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Against All Odds

Fundamentalists want to ban same-sex marriage. All across California, people are mad as hell. So how come nobody's doing anything about it?

By Ellen McGarrahan

Published: May 22, 1996

At 25, Ellen McCormick is one of the youngest lobbyists in Sacramento, and at the moment she's taking a break outdoors in a cafe down the block from the Capitol, the rotunda-topped palace where...

Letters

Letters

Published: May 22, 1996

Semitic Semantics As most people know, tens of millions of Semites are of the Muslim religion, so it was perplexing to read "Muslim values -- often criticized for ... anti-Semitic principles"...

News

Willie and the Hand Jive

Mayoral poses that should give you pause

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 22, 1996

One of the sheer joys of watching a politician at the top of his form is the dynamic of a strong visual presence. In this regard, Mayor Willie Brown rarely fails to disappoint. Whether he's...

News

Dog Bites

By Malcolm Garcia, Gordon Young, Lisa Davis

Published: May 22, 1996

The Check Isn't in the Mail You work hard and do your job well, but your boss never pays you on time. He tells you to borrow money. He gives you additional work. He won't have money to pay you...

News

God Inc.

Inner peace isn't the only thing Supreme Master Ching Hai is selling Bay Area disciples

By Gordon Young

Published: May 22, 1996

If true believers are made in the image and likeness of God, then the followers of Supreme Master Ching Hai should be wearing gold lame gowns and toting lavender parasols. From her...

Music

Elemental Pee

Short and fast and complicated and not cuddlecore

By Jeff Stark

Published: May 22, 1996

After two years, three singles, and a bang-up debut record, the members of Pee have learned the first rule of rock: If you don't pigeonhole your music, someone else will. Steered by...

Music

Night Crawler

By Silke Tudor

Published: May 22, 1996

The sun shimmers across the Marina Sunday afternoon as a raucous line of 50 customers in summerwear and shades stands outside the Paragon Bar & Grill for its fourth annual beach party blowout....

Music

Recordings

By Tim Kenneally, Sam Prestianni, Eric K. Arnold

Published: May 22, 1996

Soundgarden Down on the Upside (A&M;) Long before there was grunge, there was Led Zeppelin, who, from their sock-stuffed loins, spawned a small army of would-be arena rockers armed with...

Music

The Bloody Pulpit

Al Jourgensen on Filth Pig, Buck Owens, and cabin fever, Texas-style

By Mark Jenkins

Published: May 22, 1996

Al Jourgensen, it seems, really wants to be Buck Satan. The Ministry founder has left a lot of alter egos behind -- he's no longer Alien or Alain Jourgensen, although as his band's co-producer he's...

Eat

Evening Shade

Chloe's Cafe, a Noe Valley lunch fixture, is now serving dinner

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 22, 1996

We walked into Chloe's Cafe one spring evening as the fog was filtering inland on a chilly breeze. It was too cold and blustery to sit outside, although one intrepid, shivering couple were clinging...

Eat

Dish

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 22, 1996

Hold Those Calls An irate East Bay reader left Dish voice mail saying he had walked out of four "so-called good restaurants" in recent weeks because of the toxic profusion of cellular...

Film

Down on the Farm

Rural rites and upper-class slights in John Schlesinger's Cold Comfort Farm

By Paul Reidinger

Published: May 22, 1996

John Schlesinger aims for satire in Cold Comfort Farm, but all he comes up with is a dreary cartoon. Schlesinger's been a bit off his rhythm lately; his 1995 thriller An Eye for an Eye featured an...

Night&Day;

Night+Day

By Heather Wisner

Published: May 22, 1996

wednesday may 22 Southern Comfort Watsonville, Calif., found its saint in tree bark and its strength in resistance to cannery management and rebuilding after the Loma Prieta earthquake....

Halloween

Slap Shots

By Jack Boulware

Published: May 22, 1996

Take My Breath Away Three weeks ago, a backyard barbecue convened in the city. Against a robust, heart-clogging backdrop of sizzling red meat and bottles of Anchor Steam, a group of young...

Halloween

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

By Rob Brezsny

Published: May 22, 1996

Aries (March 21-April 19): Excuse me. Hope you don't mind terribly if I interrupt. I hate to pull you away from the jaw-stretching, time-diddling yawns you've been so engrossed in lately. But the...

Stage

Aisle Seat

By Deborah Peifer

Published: May 22, 1996

Cherrie Moraga's latest play, Watsonville, which opens May 25 at Brava Theater Center, is about, among other things, a cannery strike that lasted two years and was organized primarily by Mexican...

Stage

Sez Who?

Home(less) alone in Larry Hankin's Emmett Sez:

By Mari Coates

Published: May 22, 1996

When the lights come up on Emmett Sez: (directed by Ben Shaktman), writer/performer Larry Hankin -- looking for all the world like a gray-haired version of Sesame Street's Big Bird -- weaves his...