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Foul Ball

The Giants' new stadium site is almost certainly seeping a stew of toxic chemicals into the bay. Why doesn't the government care?

By George Cothran

Published: October 1, 1997

The environmental impact report for the San Francisco Giants' planned ballpark at China Basin expresses a certain eloquent regard for the Pacific herring, which spawns in the bay nearby. The...

News

That Sinking Feeling

Sinkhole that ate Seacliff still eats at its residents

By Peter Byrne

Published: October 1, 1997

The affluent Seacliff neighborhood seems to have everything -- spectacular views of the bay, tastefully manicured yards, lots of open space. But beneath the beauty, residents have been assaulted,...

Letters

Letters

Published: October 1, 1997

A Message to Michael I read Michael Sragow every week because of his pop-culture-essayist aspirations -- hell, the man doesn't even pretend to be a critic anymore. Like his fellow...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, Bill Wyman

Published: October 1, 1997

Saturday Afternoon in the Park Static Faction drummer J. Shagawat says she's frustrated in the same way other rock musicians in San Francisco are: She's offended by crass commercialism and...

Music

Through the Past (Lightly)

By Bill Wyman

Published: October 1, 1997

Rolling Stones Soldier Field, Chicago Tuesday, Sept. 23 When Keith Richards gets aroused, he gets a wild, distant look in his eye, his voice cracks, and his left leg rises slightly, the...

Music

Three Blind Mice

By Jeff Stark

Published: October 1, 1997

Modest Mouse, Track Star, Red Stars Theory Bottom of the Hill Friday, Sept. 19 At the Bottom of the Hill two Fridays ago, the sold-out throng oozed smoke and perspiration. You had to...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 1, 1997

They move through Seacliff with relative calm. There is no honking or shouting. The bullhorns have fallen silent. In this pocket of manicured hedges and pedigreed shar-peis, noisemakers seem out of...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: October 1, 1997

Liberty Ellman With a rock-drummer dad and a supergroupie mom, Liberty Ellman was bound to be a guitar star. But Ellman didn't realize his true calling until he saw Purple Rain. As the...

Music

House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: October 1, 1997

As the name implies and the album corroborates, Mary Coughlan's After the Fall is the striking tale of a woman who drags herself out of the sewer by her own tonsils, and eventually manages to find...

Eat

Persian Delight

By Naomi Wise

Published: October 1, 1997

Maykadeh Persian Cuisine 470 Green (at Grant), 362-8286. Open Sunday through Thursday from 11:45 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday to 11 p.m. Reservations strongly recommended on...

Film

Second Time Around

By Steve Mobia

Published: October 1, 1997

"Master Storyteller: A Tribute to Wojciech Has" The Pacific Film Archive's retrospective of the work of Polish director Wojciech J. Has is something of a historic cinematic event. Has is known...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gary Morris

Published: October 1, 1997

Markopoulos: Seconds in Eternity Gregory Markopoulos, called by one critic "the American avant-garde cinema's supreme erotic poet," was an eccentric even by the exacting standards of the 1960s...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gary Morris

Published: October 1, 1997

Jailhouse Rock/Viva Las Vegas In an era when no corner of the pop-culture past is safe from recycling, it's a real question why nobody's dared to mount a full Elvis Presley filmic...

Film

Tribute

By Michael Sragow

Published: October 1, 1997

Wise Blood Oscar-oriented fans of Robert Wise might think that he's led a secret life. Best-known for producing and co-directing West Side Story and producing and directing The Sound of Music,...

Film

Up in the Valley

A critical guide to week one of the Mill Valley Film Fest

By Gary Morris, Gregg Rickman, Tod Booth

Published: October 1, 1997

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? The Life & Music of Robert Johnson The life and legacy of Robert Johnson, called "king of the Delta blues singers," hold an apparently endless fascination for the...

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: October 1, 1997

The Hustler/Hud In his salad days (as opposed to his later salad-dressing days), Paul Newman specialized in playing handsome louts. Method-trained, Newman at his best used his looks as a...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: October 1, 1997

wednesday october 1 Numero Umo Picture Hermann Hesse dangling from a trapeze and you'll get some sense of the Umo Ensemble's Caravan of Dreams, a tribute to the human hunger for...

Halloween

Unspun

By Phyllis Orrick

Published: October 1, 1997

Checchi Meets the Press A year ago, the vast majority of California voters had never heard of Al Checchi. The same held true for the state's top political writers; to the press, Checchi -- the...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: October 1, 1997

Catbird Seat to the Catfights Scott Carruthers walks to the center of the wrestling mat in his black-and-white referee's uniform, and welcomes the room (and video camera) to the Bay Area's...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Published: October 1, 1997

Aries (March 21-April 19): Try to convince some feisty lover to pick you up in his or her arms and carry you over a threshold this week. See, too, if you can arrange to have friends throw rice at...