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Road to Redemption

Bad luck and a head injury couldn't kill him. Poverty just made him stronger. Now, freewheeling Bay Area bicycling legend Mike Neel is staging another comeback by coaching professional women's racing.

By Matt Smith

Published: April 28, 1999

Slouching in the doorway of a dimly lit room at the Monterey Travelodge, America's greatest bicycling coach gazes forlornly into a relentless drizzle outside. Rain is streaming into the team van...

News

We're Honored

Published: April 28, 1999

Longtime SF Weekly staff writer George Cothran has been honored as the best newspaper columnist in the Bay Area by the Peninsula Press Club, besting columnists from all of the region's daily...

News

Private Places

Gay activists push for return of traditional bathhouses

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: April 28, 1999

Officially, there have been no bathhouses in San Francisco since 1984, when health officials grappling with the AIDS crisis shut down the places where gay men could don a towel, relax in saunas,...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: April 28, 1999

Gimme a Beat! Often, it's hard to know exactly what this column's subject matter is supposed to be. Is it, say, sleaze and graft in civic politics? The nonstop party that is San Francisco...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 28, 1999

Bluesman's Tribute Your Paul Pena cover blew my f'ing mind ("Bluesman's Blues," April 21). In 1969, I was a college dropout living with my girlfriend in Worcester, Mass., hanging out with...

Music

Music.competition

With MP3s under attack and major labels designing new standards, three Bay Area firms try to corner the market on online music

By Brad King

Published: April 28, 1999

At the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas, last month, Broadcast.com co-founder Mark Cuban proclaimed that the free digital music revolution was dead. It was March 16, the closing...

Music

Fanfare for the Common Band

Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

By Mark Athitakis, Stacey Kors

Published: April 28, 1999

April 21 "The magic of all this and the beauty of this is that you don't know what the fuck is going to happen," Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said about his band's collaboration with the San...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis

Published: April 28, 1999

Fear and Funk on the Campaign Trail? Rock the Boat? Uncle Jam Wants You? The Headline Possibilities Are Endless Mark O'Hara has changed a lot in five months. Back in November, O'Hara, the lead...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 28, 1999

Long before Talvin Singh was applauded for integrating his musical heritage into club culture DJ Cheb i Sabbah had been uniting songs by tempo rather than by genre or nationality. As far back as...

Music

Hear This

By Ezra Gale

Published: April 28, 1999

Francisco Aguabella Afro-Cuban rhythms are now so ubiquitous in jazz that their influence is sometimes hard to discern. Listen to even the cheesiest cruise-ship combo for long enough, and...

Eat

Mexican Resort

By Naomi Wise

Published: April 28, 1999

Maya 303 Second St. (at Harrison), 543-6709. Open Monday through Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., Sunday through Thursday 5 to 10 p.m., weekends 5 to 10:30 p.m. The restaurant is wheelchair...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: April 28, 1999

Signed, Sealed, Delivered Marc Valiani has done all he can to turn Elroy's around; now it's time for him to get on with his own project. He and partner Gary Kurtz, whom you may know from Le...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: April 28, 1999

Ever try to stuff an entire In'n'Out Double Double Burger and a full order of those homemade fries (you know, the ones they serve in a towel) along with a whole vanilla milkshake into your mouth at...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: April 28, 1999

Nuts About Brazil People who love Brazil love it passionately, and they're not wrong. The density of imagery in this 1985 absurdist tech noir richly rewards multiple viewings, suggesting just...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: April 28, 1999

The Fan Update your Rolodexes, location scouts and independent filmmakers: P.J. Johnston is the new executive director of the San Francisco Film and Video Arts Commission. From a purely...

Film

And Now, On With the Show: SFIFF Week 2

By Sura Wood, Gregg Rickman, Michael Fox, Gary Morris, Tod Booth, Frako Loden, Joe Mader

Published: April 28, 1999

American Cuisine (France, 1998) In this gentle farce in which sexual love is a poor cousin to the passion aroused by good food, U.S. Navy chef Loren (Jason Lee) is dismissed from his post after...

Night&Day;

Night & Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 28, 1999

Wednesday April 28 Do the Sheffield Shuffle The band of elegant, lawbreaking ruffians chiming into the chorus of "Get Myself Arrested" ("I got a haircut, I got a silver tooth/ I'm gonna get...

Night&Day;

All Mod Cons

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 28, 1999

Haight Street might have been the place to wear flowers in your hair, but mods knew that the hippest place on 1960s Earth was Swinging London and its youthquaker epicenter, Carnaby Street. The...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: April 28, 1999

Earth Day on the Bay Twenty-four folks gather in a loose circle on an observation point overlooking Arrowhead Marsh, examining maps and aerial photos. It's early, even for Earth Day morning,...

Night&Day;

Oy, My Aching Funny Bone

By Heather Wisner

Published: April 28, 1999

With her autobiographical solo show June Bride, comedian/juggler Sara Felder struck just the right balance between humor and tenderness, art and entertainment, the personal and the universal. While...