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War Junkie

Jacques Leslie revisits Vietnam,land of obsessions

By Paul Reidinger

Published: April 26, 1995

The Vietnam War, for all its lush horrors, was more addictive than any drug. In those most susceptible, it produced exhilaration and despair in equal and unbearable measure. As Jacques Leslie...

Feature

Beauty Knows No Pain

Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

By Tom McNichol

Published: April 26, 1995

"Are you here for the convention?" The inquiring woman behind the registration table at the San Francisco Marriott seems not to notice that the video monitor beside her is oozing gore. On the...

News

Paper Trails

By Larry Bush

Published: April 26, 1995

The Enemy Among Us! In the wake of the Oklahoma bombing, Mayor Frank Jordan has asked the city's Office of Emergency Services (OES) to join with other local, state and federal agencies to upgrade...

News

The Dating Blame

The Bay Area's Together Dating Services franchise regroups in the face of lawsuits and investigations

By Ashley Craddock

Published: April 26, 1995

Looking for love is like skinning a dead cat: There's more than one way to go about it and every method is messy. The familiar strategies -- asking friends to set you up on blind dates, working out...

News

Dog Bites

By Jack Shafer, George Cothran

Published: April 26, 1995

Chairman Sias' Saleabration Nan "Over My Dead Body" McEvoy earned the ink last week when the Chronicle Publishing Co. board of directors jettisoned her from the chair, but the man of the hour is...

News

Forcing the Issue

Though cops claim they acted appropriately, a victim in the Pine Street shootout prepares to sue for mistreatment

By John Sullivan

Published: April 26, 1995

Robert Pinckney only wanted to sop up some beer with a friend, another homeless man who lived in an alley near Pine and Franklin. But before the two could open their third bottle that Sunday night...

News

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: April 26, 1995

San Francisco ... in the '90s Immediately following the earthquake of 1906, survivors of the disaster posted messages for each other at Lotta's Fountain at Geary and Market. This Tuesday morning...

Letters

Letters

Published: April 26, 1995

A Poke at the Pigs I must take exception to your story on the patrol specials ("Cops vs. Cops," April 19). While it is doubtless true that the police department's goal in curtailing the powers of...

Music

Recordings

By Eric K. Arnold, James Sullivan, Robert Levine, Mike Rowell, Ira Steingroot

Published: April 26, 1995

Ol' Dirty Bastard Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version (Elektra) They call him the Bastard because there's "no father to his style" of rapping. Return to the 36 Chambers is certainly...

Music

Delusions of Banjer

Bad Livers outgrow their "thrash/bluegrass" label; the countrified timbre of Richard Buckner

By Tim Kenneally

Published: April 26, 1995

"If I'm not mistaken, you're calling from San Francisco, right?" asks Bad Livers' bassist Mark Rubin when I ring him up. "Okay, this is interview number three. They said I was supposed to be...

Music

Samples

By Mike Rowell, Sia Michel, Silke Tudor

Published: April 26, 1995

Burnin' Down the House It was any musician's worst nightmare when Rick Rubin's Laurel Canyon guest house/studio burned down April 11. According to Internet sources, both Psychic TV and Love and...

Eat

Up to Your Gills

All-you-can-eat sushi menus are a deal - and a distant second to ordering a la carte

By Barbara Lane

Published: April 26, 1995

Me and sushi, we go way back. Almost 20 years ago, my favorite uncle, who prides himself on being the black sheep of the family, took me out to lunch at this funky little restaurant in Venice,...

Eat

Dish

By Barbara Lane

Published: April 26, 1995

Next Year in Jerusalem Shenson's Delicatessen (on outer Geary) was an absolute madhouse on Passover, as harried working folks mobbed the place to get take-out kugel and tsimmas for the ritual...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: April 26, 1995

The Party Crashers After lo these many years of ale and grub swiping the spotlight from the movies on opening night, the San Francisco Inter-national Film Festival finally got it right. The...

Film

On Dislocation

Rootlessness rules the 38th S.F. International Film Festival

By Daniel Mangin

Published: April 26, 1995

A former servant finds herself caught between two lives when her father's death draws her back to the Tunisian palace she fled as a young girl. A twentysomething Parisian woman craves love but...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Ashley Craddock

Published: April 26, 1995

wednesday april 26 Grow Your Own Eden Now that spring has officially sprung, a handful of the country's best gardeners are in town showing off what a deep green thumb can coax out of the mud. In...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

By Rob Brezsny

Published: April 26, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): The brilliant Aries artist Vincent van Gogh never mastered the art of translating his genius into cold cash. His Portrait of Dr. Gachet may have garnered $82.5 million in...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: April 26, 1995

Hey, Faggot: I'm a curious male breeder with a question: I recently heard from some of my bi friends that orgasms are longer and of greater intensity when the prostate is stimulated in addition to...

Stage

Moor's Code

Two versions of Othello point up the drama's difficulties

By Mari Coates

Published: April 26, 1995

It's Othello time. Two productions (a third, which capitalized on the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, has thankfully been canceled -- see Aisle Seat) purport to give us two views of the tragedy: a...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Ellen McGarrahan, John Sullivan

Published: April 26, 1995

More Proof God Exists A production that would have recast Shakespeare's Othello as the Trial of O.J. has folded before its first performance, presumably due to lack of funds. (For those in need of...