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One World, Under Gorby (Part II)

Gorbachev foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

By George Cothran

Published: May 31, 1995

To fully appreciate Jim Garrison's ascension, one must go back to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, when the Garrison's resembled John Steinbeck's Joad family. Garrison's father, then a teen-ager,...

Feature

One World, Under Gorby

Gorbachev Foundation prez Jim Garrison has something special in mind for San Francisco in September, an international palaver at the Fairmont Hotel. After that, a seat for himself in the U.S. Senate. And then, who knows? Chancellor of the world?

By George Cothran

Published: May 31, 1995

It's January 1951, and the villagers of Hwei Li, China, are still living as they did in the 1400s. Mao Tse-tung seized power three years earlier, but his revolutionary vanguard has yet to reach...

News

Dog Bites

By Amy Linn, John Sullivan, Jack Shafer

Published: May 31, 1995

The Rising Tide of Raises Dennis Bouey, the Port of San Francisco's executive director, ran aground in his expedition for a 5 percent raise last week, when Port commissioners voted him only a 2...

News

Cybercitizen Jim

Jim Warren makes the Net safe for democracy

By Jeff Stark

Published: May 31, 1995

The views from Jim Warren's house can stretch to Monterey Bay, Mount Tamalpais and the top of the Golden Gate Bridge. But today, a dense fog saturates the Kings Mountain air, blotting all but the...

Music

Recordings

By Aidin Vaziri, Lisa McElroy, Mickey Butts, Sam Prestianni, Mike Rowell, James Sullivan

Published: May 31, 1995

Sleeper Smart (Arista) Listen to the spark of the bite-size guitar implosions, the reconstituted Wire drum kicks, the cheeky cockney delivery: Yes, it would be easy to dismiss Sleeper...

Music

Samples

By James Sullivan, Sia Michel

Published: May 31, 1995

Saturday Night Special In a surprisingly sincere comeback bid, the Plimsouls, L.A.'s early '80s suitors to the power-pop throne, played the second of two shows last Saturday at Bottom of the...

Music

Schools of Thought

The Roots, the Nonce and DJ Hurricane take hip hop to the next level

By Spence Dookey

Published: May 31, 1995

Hip hop has passed through a dazzling number of movements over the past 15 years, from old school to new school, from Afrocentrism to gangsta rap, from true school to the next school. As such, the...

Eat

Dish

By Barbara Lane

Published: May 31, 1995

Chicken Big It's huge, it's bustling and the counterpeople are grinning so hard there must be happy dust in that chicken. We're talking, of course, about Boston Market, the new (mostly) takeout...

Eat

Russian Without Regret

Katia's offers a light take on heavyweights from the land of borscht and beef stroganoff

By Barbara Lane

Published: May 31, 1995

About five years ago, I lived in the same apartment complex as a Russian couple newly arrived in the United States. As much as I loved spending time with Igor and Tanya, I dreaded their dinner...

Film

Out of Iowa

The Bridges of Madison County drips with corn syrup

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 31, 1995

That little voodoo doll of a romance novel, The Bridges of Madison County, has grown up into a big, puffy Hollywood movie, replete with teary-eyed stars, candlelit bathtub sex and a sumptuous score...

Film

Reel World

By Michael Fox

Published: May 31, 1995

Broken Arrow Just how important are soundtracks to a movie's (financial) success? Consider that the venal Basketball Diaries, which takes place in the 1960s, opted for tunes by contemporary...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: May 31, 1995

wednesday may 31 Abraham Verghese In My Own Country, Dr. Abraham Verghese documents his experience as the local AIDS expert in Johnson City, Tenn., one of many places in America where the...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: May 31, 1995

Hey, Faggot: I'm in a good relationship (three years), but the sex is kind of boring. Before this relationship, I was in and out of bad relationships with great sex. The difference? The old, bad...

Halloween

Paper Trails

By Larry Bush

Published: May 31, 1995

Jordan vs. Jordan: Candidate Promises, Citizen Mayor Delivers? During the 1991 campaign, Candidate Jordan chortled in the press release that announced endorsements from the African-American...

Halloween

Paper Trails

By Larry Bush

Published: May 31, 1995

Dead Men Don't File After two years of strong denials, state Sen. Quentin Kopp has finally declared that, yes, he does control the San Francisco Taxpayers Association. The admission was...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

By Rob Brezsny

Published: May 31, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): You'll have to be sort of like McGyver this week, that resourceful dude on the old TV show who could hot-wire a 747 and use a toothbrush as a weapon and fabricate a...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 31, 1995

Walk This Way Stanford University regards itself a quiet, superbly designed institution of solid education and well-funded think tanks, a private oasis of real estate boasting a powerful alumni...

Stage

Catfish Row Revival

Houston's production of Porgy and Bess gives Gershwin's opera the grand treatment

By Mari Coates

Published: May 31, 1995

To George Gershwin's great disappointment, Porgy and Bess was never produced as an opera during his lifetime (he died in 1937). When it finally opened in New York in October 1935, having been in...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: May 31, 1995

It's Raining Kelvin Poetry, loud guitars, kimchi and beer -- these are among the key elements in Sung J. Rno's Cleveland Raining, directed by Octavio Solis and presented by Thick Description...