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The Fortress on the Hill

Once, she partied with the Rolling Stones. Now, shunned by family and sued by friends, aging eccentric Arden Van Upp has retreated to her mansion.

By Jack Boulware

Published: December 30, 1998

Something about the narcissistic Bay Area compels affluent people to push the limits of eccentricity. They reinvent themselves, shun responsibility, and pursue a good time. The party started with...

News

Gay Men Can't Dance

A tamer, older Castro shuns its party roots

By Joel P. Engardio

Published: December 30, 1998

Tequila shots, flirtatious conversation, and a DJ spinning Abba moved 29-year-old Tom Shepard and some friends to get off their barstools and boogie. They'd barely started shaking their hips to...

Letters

Letters

Published: December 30, 1998

Some Holiday Warmth How much is AOL paying you for that positive review of You've Got Mail, their two-hour commercial ("The Cyberpostman Always Writes Twice," Film, Dec. 16)? I can't believe...

Music

1998: The Year in Lists

Published: December 30, 1998

Brian Alcorn's Top 10 Songs Bay Area Radio Missed the Boat On Any music fan can name dozens of wonderful, obscure songs that never made it on the radio, but here are 10 wonderful mainstream...

Music

1998: The Official Truth

Published: December 30, 1998

ROCKCRITCO, INC. Turning Taste-making Whimsy Into the Historical Record Since 1966 PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION ONLY From: Office of the President, RockCritCo Inc. To: All Stockholders...

Music

Riff Raff

By Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner

Published: December 30, 1998

Comeback of the Year We don't mean comeback in the "returning a career to its past glories" sense. After all, the person in question here is John Wesley Harding, the British expatriate folk singer...

Music

Reviews

By Craig Smith, Dave Clifford

Published: December 30, 1998

Various Artists Cue's Hip Hop Shop Volume One (Dogday) Frank "DJ Cue" Cuevas didn't have a difficult time recruiting qualified artists for Cue's Hip Hop Shop Volume One. As owner of Cue's...

Music

The House of Tudor

By Silke Tudor

Published: December 30, 1998

In Scotland, there is no holiday more important, or dire, than Hogmanay. We're talking Scots drunk on glug (an unhealthy combination of fruit, red wine, and vodka), eating haggis (a more unhealthy...

Music

Hear This

By Sam Prestianni

Published: December 30, 1998

Hellworms Far below the earth, beyond the fiery gates of eternal damnation, the Hellworms pound out tuneful noise that's about as underground as it gets. Not unlike the San Francisco band's...

Eat

Chow, Baby

By Dianne Jacob

Published: December 30, 1998

Union Street is festive at holiday time, with shops and trees swathed in strings of white lights. But the sidewalks seem rather empty. The resurgence of three competing shopping streets --...

Eat

Side Dish

By Harry Coverte

Published: December 30, 1998

Harry Makes New Year's Resolutions ... for You! I'm not a big one for New Year's resolutions. It's not that I'm wishy-washy or without convictions; I go for permanent press and light starch,...

Eat

Dungeness and Flagons

By Naomi Wise

Published: December 30, 1998

Jasmine House 2301 Clement (at 24th Avenue), 668-3382. Open Wednesday through Monday, 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. weeknights, to 11 p.m. weekends. Reservations necessary for weekend dinners. The...

Eat

The Man Who Came to Dinner

By Barry Levine

Published: December 30, 1998

Some people say that The Theater is dying. Some say it's long past dead. Perhaps nowhere could either of these grim prognoses be more difficult to believe than in the unusual home of Tony Taccone....

Film

Second Time Around

By Gregg Rickman

Published: December 30, 1998

Badlands At once as preciously mannered and gawkily sincere as Sissy Spacek's faux-naif narration, Terrence Malick's debut feature of 1973 is loosely based on a celebrated killing spree of the...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: December 30, 1998

Public Access Hereabouts, November has traditionally been independent filmmakers' time to enjoy the spotlight, thanks to the annual Film Arts Festival. But increasingly, January is shaping up...

Film

Dead Zone

By Bill Gallo

Published: December 30, 1998

Hurlyburly Directed by Anthony Drazan. Written by David Rabe, based on his play. Starring Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Robin Wright Penn, Meg Ryan, and Chazz Palminteri. At area theaters. Because...

Film

As We Like It

By M.V. Moorhead

Published: December 30, 1998

Shakespeare in Love Directed by John Madden. Written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. Starring Joseph Fiennes, Gwyneth Paltrow, Geoffrey Rush, Simon Callow, Rupert Everett, Ben Affleck, Judi...

Night&Day;

Night + Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: December 30, 1998

Wednesday December 30 Sing Sing Sing Like the Whos in Whoville, participants in the 24-hour concert "Singing for Your Life" will celebrate the holidays by raising their voices in song....

Halloween

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: December 30, 1998

Geeks Just Have More Fun The check-in office of the Edgewater West Adult Resort stinks of chlorine bleach -- that sharp, chemical smell redolent of bacteria-laden moisture and hard-to-reach...

Night&Day;

Noisemakers

By Heather Wisner

Published: December 30, 1998

Champagne corks will be popping across town 'round midnight this Thursday, but the sound of a man being shot from a cannon at the Circus Redickuless New Year's Eve Slumber Party will make a louder...