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The Unsinkable Ralph Henke

A rolling battleship is the next project for the man who brought us the world's largest motor home. Even after 60 years and a heart transplant, the ideas just keep coming.

By Jack Boulware

Published: June 16, 1999

When I was a boy I used to read all about Edison, and the Wright brothers, Mr. Ford. They were my heroes. Rags to riches. That's not just the name of a book. That's what this country was all about....

News

We're Honored

Published: June 16, 1999

SF Weekly staff writer Jack Boulware has won first place for sports reporting in this year's Best of the West journalism competition. The prestigious contest, sponsored by the nonprofit First...

News

Make Art, Not War

Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales

By Claudia Rosenbaum

Published: June 16, 1999

Info: Make Art, Not War Attorney helps artists fight restrictions on street sales By Claudia Rosenbaum To the two eagle-eyed San Francisco police officers, it appeared that someone was holding...

News

Tapped Out

San Francisco slips one more notch as a global business player

By Matt Smith

Published: June 16, 1999

It's not the widest crack in San Francisco's crumbling stature as a world financial and industrial hub. Only 250 or so people will lose their jobs. And according to a corporate spokesman, they'll...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: June 16, 1999

Reader: Larger Issues Raised by Larger Hair Dog Bites' favorite perky on-air personality -- especially now that the formerly glam Leslie Griffiths has had that unflattering,...

Letters

Letters

Published: June 16, 1999

A Hoax Is a Hoax I used to live in San Francisco and like to keep up with the "goings on." I think your idea for that prank was hilarious, and wish I could have been there ("Wag the Mission,"...

Music

Reviews

By Tim Scanlin, Denise Sullivan

Published: June 16, 1999

Verbena Into the Pink (Capitol) Souls for Sale, Verbena's 1996 debut album, is the sound of true desperation. A perfect combination of impossibly trashy male/female vocals and pummeling,...

Music

Hear This

By Dave Clifford

Published: June 16, 1999

Angels of Light While his countless post-punk contemporaries wallow in self-misery and miserable poetry, Michael Gira -- the former leader of avant-noise-droners Swans -- creates a ruptured...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis

Published: June 16, 1999

Trouble in Clubland Last week, the Blackouts decided not to play their scheduled gig at the Mission's Tip Top Inn on June 11. Thereon hangs a tale. In early May, a lengthy e-mail titled "The...

Music

Those Who Dared

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

By Denise Sullivan

Published: June 16, 1999

Virginia Dare songwriter Mary O'Neil and her husband, guitarist Brad Johnson, both work day jobs. They rent a tiny but cute Bernal Heights cottage, which they share with Kit, their 4-year-old...

Music

Psychotic Reaction

Still committed to "annihilate all weak riffs," Oakland's Neurosis has gotten subtle but not soft

By Dave Clifford

Published: June 16, 1999

Everything about Oakland's Neurosis is overwhelming. The sextet's latest album, Times of Grace, is built around the suffocating sheets of guitars, impenetrable keyboards, tribal rhythms, and...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 16, 1999

This item is only for folks without jobs or other absurd obligations: Throw your sleeping bag, a bottle of bug spray, and several cases of beer into your car and drive. You have nothing to lose,...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: June 16, 1999

You know the old saying: All pate and no workout makes The Man Who Came to Dinner a fat-assed boy. So, a few weeks ago, in an effort to reverse the effects of these free weekly meals, I...

Eat

Hakka That Tries Harder

By Naomi Wise

Published: June 16, 1999

Dragon River 5045 Geary (at 14th Avenue), 387-8512. Open Sunday through Thursday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Wheelchair accessible. Reservations accepted and...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: June 16, 1999

In Living Color Harry was there with all the other swells who shelled out the clams for the triumphant return. I speak of the Black & White Ball and one fun, wind-swept night at the Civic...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: June 16, 1999

Four in the Afternoon Everybody loves short films, yet "shorts are treated as the bastards of the film world -- there's a total hierarchy," admits S.F. filmmaker Daven Gee. "They're made out of...

Film

Leaving Mike Figgis

By Jean Oppenheimer

Published: June 16, 1999

The Loss of Sexual Innocence Written and directed by Mike Figgis. Starring Julian Sands, Saffron Burrows, and Jonathan Rhys-Meyers. Opens Friday, June 18, at the Lumiere. Pretentiousness...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Gary Morris

Published: June 16, 1999

Ask, Tell: The 1999 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Homogenization is supposed to be for milk, not movies, but increasingly, mainstream cinema is becoming a faceless,...

Film

Zoom Lens

By Sura Wood

Published: June 16, 1999

Ann Arbor in San Rafael The Ann Arbor Film Festival, the oldest experimental film fest in the country, is committed to film as an art form -- a quaint notion in this summer of Lucas. Its tour,...

Film

Get Me Outta Here

By Bill Gallo

Published: June 16, 1999

Desert Blue Written and directed by Morgan J. Freeman. Starring Brendan Sexton III, Kate Hudson, Christina Ricci, and John Heard. Opens Friday, June 18, at the Lumiere. For Morgan J. Freeman...