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Science of the Lambs

Buying Dolly the duplicated sheep has brought researchers at the Bay Area's Geron Corp. to the threshold of remarkable frontiers in transplants and cloning. Do we want to follow their lead?

By Lisa Davis

Published: June 30, 1999

Inside a very plain building, in an ordinary industrial office park, in possibly the most unremarkable part of Menlo Park, a scientist named Dr. Calvin Harley matter-of-factly explains something so...

News

SF Weekly Wins Newsrack Injunction

By David Pasztor

Published: June 30, 1999

U.S. District Judge Saundra Brown Armstrong last week issued an injunction forbidding San Francisco officials from enforcing a new newsrack ordinance, saying the law does not provide adequate...

News

Even More Honors

Published: June 30, 1999

Two SF Weekly writers have received honors in the California Newspaper Publishers Association's 1998 statewide journalism competition. The awards were announced June 26. Peter Byrne won first...

Letters

Letters

Published: June 30, 1999

Nursing Home Tragedies Thank you for the incisive, accurate, and heart-rending article by Matt Smith on the Mill Valley nursing home ("Diagnosis: Eviction," June 9). After caring for her...

News

Dog Bites

By Laurel Wellman

Published: June 30, 1999

An Item and a Half, Plus a Cat Well, it isn't Sophocles, but it'll have to do. -- Xena, Warrior Princess It's been one of those odd mail weeks. Correspondent M.J. Faber confesses, "I seem...

Music

Reviews

By Ezra Gale

Published: June 30, 1999

Caetano Veloso Livro (Nonesuch) It's sad but true that the American pop world has no equivalent to Caetano Veloso, who is something like the Brazilian version of the Beatles (having...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 30, 1999

Hobo history is primarily an oral tradition and hobo scrivening only emerged as an abstruse order of symbols to alert, welcome, and direct fellow travelers. Until the late '50s, these markings,...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: June 30, 1999

AWD From the psychedelic trips of Bill Graham's hippie-era Fillmore Auditorium to the madcap freak show that once was "post-rock" band Idiot Flesh, the over-the-top, multisensory concert...

Music

Honky-Tonk Angles

Western swing musician Johnny Dilks plays scholar to California's country music past and suggests its future, if Charlie Louvin has anything to say about it

By Mark Athitakis

Published: June 30, 1999

Johnny Dilks strides into DeMarco's 23 Club hurriedly, wearing a dusty pair of overalls. He's here to see a man about a horse. See, Dilks is a country singer, DeMarco's is a Brisbane honky-tonk,...

Music

Riff Raff

By Mark Athitakis

Published: June 30, 1999

Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Download No Evil Robert Reid's favorite artists are the Clash, Green Day, Kate Bush, and Black Grape, and none of their songs are available on the downloadable music...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: June 30, 1999

Fishing Season Red Herring Restaurant and Bait Bar should be open by the time you read this. James Ormsby, late of Bruno's, is looking to hook a big one with his project in the old Roti space....

Eat

Blues in the Night

By Naomi Wise

Published: June 30, 1999

Indigo 687 McAllister (at Gough), 673-9353. Open Tuesday through Sunday 5 to 11 p.m. Wheelchair accessible. Reservations advised for pre-performance dinners. Parking: valet and nearby lots $5,...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: June 30, 1999

What do you want to be when you grow up? When I was but a wee boy and my dear old Popa, or some other interested adult, would turn to me and pose this time-honored question, I'll tell you what...

Film

Potty Mouth, the Movie

By Andy Klein

Published: June 30, 1999

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut Directed by Trey Parker. Written by Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady. With the voices of Parker, Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, and Isaac Hayes. Opens Wednesday at...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: June 30, 1999

Flubber After scant weeks on the job, S.F. Film and Video Arts Commission Executive Director P.J. Johnston (Reel World, April 28) has taken a personal leave of absence to work for Mayor Brown's...

Film

That Summer of '77

By Bill Gallo

Published: June 30, 1999

Summer of Sam Directed by Spike Lee. Screenplay by Victor Colicchio, Michael Imperioli, and Spike Lee. Starring John Leguizamo, Mira Sorvino, Adrien Brody, Jennifer Esposito, and Michael...

Film

Portrait of a Teenager

By David Ehrenstein

Published: June 30, 1999

Edge of Seventeen Directed by David Moreton. Screenplay by Todd Stephens. Starring Chris Stafford, Tina Holmes, Andersen Gabrych, Stephanie McVay, and Lea DeLaria. Opens Friday at the Lumiere....

Night&Day;

Lose Your Mind

By Heather Wisner

Published: June 30, 1999

A sock monkey and a giant Easter bunny star in this year's Brainwash Movie Festival: the sock monkey as a bus commuter in Danny Plotnick's I, Socky, and the bunny as a mall-bound Christmas Eve...

Night&Day;

Night & Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: June 30, 1999

Wednesday June 30 Arrivederci, Roma Who's covering the pope while NPR foreign correspondent Sylvia Poggioli's in town? While many of her dispatches have come from Rome, with church bells...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: June 30, 1999

I'm in dire need of help. Me and my friend are both 15, girls, and bi. We're bored with "traditional" masturbating. We've tried porno (which is great, but it only took me so far), random objects,...