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The Red Menace

Bad music. Bad press. Bad hair. Sammy Hagar's heard the insults. But for the Bay Area's Red Rocker, the best revenge is living well.

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 26, 1999

You pace the living room, talking on a cordless and looking out plate-glass windows at the grassy slopes of Mount Tamalpais, high above Mill Valley. Pastel-colored artwork adorns the hallways. Your...

News

Military Might

Stanford activists in fight against laws forcing campuses to accept recruiters

By Helen Gao

Published: May 26, 1999

Chafing under federal laws that effectively require universities to allow military recruiters on campus, a coalition of law schools led by a Stanford University law professor is gearing up a...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: May 26, 1999

He's Soooo Busted Kevin Keating may or may not be Nestor Makhno; he's been advised by his attorney not to say one way or the other. But the SFPD thinks the 38-year-old filmmaker and the...

Letters

Letters

Published: May 26, 1999

Exposing Willie Many thanks to John Mecklin and Peter Byrne for their excellent piece on Willie Brown's dubious and complex financial affiliations ("W.L. Brown, A Public/Private Partnership,"...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 26, 1999

Best New Music Venue: City Hall Part of the fallout of the refurbished, scaffoldless City Hall is that it makes for a nifty backdrop for musicians. So last Tuesday, there was KTVU-TV's Mark Pitta...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 26, 1999

To the casual observer, all scooterists buzzing around town in stovepipe pants and wraparound shades might be part of a single supportive scooter league. Not so. As with any group of two or more...

Music

Hear This

By David Cook

Published: May 26, 1999

The Campbell Brothers In the late 1930s, as the Hawaiian electric steel guitar was quickly becoming a staple in country music ensembles, the same instrument was gaining popularity in some...

Music

Tom Waits' Variations

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

By Robert Wilonsky

Published: May 26, 1999

Everything you are about to read is a lie. Well, perhaps that is an exaggeration, as is much of what comes out of Tom Waits' mouth. It's not as though Waits doesn't know the truth; it's just...

Music

Old, Old, Old Ramon

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

By Mark Athitakis

Published: May 26, 1999

On the phone from Los Angeles, Red House Painters frontman Mark Kozelek speaks the way he sings. There's a hint of pent-up anger in his voice, but he's not the sort of person who screams; like...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: May 26, 1999

Metro "I don't think a straight guy can cut it behind the bar." That simple phrase, purportedly uttered by the owner of the Metro Bar, was the grounds of a labor dispute that was just settled...

Eat

Write Your Own Review!

By Paul Adams

Published: May 26, 1999

Despite the outward appearance of grueling, polished endeavor, reviewing a restaurant is actually a piece of cake. And now, with our handy do-it-yourself kit, writing your very own review is as...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: May 26, 1999

Look ... let me just get this over with. I like Bruce Springsteen. I'm from New Jersey. I grew up with the man -- sleeping out for tickets at Giants Stadium, memorizing all the lyrics, and...

Eat

South of the (Mexican) Border

By Naomi Wise

Published: May 26, 1999

San Miguel Restaurant 3520 20th St. (at Mission), 826-0173. Open Thursday through Tuesday 11:30 a.m. to 8 p.m., or until all signed-in waiting customers have eaten. (The restaurant will be...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gregg Rickman

Published: May 26, 1999

Swing, Sway, and Sing Jacques Rivette, the quietest and least-known of the original French New Wave cineastes, creates in this 1995 film a charming advance on his substantial earlier work. Now...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: May 26, 1999

Cruising Am I the only one in town who's not stupid with delirium about the imminent opening of the upscale gigantiplex and shopping mall called Sony Metreon? My antipathy for the project has...

Film

Nothing Hill

By Scott Kelton Jones

Published: May 26, 1999

Notting Hill Directed by Roger Mitchell. Written by Richard Curtis. Starring Julia Roberts, Hugh Grant, Hugh Bonneville, Emma Chambers, James Dreyfus, and Rhys Ifans. Opens Friday, May 28, at...

Night&Day;

Pride and Prejudice

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 26, 1999

Josie's Cabaret, the performance heart of the Castro, inaugurates Gay Pride Month with double doses of camp and scandal. A cast of strangely familiar characters -- cross-dressing baby dykes,...

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 26, 1999

Training When just a wee, bitty miscreant, I began craving a more southerly climate, one where women wrapped their limbs in little more than sun-bleached down, and men sported threadbare tank...

Night&Day;

This Is Your Brain on PSAs

By Gary Morris

Published: May 26, 1999

At some point when no one was looking -- though it was probably in the hazy '70s -- attention deficit disorder went from clinical condition to cognitive norm. Cultural critics and behavioral...

Halloween

Postscript

Published: May 26, 1999

I Went to a Guardian Marketing Study After signing up for a contest listed in the San Francisco Bay Guardian's personals section -- the winner would get a trip to Paris -- I wasn't too...