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How to Lie, Cheat, and Steal Your Way to Influence at City Hall -- Legally

By Larry Bush

Published: July 5, 1995

Let the Candidate Owe You San Francisco law caps campaign contributions at $500 from any one individual, business, or political action committee. You can also only make an "in-kind" contribution up...

Feature

City Slackers

A guide toSan Francisco political corruption -past, present, and future

By George Cothran, Larry Bush

Published: July 5, 1995

The apparent motive and means were simple. And simply dirty. Help elect Frank Jordan, even if it meant violating campaign finance laws and faking signatures on checks. James Fang, a San...

Letters

Letters

Published: July 5, 1995

Shooting Star Thank you for printing "Conscientious Injectors" (June 28). It was an excellent and needed article. The people participating in the needle-exchange programs are truly beautiful....

News

Art Attack

Small arts groups want the city to stop favoring the Gang of Six

By Amy Linn

Published: July 5, 1995

Call it art ache. The words have become more and more inseparable as the funding pie for right-brain activities in America grows ever smaller -- and as San Francisco's arts community continues to...

News

Dog Bites

By Ellen McGarrahan, John Sullivan, Amy Linn

Published: July 5, 1995

Flashback "MEDICAL ALERT," fliers seen around town say. "A form of tattoo called 'Blue Star' is being sold to school children. It is a small piece of paper containing a blue star. They are the...

News

Chatterbox

Published: July 5, 1995

Pete's Brewing Co. of Palo Alto, brewers of Pete's Wicked Ale, intend to market its beer in Canada, England, Australia, and beyomd - basically everywhere English is spoken. But there are limits to...

Music

An Open Booking

Local promoters coordinate their efforts, to everyone's benefit

By James Sullivan

Published: July 5, 1995

In most cities, booking live music is dangerous poker. Nightclub promoters hold their cards close to the vest; stakes are high, and deception is commonplace. In San Francisco, many promoters...

Music

Samples

By Sia Michel

Published: July 5, 1995

Five-Alarm Crash First a miniriot, now this: Valencia Street was the site of more havoc last Wednesday, when two firetrucks collided and one plunged through the front window of Radio Valencia....

Music

Recordings

By Colin Berry, Tim Kenneally, Gwendlynn Meno, James Sullivan, J. Poet

Published: July 5, 1995

Red Aunts #1 Chicken (Epitaph) Three hundred words on #1 Chicken? Subtitled "14 Songs, 23 Minutes," there ain't even 300 words on Red Aunts' first Epitaph release, but no matter. Named...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: July 5, 1995

Growing old in the spotlight isn't easy. Fans can be so unkind. Put on a few extra pounds, start losing your hair -- people talk. Stars don't have to die young to retain our respect, but for every...

Eat

Dish

By Barbara Lane

Published: July 5, 1995

Table Training Dish dropped by a to-remain-unnamed SOMA restaurant last week and found a waiter badly in need of some training. Not that he wasn't trying, but his puppy-dog eagerness to please...

Eat

One for the Road

Buckeye Roadhouse keeps its customers satisfied with updated twists on American fare

By Barbara Lane

Published: July 5, 1995

The bar is packed. A woman with heavy black eyeliner and a black pantsuit with a plunging neckline flirts with a very tan man wearing a golf shirt and, around his neck, a thick gold chain from...

Film

Pop Porn

Super 8 1/2 makes itscrafty points with a light-hearted queer sensibility

By Daniel Mangin

Published: July 5, 1995

"I was a late bloomer sexually." "I'm a TV-victim child who watched six to eight hours a day -- every sitcom of the '60s." "My idols are Andy Warhol and gay pornographers like Jack DeVeau...

Film

Gangbusted

Bandit Queen explores India's underworld without explaining what drives its title character

By Paul Reidinger

Published: July 5, 1995

Bandit Queen is a feminist's worst nightmare: a lollapalooza of women being sold into marriage, beaten, raped, kicked, shot at, and thrown in the mud. Amplifying the violent misogyny is the...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: July 5, 1995

wednesday july 5 Caring and Sharing Talk about exhaustive research: To prepare for his "Love and Affection Tour," comedian Scott Capurro has spent long hours in bars and clubs, supermarkets...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: July 5, 1995

The Color of Comedy Comedy once was king in San Francisco: Jonathan Winters recorded live albums here, as did Lenny Bruce, Tom Lehrer, Phyllis Diller, and Steve Martin. The rim-shot '50s...

Halloween

The Tale of an Asp

By Jack Shafer

Published: July 5, 1995

If you've ever handled a venomous snake, you already know what it's like to chat with Alexander Cockburn. Not just your average poisonous Marxist reptile, Cockburn is all grins and hisses and eye...

Halloween

Savage Love

Published: July 5, 1995

Hey, Faggot: I'm a heterosexual male college student, and I have this deep yearning to deflower a virgin. (I know -- me and about a zillion other guys.) Anyway, I don't care about age, race, or...

Halloween

Paper Trails

By Larry Bush

Published: July 5, 1995

Charter Chatter You get what you pay for, and sometimes that's all you get. This year, Mayor Frank Jordan and the Board of Supervisors instructed City Attorney Louise Renne to run a tab for...

Halloween

Candidate Promises Citizen Mayor Delivers?

By Larry Bush

Published: July 5, 1995

Candidate Frank Jordan responded to a 1991 questionnaire on downtown business concerns thusly: "To encourage job growth, should San Francisco grant a payroll tax exemption for one to three years...