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The dot-com invasion -- call them twerps with 'tude -- is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful.
By Paulina Borsook
October 28, 1999
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Is it a wicked game of celebrity pursuit or retaliation for the singer's satanic verses?
By Jon B. Rhine
October 6, 1999
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Reporter Sander Thoenes was touring a neighborhood in Dili, the capital of East Timor. Then soldiers opened fire.
By Eve Pell
September 30, 1999
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Audrey Wells' timid examination of the attraction between older men and younger women yields few surprises.
By Charles Taylor
September 29, 1999
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Famous for not being famous? If you act now, you too can have a fawning celebrity profile -- rich in essential adjectives -- at just a fraction of the cost!
By Jen Banbury
September 11, 1999
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S.F. Mayor Willie Brown has a 30-percent approval rating. But can anyone knock him out of office?
By Anthony York
August 5, 1999
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Armistead Maupin and the San Francisco Opera's Jake Heggie imagine toking transsexual Anna Madrigal as a mezzo-soprano.
By Stacey Kors
August 4, 1999
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"President Clinton is a godsend because he's like a piqata. Every conceivable kind of story comes out of him."
By Jenn Shreve
July 30, 1999
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For would-be Net moguls, a flight to San Francisco can be a gift from the networking gods -- or a devilish tease.
By Mark Gimein
July 29, 1999
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How did AT&T engineer its open-access victory in San Francisco?
By Mark Gimein
July 27, 1999
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Our expert offers tips on top budget hotels in San Francisco and Alsace, airlines' emergency ticket-fee waivers and Maine's coastal treasures.
By Donald D. Groff
July 1, 1999
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The Epicenter Zone was the kind of vital, snotty teen collective that every city needs. Our writer eulogizes the shuttered San Francisco record store.
By Gavin McNett
July 1, 1999
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The Reform Party candidate for San Francisco mayor has already secured a ringing endorsement from one of his opponents. Warmly welcoming Mark O'Hara to the race, Mayor Willie Brown enthused, "Who the f*ck is that guy?"
By Jenn Shreve
June 28, 1999
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He may be pushing 70, but Clint Eastwood just hit his stride with 'True Crime'.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 19, 1999
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A court settlement ending the city's 16-year experiment in desegregation marks acceptance of California's new racial realities.
By Joan Walsh
February 18, 1999
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Sean Penn talks about the hurly-burly of Hollywood and why, despite his recent spate of great films, he wants to quit acting -- again.
By Paul Sherman
January 14, 1999
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By Joan Walsh
January 5, 1999
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Is the new optimistic movement in psychology a theoretical breakthrough or a professional survival tactic?
By Carol LLoyd
October 21, 1998
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The first time, her passionate affair with the Frenchman in Italy had helped heal her heartbreak. But now she was returning to Italy to see him again. Could the second time be as good as the first?
By Laura Fraser
August 30, 1998
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Nicolas Cage talks about selling imperfection.
By Elgy Gillespie
August 8, 1998
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What a long, stupid trip it's gonna be.
By Sarah Vowell
January 9, 1998
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According to the "queer theorists,"
having lots of anonymous gay sex is the answer
to the tyranny of the normal.
Forget that it will also kill you.
By David Horowitz
November 3, 1997
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"A real writer and a real pornographer"
By Anne Rice
October 21, 1996
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A black militant's exile in Castro's Cuba
By Arthur Allen
April 6, 1996