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The Family Jewels

In life, Paul Kalmanovitz controlled every business decision related to his $500million brewery/real estate dynasty.He even made detailed plans forthe governance of his estateafter he died. So why is the Kalmanovitz fortune the center of two vituperative

By George Cothran

Published: September 20, 1995

Bullheaded beer and real estate tycoon Paul Kalmanovitz and his wife, Lydia, share eternity with Comstock Lode millionaires, railroad barons, and other historic figures. Matter of fact, the...

News

The Longest Shot

Dark-horse mayoral hopeful Joel Ventresca wants your vote

By John Sullivan

Published: September 20, 1995

It was a perfect roost for the ultimate grass-roots candidate for mayor: Squeezed next to the entryway in a Fort Mason pavilion, Joel Ventresca was handing out his campaign flier (a low-glitz...

News

Dog Bites

By Jack Shafer, Amy Linn, Ellen McGarrahan

Published: September 20, 1995

Paper Gains Does Newt Gingrich hold the key to the joint operating agreement (JOA) that locks the Chronicle and Examiner together? Gingrich wants to reduce the capital gains tax from its...

News

Chatterbox

Published: September 20, 1995

"It's simply depressing to read the San Francisco Chronicle or Examiner, the Houston Post, the Atlanta Constitution, the Denver Post," writes David Remnick in a squishy look at Ben Bradlee's...

News

Hunka Hunka Burning Wood

A spark-by-spark description of this year's Burning Man

By Paul Critz

Published: September 20, 1995

Just north of the mining town of Gerlach, Nev., we turn right (as instructed) at the white dot painted on Highway 34 and drive through a break in the sagebrush to enter the playa, the 400 square...

Letters

Letters

Published: September 20, 1995

In Spite of Spike I just came back from seeing Spike Lee's new film, Clockers ("All the Dead Young Men," Film, Sept. 13), and boy, wasn't it just a stupid crock of shit! Spike Lee is either...

Music

Recordings

By Tim Kenneally, D. Strauss, James Sullivan, Aidin Vaziri

Published: September 20, 1995

The Presidents of the United States of America The Presidents of the United States of America (Columbia) Talk about your party platforms: Judging from the self-titled first effort of...

Music

Blues Explosion

The rough-and-tumble blues of R.L. Burnside

By James Sullivan

Published: September 20, 1995

Sixty-eight-year-old R.L. Burnside, father of 12, one-time farmhand and commercial fisherman, just got over a bout with the flu. He'd gone home to upstate Mississippi for some bed rest, but now...

Music

Jazzoetry

The return of the legendary Last Poets

By Eric K. Arnold

Published: September 20, 1995

The Last Poets have come full circle. Like any group with more than three decades in the music business under its belt (and there aren't many), these spoken-word masters have had their share of ups...

Music

Samples

By James Sullivan, Sia Michel

Published: September 20, 1995

Rocket From the Crypt The recent union of the West Coast's two hoary music sheets -- BAM and the Seattle Rocket -- made barely a peep in the clamor of August's "merger mania." Still, the move...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: September 20, 1995

It's 10 o'clock on a Sunday morning. The fog has already burned away, and the morning air is surprisingly warm, a token Indian summer before the chill of fall takes permanent hold. The sun slides...

Eat

Almost Home

Cafe Maisonnette's cozy smallness and elegantly spare menu offer simple, memorable evenings

By Paul Reidinger

Published: September 20, 1995

Stepping into Cafe Maisonnette on a blustery, autumnal evening is like going to a friend's house for dinner. Even the word "maisonnette" implies a homey smallness, and the restaurant speaks in...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: September 20, 1995

Tastes Great, Less Filling Straus Family Creamery, the organic dairy in Marin, deals heavily in cream -- as the name suggests. And organic doesn't mean low fat. Their not-inexpensive whole milk...

Film

In Loco Parentis

Clean, Shaven projects the mind of a father being eaten alive by his demons

By Paul Reidinger

Published: September 20, 1995

Clean, Shaven is one of those rare movies whose visual style makes it work. It's an almost unbearably jittery picture of a man going nuts. No character speaks a word of dialogue for the first 10...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Johnny Ray Huston

Published: September 20, 1995

wednesday september 20 Mr. Big Mouth and Ms./Mr. Mars The tone of Eric Bogosian's writing is conveyed by the title of one of his books: Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. Best...

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: September 20, 1995

Fish, Line, and Hooker's Ball Back in the seedy '70s, there was an annual masquerade party called the Hooker's Ball. It was a festive occasion, uniting not only the Police and Fire Departments,...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: September 20, 1995

Aries (March 21-April 19): The equinox arrives Sept. 23. For a brief cosmic moment, the sun hovers directly over the equator; the length of day and night are equal. For every sign, but especially...

Stage

Beaux Ideal

Berkeley Rep delivers a deliciously lusty, funny rendition of Farquhar's farce

By Mari Coates

Published: September 20, 1995

Pre-show publicity to the contrary, there are no heaps of rotting fruit or mounds of steaming horse manure in the Berkeley Repertory Theatre intended to re-create the stench of Restoration England,...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Laura Jamison

Published: September 20, 1995

Dr. Jekyll When Cal Shakes lost two of its cast members right before rehearsals for Much Ado About Nothing (which opened this week at the Bruns Amphitheatre in Orinda), the company decided to...