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  1. Feature

    Online Pirates of the Caribbean
    Three San Francisco men found riches in Antiqua with their Internet gambling site. Now they're federal fugitives. Caribbean
    By Jack Boulware
    Published: December 15, 1999

    The intermittent rains seemed fitting when the 49ers hosted the Green Bay Packers in a recent Monday night embarrassment. Cameras zooming in on the hometown sidelines captured the grim faces of...

  2. Feature

    An Endowed Chair
    Sen. John McCain's push for campaign-finance reform has helped his presidential bid. Donations from special interests haven't hurt, either.
    By Amy Silverman
    Published: December 15, 1999

    When Charles Keating's Lincoln Savings and Loan Association collapsed in 1989, Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain's political career nearly went with it. McCain, the country learned, was one of...

  3. Dog Bites

    Dog Bites
    More Millennial Angst and 72 Degrees in Your Head
    As told to Laurel Wellman
    Published: December 15, 1999

    More Millennial Angst Oh, God. Christmas is upon us, and this year, hard on its heels, are the Y2K parties. Some of us, who already find an ordinary New Year's Eve to be entirely too much...

  4. Night Crawler

    Night Crawler
    Mushroom Crowd
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Mushroom Crowd Even on the blacktop, away from the trees, the verdant light around the Crystal Springs Watershed is dappled and shimmering, given soft focus by the warmth of our breath and...

  5. Bay View

    Misplaced Trust
    An audit finds the city's public guardian shorting the treasury and misusing funds
    By Peter Byrne
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Most San Franciscans are all too familiar with the insinuations of corruption that regularly swirl around several high-profile city agencies. The Human Rights Commission, for instance, has lately...

  6. Postscript

    Postscript
    Ride of Passage
    By Matt Smith
    Published: December 15, 1999

    There are few things more agonizing than patiently awaiting a rite of passage. Who can forget the nagging itch of the gas-pedal foot during the months approaching age 16; that brief moment just...

  7. Music

    Whatever Doesn't Fit
    Brian Fraser and Chris Palmatier have an avant-rock band called Brian and Chris. Everything else is more complex.
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: December 15, 1999

    On the corner of Church and 20th streets, complaining about San Francisco seems inappropriate, if not downright rude. It's a sunny afternoon at the edge of Dolores Park, and one of those days that...

  8. Music

    Still a Beautiful Mess
    Once considered just another L.A. rock casualty, former Thelonious Monster leader Bob Forrest returns to the land of the living with the Bicycle Thief
    By Neal Weiss
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Here's one of life's lessons that may have passed you by: Never smoke crack before singing the national anthem at a major sporting event. That's exactly what Bob Forrest did in January 1993. As...

  9. Riff Raff

    Riff Raff
    O, Pioneers!, Lies! All Lies!, There Was a Riot Goin' On, But That's Over Now
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: December 15, 1999

    O, Pioneers! A sale of the Hotel Utah, one of SOMA's most venerable clubs and residence hotels, is currently pending. "There's something in the works," says owner Paul Gaer, who put the Utah on...

  10. Record

    Debris
    Static Disposal
    By Mike Rowell
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Debris Static Disposal (Anopheles) The secret history of American rock is loaded with visionary bands whose initial existence met with confusion, derision, and zero appreciation. Consider...

  11. Record

    Potaje
    Charanga Flamenca
    By Ezra Gale
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Potaje Charanga Flamenca (La Tartana) While the linguistic and cultural legacies left by Spain in Cuba may be fairly obvious, the musical one is perhaps less so. Many of the complex...

  12. House of Tudor

    House Of Tudor
    Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff
    By Silke Tudor
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Skipping through pull-top alleyways with a belly full of monkeyshine, Zmrzlina flits between delirious syncopation and sleepytime bedroom fuzz, filling the gaps between Fuck and Uz Jsme Doma....

  13. Hear This

    Hear This
    Rob Sudduth
    By Sam Prestianni
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Rob Sudduth Rob Sudduth's Just One of Those Things: Music Inspired by Frank Sinatra (A-Records) embodies much of jazz convention's most tedious attributes: old-time melodic-harmonic constructs,...

  14. Eat

    Home for the Holidays
    Schroeder's
    By Matthew Stafford
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Respite from the dark chill of night has, since prehistoric times, been the driving force behind solstice celebrations from yule logs to menorahs, but as a snow-ignorant California boy I have had...

  15. Eat

    Unalloyed Pleasure
    Gary Danko
    By Paul Adams
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Those of us who followed chef Gary Danko from the glorious Dining Room at the Ritz-Carlton, where he received a James Beard award, through his unsatisfying stint at Viognier, the restaurant atop...

  16. Side Dish

    Side Dish
    Dine One One, Paint It Black, Here's Adam!, For Sake's Sake, Comings and Goings, Saturday Night Fever
    By Harry Coverte
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Dine One One Veteran GM Maureen "Mo" Donegan of MoMo's has left her position to open the new restaurant Dine. Though located in the crash-and-burn Restaurant Marais space, Dine will be a very...

  17. The Man Who Came to Dinner

    The Man Who Came to Dinner
    Tiki News
    By Barry Levine
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Ah, the American dream. Here at the turn of the millennium, our collective goal of a chicken in every pot and a white picket fence has evolved into pre-IPO options and a comparatively less corrupt...

  18. Film

    Saccharine Overdose
    Stuart Little
    By Gregory Weinkauf
    Published: December 15, 1999

    It's too tempting to resist. You see, there's a secret about Stuart Little that the fine folks at Sony don't want to blow. It's not that each one of the half-million computer-generated hairs on...

  19. Film

    The Hero's Journey
    Ride With the Devil
    By Gregory Weinkauf
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Nobody is innocent in America, but there is one segment of the population that seems doggedly determined to deny its own ignorance, ugliness, and violence. So hands up now, who really likes...

  20. Reel World

    Reel World
    Zan Boko and The Accused
    By Michael Fox
    Published: December 15, 1999

    Zan Boko From its cluttered, no-frills offices overlooking the grimy corner of Ninth Street and Market, California Newsreel single-handedly flies the flag(s) of African cinema in this country....

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