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The Dark Prince of City Hall

First Larry Bush was a politician. Then he was a journalist. Then he was a politician. So now as editor and publisher of CitiReport, a hard-hitting journal with a private agenda, what the hell is he?

By George Cothran

Published: March 8, 1995

Last November, Annemarie Conroy was primed to pull off a stunning political upset: Various pollsters said she would receive the most votes in the Board of Supervisors race and become the first...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran, Ashley Craddock

Published: March 8, 1995

Off the Beat During last fall's newspaper strike, all 11 full-time San Francisco Chronicle bureau correspondents walked out in support of their striking colleagues. The correspondents' blow for...

Letters

Letters

Published: March 8, 1995

Never on Sunday Bill Mandel's fine story on the Chronicle-Examiner ("The Case for One Daily," March 1) sheds a lot of intelligent light, although Mandel underestimates public perception...

News

Two-bit rag

The Examiner's desperate circulation struggle

By John Sullivan

Published: March 8, 1995

The ads practically beg you to buy the Examiner. Plastered to newsstands and affixed to bus shelters, the big red-and-black posters broadcast the news that the afternoon newspaper has cut its...

News

Living the good death

The terminally ill take control of their final exit

By John Roemer

Published: March 8, 1995

Scrubbed, gowned and flat on a gurney awaiting the cancer surgeon's knife, Garland Grizell was startled when the head nurse broached a touchy subject. "We have to talk about the Big D," she told...

News

The Mandel Card:

Don't Leave the Ex Without It

By Jack Shafer

Published: March 8, 1995

Things didn't grind to a halt at San Francisco's Siamesenewspapers -- the Examiner and Chronicle -- as copies of Bill Mandel's "The Case for One Daily," SF Weekly's March 1 cover story, poured into...

Music

Recordings

By Mike Rowell, Robert Levine, James Sullivan, Anita Lofton

Published: March 8, 1995

Rrope Rrope (SMILEX) Cryptic and clamorous, San Francisco's Rrope joins the ever-growing phalanx of bands bent on creating seriously enigmatic sounds within the "rock" framework of...

Music

Watch me watch you

Voyeur's delight found in "The Edge of the Bed: Cyborgasm 2"

By Julene Snyder

Published: March 8, 1995

You're lying on your bed, alone. It's dark. A voice whispers, way down deep inside your ear, "Doesn't that look like fun?" You can hear lips being licked -- so very close -- and expect to feel...

Eat

Steeped in chic

Bistro M seduces with a glamorous setting, a celebrity chef and a surplus of California-accented French cuisine

By Barbara Lane

Published: March 8, 1995

Remember that Woody Allen movie where the train full of beautiful, expensively dressed and well-coifed people, laughing and quaffing champagne, passes the train of squat dullards? We felt like...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: March 8, 1995

The Nutty Professor It's a scandal! It's a travesty! It's a mockery of a sham of a -- okay, it's an infinitesimal blip in the grand panorama of our miraculously rich and meaningful lives....

Film

Time to kill

"Before the Rain" bears witness to the cost of civil war; "Federal Hill" stumbles on the wrong side of the tracks

By Michael Arago, William O. Goggins

Published: March 8, 1995

Writer/director Milcho Manchevski insists his captivating first feature is a work of fiction. But striking similarities link the bloody Macedonian ethnic conflict depicted in Before the Rain to...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By John Sullivan, Ira Steingroot, Mike Rowell

Published: March 8, 1995

Dance He gave American dance a gutsy, theatrical dimension. Alvin Ailey's visceral choreography, coupled with his spiritual, often mythical themes, challenged performers and nondancing...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: March 8, 1995

Hey, Faggot: I am a lesbian and have been with my partner for five years. I love her with all my heart and we have really great sex, but I yearn for something more. I have, in previous...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For An Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: March 8, 1995

ARIES (March 21-April 19): If we were living in medieval France, I'd suggest that you trek to the holy shrine at Chartres -- being sure to crawl the last mile on your knees -- and drink from the...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: March 8, 1995

Someone's in the Kitchen With Satan Day One: Ruth's Chris Steak House on Van Ness. Fairly classy, fairly expensive. A 45-minute wait means something's going on here. It's the Meat World,...

Stage

Curtain Calls

By Mari Coates

Published: March 8, 1995

Laundry and Bourbon & Lone Star Plays about Texas are a genre unto themselves, obsessed with excessive heat and endless complaints about same, the consumption of prodigious amounts of alcohol...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: March 8, 1995

The Challenge A Traveling Jewish Theater is the lucky winner of a $150,000 challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts -- money that will help support the next three seasons at the...

Stage

Slight of hand

June Bride" only hints at Sara Felder's juggling genius; "History of Homosexuality" plays like a series of frat-house skits Writer-performer Sara Felder's work centers on her ex

By Mari Coates

Published: March 8, 1995

Writer-performer Sara Felder's work centers on her experiences of being Jewish, female and lesbian -- though not necessarily in that order. Her medium is juggling, and her art transforms the simple...