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  1. Feature

    Inside Flynt
    Larry Flynt's outing of powerful Republican hypocrites has the GOP fearing political ruin before the Y2K elections. An inside look at what makes Flynt's investigative team tick.
    By Denise Hamilton
    Published: September 15, 1999

    From his penthouse suite atop a tall black building in Beverly Hills, a man in a wheelchair looks out at the rolling hills and broad avenues of Los Angeles, feeling his power. It is a power...

  2. Feature

    Rights of Passage
    With gates and fences, private property owners are increasingly cutting off traditional paths to public lands. State law offers some recourse, but not much.
    By Matt Smith
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Johnny King reaches out the window of his matte-blue Mazda RX-7 and holds his hand inches from a keypad mounted near the gate blocking Las Trampas Road. He doesn't touch it. "What we'll do is...

  3. Dog Bites

    Dog Bites
    Our New Mission
    As told to Laurel Wellman
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Dog Bites, struggling mightily against the compulsion to look on eBay for all the currently out-of-print children's books that probably made us as messed up as we are today, was relieved to be...

  4. Night Crawler

    Night Crawler
    Punks, Putting, and the Police
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: September 15, 1999

    As if things aren't bad enough for law enforcement during a three-day holiday ... No less than 400 punk rockers are due to descend upon the chain-store sanctuary of Castro Valley; and the estimated...

  5. Bay View

    Pirates at the Dock
    Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring
    By Dara Colwell
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Two of the video gaming industry's biggest players are shining lights into the murky corners of international video piracy through a joint San Francisco lawsuit against alleged members of...

  6. Music

    History Takes a Beating
    Two new CDs devoted to Kerouac and Ferlinghetti show what's good -- and bad -- about romanticizing the beats
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Jim Sampas means well. He's a fan of literature and of music, particularly of the '50s variety: bop jazz and beat poets, mainly. So not surprisingly, much of his life revolves around making records...

  7. Music

    Back Door Memories
    Tom Mazzolini speaks proudly of his San Francisco Blues Festival. But each musician is proud for a different reason.
    By Bill Kisliuk
    Published: September 15, 1999

    At 1995's San Francisco Blues Festival, every time a limo pulled up on the grassy knoll at Fort Mason, people were looking for John Lee Hooker. The rumor among the performers milling around the...

  8. Riff Raff

    Riff Raff
    Virginal Sacrifices and Live! Nude! Stupid!
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Virginal Sacrifices "This one's for somebody in San Francisco, this one's going to Boston," says Gary Blaise, standing in his workshop and pointing at the clavichords he's currently building for...

  9. Record

    Review
    Eliades Ochoa's Sublime Illusion
    By Ezra Gale
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Eliades Ochoa Sublime Illusion (Higher Octave Music) It isn't hard to like Buena Vista Social Club , the enchantingly sensual collaboration between Ry Cooder and some of Cuba's...

  10. Record

    Review
    Ramblin' Jack Elliott's The Long Ride
    By Denise Sullivan
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Ramblin' Jack Elliott The Long Ride (HighTone) For a while, there didn't seem to be a place in the world for a guy who sang songs by old friends -- friends like Woody Guthrie and Bob...

  11. House of Tudor

    House Of Tudor
    Hank Williams Karaoke, "The War Room," "Electromechanik," New England Clambake, "Planet Tiki," Kiss-Offs, Waco, and "Burlesque Brigade."
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: September 15, 1999

    The problem with being a karaoke groupie is that between the tunes that make you swoon, like "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes," are a whole slew of crappy, happy sing-alongs like "Summer Lovin'." For the...

  12. Hear This

    Hear This
    Misha Mengelberg & Han Bennink
    By Sam Prestianni
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Old-school avant-garde jazz fans often associate pianist Misha Mengelberg and drummer Han Bennink with the duo's enviable big break: supporting Eric Dolphy on his final tour of Europe just weeks...

  13. Eat

    Just Eat It
    Ton Kiang
    By Matthew Stafford
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Tea is both forefather and companion to those tasty little bits of sustenance known as dim sum. For several centuries after the Emperor Shen Nung (apocryphally, but who cares) invented tea by...

  14. Eat

    Low-Key Fresh Mex
    Papalote Mexican Grill
    By Paul Adams
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Papalote is a cheap, no-table-service Mexican restaurant in the Mission that breaks the taqueria stereotype. There's no fug of carnitas grease in the air -- you leave smelling as pristine as when...

  15. Side Dish

    Side Dish
    Calling In Sick
    By Harry Coverte
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Excuse the ice pack and cucumber slices -- Harry just rolled in from last night's party. Harry Denton's on Steuart Street has closed its doors after a long run in the Harbor Court Hotel, and we...

  16. Film

    The Way We Live Now
    American Beauty
    By Bill Gallo
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Grown-ups, take heart. Even if you misspent your summer at the movies pigging out on reheated space adventure, slob humor, and stubborn, old ballplayers who won't hang up their spikes, all is not...

  17. Reel World

    Reel World
    The Horn Blows at Midnight, Age of Consent, The Big Carnival
    By Michael Fox
    Published: September 15, 1999

    The Horn Blows at Midnight "It blows my mind that nobody's ever done a film about Miles Davis," says Laura Plotkin. So the Oakland filmmaker with the cojones grandes is planning an ambitious...

  18. Night&Day;

    Groovy Marcia!
    "Exotica Music Films"
    By Gary Morris
    Published: September 15, 1999

    Two of the more rarefied musical realms, the lounge and the garage, are on gaudy display in a three-part series at Yerba Buena, "The Secret Cinema." The first two nights, "Exotica Music Films,"...

  19. Night&Day;

    Fingerpickin' Good
    Bad Livers
    By Heather Wisner
    Published: September 15, 1999

    The tuba confuses the punks, and the Iggy Pop covers tend to baffle the old folks, but by the end of their live shows, Austin's Bad Livers have usually won everyone over, whether they're playing...

  20. Stage

    The Mulch Effect
    The Fringe Festival
    By Heather Wisner
    Published: September 15, 1999

    I have to confess that I've read Woyzeck more than once without completely understanding it, and going to see Wits End's production at the Fringe was no particular help. The brilliant fragments...

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