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November 9-15, 1995
The End of Knowledge: Will electronic information close the book on books?
By J. Douglas Allen Taylor
Memories of Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winning poet.
By Daniel J. Harper
Book Reviews
A Civil Action: How one lawyer took on two waste-dumping conglomerates.
Reviewed by Jennifer Davies
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Reviewed by Tai Moses
The F Word: A compact guide to our favorite four-letter word.
Reviewed by Richard von Busack
The Grand Ole Opry History of Country Music
Reviewed by Gordon Young
Transformer: The Lou Reed Story
Reviewed by Nicky Baxter
The Union Makes Us Strong: Radical Unionism on the San Francisco Waterfront
Reviewed by Geoffrey Dunn
Addicted to Blood: A vampire film like no other, Abel Ferrara's "The Addiction" transcends the genre. Reviewed by Richard von Busack.
Also reviewed: "Kicking and Screaming"
Art
"212 Degrees Fahrenheit" exhibit looks at gang violence from the inside out
Beat Street
Beat Street Todd Inoue on Pearl Jam's San Jose layover
Comics
Stupid is as stupid does in comics both big-time and local
Music
Pizzicato Five Japan's neo-disco-lounge act are unreliable, capricious, willful, luxurious, affected, lying, dubious, random. . . and, well, cute
Prince is dead, long live "npg" and its new album, The Gold Experience
Stage
'Arcadia,' by Tom Stoppard, plays at the Stage Door Theater in San Francisco