999

The most telling part of Matthew Diamond's documentary Dancemaker unspools in pre-dawn darkness, as a groggy Paul Taylor dancer tries to roust himself out of bed. To a voice-over litany of the...