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Ship Happens

"Traffic," Bar Pilot Donald Hughes barks. "I need some help." The tanker Mundogas Europe has just lost her steering beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, and if the anhydrous ammonia she's carrying hits the water a toxic cloud could cloak San Francisco. A di

By Ellen McGarrahan

Published: June 14, 1995

"Unit 48. Forty-eight, Traffic." The voice comes across on the radio like a hand punching through a pane of glass. Bar Pilot Donald Hughes is calling the United States Coast Guard's Vessel...

Letters

Letters

Published: June 14, 1995

Bushwhacked Hiring Larry Bush as political writer is the best thing that's happened to SF Weekly -- and Bay Area political reporting -- in years. His "Making of the Mayor 1995" (June 7) was a...

News

Cops Watching Cops

Police watchdog agency the Office of Citizen Complaints braces for its fifth lame director

By George Cothran

Published: June 14, 1995

Check out the finalists the Police Commission is interviewing to take the helm at the Office of Citizen Complaints, the civilian police watchdog agency. But first, clamp firmly on nose. Russ...

News

Dog Bites

By George Cothran

Published: June 14, 1995

Negotiate to Win To win re-election, the mayor of San Francisco greases the backsides of the police and fire unions. Wage and benefit contracts are the most legal way to accomplish the payoff,...

Music

Green's Day

The Alternative Nation discovers the Rev. Al Green

By James Sullivan

Published: June 14, 1995

Word has it that Lollapalooza maestro Perry Farrell was quite keen on adding the world's most righteous reverend -- Al Green -- to the lineup of this summer's Alternative Nation shed tour....

Music

Samples

By Sia Michel

Published: June 14, 1995

The Twinkie Defense Just as the Empower America/Bob Dole manufactured "furor" over gangsta rap dies down in Washington, rap lyrics are taking the heat again here by the bay. In Hayward last...

Music

Recordings

By Sia Michel, Tim Kenneally, Colin Berry, Josh Levine

Published: June 14, 1995

Esquivel Music From a Sparkling Planet (Bar/None) A cocktail nation looking for a forefather to emulate could do no better than Juan Garcia Esquivel. Known simply as Esquivel! in his '50s...

Eat

Dish

By Barbara Lane

Published: June 14, 1995

Cafe Society According to a recent nationwide study, a table on the street beat out a room with a view 3-to-1 in terms of diner preference. Dish hopes the city's restaurateurs take note....

Eat

Good Grease

Frankie's Bohemian continues the proud, unpretentious tradition of the beer-and-burger hangout

By Barbara Lane

Published: June 14, 1995

"My acupuncturist told me not to eat chicken," Rose announces the minute we sit down. "And not to drink beer. I have a scratchy throat." I sit there sipping my Red Hook draft, thinking that...

Film

Into the Haze

Smoke wends its way through the braided lives of an urban village

By Paul Reidinger

Published: June 14, 1995

The cigarette, whose fall from grace is nearly complete, finds sanctuary in Smoke, director Wayne Wang's intricate and edgy new film. People light up as if it were still the 1950s, whether they're...

Film

Amour or Less

French kisses never tasted so bittersweet as in Love After Love

By Michael Fox

Published: June 14, 1995

If it's any consolation, the French don't handle their complicated love lives any better than we do. The world-renowned masters (and mistresses) of romance have been undone by the sexual revolution...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: June 14, 1995

wednesday june 14 David Sedaris Which is the funniest voice in David Sedaris' Barrel Fever? Is it the man whose paramours include Charlton Heston, Bruce Springsteen ("No matter how much...

Halloween

Paper Trails

By Larry Bush

Published: June 14, 1995

Smell the Glove Mayor Frank Jordan may have landed a punch on Speaker Emeritus Willie Brown. Or maybe not. For the first time, Jordan is claiming that Brown personally lobbied him in...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY for an unreal world

By Rob Brezsny

Published: June 14, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): I don't know how to say this, but -- well -- you may be overreacting. I could be mistaken. I am, after all, a watery Cancer, while you're a member of the sign famous for...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: June 14, 1995

Concord's Got You in a Stranglehold, Bay-Bee Like Robert Crumb visiting his old neighborhood in the new Terry Zwigoff documentary, there's something simultaneously creepy and reassuring...

Halloween

Club Crawl

By Silke Tudor

Published: June 14, 1995

San Francisco club crowds may be a diverse lot, but you can count on one thing: You will always get a reaction. If New Yorkers sit in stone-faced silence during their favorite bands, and Angelenos...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: June 14, 1995

Hey, Faggot: I am a nice, healthy, handsome male in my late 20s, and I've been single since coming out at age 16. The longest relationship I had totaled somewhere around three weeks. I meet a guy,...

Halloween

Jordan vs. Jordan: Candidate Promises, Citizen Mayor Delivers?

By Larry Bush

Published: June 14, 1995

Then-candidate Frank Jordan pledged that the city's 911 emergency-call system would be top-notch. His promise: "As mayor, I will make sure the emergency dispatch system is properly trained and...

Stage

Dreamlands

Rocket to the Moon encourages the optimist in us all; Paradise Divided confuses male bonding with prurience

By Mari Coates

Published: June 14, 1995

Clifford Odets' Rocket to the Moon is a gently humorous comedy of one sultry summer in the life of Ben Stark, DDS. Odets (Awake and Sing, Waiting for Lefty, and Golden Boy) was a founding member of...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: June 14, 1995

Most Happy Fellow We can now count Amy Mueller of Brava! for Women in the Arts among the recipients of the coveted fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts/Theater Communications...