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This Week

April 25-May 1, 1996

Cover

Planes Trains and Bicycles: What happens when a technical writer with a clunky 18-speed decides to quit his job and bicycle around the Pacific Rim? Andrew Pham writes about his freewheeling adventures. Also in Metroactive's travel issue: surfing the travel net, remembering life on the road, cruising on a binge barge, gay destinations, and--for the deeply paranoid--the art of packing.

News

Horse Cents: Ten million American women are taking estrogen made from horse urine, at the cruel expense, say two animal-rights groups, of mares and their foals.

Public Eye: It's fashion phobia on San Jose's transit mall, and in Palo Alto, the newsrack plague of 1996.

DeCinzo: Take our daughters to work?

Arts & Entertainment

Movies

Spanish Earth: Land and Freedom screens the left's fondest crusade.

Love on the Rocks: Two women find love and angst in Costa Brava.

Music

Wave of the Past: Just when you thought it was safe to listen to the radio again, the synthesizer posers of the New Wave '80s are back.

Shades of Black: Frank Black goes Dada on The Cult of Ray.

Playing Between the Lines: Guitarist Mike Stern is still a fusion favorite.

Beat Street: Barbara's a boxer with a Bammie, but no Senate berth.

Books

Cafe Society: April Sinclair's new novel, Ain't Gonna Be the Same Fool Twice, makes a stir.

Stage

Flights of Angels: Opera San José soars on Madama Butterfly's lyric wings.

Pinter's Power Trio: San Jose Stage scores with the tense three-person drama, Betrayal.

Class Ceiling: I Am Yours confuses the social strata.

Menu

We Be Fratelli: i Fratelli, stocked with salvos of talent and know-how, is out to carve its niche in Los Altos' established restaurant row.