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Checks or money orders should be made payable to “BAY GUARDIAN” and mailed to Guardian Building, 2700 19th St., SF, CA 94110 INSIDE: NEWS AND INVESTIGATIONS The PG&E Eight genuflect again at City Hall. 3 The landlords’ quiet statewide initiative to torpedo rent controls 4 How special interests have quietly dismantled the city’s campaign contribution law.5 How Amtrak derails its passengers—A Ristow-Murphy cross-country travelogue.6 Walking the Dist. 9 precincts with Lee Dolson and Nancy Walker. 9 Blair Jackson previews the Bread and Roses Festival. 12 DAY & NIGHT INDEX a 2 GUARDIAN CLASSIFIED a 27 POLITICAL ALERTS AND EVENTS ELECTION EVENTS The Wadsworth for Supervisor 5 campaign holds a reception at the headquarters, featuring champagne, conversation, conviviality and enter¬ tainment. Fri/28, 7:30-10 pm, 4131 18th St., SF, $5 donation, 621-2650. A disco/rock dance extravaganza benefits Prop. O, the highrise height limitation initiative. Sat/29, 8:30 pm. Women's Building, 3543 18th St. (near Valencia), $3.50, 566-7050. A benefit for San Franciscans for Affordable Housing’s rent control initiative. Prop. R, features dancing, food, a no-host bar and entertainment. Sat/29, 8 pm (come early), Optic Nerve Studio, 141 10th St., between Mission and Howard, SF, $1. A reception for author Michael Harrington (see schedule of his speeches under "Lectures, Forums and Conferences”) benefits Harry Britt’s campaign for the District 5 supervisor’s seat. Sat/29, 3:30- 6:30pm, 2504Jackson, SF. $15and up, 864-2748. “Gay Power and City Hall—Election ’79” features representatives of gay political clubs leading a discussion on gay candidates and gay strength in the various districts and city-wide election campaigns. Sun/30, 9:45 am, Unitarian- Universalist Gav Caucus, First Unitarian Church, 1187Franklip, SF, 776-4580. Latinos for Hennessey host a night of salsa and disco dancing to benefit Mike Hennessey’s campaign for sherriff of San Francisco. Sun/30. 7 pm, Cesar’s Palace, 3140 Mission (off Army), SF, $3, $5 and $10, 661-4200. USF Alumnae to Elect Hennessey for Sheriff holds a fundraiser hosted by Mario and Joseph M. Alioto. Tues/2, 5-7:30 pm, Alioto’s Restaurant Number 8, 8 Fisherman’s Wharf. SF, $10 (hors d’oeuvres. no-host bar), for reservations call 661- 4200. Gala Opening of the Highrise Control Initiative headquarters takes place with celebrity guests and a no-host bar. Tues/2, 5-7:30 pm, 1109 Geary (at Van Ness), SF, 566-7050. San Franciscans for Affordable Housing get the benefit of a special performance of Robert Patrick’s Kennedy's Children , a play about six young people growing up in the Sixties, produced by Theatre Rhinoceros. Wed/3. 8:30pm, Goodman Building, 1115Geary, SF. $4, 864-6413. Friendsof Noe Valley CandidatesNight features candidates for mayor, D.A. and sherriff. Wed/3, 7:30-10:30 pm. 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ADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO The Bay Guardian, 2700 19th St.. San Francisco. CA 94110 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Single copy price. 35c Standard subscrip¬ tion price $13.50 tor 52 issues (one year) Canadian subscribers add $5 per year Foreign subscribers add $10 per year CHANGE OF ADDRESS: Four weeks advance notice Enclose your mailing label or old address and your new mailing address Back Issues ot the Guardian are available tor $1 00 per Issue VOL. 13 NO. 47 SEPTEMBER 28 THROUGH OCTOBER 5.1979 PUBLICATION NUMBER ISSN 0036-4096 ^ i» v , .. '"i i■ .'i i.\ v r'vi" | i ON GUARD THE PG&E EIGHT GENUFLECT AGAIN Supervisors Renne, Molinari, Hutch, Gonzales, Horanzy, Dolson, Kopp and Pelosi move to keep PG&E’s private-power monopoly intact in San Francisco BY MICHAEL E. MILLER T he San Francisco Board of Supervisors has once again gone the extra mile for PG&E and kept the utility’s private-power monopoly intact in the city. On Monday, Sept. 24, the supervisors voted 7-3 not to authorize a public-power feasibility study, in the face of overwhelming evi¬ dence that municipalization of PG&E’s electrical distribution system in San Francisco would result in reduced rates for San Francisco consumers, vastly increased revenues for the city’s Prop. 13-deleted coffers and, for the first time in the city’s history, compliance with the federal Raker Act of 1913 and a U.S. Supreme Court decision of 1940. The immediate point, six weeks before the city election, is that all but three members of the board dismally flunked the key political litmus test of the year for special-interest supervisors. The question now in eight of the city’s 11 supervisorial districts is: How can you trust a district supervisor who votes with PG&E on such a straight-out public- interest law-and-order issue, in the midst of an energy crunch, when City Hall is facing a massive financial crisis with no end in sight? Obviously, you can’t. Though PG&E’s monopoly is safe for the time being, the company isn’t cele¬ brating as gleefully as it could in the past. For the first time in more than a genera¬ tion, public-power sentiment has actually penetrated the hallowed chambers of City Hall, which has been a PG&E bulwark for as long as anyone can remember. Sups. Harry Britt, Gordon Lau and Carol Ruth Silver voted in favor of the feasibility study. But eight of 11 supervisors is sufficient for PG&E. In advance of the vote, PG&E had cranked up its propaganda machine and was lobbying the board with all its might. The utility senfout letters to all its San Francisco employees and stock¬ holders, urging them to contact their supervisors and decry the “unnecessary” feasibility study, and to get their friends and neighbors to do the same. PG&E urged its stockholders to pack the super¬ visors’ chambers on the day of the vote, which they obediently did, just as they did during the two public hearings on the issue before the Governmental Services Committee in February and March. The Chronicle and Examiner, PG&E’s daily acolytes, dutifully picked • up the PG&E line last week and both ran editorials on Friday, Sept. 21, sounding the chorus for PG&E and blasting the heretical notion of a feasibility study. Both papers blacked out the hearings earlier this year and quashed stories about the Sept. 17 press conference held by San Franciscans for Public Power, the citizens’ group pushing for the study. (Asked why the Chronicle failed to run the story written by its reporter, Evelyn Hsu, who attended the press conference, Chronicle City Editor Jerry Bums, who never to our knowledge breathed a word about the PG&E/Raker Act scandal during his years as the Chronicle’s City Hall reporter, told the Guardian the story contained “nothing new,” that it- had “no sharp news value.” Instead, the next day’s Chronicle ran such sharp news stories as “Nude Models Take Off, ” “Can a Feminist Rear a Boy to Be a Man?” and “Non-Alcoholic Powdered Beer for Moslems. ”) Encouraged by the PG&E/Ex/Chron axis, the PG&E Eight on the board did their utmost to ignore any evidence that might contradict the PG&E line that a feasibility study would be a terrible idea. Thus Winston Peterson, regional manager.of R.W. Beck and Associates, the Seattle-based engineering firm that conducts public-power feasibility studies around the country, was in Ciiy Hall on Monday before the board meeting at the request of Sup. Britt, who distributed a memo to his fellow supervisors inviting them to meet with Peterson and pose any questions they might have about a study. And how many of the PG&E Eight took the opportunity to expose themselves to some outside, non-PG&E information on what a feasibility study would really entail, and what sort of facts it might turn up on rate reductions and revenue enhancement for the city of San Fran¬ cisco? Just one, Sup. Don Horanzy, who ended up voting with PG&E anyway, after delivering a rambling speech to the board ranging over such topics as BART, the Muni, the wastewater program and other “bum business deals” the city has become involved in. (But he never once mentioned the city’s direct subsidy to PG&E, paid for by every resident of the city, as long as PG&E is allowed to operate its private-power monopoly in San Francisco—the city’s biggest “bum business deal” of them all.) Even Richard Sklar, general manager of the city's Public Utilities Commission, took the politically dangerous step of publicly declaring his support for "a feasibility study that looks to the possible future movement of San Francisco’s government into the area of additional power production and distribution, which would, of course, include acqui¬ sition of the currently PG&E owned facilities. ” The only visible response from the board was a barrage of indirect insults to Sklar in speeches from several of the PG&E Eight, criticizing the general inability of the city’s manage¬ ment officials to do anything right (even though the city has been successfully and profitably operating its Hetch Hetchy electrical-generating facility for more than 50 years). Clearly, the only alternative at this point is to intensify the pressure on the PG&E Eight, starting with the four who are up for reelection this November: Sups. John Molinari, Bob Gonzales, Lee Dolson and Ron Pelosi. Unfortunately, Molinari is running unopposed in District 3. He actually qualifies as PG&E’s sleaziest vote on this issue, for his vote in favor of PG&E was a 180-degree reversal from his repeated assurances to the Guardian in the past that he would support a feasibility study. In the fall of 1977, when Molinari was running a tough race against John Keker and solicited our endorsement, he swore he would support a study, so long as it would cost no more than $500,000 and so long as there would be community input in the selection of consultants for the study. We noted at the time that “Molinari has reversed his previous opposition to such a feasibility study despite his receipt of $500 from PG&E’s Good Government. Fund,” and he. got our endorsement largely on the basis of his reversal. In June of 1978, just after Prop. 13 passed, we polled the supervisors on the question of a feasibility study and other possible ways to generate more revenue for the city. Molinari reiterated his support, though this time he said he thought the limit should be about $ 100 , 000 . Molinari, let us note, ought never again to run unopposed for supervisor or anythingelse. continued next page " “ ." ' 3 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 ON GUARD continued from previous page And what about Gonzales? He was another one who told us during the 1977 campaign that he would support a feasi¬ bility study. He also reiterated his support in June 1978 (though he said he wouldn't want to spend more than $25,000, which wouldn’t provide much of a study). Gonzales won by 21 votes in 1977. It's time to retire him from public office once andforall. Lee Dolson, the 400-share supervisor from PG&E, added his name to the list of supervisors who said they favored a feasi¬ bility study when we polled the board last year. That was before Sup. Silver introduced her resolution, and before the city attorney ruled Dolson ineligible to vote on PG&E matters, allowing Dolson to duck the PG&E issue ever since. Interestingly, Dolson attended an endorsement meeting of Action for Accountable Government last month and, according to several people who were there, told the group he would vote for a feasibility study if he could. So we put the obvious question to Dolson's office: why doesn’t he just sell his PG&E stock so he can vote the public’s interest on PG&E matters? Dolson wouldn’t respond directly, but the word came back through his aide Cathy Wiles: “His stocks are in trust, apd therefore he can’t sell them.” This “answer” only raised several more questions: When did he put them in trust? Can’t he take them out of trust and buy an out-of-town utility instead? Who’s the trustee? Why doesn’t his economic interest statement say anything about the stocks being in trust? Wiles said she couldn’t answer any of these questions, but she would have the supervisor call us and make everything perfectly clear. But we never heard from Dolson. Let's hope the voters of District 9 remove the 400-share PG&E supervisor from public office this November. At least Ron Pelosi has never publicly wavered from his long-standing 100% support of PG&E. He never told us he would support a feasibility study, so his vote didn’t come as a surprise. But that still isn’t much of a job recommendation for supervisor, and it’s high time Pelosi was removed from the board too. PGirE knows full well that a feasibility study would point to enormous benefits for San Francisco. The other four of the PG&E Eight aren’t up for reelection for another two years, but it isn’t too early to plan the strategies to remove them too: Louise Renne, the Pacific Heights “environ¬ mentalist” who is Dianne Feinstein’s selection to carry on the job of representing San Francisco’s wealthiest citizens; Ella Hill Hutch, who assured us in the 1977 campaign that she would favor a feasibility study, but who quickly became one of the most unpredictable supervisors on the board (she didn’t even respond toour 1978poll); DonHoranzy, who, like Renne, has never faced the voters; and Quentin Kopp, whose vote against the feasibility study doesn’t say much for his late-breaking effort to become an instant liberal and populist champion of the neighborhoods in his campaign for mayor. Meanwhile, the issue of public power for San Francisco is here to stay. The PG&E monopoly has been broken at City Hall, the neighborhood groups are beginning to flex on this issue, and PG&E is moving more and more to the defensive. As Harry Britt told the Guardian after the vote, “We lost because of political pressure. There’s never been a more dramatic case of a big corporate interest on one side of an issue, and the interest of the public on the other. ” Mark Zuckerman of San Franciscans for Public Power said he saw the vote as “a tremendous victory for the people of San Francisco,” even though the resolu¬ tion lost, because the issue of public power has now been “raised strongly and placed firmly on the political horizon for the Eighties. Our effort to talk to San Franciscans about public power and Hetch Hetchy and the potential for fiscal well-being in the future will continue.” PG&E knows full well that an inde¬ pendent, objective public-power feasibi¬ lity study would point to enormous bene¬ fits for San Francisco. The company’s entire campaign to thwart a study points to this fact. As soon as the public-interest supervisors on the board outnumber the PG&E supervisors, San Francisco will be on the way to reaping those benefits. P.S.: Why shouldn’t there be a feasibility study to settle the municipalization question once and for all? The main reason advanced by PG&E, and rolled along by the Exami¬ ner/Chronicle and the PG&E Eight, is that a study would be enormously expensive and much too great a burden for City Hall’s meager coffers. PG&E in its mailings to its employees and stockholders put the price at $500,000. The Examiner in its editorial passed along the $500,000 figure unquestion- ingly. The Chronicle reached into the blue and pulled out the range of "between $100,000 and $500,000.” ” During the supervisors’ meeting, the PG&E Eight batted around a variety of figures for the study, most of them in the PG&E/Ex/Chron ballpark, even though the resolution before them set a limit of “no more than $100,000 from the General Fund." Sup. Britt said he had assurances from R. W. Beck, the PUC's utility consultants, that the firm could do a preliminary study for “consider¬ ably less than $100,000," which would demonstrate whether it was worthwhile to pursue the question further. Britt added that Beck had quoted him a “solid figure of $300,000 tops” to complete all aspects of the study— and this, said Britt, would be “spent only if it’s clear that without doing it we’re cheating the taxpayers out of millions of dollars.” “The issue,” Britt summarized, "is whether PG&E still has the power to bully this Board of Supervisors” into spiking any feasibility study before it starts. Meanwhile, the same supervisors who are so parsimonious when it comes to funding a study that threatens PG&E continue blithely to pour millions down such dubious ratholes as the Performing Arts Center and the Yerba Buena/George Moscone Convention Center— to say nothing of the $330,000 they recently found for a feasibility study on increasing the power-generating capacity at Hetch Hetchy, even though PG&E prevents the city from bringing any of this public power inside city limits. ■ THE LANDLORDS’ QUIET DRIVE TO SINK RENT CONTROLS THROUGH A STATE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT Though some of its provisions might appeal to renters , the measure would effectively mean the end of rent control where it now exists BY ART GOLDBERG A highly misleading proposed California constitutional amendment, which claims to enable local governments to enact rent controls, is now being cir¬ culated around the state with the aim of gathering enough signatures to place it onthejune 1980 ballot. Apparently the brainchild of the Cali¬ fornia Housing Council (CHC), the landlord/developer organization that fought rent control efforts all over the state last year, the so-called Rent Control Initiative Constitutional Amendment contains provisions that might appeal to renters, such as the establishment of rent control boards, and the prohibition of re¬ taliation by landlords for the exercise of tenants’ rights. However, the initiative also allows landlords annual rent increases based on the Consumer Price Index, and it decon¬ trols apartments whenever a tenant moves out. In effect, it would mean the end of rent control in areas where it now exists, such as Santa Monica, Los Ange¬ les and to a lesser extent, Berkeley. Furthermore, if rent control efforts in San Francisco, Cotati and Burlingame succeed in elections this fall, they will be rendered virtually meaningless if the statewide constitutional amendment makes it on to the ballot and passes next June. According to housing law expert Dennis Keating, a professor at New Col¬ lege law school in San Francisco, the pro¬ vision that allows landlords annual rent increases based on the Consumer Price Index is a “built in windfall profit.” He pointed out that a landlord’s major ex¬ pense is his mortgage, and that once the mortgage is taken out, the interest rates and payments don’t vary with inflation. Keating also predicted that the “vacancy decontrol” provision, which allows for unlimited rent increases oftce an apart¬ ment is vacated, would give landlords an “incentive to evict tenants. ” However, Jack S. McDowell, spokes¬ man for Californians for Fair Rents, the group circulating the petitions, says that Keating’s charges are overstated. Ac¬ knowledging that mortgage payments are fairly well fixed, McDowell said that other expenses are constantly rising, such as repairs, supplies and salaries for jani¬ tors and gardeners. He also downplayed the potential effect of the vacancy decon¬ trol provision, saying that as soon as an ms weaffs*g m mbsoit by David OMar Whitt And 3dicatte the noct tuacto^fE’andtfatfcari of Supervisors •• ’"Dancing iutfidark'til the tune ends. Dancing in Ik dark, Were naltrin^ in tkewoockr oj why trete here ^ I**""--I Time tones ty, were here and yone. LooRWjjorrtieli^l' To i)ri^ht?n up ttie ni^ht, 1 have you, love - /Ind we can face tile music tooether; Danciuo in tti^ How (oral! you other fellas and «if5 to edit kAt ON GUARD apartment was rerented, it went back un¬ der the provisions of whatever local rent control law was in effect. Keating severely criticized provisions in the proposed constitutional amend¬ ment that would force all local rent con¬ trol ordinances to be enacted by a Vote of the electorate. While appearing to be democratic, Keating said, it was really aimed at preventing cities from enacting such laws directly through their local city councils, as Los Angeles did earlier thisyear. “The real-estate interests have won 14 of 18 rent control elections in California in recent years,” he said, “and they have apparently unlimited financial resources to wage election campaigns. ” McDowell responded by saying that at times in the past, four or five govern¬ ment officials have been subject to pres¬ sure and influence by tenants’ groups Rent control advocates are wondering who would be able to afford housing regulated by a rent control law drawn up with the support and encouragement cf major landlord , real- estate and banking associations. and have voted for rent control ordi¬ nances under duress. “We believe the people are supreme,” McDowell stated, “and that there should be a vote. ” McDowell is a partner in Woodward, McDowell and Larson, the San Fran- cisco-based public relations firm that managed the campaign to defeat Propo¬ sition 5, the anti-smoking initiative, last year. He said that if the required 553,790 signatures are gathered to place the amendment on the ballot, his firm will manage the campaign in favor of it. Also supporting the constitutional amendment, according to McDowell, besides the California Housing Council, are the California Association of Real¬ tors, the California Apartment Associa¬ tion, the California Mortgage Bankers Association, the California Building In¬ dustry Association and theStateBuilding Trades Council. Keating portrayed the proposed ini¬ tiative as an attempt by realtors to cir¬ cumvent both the state legislature and Gov. Brown. “They got a bill through the legislature in 1976 which took away HOW THE SPECIAL INTERESTS HAVE QUIETLY DISMANTLED THE CITY’S CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LAW A case history of how 3 landlords spent $40,671 despite the $500 contribution limit rent control,” he said, “but Brown wouldn’t sign it and it died. ” Later, Assemblymen LouisPapan (D- Daly City) and Mike Roos (D-Los Angeles) sponsored a bill that would have allowed local communities to enact rent control measures, but with a good many restrictions. That effort also failed. “Communities don’t need a state law, much less a constitutional amendment, to pass rent control laws,” Keating pointed out. “They can vote them in right now, without restrictions.” The current rent control constitu¬ tional amendment effort, Keating said, is merely an extension of those previous failed attempts to ban or restrict local rent control laws. The Guardian has obtained a copy of a memo sent by Jack Flanigan, executive director of theCalifornia HousingCoun- cil, to the County Supervisors Associa¬ tion last May. In it, Flanigan notes that a spate of local rent control elections have taken place and more are scheduled for the near future. “With the threat of rent controls hanging over the entire State, the con¬ struction of new apartment units has begun to slow down appreciably,” Flanigan wrote. “In cities like Los Ange¬ les, new starts are at a virtual standstill.” He said that after “lengthy discussions and a good deal of survey research, the following approach appears to have the potential for industry support.” He goes on to outline a statewide rent control ini¬ tiative almost identical in every point to the constitutional amendment now being circulated by Californians for Fair Rents, including vacancy decontrol, the annual increase tied to the Consumer Price Index, the exemption for new units and the requirement that localities enact rent control only by a vote of the electorate. Keating believes the constitutional amendment, which would not require landlords to register, and thus would rely on voluntary compliance by landlords with local laws, is filled with numerous pitfalls for tenants. The amendment would “effectively end any kind of rent control,” Keating says. McDowell countered that the lack of statewide rent control standards has made investors unwilling to commit funds to building new rental units or re¬ habilitating existing ones. This, he main¬ tained, has contributed to the present housing shortage. But rent control advocates are won¬ dering who would be able to afford housing regulated by a rent control law drawn up with the support and en¬ couragement of major landlord, real- estate and banking associations. “This amendment would be worse than no rent control law at all,’’said one. Keating fears that if the constitutional amendment does make the ballot, it could ride the coattails of a new Howard Jarvis-sponsored initiative — this one to cut state income taxes— that seems likely to be voted on during the 1980 J une pri¬ mary election. ■ ft - , y tt-J 'tlnetll l't ,v^l BY DAVID JOHNSTON T his fall, the Chamber of Com¬ merce corporations are planning a huge public relations and ad¬ vertising blitz to defeat the high- rise control initiative on the San Francis¬ co ballot (Prop. O). The taxi companies are pouring in money to allow the trans¬ fer of taxicab permits (Prop. M). The landlords and real estate interests are spending big to defeat the rent control initiative (Prop. O). And the special interests of all stripes and hues are contri¬ buting heavily to their candidates as investments in the races for mayor, district attorney, sheriff and six supervi¬ sors. In theory, special-interest contribu¬ tors are held in check by the city’s post- Watergate campaign contribution control ordinance limiting individual campaign contributions to $500. In practice, the special interests have learned how to circumvent the law and, in effect, have quietly repealed the ordi¬ nance that was enacted to “place realistic and enforceable limits on the amount individuals may contribute to political campaigns in municipal elections,” as the statement of purpose and intent in the law puts it. A textbook example of precisely how special-interest contributors get around the law was pointed out recently when San Franciseans for Affordable Housing, the coalition backing the rent-control initiative, filed a complaint with District Attorney Joe Freitas’s office. The SFAH complaint, filed Sept. 19, charged that three San Francisco real-estate companies, who together spent more than $40,000 to help defeat Prop. U, the rent-rebate measure on the November 1978 ballot, violated state and local campaign spending and reporting laws. 1. The background: " The SFAH complaint stems from the successful campaign against Prop. U last fall. The committee organized to oppose the measure was the Coalition for Better Housing/San Franciscans Against Rent Control. CFBH/SFARC hired Don Solem and Associates, the political consulting and public relations firm, to help manage the campaign. This fall, Solem is handling the campaign against rent control (Prop. R). The committee worked out of Solem’s offices at 100 Bush St. in San Francisco. Solem played a dual role in the No on Prop. U campaign. Not only did the firm help manage the $400,000 CFBH/ SFARC budget, but Solem also acted as a public relations agency for three San Francisco real estate companies, Parkmerced Management Corp., Gold¬ en Gateway Center and Paul Sack Prop¬ erties. Together these companies spent $40,671, through Solem, to help defeat Prop. U. (Golden Gateway Center spent $13,251, Parkmerced Management Corp. spent $ 18,945 and Paul Sack Prop¬ erties spent $8,425, according to state¬ ments filed by the companies with the San Francisco Registrar of Voters.) 2. How the three firms avoided the $500 limit: Under the city’s campaign contribu¬ tion limit ordinance, “no person shall make, and no campaign treasurer shall solicit or accept, any contribution which will cause the total amount contributed by such person with respect to a single election in support of or opposition to any measure .... to exceed $500.” For purposes of the ordinance, a “person” includes corporations such as the three companies. This provision means that CFBH/SFARC, as a committee, could not accept more than a $500 contribu¬ tion from anybody, including the three firms cited in the SFAH complaint. But the law only regulates how much com¬ mittees can accept and how much indi¬ viduals can contribute to committees. It does not limit how much a committee itself can spend. Thus, to avoid the spending limits, the three companies had only to set themselves up as committees which did not make contributions, but spent funds independently. This way, the companies got out from under the local contribution limits and were free to spend as much as they wanted. However, “committees” such as those established by the companies are considered “expenditure committees” under the state Political Reform Act and as such must file reports showing how they spent their funds. All three firms filed these reports with the Registrar. Peter Necarsulmer, an associate at Solem and Associates, acknowledged to the Guardian that the expenditure committees could be used to dodge the local spending limit, but he defended the practice as “100% legal.” He said, “It’s a freedom of speech issue. If people with a direct financial interest in the outcome of a campaign want to spend their own resources, it’s continued page 11 5 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 BY CECI LY MURPHY AND WILLIAM RISTOW B ack in January, when we first decided to take the train across the country, it all seemed so innocent and sim¬ ple. Nobody was using Am- trak, the price was fairly reasonable, and we figured traveling in the old-fashioned comfort of a sleeping compartment would be the ideal way to take our one- year-old son to visit the grandparents in Omaha, Nebraska, and Washington, D.C. This would be the perfect oppor¬ tunity, besides, to compare a long-dis¬ tance American train with its Old World counterparts. A few years ago we had taken the Trans-Siberian Express across Russia and then continued by train throughout Scandinavia and down to England, and we had always wondered how Amtrak would stack up over simil¬ ar distances. Naive as we were, we even hoped to be able to write some good words about our national rail system to set alongside the reams of bad publicity it seems always to begetting. But that was all in January. By May, when we actually made our reserva¬ tions, the picture couldn’t have been more different. The gas shortage had crunched, the DC- 10s had begun falling apart, and the Department of Transpor¬ tation had proclaimed a 43% cutback in Amtrak routesforthisfall. The combined effect was to send pas¬ sengers flocking to the trains in numbers unheard of in the jet age. Passengers who didn’t want to worry about odd/even. Passengers who had been bumped by the United Airlines strike or frightened by theDC- lOcrisis. Passengers who wanted one last (or first) ride on one of the doomed trains. Our travel agent, David Butts of San Francisco’s Great Western Tours (one of the country’s leading specialists in railroad travel, highly recommended by E. M. Frimbo, the New Yorker magazine’s famous rail buff), said he was beginning to wonder whether he might be in the wrong pro¬ fession. Inany case, onjune 11, havingweath- ered a certain amount of confusion and delay— not to mention a jolting fare in¬ crease — we found ourselves boarding a bus at the Transbay Terminal on Mission Street for the short ride over to South¬ ern Pacific’s Oakland passenger ter¬ minal, where Amtrak Train No. 6, the San Francisco Zephyr, would be waiting to whisk us to Omaha, Chicago and our connecting trains for points east. PART I: THE GREAT NAME ROBBERY Before we climb aboard, though, a clarification is in order. The train may be called the Zephyr, but it really isn’t the Zephyr at all — and that’s one of the un¬ fortunate things about the journey. The California Zephyr was christened on March 19, 1949, in a remarkable scene along San Francisco’s Embarca- dero near the Ferry Building, and it quickly became one of America’s rail classics. David P. Morgan of Trains magazine, in hisforeword to an excellent biography of the Zephyr entitled Portrait of a Silver Lady (Bruce A. MacGregor and Ted Benson; Pruett Publishing Co., Boulder, Colo., 1977), writes that “she was the train that behaved like a Carib¬ bean cruise ship, inviting you to loaf and ^ look, dine and drink, with ultimate des¬ tination beside the point. ” I ! Unfortunately, the ultimate destination of the California Zephyr was to be railroad heaven. The run, bur¬ dened by lossesdespite continued passen¬ ger loyalty, went out of service in March 1970 at the ripe old age of 21. Just a year later, while structuring a national rail service, Amtrak would keep the famous Zephyr name without sticking to the train’sspectacular route. Today’s Zephyr passenger misses out on two scenic stretches that were high¬ lights of the trip just ten years ago. First, in one of the most famous sections of its route, the old California Zephyr passed through California's beautiful Feather River Canyon east of Oroville, crossing the Sierra at Beckwourth Pass instead of Donner. Second, and even more dra¬ matically, the original route headed south from Salt Lake City, going through the Utah mountains, all of Colo¬ rado and directly through the Rocky Mountains en route to Denver. (Mac¬ Gregor and Benson describe the passage through the Rockies as “a string of small canyons, each a dramatic entity in its own right.”) Today’s San Francisco Zephyr misses the Rockies altogether and barely touches Colorado, instead traversing the exceedingly dull width of Wyoming before dropping down to Denver. If you’re like most people and scenery is important to you on a long-distance train, and if you have some time to spare besides, note that it is still possible to get a small taste of the old route on the Rio Grande Zephyr (operated between Denver and Salt Lake City by one of the few private railroads still in the interstate passenger business, the Denver & Rio Grande Western). While, this train lasts— its owners have been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to phase it out—and if you can arrange for layovers, since the Amtrak and Rio Grande schedules naturally don’t mesh, you can use your through Amtrak ticket to go on the Rio Grande Zephyr at no extra charge. It’s a good way to get a taste of the good old days. PART II: THE GRISLY DETAILS tomatoes, peaches, croissants and butter bouncing down the concrete and onto the rails. By the time the train pulled out at 12:45 pm (20 minutes late), we were ready for some of that relaxed, unharried I travel that trains used to be famous for. And everything did go relatively well for the first 150 miles or so. The ride was smooth, the room comfortable and the view fine, if somewhat obscured by the dirty windows we had from the start. We were so optimistic about the appar¬ ent improvement in our fortunes that we j thought it would be pleasant to go visit the lounge car for a few beers as we rolled | over the Sierra. Well. The lounge car turned out to be Amtrak’s informal experiment with alternative energy sources. It was an Washington to New York, the new cars were in use and there was hardly an old one to be seen.) The interiors of these old cars have all been done up well, with pleasantly designed new upholstery, but the guts—the mechanical workings— have decayed almost beyond repair. So it was still plenty hot when we finally rolled out of Sparks. The only solace was that we left a car behind, which made our sleeper the final car on the train. Over the initial resistance of the train’s flagman, who kept closing it, we managed to get the back door left open, allowing some little air circula¬ tion— and a good view of the sun setting over the Reno casinos. (The rearward view down the tracks also gave us a glimpse of some of rail- ALL ABOARI THE AMTRAK But back to our journey, as our East- shore Lines bus pulls in at the Southern Pacific terminal in Oakland. It’s one of the grand old stations in architectural style, with a bold front, dramatic high interiors, wooden benches, large platform out back and so on. Just about the only authentic touch missing from the station when we got there, in fact, was the train. That’s right. Even though this is where the route actually starts, old No. j 6, the counterfeit Zephyr, was already late. According to a public-address announcement, there were a few “mechanical difficulties.” Not a good omen at all. After the train finally chugged up to the platform, what’s more, we discov- I ered that the sleeping car on which we held confirmed reservations for compartment I only offered com¬ partments A through F. Another bad omen, causing much awkward shuf- i fling around in the narrow corridor by us j and the two couples who held tickets for i compartmentsG andH. Amtrak’s local functionaries soon decided we could take compartment A and the other two couples could have compartments in other cars, all of which was fine except that during the delay a baggage person had managed to break our brand-new cooler, sending Our far-roving correspondents take the cross-country train — and live to tell about it. • * enormous solar oven. The air condition¬ ing was out and the afternoon sun was in, filtering through a thick blue haze of cigarette smoke that couldn’t escape because the windows don’t open. We were passing through the Sierra foothills, it was the middle of the afternoon on a midsummer day, and it was hot. The ! beers were cold, at least, but their effect only lasted a few minutes. We quickly decided to beat a retreat to our room. Only to make the grim discovery that the air conditioning was out there, as well. In fact, the air conditioning was out everywhere we went on the train with the exception of the dining car, which was crisply cool. Unfortunately, it was also off-limits to passengers because the staff was setting it up for dinner. You could pass through, enjoying a brief chilling effect, but then it was out into the traveling hothouse again. And so it went throughout the journey — progressively worse. We crossed the mountains and arrived in Sparks, Nevada, just 15 minutes late, but departed more than IV 2 hours late because the train had to be examined for suspected hot wheels. Despite the en¬ treaties of our porter (Toni Allara, a young woman, recently hired) and some perfunctory fiddling by maintenance men, the air conditioning stayed out. Evidently in an attempt to cheer us up, Toni remarked that at least they had been able to fix the heat valve — some parts of the train had actually had the heat stuck fn the on position. It’s frustrating, Toni told us, to work on a run that starts in the west and terminates in Chicago, because in Chicago you see Amtrak’s new equip¬ ment, just being brought into service, but then you have to get back on vintage, run-down cars like ours, built anywhere from the 1930s to the 1950s. (She was right: everywhere we went east of Chicago, including on a side trip from M > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY AND NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 20,1979 For our new Day & Night readers— we’ll give you our best subscription offer to the Bay Guardian If you like Day & Night you'll love the Bay Guardian. (Subscribe and get the whole thing at half price.) 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And after I dis¬ covered jalapeno chili peppers, none could say they were short on heat, either. The fiery little morsels started turning up in everything from scrambled eggs and toasted cheese sandwiches to soups and casseroles. But my grassroots chili move¬ ment has nothing on the cuisines of countries that have elevated chili cookery to an art over the centuries. For those of you who fancy chilies and are always looking for ways to light up your supper table, I’ve talked to some cooks who are more expertly versed in hot cuisine than I — most particularly cooks of the famously hot cuisines of Mexico, China and India— and they’ve offered these recipes to help set your world on fire. Since chilies have left their mark on countless dishes in many other lands that we can’t cover here (Thailand, Indonesia, Korea, Kenya and the U.S.A., to name a few), I’ll be collecting a further batch of recipes for a future article. First, a brief skirmish into chili pepper lore. Chilies all belong to the Capsicum family. Capsicums make brothers of bell peppers and jalapenos, pimentos and cayenne, and they’re found all over the warmer regions of the earth. (Capsi¬ cums do not include the plants that produce the berries which, when ground, become black and white pepper. That’s the family Piper.) History tells us that Capsicums are native to the Americas, and their worldwide spread was started by Columbus, who brought some of the peppers back with him to the Old World on his first voyage. According to legend, he thought he was bringing home with him the highly prized black pepper plant, a plant which he’d never actually laid eyes on. But mistake or not, this new pepper was met with the enthusiasm that humanity reserves for such innovations as the wheel and sliced bread. Capsicums quickly followed the trade winds throughout the world. Through the years they’ve been chopped, dried, canned, pickled and powdered. They’ve also gained a reputation for such feats as scaring away ghosts, making grown men cry, supplying vitamin C and curing hangovers, indiges¬ tion, rheumatism, lumbago, colds and stuffy noses. Peppers in their zillions of varie¬ ties (and with their propensity for cross-pollination; it seems new kinds are cropping up all the time) are basically divided into those that are sweet and those that are hot. The hot peppers contain an oil or resin that will sear unsuspecting mucous membranes. The active ingredient, called capsaicin, stimulates gastric secretions in small doses but causes subacute gastritis in large doses. When judging the heat of an unknown pepper, you take your warning (from the size; big ones run from mild to hot, small ones run from hot to unbearable, and tiny ones range from agonizing to lethal. Bay Area supermarkets stock a variety of chilies—some fresh (notably the long green mild Cali¬ fornia or Anaheim chili, the shorter mild green Fresno chili, a medium¬ sized yellow wax chili, which can be quite hot, and short shiny green jalapenos, which most chili users know or soon learn are fiery hot) , a few dried red chilies which you should assume are hot, a healthy sampling of canned or pickled chilies (the most popular of these, according to my cooking sources, is the Ortega brand) and powders in various forms, including cayenne. For a much wider selection, devoted chili users frequent Mexican or Chinese markets. For instance, in Mexican markets you can also find serrano chilies, which are dark green and smaller than jalapenos and can heat up the coldest night. You can also find poblano chilies (good for chili rellenos) and their dried version, the ancho chili. The biggest problem with chili shopping is that produce markets aren’t at all consistent in the names they give the chilies. What may be a jalapeno in one place may be referred to as a “short green” or chili verde in another. It’s best to check around and, if possible, get a picture of what you’re looking for. Diana Kennedy’s The Cuisines of Mexico (Harper & Row) includesa highly informative chapter on many types of chilies, with color plates to illustrate them. One last and excellent source for chilies is the San Francisco Farmer’s Market. As Loni Kuhn, a widely known figure in Bay Area cooking circles and an authority on Mexican cooking, says, "Besides being a wonderful, crazy, mixed- up place togo, the Farmer's Market is loaded at this time of year (September and October) with chilies of every Size, shape and color. And the prices are wonder¬ ful.” Red or yellow chilies are simply fully matured versions of green chilies, as red bell peppersare matured green bell peppers. In using chili peppers, bear in mind that the seeds are the hottest part. Many recipes call for taking the seeds out, for that reason. Certain styles of cooking (notably Mexican) also call for the peppers to be peeled. With all this handling you’re bound to get the hot resihs on your hands. Wash your hands well with soap and water, particularly under the fingernails, before doing anything else. Above all, don’t rub your eyes. The agony that will ensue can only be described by the people who have suffered that mis¬ fortune. If you do get the hot chili into your eyes, rinse them with water. CHILIES, MEXICAN STYLE Rumor has it that most Mexican food we find in restaurants here in the United States is tempered to timid gringo palates. The really hot food stays south of the border. Indeed, when I talked to the mana¬ ger of a favorite Mexican restaur¬ ant of mine, she said that if they made their dishes as hot as they would in Mexico, the customers who weren’t used to it would suffer indigestion and diarrhea and would talk badly about the restaurant, maybe even sue. So she lets the customers decide the heat of their dishes by providing them with a dish of hot salsa (a chili sauce) and pickled jalapenos. In any case, you can reproduce some suitably hot Mexican dishes in your.own kitchen. Ingredients for the following recipes are available at Mexican markets in San Fran¬ cisco, such as Casa Lucas Market, 2934 24th St.; Mi Rancho Market, 3365 20th St.; and La Palma Market, 2884 24th St. All three markets stock extensive collections of chilies, dried and fresh (worth the trip just to see them). They also carry fresh tortillas and other products not usually available in' your local market. Jana Allen, food writer, longtime cook and teacher of take off the papery skins and cut them into six pieces. You can then stew or steam them with a half an onion and a couple of cloves of gar¬ lic, or you can stir them with the onion and garlic and a tablespoon of oil in a hot skillet for 10 minutes. You can use canned tomatillos as they are. Mash the avocados with the tomatillos and add the remain¬ ing ingredients. Continue mashing until you achieve the traditional somewhat lumpy guacamole tex¬ ture. A Cuisinart will do this in a jiffy, but Allen cautions against using a blender as it usually suc¬ ceeds in pureeing whatever is in the bottom of the container— a state of affairs you don’t want. Peeling chilies; Jana Allen suggest that, to peel chilies, you first roast them on the top of a barbecue or in a really hot (450 degrees) oven until they’re blistered almost black. Then put the chilies in a paper bag and fold or crinkle the top of the bag to make it airtight. Allow the chilies to “rest” for about ten minutes. They will continue steaming and the skin will separate from the pulp, allow¬ ing for easy peeling. The following recipe is from Loni Kuhn's collection. If you’d like to delve more into the mysteries of Mexican cuisine, she teaches out of her home in San Francisco. Call herat 752-5265 for details. MANCHA MANTELES DEL POLLO, OR CHICKEN TABLECLOTH STRAINER 2 New Mexico chilies 2 3‘/ 2 -4 lb. chickens, cut up cloves with the soaked chilies until quite smooth. Reheat the fat from the chorizo and pour in chilies sauce. Cook 10 minutes, stirring constantly. Add chicken stock and pour over chicken. Simmer for about 1 hour, or until tender. Just before serving stir in vinegar and taste for salt. Sprinkle with toasted sesame seeds and serve with white rice. RED-HOT COOKING FROM CHINA According to Henry Chung, pro¬ prietor of the renowned Hunan Restaurant, the Hunanese people have quite a reputation jn China. They use longer chopsticks, sit at bigger tables and generally eat more heartily than the folks in the rest of the country. They're emo¬ tional and outspoken and very friendly, and they like to entertain. And they especially love hot peppers. “In every house, in the front gar¬ den or in the back garden, there’s a pepper tree," says Chung. I was visiting him the other day at the Hunan (924 Sansome, SF), and he motioned to the pepper tree on the counter. “The peppers grow up to the sky,” he said, contrasting them to the more common types that hang downward. "We call them hsiung-tien, or facing-the-skv pep¬ pers.” Back in Li-ling county in HuiTan, where Chung comes from, people use the red peppers fresh while they are in season and then, before the season ends (around July), the rest of the peppers are reminiscences. The recipes are simple to prepare, and pepper lovers will find much to fan the flames of their passion. Here is a.recipe from the book. HOT AND SOUR CHICKEN “This dish originated in Li-ling, a prominent county in Hunan Pro¬ vince, my home country,” says Henry Chung, “and I introduced it to San Francisco. The main ingre- dients are chicken and the Hunan pickled hot pepper, an item which offers the diner a hot and sour taste. That kind of Hunan pickled hot Some like it HOT Mexican cooking, offers the following guacamole recipe. I made it and served it to several Guardian staffers, one of whom remarked, “It’s the best guacamole 1 ever tasted!" GUACAMOLE DEL NORTE 8 fresh tomatillos, or canned toma¬ tillos, or canned tomatillos (about half a 14 or 15oz. can, drained) 2 large ripe avocados (Casa Lucas Market always has perfectly ripe avocados on hand, according to Allen.) 2-3 slices red onion, chopped (use torpedos if you can get them) 2-3 fresh seeded serranos (you don’t need to roast and peel them, but see postscript on peeling chi¬ lies if you want that flavor) juice of 2 limes, to taste salt pepper cilantro (a handful of leaves, stems removed) 1 tomato, peeled, seeded and chopped Refrigerate until served. are usine fresh tomatillos salt and freshly ground pepper lard or oil 3- 4 chorizos, skinned (Mexican sau¬ sage) 2 ripe plantains or 2 large green bananas 2 slices fresh pineapple, diced 4- 6 pickled serrano chilies, minced 2 large onions, chopped 4 cloves minced garlic Vi cup blanched almonds 1/8 teaspoon each cinnamon and cloves 1 lb. tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped 1 cup chicken broth 3 tablespoons vinega r juice of 1 lime Tear up the ancho and New Mexico chilies (both of these are dried chilies) and soak in hot water for 20 minutes. Grind up smoothly. Salt and pepper chicken and place in large heavy casserole. Heat the lard and fry the chorizo until browned. Drain and add to chicken. Add the fruits and serrano chilies. Grind the onion, garlic, al¬ monds. tomatoes, cinnamon and harvested and dried in the sun. “We string them, like a necklace” — Chung gestured a circle around his neck— “or hang them under the overhang of the house. Sometimes we would hang them in the kitchen.” You can buy fresh red peppers in Chinese groceries here, and fresh peppers can be used interchange¬ ably with the dried in Hunan cooking. Chung says he uses all dried peppers in the restaurant. If you find your excursion into Hunanese cooking too hot to bear, drink lots of hot tea. That’s Henry Chung's suggestion, and it comes from his grandmother. "My grand¬ mother always said to avoid drink¬ ing cold water with food, as the water and the grease in the food won’t mix well in your insides. Hot tea will wash it through." Henry Chung has written a book, Henry Chung's Hunan Style Chinese Cookbook (Harmony Books), which includes myriad recipes in the Hunanese tradition, as well as legends, customs and Henry Chung (right) and his son Marty of the Hunan Restaurant. 2 teaspoons finely chopped fresh ginger 1 green onion V2 cup cashews, peanuts or almonds Seasonings: 2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 teaspoons rice wine or dry sherry 1-2 tablespoonssoy sauce 1 teaspoon vinegar Vt teaspoon salt (omit if using salted nuts) 1-2 teaspoons suga r 2 teaspoons sesame oil (optional) 4 tablespoons cooking oil To prepare: 1. Bone the chicken and cut the meat into pieces, 1-inch or slightly smaller. 2. Make the marinade by mixing the cornstarch with 2 tea¬ spoons soy sauce and 1 tablespoon vvine, then adding salt and egg white. Mix marinade with the chicken and marinate at least 15 minutes. 3. Cut off the ends of the dried red peppers and shake out the seeds. Chop the ginger very finely and cut the green onion into Vt- inch lengths. 4. In a small bowl, mix the seasonings, first mixing the corn¬ starch with the soy sauce and wine and then mixing in the other in¬ gredients. To cook: 1. Heat about 4 tablespoons cooking oil in a wok or large frying pan. Add the red peppers, cooking over a medium flame until they start to char. Turn the fire up as A mouth-watering guide to chilies and the cuisines that have made them famous lemon juice on them. The yogurt and the lemon juice help make the heat of the fiery dishes bearable. So keep that in mind as you try these ehutneys. They, along with yogurt, make a great accompaniment to curried vegetables, scrambled eggs and meat dishes. PEANUT CHUTNEY V2 cup peanuts, dry roasted (pre¬ ferably home roasted) 6jalapeno peppers 4 large cloves of garlic V 4 cup (approximately) chopped f resh coriander (ci lantro) salt to taste 1 tablespoon (approximately) cooking oil '/< cup water Heat oil in skillet over low heat. Add green chilies (seeds and all) and peeled garlic, and roast over low heat until they are brown. When this is done, put all the ingre¬ dients in the blender and blend them. PUDINA (MINT LEAVES) CHUTNEY 2 tablespoons desiccated unsweetened coconut 2 tablespoons lemon juice 4-6green chilies Vi cup chopped cilantro 'A cup mint leaves salt water (according to whether you need a thick or a thin chutney) Blend all the ingredients in the blender. SABJI (VEGETABLE CURRY) FOR FOUR 1 large eggplant pepper is not currently available in the United States, so I use hot red pepper powder and vinegar instead, and the result is marve¬ lous. ” Ingredients: V2 frying chicken, about 1 pound Marinade: 1 tablespoon powdered cornstarch V2 teaspoon black pepper a few drops vegetable oil l‘/ 2-2 cups plus 1 teaspoon oil (or sesame oil) V2 cup green bell pepper (about 1 ' med ium-sized green bel 1 pepper cut into 1-inch squares) V2 cup canned sliced bamboo shoots(or V2 cup celery, sliced into IV 2 -inch pieces) Vi cup sliced carrots, peeled and sliced into l'/i-inch pieces (optional) 1 tablespoon fermented black beans(optional) V2 tablespoon minced garlic (optional) 1 tablespoon minced fresh ginger 1 teaspoon hot red pepper powder V2 cup chicken broth 2 tablespoons soy sauce pinch salt (or to taste) 2 tablespoons white wine vinegar (or to taste) 2 tablespoons white wine 1 tablespoon liquid cornstarch (put V2 tablespoon of powdered cornstarch in your wok spoon, add just a little water, and stir vigorously to dissolve the powder; add immediately to dish. Preparation I. Cut up the chicken, bones and all, into 1-inch-square pieces. (First cut off wing and leg with cleaver, then cut carcass in half through backbone.) Mix thorough¬ ly with marinade ingredients and let sit for 2-3 minutes. 2. Heat a wok over highest heat for 2 minutes. Then add l‘/2-2cups vegetable oil. As soon as the oil is smoking hot place the chicken pieces in the wok and stir vigorous¬ ly for 1 minute or till the bloody color is gone. Remove the chicken and drain off all but 2 to 3 table¬ spoons of oil. 3. Reheat remaining oil till smoking hot. Toss in green pepper, bamboo shoots, carrots, black beans, garlic, ginger, and hot red pepper powder. Add chicken broth and cook for 1 minute. 4. Return chicken to wok and add soy sauce, salt, vinegar, and wine. Cook for 4 to 6 more minutes, stirring constantly. Add liquid cornstarch to thicken the gravy, and 1 teaspoon vegetable oil to glaze the dish for better appear¬ ance. Serve hot. THIS WILL SZECHWAN FIRE Having come across a copy of The Good Food of Szechwan (Ko- dansha International Ltd.) and learning that the author, Robert Delfs, lives in San Francisco, I was eager to talk to him about hot peppers and Szechwanese cooking. As is made abudantly clear by the Szechwanese restaurants here in San Francisco, the people of Szech¬ wan rival their Hunanese neighbors with their love of hot peppers. Delfs confirmed my understanding of Szechwanese food—that it was plenty hot. Delfs learned the art of Szechwanese cooking while he was a graduate student in Taipei, Tai¬ wan, and he's been an ardent fol¬ lower of the cuisine ever since. Apparently, Delfs told me, hot red peppers were introduced into Szechwan during the latter part of the Ming dynasty (around the 17th century). It isn’t clear whether the Portuguese were responsible (they traded between Mexico and China) or whether the peppers arrived overland from India. Among the recipes which Delfs includes in The Good Food of Szechwan are many that promise to be real eye-wideners. I’ve in¬ cluded one here. If you cook this dish and it proves too hot for even your tastes, Delfs says you can sal¬ vage it by carefully draining the oil and replacing it with an unchilied oil. GONG-BA O JI-DING (Chicken with charred red peppers and cashews) V2 chicken breast, about Vi lb. when boned Marinade: 2 teaspoons cornstarch 2 teaspoons soy sauce 1 tablespoon rice wine or dry sherry V 2 -I egg white V2 teaspoon salt 10 dried red peppers, ora few more high as possible and as soon as the peppers are black, add the chicken pieces. Reduce flame to medium. 2. Stir-fry until the chicken is white, then add the ginger and green onion. Cook, stirring for a few more seconds, then add the cashews or other nuts and the sea¬ sonings (give it a quick stir first). When the sauce has thickened slightly and is glaze-like, remove to a serving dish and serve hot. HOT AND HOTTER FROM INDIA I consulted Sindhu More to get some really hot ehutneys for our chili-loving readers. Sindhu More has worked with her husband, Chan, at their small restaurant, the Sitar (recently moved to new quar¬ ters at 1616 Webster St. in Oak¬ land) for the past eight years. She comes from Bombay, and the fol¬ lowing recipes are common for dishes in that region. However, More has been careful to substitute all ingredients that are’ available in California. For instance, she uses jalapenos (“not the thick ones, the thin long ones"). "I guess at propor¬ tions,” More explains. “If a sauce isn't hot enough, I just add some ca¬ yenne.” When serving hot foods in India, it’s common to serve on the table a dish of yogurt, a salad made with yogurt, and raw vegetables with 2 small potatoes 2 medium tomatoes V2 cup fresh or frozen peas 2 dry red chilies 3 serrano chilies (or jalapenos if serranos aren’t available) V2 -inch ginger root 1 large onion 1 teaspoon turmeric Vi teaspoon each cinnamon and ground cloves 2 tablespoons cooking oil Cut up eggplant into 1-inch squares (don’t peel this or any of the vegetables). Cut potatoes into small cubes. Put eggplant and po¬ tato cubes into cold water to pre¬ vent discoloration. Cube tomatoes. Chop the onion. Mince the ginger and the chilies (don't take the seeds out). Heat the oil in the skillet and add the red peppers just before the oil boils. Add green chilies and onion. When the onion is browned add the turmeric and tomatoes. Cover and cook until tomatoes are soft. Add the potatoes, followed in a few seconds by the eggplant. Last to go in the skillet are the peas, if you're using frozen peas, because theseonly takesecondstocook. The secret for a moist thick curry is to keep the lid on the skillet whenever possible. If the final result isn’t suf¬ ficiently pungent, add cayenne. Obvious variations can include corn, beansand cauliflower. □ « > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 <► > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 ME M /DINE OUT f ■ 4 4 1 irv 1« r z uiiiic liaiy z RISTORANTE Italian Cuisine in a Garden Setting Reservations: 821-1515 4109 24th Street, San Francisco, CA Mon.-Fri. noon-11p.m. Sat-Sun 2 p.m.-11p.m. Lunch 11:30-2:30 T-F Dinner 5:00-11:00 TWTh 5:00-12:00 FSat 5:00-10:00 Sun Brunch 10:30-2:30 Sun 300 Connecticut Street Potrero Hill 641-1440 -> AMERICAN FISH MARKET Specializing in Fresh Fish, Sashimi, Japanese Foods, Fresh & Imported. Sushi Bar and Bakery 1790 Sutter Street 921 5154 k___ Cape Cod fisherfolk. This explains their twin preoccupations—fresh fish and art. After dark, the Rite Spot is an artists’ bar catering— thanks to its location at 17th and Folsom — to the occupants of the many nearby studiosand lofts. Painting, sculpture and prints line the walls. The work of talented local artists Ed Aulerich, Phil Rober, Eric Erickson and Allan Adams—along-with that of the owners— is on view. Alderucci and Milewski are willing to show other artists' work (on a consignment basis) and are currently sponsoring a competition for a classical reclin¬ ing nude to hang over the bar. The long, full-service bar does a lively business. \'h ounce well drinks will set you back a piffling dollar. American beer just 75c. The wine list is small and select— mostly Parducci reds and There’s something for everyone at the Rite Spot A rtists’ bars arc a standard fixture of the New York scene. Ditto for blue-collar hang¬ outs and executive-filled lunch room/grills. San Francisco’s answer to all these, rolled into one, is the Rite Spot Cafe. For my money (or lack of it), it’s the best reasonably priced restaurant/bar South of Market. How reasonable is reasonably priced? Well, on my last visit I had a hearty (not heavy) bowl of ham and split pea soup, a delicately prepared fresh red snapper rneun- iere with a sour cream/shallot sauce, rice pilaf and fresh broccoli — for $3.25! The red snapper was one of four daily specials, all in the $3.50 price range. (Veal and sea-food dishes can run as high as $6.95.) That day, the other specials were fresh sole, chicken cacciatore and braciolle, an exotic-sounding herbed, rolled, stuffed round steak. Hefty deli sandwiches run around $2, a chef’s salad $3 and a top sirloin steak $3.95. The same menu is served from 11 until around 9 when the kitchen closes. Am iable owners/opera tors Michael Alderucci and Michael Milewski are former artists and REAL CAFE 2140 Polk St. 673-7420 Located within Real Food Co. 11am-8pm Daily Wholesome Sandwiches Creative Salads Beer & Wine Homemade Baked Goods and Desserts Fresh Fruit Juices and Smoothies Smoothies, V2 price with any salad or sandwich. iM/UNELCeSTEC! J SMGHEE DICE ! : fresh fish : f RESTAURANT q BALABOSTA University at Sixth • Berkeley • 548-0300 .☆NEW^r.! TC-GC SHCP | Marr/ellour Food \Fithout Pretensions* mm Open for lunch Tuesday thru Friday 11:00-2:30 Dinners Monday thru Saturday 6:30-10:00 Saturday & Sunday Brunch 10:00-2:30 Pauli sis a delightful little neighborhood restaurant, the kind for which San Francisco is famous. Excellent food and fine wines are served in a charming atmosphere by a wartn and congenial staff. Lunches are varied with homemade soups , fresh salads , omelettes, quiches amd gourmet sandwiches. Dinners are superb . under the excellent hand of Chef Gio Aguilera. Of special interest is our weekend brunch , featuring omelettes , eggs florentine and benedict , homemade wholewheat pancakes and raisin-nut french toast , served with real maple syrup. All desserts, including our famous fudge pie , are homemade. Pauli's also offers an excellent catering and party service. Please phone for dinner reservations. 2500 Washington at Fillmore • 921-5159 • Pauline Halstead • DebbieFord ’HOTO BY VICTORIA ROUSE Guglclmo whites. The house wines are a Mondavi Zjnfandel and Cresta Blanca Chablis. If all this weren't enough, the Rite Spot also boasts a color tele¬ vision set for sporting events and one of the better eclectic jukeboxes around. (Tapes are in the works.) I must qualify this rave by saying that I’ve had an occasional erratic¬ ally prepared dinner, usually towards the end of the evening. This seems like the kind of problem time will solve. □ Cabernet Sauvignon: The spirits of 76 BY ARTH UR DAMOND he king of red wines, at least in California, is Cabernet Sauvignon. It is also Bordeaux’s most important, if not most widely grown, grape. Elsewhere, signifi¬ cant amounts of acreage are planted with it in Yugoslavia, Chile and even Italy, among other coun¬ tries. Here, growers have increased Cabernet acreage more than six¬ fold since 1970 (from 4,200 to 26,000 plus acres). Consumption, especially of the higher quality examples, has more than kept pace. And discussions, articles, compara¬ tive tastings, cellaring and, of course, prices have outstripped what practically anybody might have guessed at the beginning of this decade. Some of the small- production “boutique” wineries are asking — and getting — $ 15-$30 per bottle for their “Reserve" Cabernet Sauvignons, while $6- $12 is most common. Ironically, al¬ most all of them weren’t’ even in existence ten years ago. For exam¬ ple, .of the 14 wineries in the tastings below, only two existed in contti>,;L'lnpxtPdqe BLANKA’S CAFE 10th Anniversary Special iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiij COFFEE $3 60 /lb. reg. $4 60 /lb. | you save $1/lb. E choose from 21 blends = E E iiiiiiiiimmiimiiiiimiiiiHiiimiiiiiii Max’s Special Burger still only $1 7S 160 West Portal 664-9968 Open Every Day VILLA MT. EDEN ESTABLISHED 1881 Estate 1976 Bottled Cabernet Sauvi m PRODUCED AND BOTTLED BY VILLA MT. EDEN - OAKVILLE. NAPA VALLEY. CALIFORNIA ALCOHOL 12.5% BY VOLUME A Unique Chinese Restaurant located in the historic Southern Pacific railroad depot. Featuring an extensive Cantonese menu: Lunch, dinner, late supper, banquets, food to go served from 11 am-1 am daily and cocktailsftil 2 am). “Jook” available after 10pm. Reserv ations Recommended 548-7880 700University, Berkeley Free parking, air conditioned, smoking permitted. vegetarian restaurant "a place to nourish the body and spirit in a very delicious way.’ "... carefully prepared and seasoned casseroles, soups and salads . . . reflects a very high standard of ex¬ cellence." "... dedicated to quality in the selection and prepara¬ tion of its produce." The Cityguide and San Francisco Menu Guide An amazing selection of East Indian. Mexican and Italian dishes using vegeta¬ bles and condiments of the region. Plus sandwiches, shakes ("a truly divine ex¬ perience") and fresh juices. the one place to have a vegetarian dining experience for lunch and dinner Monday through Saturday 216 Church Street at Market 626-6411 FINE FRENCH BAKING ii You can pick up Hot baguettes Sweet French Bread Croissants Brioche Brownies Gingerbread persons and cookies right out of the oven of this storefront bakery retail shop. It’s so French you’ll think you should be in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and not the nearby Claremont Hotel. 99 l.# %St)N COIJNTWf roops STOP EATING JUNK FOOD! VISIT OUR MAIN STORE AT 1051 HOWARD ST., FEATURING: •A COMPLETE SELECTION OF NATURAL GROCERIES (FINE PRODUCTS BY HAIN, WESTBRAE, HEALTH VALLEY. ETC.), •FRESH,TOPQUALITY PRODUCE, •OVER 200 ITEMS IN BULK (INCLUDING ORGANIC DRIED'FRUITS, ORGANIC RICE, TAMARI ROASTED NUTS), •DAIRY (ALTA-DENAPRODUCTS, NIGARITOFU, FERTILE BROWN EGGS, PAVEL'S YOGURT, RENNETLESS CHEESE), • HIGHESTQUALITY VITAMINS, •A FULL LINE OF NATURAL HAIR AND SKIN CARE PRODUCTS (INCLUDING HENNA AND JOJOBA OIL), •A WIDE ASSORTMENTOF HERBS ANDSPICES, •FROZEN (ORGANICCHICKEN AND BEEF, ICEBEAN. HAAGEN DAZS, NATURAL NECTAR ICECREAM), •BOOKS AND MAGAZINES ("EVERY WOMAN’S BOOK” BY PAAVO AIROLA) •THEOWLSANDWICHSHOP (FRESH CARROT JUICE, SANDWICHES, FROZEN YOGURT ANDOTHER NATURAL DESSERTS) •ANDMUCHMORE! VISIT OUR STORES AT CORNEROF STANYAN AND PARNASSUS STS. 566-2511 1051 HOWARD ST. BET.6TH&7TH 863-6842 ANDOURPRODUCETRUCKSAT CORNEROF 19th&ULLOA FULTON AND SEVENTH 10% OFF on any massage tool of your choice: footsie rollers, ma rollers, captain carrot carressers, acupressers, body buddies, acurollers.etc. OFFER EXPIRES 10/3/79 AT HOWARD ST. LOCATION ONLY ■■■■■COUPONnui I > THE BAY GUARD IAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 00 ► THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 ^eoTVIarseille Bouillabaise & Seafood 'r/t Complete Dinners Soup, Salad, Entree, Coffee At Moderate Prices "Where the customer does the dishes. ...” New West Magazine Reservations 664-3879 3028 Taraval at 40th Ave. T AKi Japanese "RestawAant O MHMftlH CUlSiNC NO. 8 PIER 39 SAN FRANCISCO PHONE 434-4430 \j\s i }crt>W(S5<5 Tempura, Sukivaki Lunch Special: Tues-Fri 11:30-2 Dinner: Tues-Sun 5-9:30 Northgate Shops 2505C HearstSt. Berkeley 848-0208 (L TaS teof Honey- % * .A S C A NaturalRBaWerV" g & Juice Bar rA 6" c CAKES • PIES • COOKIES FRESH JUICES & SMOO THIES HONEY ICECREAM COFFEES, TEAS 751 Diamond at 24th St. 10 am to 10 pm EVERYDAY M 285-7979 We cater to all occasions 'm & dietary needs. i— We use no sugar or white flour. A PINE rUENCtl BtSTAUBANT ON COLE 5^ 941 COLE ST 665-4464 5. P. Daily Specials Crepes & Salads Beer & Wine .can’t find wines to fight the spice? WRONG! .look again. •spirit ITALY BANFISEGESTA $4.10 Madefromgrapesgrown from volcanic soil. . . few foods could dwarf thiswine. $4.10 CONTERNOBAROLO’69 An immense, chewy wine, this producer has the finest reputation from this region. $10.65 SPAIN SANGREdeTORO'75 Bull’s Blood from the Valdepenas, a deep yet lively red with a lot of guts. $3. 19 HUNGARY EGRI B1KAVER '75 Another Bull’s Blood, put together with paprika on the mind. $3.99 U.S. Tryourselectionsof AMADOR COUNTY ZINS, PETIT SI RAHS, and GEWURTZTRAMINERS from a vast and complete selection of California wineries. ALCATEL BOTTLE SHOP A COMPLETE WINE STORE Open Sun-Thurs: 9 am-12 Midnight Fri, Sat: 9am-2am 6363 Telegraph Ave., Oakland Telegraph at Alcatraz 653-6418 COMPLETE LINEOF DELICATESSEN ^ •BAGELS •BIALYS KosherStyle Deli OUR BAGELS ARE BAKED DAILY THE BEST IN TOWN Mon-Thur 7am-1 Opm, Fri-Sat 7am-1 am, Sun 7:30am-1 pm 3872A 24th St SF 94114 285-2227 continued from previous page 1972. Clearly, despite all the talk of the very real white-wine explosion, a lot of wine lovers are drinking (when they’re not aging) a lot of Cabernet Sauvignon. So far this decade, the standout vintages for California Cabernet have been 1970 and 1974. The latter has pretty much disappeared from retailers’ shelves, with several exceptions. The 1975 vintage has proved middling, and so 1976 is drawing the attention of Cabernet fans, particularly since dozens of examples have been commercially released in the past few months. Since 1976 and 1977 were the two drought years (remember the “Conserve Water, Drink Wine” signs?), nobody has quite known what to expect from them, espe¬ cially the red wines. By now. I've tasted around two dozen 1976 Cabernets and can report that they’re damn good, but not, generally speaking, as good as 1970 or '74, which seem to me to liave somewhat more depth, com¬ plexity and body. Still, 1976 is the vintage that is becoming generally available and you may like to know what’s good for drinking now and/or laying away. To that end, here are the results of two 1976 Cabernet Sauvignon tastings in which I participated in recent months. Three of the wines were in both tastings, and the groups’ consensus correlations of them (as well as my personal ratings) were extraordinarily simi¬ lar. Points in parentheses represent the total of the tasters' rankings; thus the lowest score w ins. 1976 CABERNET SAUVIGNONS Tasting#l (11 tasters) 1. Rutherford Ranch ($5) (35 points). 2. Villa Mt. Eden( $9.50) (43). 3. Hacienda ($8.50) (47). 4. Cassayre-Forni ($0.50) (48). 5. Burgess (Napa Valley) ($8.25) (53). 6. Montevina($4. 75) (56). 7. Stag'sLeap($ 10) (58). 8. ClosduVal(% 9) (66). 9. Lambert Bridge($0) (89). Tasting #2 (17 tasters) 1. Villa Mt. Eden ($9.50) (54 points). .2. Hacienda($S.50) (65). 3. Joseph Phelps($H.7,5) (74). 4. Boeger($4.75) (75). 5. Dehlinger ($0.50) (78). 6. Stag’s Leap ($\0) ( 79). 7. Caymus ( $ 10) ( 86). 8. Mt. Eden ($30) l 100) The big price/quality winner is obviously the Rutherford Ranch, a small, five-year-old winery in the Napa Valley owned by the "Ernie" of the Ernie's Liquors and Ernie’s Wine Warehouse chain. In this mad inflationary era, I praise Ernie Van Asperen and his associates for directly or indirectly being respon¬ sible for supplying the wine¬ drinking public with dozens, even hundreds, of first-rate bargains (in addition to the '76 Rutherford Ranch Cabernet) under several “negociant-type” labels, such as Round Hill and Stone Creek. Asfor the '76 Cabernet, to my know¬ ledge, it is pretty much sold out, except at the four Ernie’s Wine Warehouses (San Francisco, South San Francisco, Redwood City and St. Helena). Except for two or three wines, I pretty much liked all of them in both tastings. I believe they’ll age more rapidly than equivalent- quality-for-the-vintage ’74s, but most will improve for at least 6-8 years. The $30 Mt. Eden (which has no connection with the highly ranked Villa Mount Eden) was quite controversial. I was one of those (half the group) who placed it last, but I’m willing to concede to its small band (three people) of ad¬ herents, who put it first, that the wine’s (to me) unappealing musti- ness, excessive woodiness and "hot" finish may "age out" and result in a great wine. But for $301 won’t take the gamble. Other values include the Boeger and the Montevina, the latter of which I particularly liked, but which (because the winery releases its wines very early) is still as far as I know, available only at Kermit Lynch (Albany). The Villa Mt. Eden is an excellent Cabernet, generally available at better Bay Area wine shops, as is the superb Joseph Phelps. So let’s toast the spirited ’76s! Arthur Damond publishes Wine Discoveries , a newsletter guide to exceptional wines under $4; for subscription information and a sample copy, send a stamped, self- addressed, 4x9-inch envelope to P.O. Box 654, El Cerrito. CA 94530. □ DINNERS INCI.UDESTOSSED GREEN SALAD. VEGETABLE HOMEMADE MUFFINS. BUTTER&JAM SPINACH-CHEESE CASSEROLE 4 36 TURKEY POT PIE VERMONT STYLE.4.87 POACHED FISH BAYOU TECHE.6,20 CHILES ALAMO 4 78 ONE-HALF ROAST CHICKEN 5.84 OLD FASHIONED BEEF STEW ... 5.79 SHRIMP PURLOO SEAFOOD PILAF. ft. 34 PORK ROAST ft 43 901 COLESTREET(ATCARL) SAN FRANCISCO 664-0224 OPEN EVERYDAY 5PM-I0PM BREAKFAST SAT. & SUN. 9AM-1 PM LUNCH-SOUP. SANDWICH. SALAD BAR M-F 11-1:30 \ ii a Food on the go Five ways to eat and run — simultaneously BY ZENA JONES I f travel and adventure are occaisonallv necessary season ings for your meals, and you don’t care where—or how— you have to go to indulge your epi¬ curean instincts but insist on being to the manna borne, herewith some land, sea and air suggestions guaranteed to transport you. BRUNCH ON THE BAY First, lets assume that one of the places where you don’t feel at sea where food is concerned is on a boat. Then how about piping your¬ self aboard the Red and White Fleet’s luxury vessel Royal Star for a nautical brunch and a l'/i-hour San Francisco Bay cruise? The moment you embark you’re made welcome with a complimen¬ tary glass of champagne, after which you head for the buffet brunch and the serious business of eating. Fruit juice for starters, some fruit compote, perhaps? How about scrambled eggs with the corned beef hash, or hash browns with the Beef Stroganoff? (Oh, look! All the sailboats are out around Sausalito.) The German potato salad looks good, and what's in the crepes? Only one way to find out. Select a table to support your perilously piled-up plate as Angel Island glides by, and settle down to the utter enjoyment of a meal enhanced by the boat’s somnolent movements and a view of San Francisco that isseeond to none. But perhaps in your mind boats are linked to a situation more mys¬ terious and romantic. Then it’s the 2‘/2-hour dinner/ dance "Bar-B-Que on the Bay" for you. This is an evening affair on the same boat, but this time you're welcomed aboard by Pure Honey, a lively group who play music of any and every kind, and are emin¬ ently listenable if you’d rather dine than dance. As the sun sets behind the Golden Gate and the fog hangs just outside it, you select your club steak, add some bean salad and a relish or two, decide between baked beans and corn on the cob before adding a little rice and a crunchy crust of French bread. (Save your ticket stub—there’s a drawingforabottleofwine.) Settle back in your seat, watch the dancers or gaze at the fabulous San Francisco skyline. Brunch cruises every Sunday April through October at 10:30 am and 12:30 pm; the $ 11 tariff includes tax and grat¬ uity: “Bar-B-Que on the Bay" sails every Thursday at 7:30 pm June through October and costs $16.50 including tax and gratuity. No-host bar available. Both boats leave continued next page Lunch Monday thru Friday 7 1:30 - 2:30 Dinner Tuesday thru Saturday 5:30-11:00 Sunday Brunch 11:00-3:30 Floppy Hour - 70 4 Tuesday thru Friday 5:00 - 7:00 Full Bar Ron Towe at the Piano nightly Close to Opera House, Orpheum Theatre and Civic Center 1600 Folsom Street at 12th, San Francisco For reservations call 626-2727 or 621-9491 FT Featuring “DEEP DISH” Pizza I0 \ Delicious Seafood . . . A Touch of Greece . . . Lunch Monday thru Friday 11 to 3 Brunch Saturday O Sunday ft to 3 Dinner Every Evening 5 to 10:30 4000 24th St. (at Noel • San Francisco • ft24-ftOOO Indian Cuisine Mon-Fri 11:30-2 pm Fri 6 Sat 6-8:30 pm other evenings for business and private functions reservations recommended Est. 1972 1616 Webster, Oakland 763-1112 Real Good Karma NATURAL FOOD RESTAURANT at 18th and Dolores in San Francisco Full dinner’til 10pm OPEN 5-11 pm Now open every night 621-4112 Fresh Salads. Soups. Homemade Bread and Pies. Golden Tempura. Tofu Dinners,Wok-fried Vegetables. Hightly Specials, Honey Ice Cream. Herbal Teas. Finest Coffee £ Hot Chai-! * E COMMONS An espresso house Featuring a sunny patio 7 AM-9 PM weekdays 9 AM-9 PM weekends Now Serving Beer Lr Wine 31fil Mission (at Precita), San Francisco 282- 2928 J AveO ue ch (n ear Th urs 1 U . 0 : 30P in fu eS ; iOaiP' 1 pri-Sa ¥1E XJRMET 3WICH iHHCYIlr^EN Over 22 types of fine imported and domestic beers. Excellent sandwiches. 2840 College Ave., Berkeley C A 947 05 ^ Smoking Permitted . . The Bay Area's h irst Chinese Vegetarian Restaurant VEGI FOOD || CHINESE VEGETARIAN RESTAURANT 1820CLEMENTST. at 19th S.F..CA 94121 387-8111 Tuos.-Fri. 11:30-3:00 5:00-9:00 Sat.-Sun. 11:30-9:00 Closed Monday •o ►THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 O > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 JliJVi iwrffey*. voTitm.woTcvji ?' f "Walker's 4 P/e Shop Sr> ? Restaurant I, BREAKFAST LUNCH DINNER PIES | 749/ Solano, Albany | 525-4647 t | v4«5jYs Fine Wines Served D La Cremaillere French Restaurant Serving Dinner Tues.-Sat. Reservations 415-664-0669 2305 Irving Street (at 24th Ave.) San Francisco New Peking Restaurant MANDARIN & SZECHUAN CUISINE SPECIAL 9 ITEM BUFFET LUNCH Only $2.58 FAMILY STYLE DINNERS OPENFRI-WEDS 11:30AM -9:30PM TEL. 387-1789 445 Clement Street San Francisco / THE HOTTEST NEW LUXURY DISCO IN SAN FRANCISCO \ 7 pm -2 am TUESWEDTHURS SATSUN FRIDAY COCKTAIL HOUR FROM 5pm FREE HORS D’OEUVRES COME EARLY 901 COLUMBUS(AT LOMBARD)885-1168 CLOSED MONDAYS 7 s^. = 000 = ^ 000 = continued from previous page from Pier 43'A at Fisherman’s Wharf. For reservations (imper¬ ative!) call Harbor Tours, Inc. at Pier41, 546-2810 . GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66 But once back on dry land, make sure you don’t miss the bus by missing the bus. All you have to do is invite 37 of your nearest and dearest friends and call Scenic Hyway Tours. Tell them you have a party of 38 (their minimum requirement — they’re a g roup charter service and don't, under any circumstances, cater to groups of fewer than 38), and tell them too where it is you want to go and where to pick up the food, and you’re in business. You, of course, have cunningly arranged every¬ thing. You and your friends are going to spend the day in Muir Woods or Carmel or Napa or San Simeon or anywhere in California, and you’ve called your favorite caterer and ordered the box lunch of your choice: it could be donuts or danish or quiche and caviar, but when the bus arrives, just tell the driver where the pickup point is and he’ll be glad to oblige. Your chariot is the gleaming “Le Mirage” bus (“it's all glass! With a touch of class...” proclaims the brochure) with extra large wrap¬ around European-design tinted windows and an interior uniquely planned so that the view from the aisle seats is every bit as good as the one from those by the windows. As you roll along in splendid style, comestible in one hand, liquid refreshment in the other, you can lean back and listen to music, lazily experience the environment in motion, or enjoy your eatables at one of the tables in the back of the bus, alternating them, perhaps, with a crafty game of cribbage or a bit of backgammon. So whenever your particular Chowder, Singing and Marching Society decides to take to the road, call Scenic Hyway Tours at (415) 647-1400 and “see it all” at a cost of $6.50-$7 per person. TAKE A BALLOON TO LUNCH But what if what you've always wanted is to rise to new heights (epicurean and otherwise) and really be gone with the wind, what better way to fulfill your lofty ambitions than by taking a flight in an air balloon? Up in Santa Rosa they come in varying colors—the multi-colored “Stained Glass,” the diagonally designed purple, pink, light and dark blue “Cancan” and the speak-for-itself “Rainbow,” with concentric stars chasing each other up the fabric. The 65-foot- tall, 55-foot-wide balloons hook on to triangular, suede-lined gondolas that hold four standing passengers (the pilot/part-owner, who left a legislative job in Washington, D.C., for a different kind of hotair, likes to sit on the basket’s rim, particularly at 3000 feet — vertigo, anyone?), and when you’re all assembled he’ll shoot a 14-foot propane flame into the balloon and you're off and flying. He can hover at 1000 feet, hang motionless an inch above the ocean, glide across tree tops without disturbing a leaf, literally harnessing the prevailing winds to his whims until, at the end of the hour, he brings you back to earth. Wherever you land, whether in a farmer’s field or on a winery lawn, the ground crew truck is waiting, champagne at the ready, the landowner joyfully joining in the very lively libation. Then it’s off to the nearest little inn (where the “real" people go) for lunch and the excited re-telling and re-living of all the wonders of the flight. The cost? $65 per person weekdays, $75 on weekends. Call Airborn of Sonoma County at (707) 528-8133 or (707) 823-8757, and remember, half the fun is getting there, and this trip will really blow you away. A REPAST IN THE PAST Did you know that Oscar W ilde never traveled without his diary so that he’d always have something sensational to read on the train? But if you're more concerned about the train itself being sensational, plan your next dinner on the Sierra Supper Special. Where else these days can you enjoy cocktails and dinner aboard an authentic huffing-puffing, steam-powered passenger train whose locomotive was built at least 50 years ago and may have appeared in many a movie of the Old West? And, in addition, hauls behind it nine cars of similar vintage, one from the Union Pacific railroad, one from Milwaukee’s counterpart, another from the Shasta Daylight line, plus a classic combination of observa¬ tion, dining, coach and lounge cars, all refurbished and air- conditioned for your dining comfort and other kinds. Once a week at 5:30 pm the Special departs from Jamestown (west of Sonora, in Tuolomne county) for the six-hour, 82-mile Mother Lode round trip through the gold country to Oakdale and back. If you don’t want dinner immediately at the 5:30 sitting you can enjoy a libation in the piano bar and toast the piano player, do a little dancing encouraged by a three-piece band, or watch the bril¬ liant Sierra sunset as the sound of the steam whistle recalls the golden age of railroading. Book in for the 6:45 dinner (there are additional seatings at 8 and 9:30) as the Special winds in and out of the foot¬ hills of the Sierra. If you travel on Oct. 6 you dine on London broil; on Oct. 13 on breast of chicken, cordon bleu; on Oct. 20 on braised sirloin tips of beef, and Oct. 27 on chef’s surprise. The all-inclusive price for the round trip and dinner is $21.95. For eservations (essential!) call (800) 592-3444, or Great Western Toursat(415) 398-3178. DINE OVER THE INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE And finally, for a real flight of fancy, how about taking the night plane to Singapore? First class, of course, for a mere $ 1178 each way (plus $3 tax, if you care). You leave at 11:30 pm either Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday or Sunday aboard a Singapore Airlines Ltd. 747 super-B jet. The moment you board the plane everyone from the eagle-eyed chief steward on down anticipates your every wish and whim, and when you want to ascend the lounge’s spiral staircases and slide into your upper deck slumberette, a charming steward¬ ess in a designer-made sarong kebaya attends to your every need. (Nine out of the ten beds are reser¬ ved for passengers; the tenth is for a crew member— could it be the pilot?) But when it’s time to dine it’s a matter of course. Choose from hot savories—why not try the baked artichoke heart?—follow it with a stuffed avocado with an Oriental salad and some vegetable chowder. That's all merely the pre¬ cursor to the main course, listed as Kashmiri pillau. Dal Urhal and cauliflower masala. Cleanse your palate with a garden vegetable salad to enable you more delight¬ edly to dig into the vermicelli raisin pudding dessert and the finishing touch of fresh fruit and cheese. (Why not lie in bed and peel a grape or two?) Quite a way to cross the International Date Line, and certainly a way of flying— and dining— in the air with the greatest of ease and the best in-flight service in the industry. For your piece of pie in the sky call Singapore Airlines Limited at (415) 781-2770 or call your travel agent. 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(415)771-0717 24 Hrs. 680 Beach St., San Francisco, CA 94109 Send free literature to : Name __ Address __ City -- Zip _ Why is the lead singer of the Dead Kennedys running for mayor of San Francisco? Eileen Murray and Jane Hamsher _ find out. J elloBiafraishisname, and until a month ago his main claim to fame was that he is the lead singer of a local new wave band, the Dead Kennedys. He has used the band as a platform to expound upon his political and artistic views (he’s the founder of the World Brotherhood of Peace and Anarchy and favors “creative crime”, among other things). Now, Biafra has decided to go one step further— he’s running for mayor of San Francisco. Biafra made his decision to run for mayor in the back seat of a cab on the way to a Pere Ubu concert at the Old Waldorf, and the campaign was officially kicked off at a fundraising spaghetti dinner/dance at the Mabuhay Gardens, on Sept. 3. With the help of his campaign manager Scoop Nisker (of KSAN and Videowest fame) and publicity director Dirk Dirksen (ever-gracious host of the Mabuhay), Biafra managed to raise almost enough money to get on the November ballot (Dirksen kicked in the rest). The 500 or so Biafra supporters ate spaghetti and pogoed to bands including the Symptoms, Vs., the Contractions, the Jars and, of course, the Dead Kennedys. Biafra has come a long way since his days as a suicidal pizza delivery boy in his native Colo¬ rado. As a mayoral candidate, he wants to give the flipside of society a real alternative to Quentin Kopp and Dianne > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27, 1 979 > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 continued from previous page Feinstein. And as long-time Dead Kennedy fans who have watched Biafra on and off stage, we can attest to the fact that he is one of San Francisco’s most colorful figures. We inter¬ viewed Biafra at his favorite Mexican restaurant a couple of weeks ago, over fistfuls of jala- peno peppers, chile rellenos and cheese enchiladas. Between pleas for water and occasional verbal lapses due to indigestion, we managed to record some of the 21-year-old mayoral candi¬ date’s more controversial ideas. THE SUICIDAL HIPPIE FROM BOULDER MOVES TO SAN FRANCISCO AND BECOMES A DEAD KENNEDY Bay Guardian: Where are you from, originally? Biafra: Well, I was born and raised in Boulder. It was a sleepy little mountain town, and then all the hippies moved in, and that was fun for a while ’cause they were really danger¬ ous. They had long hair, and you were afraid to say anything. But then the hippies grew old, cut their hair off, got rich, and now they’ve started all these rip- off businesses just like their parents did. Beal expensive health food stores, where you can buy an organic candle for $50. The whole state has turned into a tourist playground. BG: Is the rumor true that you're a former rich kid? B: Nooooo! My parents... let’s see...are lower middle class. BG: Oh, everyone says that. B: My father was a social worker and my mother’s a libra¬ rian. BG: But well educated. B: Oh, to a fault. They really pushed being educated and well read in my home. BG: Where did you get your post-secondary education? B: Um, let’s see, I went to college for 2 l A months in Santa Cruz. BG: What were you, a biology major or something? B: No, no. All I took there was acting and the history of Paraguay. I didn’t intend to stay long. I noticed that a lot of people down there were trying to be very open in one way but were very intolerant in many others. Like if you weren’t as free and loose and mellow — especially mellow—as they were, then they wanted you off the map right then and there. BG: What’s attractive to you about punk rock? B: I think it’s a great comb¬ ination of a lot of things. It’s the kind of music I like most, real raw, gut-level stuff. Even experimental stuff hits you right in the balls, rather than the stuff that is just too wimpy, some¬ thing you can sit down and space out to. It’s the first real outbreak of new talent, young talent, that we’ve had since the Beatles first came around. Slowly, most of those people hair care for men and women colibrniohoirlines 4409 California St. • (Between 6th & 7th Aves) • San Francisco Open 6 days*Thursday Evenings«Tel. 387-1323 12 HEATH TILE Is Made In Sausalito. Hard Fired, Vitreous And Rich In Color. Open Seven Days A Week From 10:00 A.M. To 5:30 RM. 400 Gate Five Road ■ Phone 332-3732 AUTHOR PARTY! THE Meet HerbGold author of The New Male October 7 2-5 pm at Books Plus boots Pius 391024th St. SF 285-8448 refreshments fizzled out or got rich or what¬ ever, and they just aren’t speaking to the concerns of real young people today. They’re saying, “I’m big, old and rich. Rock’n’roll, rah-rah.”It’sbeen turned into a Las Vegas act, which I really object to. BG: How’d you hit on the name Dead Kennedys? B: Some friends of mine in Colorado were going to name their band that, but then they chickened out and called it the Night Flames. So I decided "Ah hah! There’s my name!” Sometimes we use other names. We played this high school dance last Christmas, but we knew the PTA would have ob¬ jections to “Dead Kennedys.” So we called ourselves the Creamsicles and told them we were a power pop band. Luckily, the people who spon¬ sored the show knew who we really were. I expected about 40 people to show up and go “Blah, punk rock, blah, we wanna hear Foreigner. ” But oh no, 250 people showed up, and they really enjoyed it. It was weird to see all those jocks in their letter jackets pogoing. “YOU WILL CROAK, YOU LITTLE CLOWN, WHEN YOU MESS WITH PRESIDENT BROWN” Biafra characterizes Jerry Brown as a politician with few scruples, all the answers and an understanding of the populace’s tendency to seek cure-alls in their leaders. Brown stands out in Biafra's mind as one of the most dangerous people on the current scene. “The thing that really bothers me about the whole situation,” he says, “is that people are looking for someone to tell them what to do. Kennedy was never perceived as somebody who was going to run people’s lives for them. I think it’s dangerous for people to become so apathetic £ Q new art H C °'fe e (!) /Sa.£e\ 1 °lhS- 10/5' 1 V fiooks on / s NflSiV 572 Valencia Street (between 16th & 17th) 863-9933 and relaxed in the Seventies that they want someone to do that for them. The same thing hap¬ pened in Germany right before Hitler took over. The cabaret fad back then is very much like disco today. And the one person who I’ve noticed who has a feel for this type of thing is Jerry Brown.” Biafra’s fear of Jerry Brown inspired him to pen a song, entitled “California Uber Alles,” comparing a Brown presidency with Hitler’s Third Reich. “Zen Fascists will control you/One hundred per cent natural/You will jog for the master race/And always wear a happy face...You will croak, you little clown/When you mess with President Brown. ” BIAFRA WILL SOLVE ALL OF SAN FRANCISCO’S PROBLEMS, WHETHER SAN FRANCISCO LIKES IT OR NOT. As we pursued our incisive, in-depth interview, keeping in mind that we are writing for the Bay Guardian, we decided to question Biafra about his deci¬ sion to run for mayor. Unlike the traditional polit¬ ical candidate, Biafra finds it difficult to be the least bit evasive. He does, however, have an endearing smile and is good at kissing babies. BG: What finally made you decide to run for mayor? B: I looked around, and I’m just really annoyed with the way Feinstein has run the city. She’s been so openly repressive towards anyone who doesn’t fit into her own little mold of the model citizen, while at the same time just playing into the hands of big business. Her major opponent seems to be even farther to the right than she is. So I figured, if nobody else is going to stand up and try' to put an end to this, I will. Feinstein has said openly that she intends to “clean up the city” of undesirable elements. I don’t think it’s just a coincidence that right after she took office street musicians started getting hassled, two leather bars got their licenses revoked, the raids on the Mabuhay began, the Deaf Club raids .... The first I ever heard of her was when I first moved out here, and Proposition 13 had just passed. Feinstein owned a building where a lot of elderly people lived on fixed incomes. First she told them that if they voted for Proposition 13, she wouldn’t raise their rent. Then she raises their rent, after Prop¬ osition 13 passed, 75 bucks a month, for people-, on fixed incomes. The letter was signed “Your Friendly Management.” BG: Have you ever actually met Mayor Feinstein? B: No, but when I was getting my petition and announcing my candidacy at a press conference outside City Hall, I saw her. She emerged out the door and she had punk-rock hair, dyed jet black, you know, and she looked so pale and scrawny. I was expecting kind of a beefy woman, kind of tough, but oh no. She’s this frail woman being led to her car by a teenage girl, probably her daughter. BG: What would you do if people said to you, “Look at all this stuff that’s happening, we’ve got to crack down on crime in the Tenderloin.” B: I think it’s time to redirect priorities. Victimless crimes should be at the bottom of the list, as in drug use and cultural events. Why spend so much police time and money haras¬ sing people for their own culture and nonviolent crimes? Why not put a high priority on things like organized crime, white-collar crime, which virtually goes untouched right now? BG: How would you deal with the police force? B: The biggest problem with this country and the way it's related to its police is that they never even try any person-to- person contact. It’s always the cop riding around in his fancy car with his gun and just mena¬ cing rather than trying to insti¬ tute some kind of neighborhood unity and cooperation. I think the way to help solve this would be to have the police run for election every four years, being voted on by the people they patrol. There are a lot of heavily minority neighborhoods in this city, and if they want to have somebody they feel more comfortable with patrolling them then they should have a right to vote them in. I think it will bring police a lot closer to the neighborhoods. Obviously, to get elected they’ve got to meet people, talk to them, find out what the people in their neigh¬ borhood want and how they want it done. BG: Well, what about your more controversial platforms, such as closing off Market Street to all traffic and making businessmen wear clown suits? B: I didn’t say I was going to close it off, I was just saying that I agree wholeheartedly with Dianne Feinstein’s proposal to clean up Market Street. I just think that hers is a little mis¬ guided. I think rather than wipe the interesting people off Market Street, let’s wipe off the boring buildings with cold, boring people to man them. Therefore, I think, everybody that maintains an office on Market Street should be required to wear a clown suit between the hours of nine and five. BG: Another big issue is the financing of the educational system and what the priorities should be. What do you think about that? B: One good way to start is to cut out the athletic programs. That’s the one thing you can bet your sweet life on— that private enterprise will step in to feed their jocks. They love to watch their gladiator sons go kill each other on a football field. They’d miss that too much not to step in. I don’t think that’s a worth¬ while education. How many people play football when they’re 45 years old? That’s one of those grossly misdirected priorities in this country, this preoccupation with jock fetishes. BG: What happens to the Dead Kennedys when you’re elected mayor? B: Well, you’ll have,to ask them that. A lot of people have asked me if I’m just using this as a big gag to promote the Dead Kennedys, but oh no, the Dead Kennedys is a big gag to get me elected mayor. It should be obvious to everyone. BG: Well, did you have that in mind when you formed the Dead Kennedys? B: Not at first, no. But obviously if you’re going to run for political office, you have to parade all your achievements. BG: What other achieve¬ ments aile you parading in front of people to make your campaign look more credible? B: Well, I’m kind of groovy. BG: Keeping in mind that the Bay Guardian readers are your typical white, liberal— B: Then obviously, they’ve never seen anything like me before, so I’m going to force them to look. ★ ★ ★ The Biafra for May or campaign can be reached through his appointments secretary , Barbara Helbert, at 284-9264 or 823-5570. U A blockbuster of a biograP h V absolutely «iaanific < ^ Fvn San Francisco sa-sffi&r. SAN FRANCISCO’S BEST BOOKSTORES FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY 360,000 BOOKS & PAPERBACKS 42,000 EVER-CHANGING SALE BOOK BARGAINS OPEN EVENINGS & SUNDAYS 140 POWELL ST. 3515 CALIFORNIA ST. Downtown—397-1555 Laurel Village—221-3666 111 II I DP YOUR FRIENDLY J.liGa HELPFUL BOOKSTORES WESTERN-OWNED & WESTERN-RUN SINCE 1851 CLARIFY YOUR OBJECTIVES! 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Ruth - Hastings & Co , Mon , Fillmore at Clay. 921 -4646 The Blarneystone: Red Dust (country/ bluegrass). Fri.-Sat; Irish Country (Irish), Sun . 5616 Geary Blvd . 752-3326 The Boarding House: Pearl Harbor & The Explosions. Fri/28. Michael Been & Airtight, Sat/29; Jonathon Richmond, Fri/5-Sat/6, 960 Bush St , 441-4333 Brasserie Castle Grand: Ron Towe (pop piano), Tues -Sat. 12th and Folsom. 621-9491 Cadell Place: Lovey Blue (pop). Fri/28; Lisa Kindred (blues), Sat/29, 524 Union St . 391-4343 Capurro’s : Pete Zangara Trio (jazz), Weds and Thurs . Pier 47, 300 Jefferson, 771-0377 ■ Chez Jacques: Cafe Theatre Breakfast in Marin (musical comedy), Fri/28; Eve Wilder's Showcase '79, Papaya Juice, Sat/29. Hugh Foun¬ tain Quartet, Fear & Loathing in Love and Mar¬ riage, Sun/30 New Faces of Comedy Mon/1, Coward in a Cardboard Cup, Tues/2, Gracie Glassman and Dana Atherton Weds/3, Nicholas. Glover & Wray, Thurs/4; Breakfast in Marin, Fri/5. Cabaret Frank Kidder Comedy Roast, Fri/28. Pilar du Rem, Sat/29, Victoria Kirby (jazz/pop) Sun/30, White, White & Co , Mon/i -Tues/2, Kava Kava (vocal |azz). Weds/3; Suzy Perisho and Bob Cheney. Thurs/4, Susan Rabin, Liz Rosner & Flight, Fn/5, 1390 California. 775-7574 Chi Chi Theatre Club: Theresa Baomi Butts (jazz). Sat , 440 Broadway. 392-6213 The City: Anita O'Day (jazz), Fri/28-Sun/30. Montgomery at Broadway, 391-^260 Clift Hotel: Lois Cantor (piano), Fri/28- Sat/29, Geary & Taylor, 775-4700 The Coffee Gallery: Nick Gravenites. Fri/28-Sat/29 Rick Kellogg. Thurs/4-Fn/5. 1333 Grant Ave . 397-3751 Crepe Escape: Simon Dray (vocal), Thurs . 150 Kearny St , 434-4449 The Deaf Club: Voice Farm, Alter Boys, 2 Plus 2, Fri/28; Fast Floyd, Sat/29, Fillmore Struts. Jars, Contractions. Sun/30: Deaf Disco Party Fri/5. 530 Valencia Dewey’s: John Stafford and the Bourbon Street Irregulars (Dixieland iazz). Tues.-Sat , Hotel St Francis. Geary & Powell, 391-1200 Earthquake McGoon’s: Turk Murphy's Jazz Band. Tues.-Sat 128 Embarcadero. 986- 1433 Eight Immortals Lounge: Flipside. Tues-Sat . Chinatown Holiday Inn, 750 Kearny. 433-6600 Fanny’S! Sharon McNight (cabaret), Fri/28- Sat/29, Martha Lorm (jazz), Sun/30, Frank D'Orio (comedy). Mon/i, Pam Brooks (pop/operetta). Weds/3-Thurs/4. Kerrigan Black (jazz). Fri/5. 4230 18th St .621-5570 Golden Grommet: Night Tram (jazz). Fri Tues . Chelsea (j Azz). Mon , Thurs , 834 Irving St.. 564-6627 Great American Music Hall: Zooi Sims-AI Cohn All Stars, Fri/28-Sat/29. Eric Ander¬ sen, Sun/30. The Persuasions. Mon/1-Tues/2 Buck White & The Down Home Folks. Weds/3. Jose Feliciano. Thurs/4 Anthony Braxton Quartet, Fri/5-Sat/6. 859 O'Farrell. 885-0750. Gulliver’S Pub: The Ziptones (rock), Fri/ 28 . Paul & Margie (folk). The Marin Red Show, Sat/29, Powell St Blues Band, Dana Hubbard Blues Plus (blues). Sun/30 Lisa & Debbie (blues) Mon/i. Williams Seven Ways (soul). Tues/2. Blues Sur¬ vivors, Weds/3. Driftwood (country rock). Thurs/4. Spirit (soul), Fn/5. 348 Columbus, 982-0833 Hotel Utah: The X-M's (jazz), Fri/28 Talent Showcase (open mike call-backs) Sat/29. Open Mike, Tues/2. On the Air (swing), Weds/3. Randy Craig Trio (jazz), Thurs/4, Steve Seskin (folk), Fn/5, 500 4th St . 421-8308 Hyatt Regency: Dick Saltzman Quartet, John Coppola/Chuck Travis Big Band. Sat/29. Atrium Lobby, California at Market. 788-1234 Keystone Korner: Ron Carter Quartet. Fri/28-Sun/30. The Heath Brothers with Stanley Cowell, Tues/2-Sun/7, 750 Vallejo. 956-0658 Last Day Saloon: The Water Bios and guests. Fri/28, Hearts on Fire. Sat/29; Steve Seskin (folk), Sun/30; talent auditions. Mon/i. Dakota Sids Badland Serenade. Tues/2. Pat Hardin Band, Weds/3, Mother Lode Express, Thurs/4. Ball Taylor Band. Fri/5. 406 Clement St.. 387-6343 Mabuhay Gardens: video vaudeville no S isters, Modello's. Times Five, Fri/28. SVT Rubber City Rebels. Eye Protection, Sat/29 443 Broadway. 956-3315 Major Pond’s: Bishop Norman- Williams (jazz). Fri/28. Anna Klinger. Sat/29 San Francisco Classical Sax Quartet, Weds/3, Omar Hakim Khayyam, Thurs/4, Anna Klinger, Fri/5, 2801 California, 567*5010 McGowan’s: Bruce Leighton & John Gregory. Fri/28-Sat/29, Ron Butler Mon/1-Tues/2; Julie Farbohn, Thurs/4, Bruce Demarest. Michael Brogan, Fri/5,101 Jefferson, 441-5515 Mooney’S Irish Pub: Blues Survivors, Fri/28-Sat/29; Merlin. Fri/5, 1525 Grant St . 982- 4330 ■ Munchkin’s: Sally Coombs (pop/origi- nals). Hugh Fountain & Co. (jazz), Fri/28. Susan Burritt & Co. (jazz), stand-up comics, Sat/29; Joe Ontiveros (pop/origmals). A Jazz Duo, Sun/30: open mike. Mon/1; Sally Coombs. Hugh Fountain & Co.. kTues/2. David Lee Williams (classical piano). Valerie Arakawa (pop/origmals), Weds/3. Joe Ontiveros. Valerie Arakawa. Thurs/4, Sally Coombs. Hugh Fountain & Co.. Fn/5, 242 Church St .621-4818 Mustard Seed Coffeehouse: John Gruntfesl Group (jazz). Fri/28; Dawan Abdul Quin¬ tet (jazz), Fn/5. 432 Mason, 524-9347 The Network Coffeehouse: open mike, Mon/1, Gary Lapow. Fri/5, 1036 Bush St , 989-6097 New Wave A Go Go: d.is Muiants. x. Sal/29, 1 839 Geary Si . 924-6032 ■ Old Spaghetti Factory ISfbaghetti Jam Complete Entertainment A listing of Bay Area events from Friday through Friday. ^uide (improv comedy revue), Fri -Sat Flash Family (comedy). Thurs.. 478 Green, 421-0221 Old Waldorf: Rubinoos. Fn/28-Sat/29. David Werner. Tues/2, Michael Nesmith. Thurs/4, Jesse Colin Young. Fri/5-Sat/6, 444 Battery St . 397- 3884 ■ The Other Cafe:Mike Bioomiieia, Fri/28. comedians, Sat/29; Ms Clawdy. Sun/30 comedy auditions. Mon/i, Jessie Foster's Amber Band (jazz), Tues/2, stand-up comedians. Weds/3 Merl Saunders & Co . Thurs/4. Mark Naftalin, Sonny Rhodes. Ron Thompson. Fri/5, 100 Carl St 681- 0748 Owl & Monkey Cafe: Lone Star (Texas swing), Fri/28; Mattine Habib (folk/ongmal). Sat/29. 1 336 9th Ave . 684-9892 The Palms: Rai Pheno & The Twitchers. Kid Courage. Fri/28. The Humans, Sat/29 The Mumbles, Sun/30 1 406 Polk St , 673-7771 Petas’s Jazz Club: Dick Saltzman Trio. Fran Foston/Henry Irvin Quartet, Fri Nancy Nyle & Coalescence, Sat , Hugh Fountain Quartet, Guillermo Cantu and Jazz Trek with Ray Scott. Sun Brazil Export. Mon . Fran Foston/Henry Irvin Quartet. Tues , Ed Kelly & The Jazz Express. Weds . Dick Partee & the North Beach Quartet. Thurs . 577 Columbus. 982-4999 Plowshares Coffeehouse: Kate woit with Nina Gerber. Sun/30. Fort Mason Center. Bldg 312. Laguna and Marina, 441-8920 Precita Park Cafe: Capn casual & His Dukes of Doubleknit (r and b). Fri/28. Living Strings with Tom Solmger (jazz). Sat/29, Nighttrain (latin jazz), Weds/3, Cap'n Casual & His Dukes of Doubleknit (r and b), Thurq/4. Automatic Slim (blues/boogie), Fn/5. 300 Precita Ave , 285-6626 Purple Onion: Terry Dale & Scott Hughes (pop), nightly except Thurs . 140 Columbus. 781- 0835 Reflections: Terrell Prude and High Life Tues -Sat. Hyatt on Union Square. 345 Stockton St , 398-1234 Rick’S Road: Hoo Doo Rhythm Devils. Fri/28-Sat/29, comedy improvisations. Sun/30, tba. Mon/1-Weds/3. Frank Bmer n The Night Shift. Thurs/4-Sat/6. 736 Irving St , 665-6551 Savoy Tivoli: East Bay Mud, Fn/28-Sat/29 The Optet. Larry Kassin & Tom Darter. Thurs/4 Mirasol, Fri/5-Sat/6, 1434 Grant St . 362-7023. Terrace Room: Abe Battat Trio (easy listening), nightly, St Francis Hotel. Powell at Geary. 397-7000 ■ Union Depot: On The Air, Fri/28; Gil Christner & Bob Sarlatte (comedy), Tues/2; T.G Russell (r&b). Weds/3; Sam Rudin's Piano Mad¬ ness. Thurs/4; Dana Hubbard's Blues Plus. Fri/5; S.F State Student Union, 1650 Holloway Ave., 469-2426 Venetian Room: Eiia Fitzgerald, Thurs/ 27 - Weds/10, Fairmont Hotel, Mason and California 772-5163 Washington Square Bar & Grill: John Horton Cooper (jazz piano), Fri Sat . Mike Lipskm (iazz piano), Sun Burt Bales (jazz piano). Mon. Tues. Norma Teagarden (jazz piano). Weds, Dick Fregulia & Dorothy Moscowitz. Thurs , 1 707 Powell St . 982-8123 Whaley’s : Mike Koskmen Quintet (jazz). Fri/28-Sat/29. Pier 50, 295 China Basin Way 543-3653 EAST BAY Ace McMurphy’s: Theresa Baomi Butts. Tues -Weds , 1103 Embarcadero. Oakl, 893-6700. Ashkenaz: Arkansas Sheiks (live square dancing). Fri/28. On The Air (dance swing). Sat/29.1317 San Pablo Ave Berk., 525-5054 Alpen Glow: The Sons. Lucas Michaels, Fn/ 28, Yesterday & Today, J. Borg Band, Sat/29. Back In The Saddle, Thurs/4, Dan Hicks & His Acoustic Warriors. Michael Bloomfield, Fri/5, 18564 Mission Blvd., Hayward. 276-2310 Barclay’s Jack’s: s.F. Limited, Thurs.-Sat.; Daybreak L.T.D.. Sun-Mon ; Solstice. Tues- Wed., 1211 Embarcadero. Oakl. 261-2387. Come Back Inn: Evergreene. Fri/ 28 ; Frank Biner & The Nightshift. Sat/29; The Gnus, Fri/5. 2516 Durant, Berk . 548-2452 Freight & Salvage: Barry Olivier & Howard, Fri/28; Shubb Wilson Trio (jazz/blue- grass). Sat/29; best of the hoots, Tues/2; Carolina Special. Weds/3; Tom Hunter. Thurs/4, 1827 San Pablo Ave , Berk , 548-1761 Frenchy’s: Beverly & The Fine Line. Fri/28- Sat/29; Pete & Sheila Escovedo, Mon/1-Tues/2; Trans Bay Central, Weds/3-Sat/6, 29097 Mission Blvd., Hayward. 582-7440. International Cafe: violation. Roadstar Savage, Fn/28; Jars. Leapers, Suspects. Sat/29; auditions. Mon/1. Stormy Weather, Tues/2; Pan, Golden Dragon, Suspect's, Weds/3, Glass, Nlaspen Knighits. Thurs/4, Teaser, Leapers, Fri/ 5. 2516 Telegraph Ave .Berk ,841-9070 Keystone Berkeley: Roy loney & The Phantom Movers, Lloyds, Fri/28, Chubby Checker, Sat/29; Foxx, Sun/30; auditions. Mon/1; Mark Naftalin's R&B Revue, Thurs/4, Yesterday & Today, Fri/5. 2119 University. Berk . 841-9903 La Pena: Corpo Santo, Sat/29. An Evening With Woody Guthrie with Lenny Anderson, Bruce Green, Art Peterson & Ed Robbins, Sun/30, 3105 Shattuck Ave , Berk . 849-2568 - / J DIRECTORY Clubs.A14 Music. .. A 1 4 Theater.A15 Calendar of Events.A16 Record Reviews..A18 Dance. A20 Mind & Matter.A20 Radio. A20 Offbeat Movies . . .. A21 Movie Houses. A21 Theater Reviews.A22 Movie Reviews.A24 Micro-Films.A26 Opera Reviews.A27 Art Reviews.. . A32 Larry Blake’s: The Rathskeller Band (i & b). Fri/28; Rescue (rock), Sat/29. The Liz Lewis Band (jazz), Sun/30; Steve Evans. Bonnie Hayes & Kevin Hayes (iazz). Mon/1, Andrei Kitaev (jazz piano). Tues/2; Bel Air (jazz), Weds/3, The Rath¬ skeller Band (r & b). Thurs/4 Mississippi Johnny Waters and The Blues Survivors (r & b). Fri/5, 2367 Telegraph Ave., Berk.. 848-0886 La Val’s Subterranean: Charlie Nimo- vitz, Fri/28. Philip Rosheger & Stephen Bell. Sat/29. The Half Fast Band. Fri/5. 1834 Euclid. Berk . 843-5360 The Point: Laurie Lewis, Dick Oxtot's Golden Age Jazz Band. Fri/28-Sat/29. Fri/5-Sat/6. 32 Washington Ave., Point Richmond, 233-4295 Rio Theatre & Dance Co.: Luther Tucker. Fri/28. Dancer, St Regis. Timothy Barron, Electric Lime. Sat/29, tba. Fri/5, 140 Parker Ave.. 799-0074 The Townhouse: Texas Chainsaw, Fri/ 28 ; The Toons, Sat/29; Texas Chainsaw with Suzi McKee. Sun/30. 5862 Doyle St. Emeryville, 658-5556 SOUTH BAY Barney Steel’s: Poker Face. Fri/28. Back In The Saddle. Sat/29; Night Bird, Tues/2. Hearts on Fire, Weds/3, Mark Ford Band, Thurs/4; Omega, Fri/5, 590 Veterans, Redwood City, 365-81 45 Bianchini’s: John Coppola/Chuck Travis Big Band, Mon.; live music nightly, 35 Skyline Plaza, Daly City. 994-2540 Bodega: John Kay. Fri/28; Mark Ford Band. Sat/29, Boots, Sun/30, Elvin Bishop's Oakie Stompers, Mon/1; Houserockers, Tues/2, Daddy- 0, Weds/3. tba. Thurs/4; David La Flamme, Fri/5. 30 S. Central Ave . (408) 374-4000 The Castaway: Pat Gatti (singer/guitarist). Weds.-Sat , Harry Gibson (cocktail piano). Weds - Sun., Coyote Point, San Mateo, 347-1027 The Cellar: Pat Dailey, Fri/28-Sat/29; Michael Silvershear, Sun/30. Gary Soales, Mon/1; Steve Seskin & Friends, Tues/2; Nicholas, Glover & Wray. Weds/3; Daddy-O, Thurs/4 Pat Dailey, Fri/5, 4926 El Camino Real, Los Altos. 964-0220 ■ The Country Store: Streamliner, Fri /28 -Sat/29. Laugh Your Ass Off (comedy), Mon/1- Tues/2; Hoi Cider, Weds/3, Poker Face. Thurs/4; Cornell Hurd Band, Fri/5. 157 W El Camino. Sunnyvale. (408) 736-0921. Fargo’s Pizza: Atlantis. Fri/28-Sat/29; Star- fire, Sun/30; Friends, Mon/i-Tues/2; Joe Sharino. Weds/3. Ivory Tower, Thurs/4-Sat/6, Old Mill Center. 2540 California St., Mountain View. 941- 6373. The Garret: Passage, Fri/28; Julie Farbolm. Sat/29, auditions, Mon/1 ;„Mitch Ballard, Tues/2; Joel Abramson. Weds/3, Joe Ferrara, Thurs/4; Passage, Fri/5, The Pruneyard, Campbell. (408) 371-6505. The Hall: Nyle. Fri/28-Sat/29; tba. Tues/2; Omega, Weds/3; The Innocents, Thurs/4, Jump Street, Fri/5, 1425 Burlingame Ave . Burlingame. 348-1112. Iron Works: BallTaylbr Band. Fri/28, Dr, Zar- con Band. Sat/29, Allan & Marsha, Sun/30; Star- fire, Mon/1, New Pyramid Jazz, Tues/2. Poker Face, Weds/3, The Toons, Thurs/4; Mark Ford Band, Fri/5, 3877 El Camino Real. Palo Alto. 493-3433 Keystone Palo Alto: Chubby Checker. Fri/28; Snail, Sat/29; Jump Street plus Skycreek, Sun/30; John Hammond plus Kate Wolf. Thurs/4; David Grisman. Alex DeGrassi, Fri/5. 260 Cali¬ fornia, Palo Alto. 324-1402 Kuumbwa Jazz Center: idris Ackamoor. Sat/29, 320-2 Cedar St., Santa Cruz, (408) 427-2227 Miramar Beach Inn: Rick Kellogg with Grayson Street. Fri/28-Sat/29; Kevin Jarvis En¬ semble, Sun/30; tba, Mon/i. Tom Landry Band, Tues/2-Weds/3, tba. Thurs/4; Boarding House Reach, Fri/5, Coast Highway, Half Moon Bay, 726-9053 Odyssey Room: Rejoice Tues.-Sat., Fri/28-Sat/6, 799 East El Camino Real, Sunnyvale, (408) 245-4448 PJ’s: Body Heat. Thurs/27-Sat/29. 261 Cali¬ fornia, Burtin0amB.3J4rS?'*S,- , , ,- , , ,- , , >' Smokey Mountain: Glide. Fri/ 28 ; Poker Face. Sat/29; Wild Blue Yonder, Sun/30, Rags, Mon/i, Hot Cider. Tues/2; Cornell Hurd Band, Weds/3, Boarding House Reach, Thurs/4. Daddy- O. Fri/5. 33 S Central Ave , Campbell, (408) 866-8288 Wooden Nickel: Skycreek. Fri/28. Avalon. Sat/29; Tye, Sun/30, tba. Mon/ 1 , Poker Face. Tues/2. Avalon. Weds/3, Glide. Thurs/4. Mirage. Fri/5. 2505 The Alameda. Santa Clara. (408) 247-0552 NORTH BAY Davood’s: Julie Feves & Mel Graves (bassoon & bass), Fri/28-Sat/29. William Feasley (classical guitar), Sun/30; Tony Angelo (classical piano), Tues/2; Richard Blankenship (solo guitar), WdtJs/3, Dick Conte (solo piano), Thurs/4; Dick Conte Trio (jazz), Fri/5, 22 Miller Ave . Mill Valley. 388-2000 Inn of the Beginning: Easy Money with Sarah Baker, Fri/28. Vicki Randle Band, Sat/29; Bishop Norman Williams and The One Mind Ex¬ perience. Sun/30; Banana and the Bunch. Weds/3. Downtown Cotati. (707) 795-9955 Laguna: Steve Seskin & Friends. Great Ameri¬ can Music Hall Regulars. Fri/28. Tony D'Anna & Trio (jazz), Sat/29. "An Evening with Woody, Sun/30. 234 S Mam St.. Sebastopol. (707) 823-5240 Marshall Tavern: Dakota Fn/ 28 . Rogers & Burgm. Sat/29. Highway One. Mann, 663-8141 Rancho Nicasio: The Moonlighters, Fri/28, The Sons (r & b), Sat/29; The Chris Hawk Band. Sun/30. John Hammond. Tues/2. The Persua- sikons. Weds/3; Rob Robinson, Madame George, Thurs/4; Hoo Doo Rhythm Devils. Fri/5, Hidden Valley. Nicasio. 662-2012. Rosebud’s: Kava Kava Jazz Band, Fri/28. J C. Burris. Doug Strobel (country blues/folk). Sat/29; open mike, Thurs/4. John Hammond, Willie Albright (blues). Fri/5. 433 First St , Benicia, (707) 745-9988 Sleeping Lady Cafe: Macaw. Fri/ 28 ; Fat Chance, Sat/29. Nicholas, Glover & Wray. Sun/30. Mark Naftalin's Blue Monday Party, Mon/ 1. John Allair and Steve Mitchell, Tues/2. The Legends. Weds/3 The Ghosts. Thurs/4. Mark Adler & The Locals, Fn/5, 58 Boimas. Fairfax, 456-2044 Susie’s Restaurant: Steve Gutman, can Sokol, Fri/28; Joe Nickerson, Sat/29. 8240 Old Redwood Hwy . Cotati. (707) 795-4575 Sweetwater: Jules Broussard. Fri/28- Sun/30. 153 Throckmorton, Mill Valley, 388-2820 Uncle Charlie’s: Fat Chance. Fri /28 The Bandaloons. Sat/29. Jules Broussard. Thurs/4. 5625 Paradise Dr. Corte Madera. 925-9927 ■ indicates comedy acts "tba" stands tor "to be announced" — Kerrigan Black MUSIC ROCK/SOUL/POP Todd Rundgren: appearing With a special guest, Fri/28. 8 pm. Oakland Auditorium, 1 Qth & Fallon Sts . Oakl , $8 50 advance, $9 50 day of show. 273-2186 or TELETIX Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes: upbeat rhythm and blues, Fri/28. 8 pm, Memorial Auditorium. Stanford University, $7 50 advance, $8 50 day of show, 497-4331. Umoja: reggae music in a live videotaping. Fri/28, 8 pm. O P Folsom Studio, 1681 Folsom. SF. $3. reservations advised, 346-2384 ★ North Peak Band: in a free outdoor concert. Fri/28, noon, Union Square, Powell & Geary, SF, 558-4268 The Babys/Nick Glider: nevy wave Fri/28. 8 pm, San Jose Civic Auditorium. San Jose. $6.50-$8 50. TELETIX Sylvester: the Bay Area's own disco star, appearing with The Two Tons of Fun, Sat/29. 8 pm. Concord Pavilion. 2000 Kirker Pass Road. Concord, $8 50 reserved. $6 50 lawn seating 798-3311 or TELETIX. Session: reggae music presented by Olutunmi in a live videotaping, Sat/29. 9 pm. O P Folsom Studio. 1681 Folsom St . SF, $3. reser¬ vations advised. 346-2384 Talking Heads/Pearl Harbor & The Explosions: new wave. Fox Warfield Theatre 982 Market St . SF, $8 50, 928-7278 JAZZ/FUSION/ AVANTGARDE Helen O’Connell/Wait Tolleson’s Orchestra: in a benefit concert for the Oakland Museum, Sat/29, 9 pm. Capwell's. 20th & Broadway. Oakl , '$25 (advance sale only), 893- 4257 Idris Ackamoor: music on a journey through lands and lives,' Sat/29. 2 pm. Fort Mason Center. Laguna & Marina. Marina Music Hall. SF , $2 50. 441-5705 Rova Saxophone Quartet: non harmonic, non-rhytmic textural sounds. Sat/29. 8 30 pm. Fort Mason Center, Marina Music Hall Marina & Laguna, SF. $3 or PAS voucher. 548- 1817 Stanley Turrentine: smooth tenor saxo¬ phone stylings. Sun/30, 8 pm, Paramount Theatre, 2025 Broadway, Oakl, $6 50-$8 50. 465- 6400 Hawley Adams-Currens: original new music and progressive jazz, Sun/30. 3 pm. Women's Building, 3543 18th St . SF, $3. 558-5441 Billy Bang Trio: back from a successful European tour, Weds/3, 8:30 pm. New College of California. -777 Valencia, SF. $3.50, 626-1694 FOLK/COUNTRY/BLUES Roy Brown & Aires Bucaneros: in concert for a free Chile and reconstruction of Nicaragua, Fri/28. 7:30 pm. Glide Church. 330 Ellis. SF . $5 in advance, $6 at door, 433-6698 or 433-6055 Gary Lapow and Tom Hunter: two noted Bay Area singer/songwriters, Sat/29. 8 pm, Intoto. University Lutheran Church, 1611 Stanford Ave , PalaAlto, $3, 327-0725 Kate Wolf: with Nina Gerber on mandolin, Sun/30, 9 30 pm, Plowshares Coffeehouse. Fort Mason Center, Laguna & Marina, Bldg 312, SF. $2 50 or PAS voucher. 441-8910 ORCHESTRAL/CHORAL ★ San Rafael Concert Band: the third Old Fashioned Band Concert. Sun/30. i pm. Falkirk Community Cultural Center, 1408 Mission Ave , San Rafael, free, 456-1112, x266 San Francisco Symphony: the Symphony continues its Mostly Mozart series, Fri/28-Sat/29. 8 pm, Herbst Theatre, SF Weds/3. 8 pm, Zellerbach Hall. U C Berkeley, Thurs/4, 8 pm. Marin Center, San Rafael; Fri/5. 8 pm, Herbst Theatre. SF. $6 50 al all locations, 431-5400 CHAMBER Carolyn Caton: soprano. With pianist/ conductor Monroe Kanouse and ensemble, perform arias of Bach and pieces by Haydn and Hovhaness. plus the world premiere of Wiiham Hammers "Five Segments from Comus," Fri/28 8 30 pm, Old First Church. Van Ness & Sacra¬ mento. SF. $3. 776-1535 Musick’s Recreation: trio sonatas by Vivaldi. Leclair and Quantz. lute suites by Weiss, and a flute duet by Telemann. Fri/28, 8 pm. Trinity Chapel. 2320 Dana, Berk.. $3 50 general, $2.50 students and seniors, 285-2215, Sun/30. 2 30 pm, Annenberg Auditorium. Stanford University. $3 general. $1 students and seniors, 497-4317, Sun/30. 8 pm. Church of the Advent. 261 Fell. SF. $3 50 general. $2 50 seniors and students. 285- 2215. The Kirilan String Quartet: in a iree outdoor concert. Thurs/4, noon, Band Concourse. Golden Gate Park. SF, 552-4387 OPERA/OPERETTA San Francisco Opera: Eiektra opens with Danica Mastilovic and Christa Ludwig. Berislav Klobucar conducting, Fri/28. 8 pm and Tues/2. 8 pm; "La Gioconda with Luciano Pava¬ rotti and Renata Scotto. Bruno Bartoletti conduc¬ ting gives its final performance Sat/29. 8 pm. "Don Carlo" with Giacomo Aragall. Anna Tomowa-Sintow and Silvio Varviso conducting plays Sun/30. 2 pm. and Fri/5. 8 pm. "II Prigi- onero. La Voix Humaine, and "Gianni Schicchi play Weds/3, 7 30 pm, War Memorial Opera House. Van Ness & McAllister, SF. $4-$27. 431-1210 Marin Opera Company: presents Mozart's "Don Giovanni," Fn/28-Sat/29. 8 pm, Fri/5. 8 Dm, Marin Civic Center. Showcase Theatre. San Rafael. $6 50 general, $5 students & seniors. 472-3500 The Lamplighters: presenting Johann Strauss's "Die Fledermaus." Sat/29, 8:30 pm, continuing Fridays* and Saturdays through November 3, Presentation Theatre. Turk near Masonic, SF. $7.75 and $6.00 general. $4 50 and $3 00 students and seniors, 752-7755 RECITALS Martin Frick and Carolyn Witt: 0 re- sentmg a faculty song recital of pieces by Purcell. Schubert. Delius and Ned Rorem, Fri/28. 8 pm. College of Marin. Recital Hall. Kentfieid. $i 50 general. $1 students. 485-9385 A Quartet: consisting of flute, violin, viola and cello playing works of Haydn. Mozart, Saint- Saens. Neilsen and VUla-Lobos. Fri/28, 8:30 pm. Bach Dancing and Dynamite Society, Off Highway One. Half Moon Bay. $4 50. 726-4143 ★ John Partridges Bay Area composer will give a concert of original compositions. Sat/29, 8 pm. Trinity Methodist Church, Dana and Durant, Berk , free Piano Marathon: featuring fifteen Bay Area pianists and dedicated to the memory of George Wielen, with two world premieres. Sun/30 2 pm. Old First Church. Van Ness & Sacramento SF, $3, 776-1535. ★ Kenneth Rowland: tenor, will present an afternoon of British song. Sun/30, 3 pm, Domi¬ nican College, Angelico Hall. San Rafael, free 457-4440 ★ Scott Foglesong and Matthaw Irving: playing piano and cello, respectively, will present works by Poulenc, Ornstein and Lukas Foss. Tues/2. 8 pm. SF Conservatory of Music. 1201 Ortega, SF. free, 564-8086. ★ John Hughes: the organist al the Uni¬ versity of Arkansas presents a recital of works by Ginastera. Buxtehude. Couperin. Bach, Hughes and .others. Weds/3, 8 pm. Memorial Church. Stan^d^w^s^y^e|,^7j4Ji fc l ♦ Elwood Thornton: acclaimed bass/ baritone in solo recital, Fri/5, 8:30 pm, Old First Church, Van Ness & Sacramento. SF. $3. 776- 1535 MIXED BAG San Francisco Brown Bag Opera: performs in a commemoration of Ghirardelli Square's fifteenth anniversary. Sat/29, 1 30 pm, Ghirardelli Square. 900 North Point. SF, free. 775- 5500 Farewell to Tut: a concert of music and dance of Egypt and the Middle East. Sat/29. 8 pm, Fort Mason Center, Building 312, Rm 3H. Laguna & Marina, SF, $3 50 or PAS, 771-3144 Sound in a Different Light: continues a series of new music and performance by Bay Area composers and artists, through November 19th, The Cliff House, SF. 50® general, $2 for selected performances. 752-9422 Concert & Dance: at the Fairfax Pavilion featuring Georgia Kelly playing music for harp. Light Rain, "a light rock gypsy band, ' and the Dream Dancer Troupe, Fri/5, 8 pm. Fairfax Pavilion. Fairfax. $5. 332-9100 FESTIVALS Jazzmo: Jazz month ends with the Hyatt Regency Jazz Festival, featuring Pony Poin¬ dexter, Coppolo Big Band, and regulars. Dick Saltzman and his Quartet, Sat/29. 1 pm. Hyatt Regency Atrium Lobby, Market at California, free, 788-1234. Jazzmo Day at the Civic Center, various groups, Sun/30, noon, Civic Center, SF. free, 474-5601. Idris Ackamoor. Sun/30, 2 pm, Fort Mason Center, Marina & Laguna. SF. $2. 474-5601. Women's Jazz Concert, with Hawley Adams-Currens. Kheva n Lennon Onaje and others, Sun/30. 3 pm. Women's Building, 3543 18th St.. SF. 474-5602 THEATER PREVIEWS “Josephine: The Mouse Singer”: The West Coast premiere of Michael McClure's 1978 OBIE award-winning play about the relation¬ ship between art and society Directed by John Lion In preview this week Wed/3 through Sat/6 at 8:30 pm $4 50 Opens Fn/ 1 2 and plays Thurs -Sun at 8 30 pm through Nov 18 The Magic Theatre. Bldg 314, Fort Mason. Laguna and Marina Blvds $6, $4 50 students, seniors 441-8001 OPENINGS “Bite of the Rose”: a new play by the Blake Street Hawkeyes. a story of "subterfuge and sex. gardens and barrooms and simple foul play: one man's journey into possession and two peo¬ ple's hunger for power " Opens_Fri/28, and plays Fri and Sat through Oct. 27 8 30 pm 2019 Blake. Berk $3 50 849-3013 “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”: Tennessee Williams's play about sexual power and the strug¬ gle for control of a family's empire set in the South in the mid-Fifties The company. Quantum Leap, is using the revised version produced by Williams in 1974 that deals with the homosexual theme more candidly than the original Opens Fn/28 and plays Fri -Sun at 8 p - through Oct 28 Sat/6's show is a benefit for the Harvey Milk Fund with music and dancing after the show. $10. The Unicorn Theater. 220 Golden Gate $5 50. 221-3333 ext 426 “Pygmalion”: G B Shaw's Classic version of the Cinderella story presented by the Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, the city's oldest active stage company Opens Fri/5 and plays Fri. and Sat through Oct. 27 plus Thurs/25 8 pm Live Oak Theatre, Shattuck and Berryman, Berk $3.50 526- 5760. Bayview-Hunter's Point Indian Summer Festival: a kick-off for the Bayview Opera House's fall workshop and performance schedule with singers, dancers, jazz and soul bands, Sat/29, noon-6 pm. Bayview Opera House. 4705 3rd St.. SF. free. 824-0386 Week of Hispanic Heritage: this second annual event features music, dance, theatre, literature readings and more celebrating Hispanic culture, Weds/3-Sun/4. classical music from Spam by pianist Miguel Farre. Weds/3. 8 pm. The Century Club, SF, free; lecture on Latin American literature by Prof. Fernando Alegria, Thurs/4. 8 pm. SF Main Library, Civic Center, SF. free. Coro Pro Musica presenting a vespers in honor of St Francis of Assisi. Thurs/4. 8 30 pm. Stanford Memorial Chapel. Stanford University, free. 641-1400 or 526-6383 for all events. NOTES Various music organizations will be holding audi¬ tions for new members in the coming weeks Interested musicians should contact the groups directly for more information The San Jose Youth Symphony will audition string instruments Sat/29 at 9 am, other instruments Mon/1, 7 pm. San Jose City College, Music Dept Room F-15. Moorpark Ave San Jose. (408) 287-7383; The West Wind Ensemble will hold auditions for all positions until Sat/6, 558-4277; The San Francisco Chamber Music Society is sponsoring a Young Artists Award Competition for instrumental ensembles of three or more players, applications due by December 15. 931-5778. Famed Uruguayan composer and guitarist Abel Carlevaro will hold a guitarist's workshop. Thurs/4 and Fri/5, 7-10 pm. SF Conservatory of Music. 1201 Ortega. SF. 564- 8086 for an audition appointment — Kerrigan Black “Oklahoma”: Rodgers and Ham’mersteins classic musical melodrama famous for the song. "Surrey with the Fringe on Top " Opens Fri/5 and plays Fri and Sat through Nov 10(8 pm). Thurs/18 and Nov. 1 and 8 (8 pm), Sun/21 and 28 (2 pm); and Sun/14. 28 and Nov. 4 (7 pm). Concord Community Arts at the Willows Theatre, 1975 Diamond Blvd . Concord $5. $4 under 17 and over 55 798-6525 “The Rules of the Game”: Luigi Piran- delta's rarely-produced play about three people in a world in transition presented by Moonrise Produc¬ tions Opens Fn/5 and plays Thurs-Sun at 8 pm through Oct 28 Fort Mason's Marina Theatre, La¬ guna and Marina Blvds $3.50. A reception with the cast follows each performance. 626-6945 “South Pacific”: Rodgers and Hammer- stein's classic musical presented by the Cabaret Theatre Opens Fri/5 and plays Fri and Sat at 8 30 pm through Nov 10 The Adelphian Club. Central and Walnut, Alameda $3 50. 521-9554 ‘The Zoo Story” and “The Collection”: two one-acts by Edward Albee and Harold Pinter presented by Patterson and Co with all-black casts Opens Fri/5 and plays Thurs -Sat at 8 30 pm and Sun ^t 5:30 pm through Oct 28 Oakland Ensemble Theatre, 660 13th St., Oakl. $3 50 on Thurs., $4 on Sun , $5 Fri and Sat 832-8030 ^ ONGOING “Much Ado About Nothing": shake speare's romantic comedy with sharp tongued lovers Beatrice and Benedick, presented by the Proteus Players Fn and Sal through Oct 6 8 pm at Epic West. 2640 College (near Ashby). Berk $4 $3 students, seniors. 549-1844 The Moving Men Theater Co.: You Should've Been There," a play about the search for work you can love that will earn a living These performances are the first in a state-wide tour of this show which won a Critic's Circle Award last year Fri and Sat through Oct 6 plus a benefit show for the Unitarian Church on Sun/30 8:30 pm Unitarian Fellowship Hall. 1924 Cedar (at Bo¬ nita). Berk $3 50 Free childcare on Sun/30 and Fri/5. “A ChorilS Line”: choreographer/director Michael Bennett conceived the situation for this musical as a device to show "what it's really like" to be a dancer. By the National Shakespeare Fes¬ tival's Touring Company Tues-Sun through Oct. 7 Tues.-Fri. at 8 pm, Sat at 2 and 8 pm and Sun at 2 and 7 pm The Center for Performing Arts. 255 Almaden Blvd . San Jose $10, $12.50 $15 (408) 246-1160 “Peter Pan: A New Wave Fairy- tale”: SF's all-woman comedy troupe Les Nick- lettes presents a new version of J M Barne s classic—Peter is the top teen idol of the rock palace Never Never Land, fighting to retain his top billing over'the up-and-coming punk star V D the Pirate Queen Fri -Sun through Oct 7 8 pm at Studio Eremos, 401 Alabama (at 17th St ) $3 50 621-0448 “Dancin’ Bob Fosses's new musical entertainment Daily through Oct 13 Mon -Sat at 8 30 pm, Sun at 7 pm, and Wed and Sat at 2 30 pm The San Francisco Civic Light Opera at the Orpheum Theatre. 1192 Market $8 50- $20 50 552-4002 “Kennedy’s Children: a newly-revised ver¬ sion of Robert Patrick's play—a series ol mono¬ logues by six characters whose dreams and reali¬ ties were both shaped and betrayed by the Sixties The second production of Theatre Rhinoceros's Robert Patrick Festival Thurs.-Sat. through Oct 13. 8.30 pm at the Goodman Building, 1115 Geary (at Van Ness) $4.50. $3 50 on Thurs. 626-1921. “Lovers and Loners”: four one-act plays written by California Cooper and directed by Sati Jamal: "Strangers," "Unintended." "Everytime It Rains" and "Loners." Thurs.-Sat at 8 pm with a 3 pm Sat. matinee through Oct. 13. Intersection Theatre, 756 Union $5 50. $4 under 12 444-6556 ★ “Playwrights' Focus”: a series ot new plays given rehearsed readings by the SF Actors Ensemble Thurs/27 "Play With Children," John Ryskamp's play about two children waiting for their parents to finish a wedding rehearsal. Fri/28 "One of Our Family," a one-act by Mitchell Eil in which a Jewish man from NY imports the troubles of his up¬ bringing to SF Sat/28. "The Head of the House," also by John Ryskamp The middle-aged woman returns to her half-brother's house to see her father die 8 pm A discussion follows 2940 16th St $1 Call the theater for other dates and titles: 861-9015 “A Delicate Balance”: Edward Aibees Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the fracturing of a neurotic Connecticut family With actors Michael Liebert. Mary Rose McMaster and Barbara Oliver; directed by Don West Tues-Sun. through Oct 21 Tues -Sat. at 8 pm and Sun at 2 and 7 pm Berkeley Repertory Theatre, 2980 College Ave . Berk $4-$9 845-4700 “Breakfast in Marin”: a musical comedy that chronicles the adventures of a young woman from Ohio in Mann County Extended: weekends through Nov 17 at 8 pm Fri and 7:30 pm Sat, call for exact dates Plus a Halloween Show at 10 pm on Oct. 31. Chez Jacques. 1390 California (at Hyde). $3 50 775-7574 “Ain’t Misbehavin’ ”: a stompm struttm. high-hattm tribute to Fats Waller, with more than 30 songs composed, collaborated on. or simply recorded by the great jazzman Tues through Thurs at 8 pm, Fri. and Sat at 8 30 pm. Wed and Sat. at 2 30 pm and Sun. at 3 pm Extended through Nov 24 The Curran Theatre 445 Geary. $ 10-$19. 673-4400 “Grand Illusion”: Donald McClean presents a revue of music, magic and humor, featuring illu¬ sionist Marshall Magoon, with grand illusions constructed by John Gaughan. who built all the illu¬ sions for Doug Henning's TV specials and stage shows Wed and Thurs at 8 pm. Fri and Sat at 8 and 10 pm, and Sun. at 3 and 7 pm Hippodrome Theater, 412 Broadway $6-$8, $2 off for children and seniors. 982-2343, “The Passion of Dracula”: an aii-new version of the classic vampire tale directed by Bob Hall Tues -Fn at 8 pm. Sat at 7 and 10 30 pm. and Sun at 3 and 7:30 pm in an open-ended engage¬ ment. On Broadway Theatre, 435 Broadway $8- $12 398-0800. “Asparagus Valley Cultural Society": a musical comedy revue blending magic, music, stand-up comedy, pantomime and side-show Tues -Thurs. at 8:30 pm. Fri and Sat at 7 and 10 pm, and Sun. at 3 and 7:30 pm $6.50- $8.50 An open-ended engagement Phoenix Theatre, 430 Broadway 397-3700 “Beach Blanket Babylon Goes to the Stars”: Steve Silver presents the latest incarnation of the long-running musical "Beach Blanket Babylon Goes Bananas" with a Snow White-in-Tinseltown theme Wed.-Thurs at 8 pm Fri. and Sat at 8 and 10:30 pm, and Sun. at 3 and 7:30 pm Club Fugazt, 678 Green $8-$8 50 421- 4222 “The Taming of the Shrew”: wild West Ltd re-interprets the Shakespearean classic and sets it at the American frontier Directed by James Dunn Tues -Sat at 8 pm and Sun at 2 and 7 pm in an open-ended engagement Cannery Theatre. 2801 Leavenworth $8. $9. $5 for Sun matinee 441-6800 CLOSING “Life’s Tragic Reflections”: a show- case production by the SF Buriel Clay Black Arts and Writers Workshop of three original plays "Epi¬ sodes of an Ancient Script" by John Hatch, "Blood¬ line to Oblivia" by John Williams, and "The Hour¬ glass' by Robert Alexander Thurs.-Sat through Sept 29. 8 pm Western Addition Cultural Center, 762 Fulton $2 50 921-7976. “Curse of the Starving Class”: Sam Shepard's wrenching journey through the Ameri¬ can dream with a "peculiarly American" rural family Thurs.-Sun. through Sept 30 8 pm Berkeley Stage Company. 111 Addison (ofl San Pablo), Berk $6, $5 Thurs. and Sun . $1 off for stu¬ dents, seniors and unemployed 548-4728 “Arms and the Man”: Shaws classic satire on war and the professional fighting man Thurs.-Sun through Sept 30 8 pm Directed by Michelle Truffaut al the SF Repertory Company. 4147 19th St (at Collmgwood) $5. $4 Thurs and Sun 863-4859 “Doppo, Clown of Yesteryear”: world renowned mime Leonard Pitt's solo performance piece about an old French circus clown lost in his memories Fri-Sun through Sept 30 at 8:30 pm Fort Mason s Marina Theatre. Bldg 310, Laguna and Marina Blvds $3 50 848-5396 “The America Busted Family Hour”: a satirical revue that takes a biting look at political and social situations in San Francisco Much of the material pertains to the gay scene, but it's "for and about everyone " Fri and Sat through Sept 30. 7:30 pm Presented by KatosRota at the Top Floor Gallery. 330 Grove (behind the Opera House) $3.50. $3 students, retired 861-8362 SHORT RUNS * “Eve Wilder’s Showcase ‘79”: up and coming actors, singers and comedians appear in this showcase presented by Center Stage Theatre West Sat/29 and every last Sat at 6 pm at Chez Jacques, 1390 California (at Hyde) Free 864- 2924 “La Poblacion/Shantytowns”: a dramatic piece with music, poetry and slides exposing the mass-produced misery and oppres¬ sion of Latin America s urban fringes. Fri/28 at 8 pm at La Pena Cultural Center. 3105 Shattuck. Berk $3 849-2568 “Squash”: this weekend marks the last two performances of the San Francisco Mime Troupe's latest hardhitting musical comedy about the gas shortage, community gardens and the abuse of power This week s show will be signed to accomo¬ date the hearing impaired and deaf. Sat/29 and Sun/30 at Mission Dolores Park. 2 pm Free 285- 1717. “The Rocky Hieroglyphic Show”: a one-act featuring the meeting of King Tut and energy mogul David Rockefeller presented by the Plutonium Players The summer's last two shows are this weekend. Sat/29 at Live Oak PARK. Shattuck and Berryman. Berk and Sun/30 at Willard Park. Berk 2 pm. Free. 655-1715 PERFORMANCE ART/ PHYSICAL THEATER ★ “The Blind Beggar Woman and the Virgin Mary”: a performance piece by Betsy Damon that explores the two female arche¬ types of the title The "performance procession" originates at 80 Langton St., and ends up at Taylor and Ellis Sun/30 from 1 to 4 pm Free. 626-5416 “Modern Times”: a video performance piece by Max Almy about narcissism, infidelity and divorce acted by Joanne Schmidman. This piece is being premiered in SF before a date at the Museum of Modern Art in NY Fri/5 and Sat/6 at 8 pm $3 648-9040 “Raw Food’ ’: five evenings of exploratory per¬ formance by Joya Cory and Nina Wise employing a different score each night and addressing formal concerns of physical theater Opens Thurs/4 and plays Thurs through Nov 1. Sponsored by ihe Women s Performance Connexion Circus a la Mode. 2547 8th (at Dwight). Berk $2 50 527-5693 COMEDY/CABARET Arnie Passman’s House of Cards: Berkeley's sole comedy room presents a senes of weekend engagements through October Fri/28 and Sat/29, Peter Berg of the SF Mime Troupe and Remhabitory Theatre does an evening of mime and satire 8 30 and 10 30 pm. $3 Fn. nights except Oct 12 are open mike/audition nights; 8 30 pm. $2 At the Both-Up Gallery, 2406 Stuart (at Telegraph). Berk 848-8858 or 848-8288 San Francisco Comedy Showcase: 10 to 12 local comedy acts every Wed . Thurs and Sun at the Punch Line. 444-A Battery Usually, an unannounced professional comic closes the show 9 pm $3 Headline comics are featured on Fn and Sat. nights; two shows at 9 and 11 pm 397-4334 Papaya Juice presents comedic improvisa¬ tion every Wed -Fri at the Holy City Zoo, 408 Cle¬ ment 9 pm. 752-2846 And, every Sat. at Chez Jacques, 1390 California. 7 to 9 pm 775-7574. Flash Family: spontaneous theater based on audience suggestion every Thurs. at the Old Spa¬ ghetti Factory, 478 Green. North Beach $2 441- 4384 Spaghetti Jam: improvisational comedy skits every Fri -Sat. at 9 pm with a free "midnight show" at 11 30 pm Jam members conduct a workshop on improv basics every Mon at 8:30 pm Old Spa¬ ghetti Factory, 478 Green, North Beach $2. 421- 0221 San Francisco Funnies: Tony DePaui presents stand-up comedy at the Holy City Zoo Professional comedians on Sun and Mon nights at 9 pm. Open mike on Tues. at 8 30 pm. 752-2846 * Comedy Open Mike at me Owi and the Monkey Cafe on Wed nights at 8 30 pm 1 336 9th Ave (between Irving and Judah). 644-9892 “Comedy after Dark”: a midnight comedy series on Fri at the Chi Chi Theater Club, 440 Broadway. $3. 1 drink minimum 392-6213 “Double Feature”: the Rocky Horror Pic • lure Show and a theater group duplicating its entire cast and performing in tandem with the movie Every Sat at midnight at the Strand Theatre. 1127 Market St 552-5991 “Reginald Figfree and Your Favor¬ ite Ladies’ *! his exquisitely gowned puppets move, with astonishing realism, to the music of Gershwin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hart, and others Wed. and Thurs at 8 30 pm and Sun. at 730 pm through Sept The Open Theater, 441 Clement. $2 50. 386-3086 “Change the World: It Needs It”: an evening with German poet, playwright and lyricist Bertolt Brecht, as interpreted and performed by Ina Wittich Twenty songs including "Mack the Knife," "Abortion Is Illegal. "Hollywood Elegy" and "Pirate Jenny Oct 5-Oct 27 on Fri and Sat 8 pm at Fort Mason's Music Hail. Bldg 314. Laguna and Manna Blvds $3 441-5705. “The Outrageious Beauty Revue”: presented by the Theatre of Human Melting every Sat night at 9:30 pm at the Mabuhay Gardens. 443 Broadway $3 526-1592. The Chinese Magic Circus of Taiwan: 75 acrobats, master magicians, jugglers, tumblers and kung-fu experts return to Zellerbach Auditorium. UC Berkeley campus, as part of their third American tour Sat/29 at 2 and 8 pm and Mon /1 and Tues/2 at 8 pm $5-$8 50. $3-$6 students 642-9988 The Pickle Family Circus: San Francis¬ co's one-ring extravaganza performing at Laney College, at the playing field, near E 7th St and 5th Ave , Oakl. in conjunction with "Family Day" and to benefit CHAIN, a statewide coalition of tenants' unions and other housing groups Sat/29 and Sun/30 at 11:30 am and 4 pm $2 50. $1 children, seniors advance; 50® more day of show Free parking on 7th St. 653-4613 or 843-6601 * indicates general admission of or less —Jennifer Todd Poole continued page A20 Petas Live Music 7Nights A Week Featuring Local Jazz Artists 577 Columbus Ave. (at Union) “in the heart of North Beach” 982-4999 Bar Open 5pm-2am Entertainment Nightly from 8 pm. No Cover/No Minimum TOMORROW'S STARS TODAY Or feu 242 CHURCH STREET SAN FRANCISCO/431-6090 “The only trouble with a place so ^ *4' good... is that it is becoming > 1 ? increasingly difficult to get into." James Armstrong AFTER DARK MAGAZINE 1390 California at Hyd* \ Reservation* 775-7574 SAVOY TIVOLI BEACH Sunday : NEW WAVE Fri.-Sat. : LATIN, FUNK, REGGAE Sunday 3-6pm $3 9/30 • VOICE FARM TARGET VIDEO UNITS 10/7 • CONTRACTIONS URGE Fri.-Sat. 9:30-l:30am $2 9/28-29 • EAST BAY MUD 10/5-6 • M1RASOL JAZZMO SERIES • Wed. 9:30-l:30am $2 9/26 • EDDY MOORE w/ CREATI VE FORCE featuringEDDIE HENDERSON, trumpet 10/4 • OPTET LARRYKASSINand TOM-DARTERij , , , k ml 5 > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY&NIGHT.SEPTEMBER27,1979 ► THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 16 The Mostly Mozart Festival of the San Fran¬ cisco Symphony opens tonight at the Herbst Theatre. Van Ness at McAllister, The Festival is an informal one. with low ticket prices, Mostly Mozart t-shirts ($6), a sweepstakes with a trip to the Salzburg Music Festival as the grand prize, and an opening night party after the concert tonight with beer and pretzels $1; wear your Mostly Mozart t-shirt and get in for free. Program tonight: Haydn's "Symphony No, 5, the Schoolmaster," and "Horn Concerto No 1" and Mozart's “Piano Concerto No. 20" and Sym¬ phony No. 36, Linz," with BarryTuckweli, conduc¬ tor and french horn, and Lydia Artymiw, piano. Ticket's are $6.50 and you can buy a book of ten tickets good for anyone at any of the concerts in the Bay Area for only $49. Call the box office: 451 - 5400 for more information. * “Comedians,” an exploration of laughter in this demoralized and divided society by British playwright Trevor Griffiths, opens the Eureka Theater's fall season. Directed by the theater's artistic director Richard E. T. White, Free previews tonight and Sat.: one for $5 on Thurs/4 The play opens Fri/5 and plays Thurs.-Sun. through Nov. 3 at 8 pm. 2299 Market (at 16th). $6, $5 Thurs, and Sun., discounts for students and seniors. 863-7133. The Devils, Ken Russell's film of sexual and reli¬ gious hysteria set in the 1630’s with Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, and Performance, Nicholas Roeg's film about a reclusive rock star played by Mick dagger, are on a double bill tonight and Sat. at the Roxie, 3117 16th St. (at Valencia). 863-1087. Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes bring their upbeat rhythm and blues seasoned in the New Jersey bar scene to Memorial Auditorium, on the Stanford campus, tonight only This Palo Alto show will be the band's only Bay Area appearance this time around. 8 pm $7.50 advance, $8.50 day of show 497-4317. “Don Giovanni,” an opera by W.A. Mozart based on the romantic adventures of Don Juan, is presented by the Marin Opera Company at the Showcase theater, Marin Civic Center, San Rafael. Tonight and every Fri. through Oct. 12 (8 pm). Sat/29 and Sat. Oct. 13 (8 pm), and Sun Oct 7 (2:15 pm) $6.50, $5 students and seniors. 472- 3500. ★ Michael Harrington, America's noted social¬ ist, author of The Other America, and National Chair of the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee, makes three speeches today on the topic, "A Left Strategy for 1980 and Beyond." Noon in the Barbary Coast Room, Student Union Bldg., SF State, 1600 Holloway. Free. 2:30 pm in Wheeler Auditorium, UC Berkeley campus. Free. 8 pm at the New College, 777 Valencia (near 18th St ). $2 if you can give it 648-3888. •k A free meditation class taught by Susan Buchner starts tonight at the Potrero Hill Neigh¬ borhood Center, 953 De Haro. Buchner is a member of the United Nations Meditation Group and has led groups and lectured throughout Cali¬ fornia Each class will consist of a lecture on such topics as "Music. Meditation and the Arts." exercises and an informal question and answer period. 7:30pm. 664-3552. S.F.N.L.A.F. is the San Francisco Neighborhood Legal Assistance Foundation, and they're having a benefit tonight with Mimesis, a theater/mime collective, and Women's Words (of Union Wage). 8 pm at the Performance Space, T350 Waller $2- $4 sliding scale For childcare information, call Jeff Barber al 433-8741. ★ The Indian Summer Festival, sponsored by the Bayview Opera House, is an afternoon of music and dance with jazz saxophonist Hadly Caliman, the Swahili Dancers and Drummers, and many others. From 12 noon until 6 pm at the Opera House, 4705 Third St. Free. 824-0386. The Rova Saxophone Quartet, four musicians who improvise on a wide variety of saxophones to create a non-harmonic, non-rhythmic textural sound, play at Fort Mason's Marina Music Hall to¬ night at 8:30 pm. Bldg. 314, Laguna and Marina Blvds. $3. 548-1817 ★ Eve Wilder and Center Stage Theatre West present a showcase of up and coming actors, musicians and comedians on the last Sat, of every month at Chez Jacques. 1390 California, at 6 pm. Performers signed up at this point for this month's show are Susan Burritl, singer, Kitty Mar- golis, singer, Susie Crom, comedian, and Donna Earl, who is mistress of ceremonies. This show¬ case gives the performers a chance to be seen by the critics, publicists and agents Wilder invites, and gives us a chance to see them for free. Call 864-2924 for more information. ★ The City Arts Month celebration at the Em- barcadero Center draws to a close today with the last free Sat. afternoon show. Performers include the SF Conservatory of Music students, the SF Young Professionals Orchestra, the San Francis¬ co Ballet School students, the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company, the San Francisco Dance The¬ atre and selections from the Magic Theatre, 1 to 4 pm at Two Embarcadero Center's Podium Level. ★ The Hyatt Regency closes out JazzMo in style today with a free seven hour jazz concert in the Atrium Lobby. The house band. Dick Saltz- man and the Hyatt Regency Jazz Quartet, is joined by the John Capola/Chuck Travis Big Band From 1 to 8 pm; the first hour is open to young mu¬ sicians who wish to sit in with the house quartet. 5 EmbarcaderoCenter. 788-1234. EASTBAY ★ The First National Teach-In on Building Last¬ ing Relationships is held at Laney College, 10th and Fallon Sts., Oakl., today from 9 am to 7 pm. An impressive list of speakers and workshop leaders including Dr. Benjamin Spock, Betty Friedan, Flo Kennedy, Dr. Michael Lerner, Herb Kohl, and Michael Harrington explore the problems faced by the contemporary family. Some workshop titles: "Ethnic Minorities and their Families," "Gay Families." "Are Our Schools Undermining Family Life?" and "Family Violence." Mayors Lionel Wilson and Gus Newport open the festival at 9:30 am and head a list of many elected officials. Entertainment is provided by the Coke Escovedo Band, the Pickle Family Circus, and others. Admission is $1 for adults, 50® for kids (childcare provided). For more informtion, call the Institute tor Labor and Mental Health, the spon¬ sors of the event, at 653-6166. The Chinese Acrobats and Magicians of Tai¬ wan return to Zellerbach Auditorium on the UC Berkeley campus with 75 acrobats, master ma¬ gicians, jugglers, tumblers and kung-fu experts. Today at 2 and 8 pm and Mon. and Tues. at 8 pm only. $5-$8.50, $3-$6 students. 642-9988. Roy Brown, one of the best singers/composers/ songwriters of Puerto Rico, and the Aires Bucan- eros, a group of four musicians formed by Brown whose concern is reclaiming traditional Puerto Rican folk music and culture, give a benefit con¬ cert for the Free Chile Center tonight at the Glide Memorial Church, 330 Ellis, at 7:30 pm. Tickets are $5 advance, $6 at the door. 433-6055 or 433- 6698. The Dils, Pink Section and the Punts open Jamestown Hall, a new performance space for new wave/punk bands, tonight at 8:30 pm. The Hall is on 23rd SI. between Guerrero and Dolores: tickelsare$3 Minors welcome. EAST BAY The Talking Heads return to the UC Berkeley campus: only this lime, you've got topay An intel¬ lectual but catchy new wave group that had an AM hit with Al Green's "Take Me to .the River," one of the best on that dial for a while. 8 pm at Zel- Idris Ackamoor takes us on a "journey through other lives and other lands" with his saxophone, costumes and audio-visual effects this afternoon Part of the Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon series at Fort Mason. Marina Music Hall, Bldg. 314, Laguna and Marina Blvds. 2 pm, $2.441 -5705. * “The Blind Beggar Woman and the Virgin Mary” is an outdoor performance piece by New York artist Betsy Damon that explores the identi¬ ties of the two female archetypes of the title. The "performance procession" starts at 80 Langton St.andends upatTaylor and Ellis. 1 to4pm. Free 626-5416 Fifteen pianists play in this year's Piano Mara¬ thon at the Old First Church. Van Ness and Sacra¬ mento, starting at 2 pm The program includes traditional works and the premieres of Herbert Bielawa's "Nocturne" and Heidi Strange's "In Some Other World.” 776-1535. The Giants really do appreciate their fans (es¬ pecially in a losing year. I suppose) and to show it, today is Fan Appreciation Day at Candlestick Park. More than fifty gifts worth more than $15,000 will be given away by a series of draw¬ ings, including a round-trip ticket to San Juan, a color tv. full sets of car tires and five pounds of crabmeal The game is against the San Diego Padres and starts at 1 05 pm. Box seats are $5, reserved seats are $4, and general admission is $1.982-9400. Hawley Adams-Currens, director of the upcom¬ ing San Francisco Women's Jazz Festival, plays electric violin today at the Women's Building, 3543 18th St., at 3 pm. A concert of original new music and progressive jazz, with dancer Theresa Dickenson, flautist France Fortier, trombonist Loren Means, and winds, sax, percussion and bass musicians. $3.558-5441. EAST BAY * “Spaces" is an exhibit of the contemporary work of 37 Bay Area Sculptors, at the Walnut Creek Civic Arts Gallery through Nov. 3. and the Civic Arts Department is sponsoring "Open Studio Day" in conjunction with the show. Three East Bay sculptors open their work spaces to the public today—Jacques Schnier of Lafayette who works in crystal acrylic, Don Rich of the Berkeley Art Foundry who does metal casting, and Milton Komisar who uses computer tech¬ nology Maps with directions to each sjudio are available at the Civic Arts Gallery so you can go in¬ dividually. or, meet at theGallery, 1641 Locust, at 10 am for coffee and donuts to see the exhibition and then car pool to the studios. Call 935-3300, ext. 256 for more information. * The Oakland Museum celebrates its tenth anniversary this weekend with three special events—the opening of "10 X 10" on Sat/29, an exhibition of 100 first-decade acquisitions from the Museum's collections; a benefit put on by Capwells also on Sat., at 9 pm, with big-band era music, a buffet catered by Narsat's and cham¬ pagne ($25); and the Family Day Festival, today at the Museum, with music by Pete and Sheila Escovedo. an ensemble from the Oakland Sym¬ phony, the Stanford Band, the Dancing Dill Pickles, the Oakland Ballet, the East Bay Chil¬ dren's Theater, and more. From noon until 6 pm. and it's all free. 10OOOak St. 273-3401. lerbach Auditorium $7.50 advance, $8.50 day of show. 642-9988 “Bite of the Rose,” the Blake Street Hawkeyes' new show, opens in Berkeley-tonight at 2019 Blake It's a scripted work, (a new direction for this acclaimed experimental group), a story of "subterfuge and sex, gardens and barrooms and simple foul play; one man's journey into posses¬ sion and two people’s hunger for power.'' Fri. and Sat. through Oct. 27 at 8:30 pm. $3.50.849-3013. ♦ The Oakland Ballet continues to present ex¬ cerpts from the works of the Fall Season at vari¬ ous locations around the Bay. Parts of Massine's "La Boutique Fantasque," Marc Wilde’s "Inter¬ mezzi," Ronn Guidi’s “Gymnopedies" and Marc Wilde's "Afternoon of a Faun" are performed to¬ day at Oakland City Hall at noon, on Sun/30 at the Oakland Museum at 2 pm, and on Oct. 23 at the Hyatt Regency at the Embarcadero. SF, at noon. Informal drawings will be held at some of these shows; winners will be awarded tickets to Ballet performances For more information, call 530- 0447. Of •ttiorr a ^rjS The Persuasions, the undisputed masters of street corner a cappella singing, play for two nights at the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’Farrell. Two shows; 8:30 and 11 pm tonight and Tues. Tickets are $6. 885-0750. ★ John Adair, a visual anthropologist who has worked with the Zuni, Pueblo and Navajo Indians for 40 years, has an exhibition of his photographs entitled "Southwest Images" opening at the Cali¬ fornia Academy of Sciences today. These black and white photos of American Southwest Indians are predominantly from the 1 930s The Academy is on the Music Concourse at Golden Gate Park, and the show can be seen daily from 10 am to 5 pm through the end of the year $1, 50® 12-17, 25® 6-12.221-4214. ★ “Just Passing,” a video performance work by Barbara Smith, is shown-on Channel 26 at 11 pm tonight as part of a series with performance art in a live broadcast situation, "Produced for Televi¬ sion." Sponsored by La Mamelle Inc. 431-7524, EASTBAY ★ Free B-52’s at Sproul Plaza today. This new wave group is appearing all over the Bay Area, but this is their only free concert 1 2 noon on the UC Berkeley campus. Call Superb at 642-7477 for more information. ★ The Department of Psychology at Cal. State Hayward starts a fall series of public lectures today with a talk by Ronald J. Schusterman en¬ titled, "Deception and Self Deception from the Standpoint of Darwinian Social Theory." The lec¬ tures will be on every other Mon. from 3 to 5 pm at the Firehouse Faculty Club. Free. Discussion and refreshments. Academic credit is available for those attending the lectures; call 881-3484 for more information. ★ KPFA FM 94, the Bay Area's station of the Pa¬ cifica Network, presents a retrospective view of the "fabulous fifties" with special programs on the music, politics, culture and social mores of that era, today through Oct. 7. For those of you who aren't sure that the fifties were "fabulous,” remember. KPFA was born in 1949. Some sample shows: "The Beat Poets" on Thurs/4 at 7 pm featuring Allen Ginsberg reading Howl, "Grow¬ ing Up Female in the '50s" on Tues/2 at 12:30 pm, and "The Birth of the Tube, Boob" on Fri/5 at 12:30 pm, a personal story about the impact of television. For more information, call KPFA at 848-6767. “Josephine: The Mouse Singer,” see Wed/3. * CalPIRG, the California Public Interest Re¬ search Group, hosts its fall quarter open house to¬ day with speakers Tom Bates, assemblyman, and Florence McDonald, city councilwoman CalPIRG's current projects include doing re¬ search on Berkeley's new rent stabilization law and other tenant's rights, local energy alterna¬ tives. occupational health issues and the respon¬ sible investment of city and university funds. 3 to 6 pm at 2490 Channing, second floor. Wine and cheese 642-9952. Arnie Passman’s House of Cards, Berkeley's only comedy room, offers an October series of performances by some well-known funny people Tonight and Sat.. Peter Berg, one of the creators of the San Francisco Mime Troupe and co-foun¬ der of the Remhabitory Theatre, does a mime and satire show, "he ioves todance on the edge of our minds ' Two shows, 8:30 and 10:30 pm; tickets are $3 There will also be open mike/auditions every Sun at 8:30 pm for $2. 2406 Stuart, Berk 848-8858. iw&fyiy r 4 SSU physical education department at (707) 664- 2357 for more information. The Mostly Mozart Festival continues with the second program of this informal, low-cost series of concerts by the San Francisco Symphony, Alexander Schneider, conductor, and Richard Stoltzman, clarinet, in a program of Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3," Haydn's "Sym¬ phony No. 94, Surprise" and Mozart's "Clarinet Concerto" and "Symphony No. 14.” See listing under Fri/28 for more information. EAST BAY * The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company open their Tues night rehearsals in Oct to the public lor free. The company will be working on dances from the repertory and a premiere by Carolyn Brown, former principal with the Merce CunntnghamJDance Co. Questions from the audi¬ ence and discussion are encouraged. 7:30-8:30 pm at the Jenkins Community Performance Space, 159015th St. 863-7599. Intersection and the Swedish Institute pre¬ sent an evening of poetry to benefit the Islands and Continents Translation Award, won this year by Eleni Fourtouni. editor and translator of the book Contemprorary Greek Women Poets. The poets reading are Tomas Transtromer, consid¬ ered Sweden’s leading poet. Kenneth Rexroth, father of the San Francisco Renaissance in poetry, W.S. Merwin, a Pulitzer Prize-winner, Siv Cedering Fox, author of the prize-winning books Mother Is, The Juggler, andCupofCold Water, and Gunnar Harding, Richard Shelton, Joanna Bankier and Lennart Bruce, all highly regarded and awarded poets and translators. 7:30 pm to¬ night at the Unitarian Center. Franklin and Geary $3 advance. $4 at the door. Advance tickets avail¬ able at Small Press Traffic in SF (285-8394) and Cody's in Berk. (845-7852) There will be a free translation workshop on Wed/3, for more informa¬ tion call the Swedish Information Service at 775- 6104. “Vienna—A European Symphony,” a good-will exhibition that the Austrian capital is presenting to'the people ot San Francisco, is opened by Leo¬ pold Gratz, the Mayor of Vienna. Displays include a collection of historic opera costumes, a mock- up of an Austrian shopping street, videotapes of concerts, a cafe serving Austrian pastries, and a sampling from the collections of the fine arts mu¬ seums ot the city. Open every day from 11 am to 7 pm, today through Nov. 4, at the Fort Mason Pier, Laguna and Marina Blvds. Call 556-4462 for more information. “Josephine: The Mouse Singer,” Michael McClure's 1978 OBIE Award winner about the re¬ lationship between artist and society is in preview this week at the Magic Theatre. Tonight through Sat/6 at 8:30 pm for $4.50. The show opens on Fri/12. Directed by John Lion. Bldg. 314, Fort Mason, Laguna and Marina Blvds. 441^8001. “What Was Modern in European Sculpture 1918-1945,” a lecture by Albert E. Elsen, interna¬ tionally recognized scholar of modern sculpture, is presented by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in conjunction with the exhibition "Modern European Sculpture 1918-1945: Un¬ known Beings and Other Realities," opening to¬ morrow at the Museum. The lecture begins at 7:30 pm in the Herbst Theatre, Van Ness and McAllister. $2.863-8800. Hispanic Heritage Week, a celebration of His¬ panic music, food, flamenco, Chicano poetry, California history, the Spanish language and more, starts tonight with a concert by Miguel Farre, classical pianist from Barcelona. 8 pm at the Century Club, 1355 Franklin. Another sample event: an evening of Chicano bilingual poetry and salsa music with Jose Montoya, Tipica Cienfue- gos and Roberto Bedoya; 8 pm at the Mission Cul¬ tural Center, 2868 Mission, for $3. For more infor¬ mation call 641-1400 or 526-6383. * Films from the Academy of Television and Films in Munich are shown and discussed by Professor Wolfgang Laengsfeld. director of the film department at the Academy, tonight and tomorrow at 8 pm. Tonight: Albert-Warum? (Al¬ bert-Why?) by Josef Rodl who won the 1979 German Film Award for Best Director, a film about a "village idiot" acted by village amateurs. Three shorter films will be shown tomorrow night. San Francisco Art Institute, 800 Chestnut. Free. 771-7020. * “Genes, Neurons and Behavior in Droso- philia” is the title of a lecture given by Professor Seymour Benzer of the Cal. Institute ot Technology at the Fourth Annual Gordon Temp- kins Memorial Lecture and Concert. The Kronos Quartet play Peter Sculthorpe's 1969 "String Quartet No. 8" and Lukas Foss' “String Quartet No. 1 “ and the whole strange affair starts at 3 pm tpdayat Cole Hall, UCSF, 1475 Fourth Ave. Free. 666-2557 The Chiang Ching Dance Company, consid¬ ered one of the foremost interpreters ot Chinese dance in the West, present both classical Chinese dances and artistic director Chiang Ching's original works Tonight's Herbst Theatre show is the first of a Bay Area tour. 8 pm in the Opera House, Van Ness and McAllester. $3, $5. 986-1823 “Jazz of the Eighties” is featured on Thurs. nights this month at the Savoy Tivoli, 1434 Upper Grant. Tonight, the Optet and Duo with Larry Kassin and Tom Darter play. The show starts at 9:30 pm: tickets are $2,362-7024. * City Celebration’s last free Thurs. afternoon concert of the summer is scheduled for today with the Kirilian String Quartet, the San Francisco Moving Company and the San Francisco Girls Chorus. 1-3 pm at the Band Shell in Golden Gate Park. 552-4387. EASTBAY “Raw Food,” five Thurs. evenings of exploratory performance by Joya Cory and Nina Wise em¬ ploying a different score each evening and ad¬ dressing formal concerns of physical theater. Starts tonight at 8 pm at Circus a la Mode, 2547 8thSt.(at Dwight), Berk $2 50.527-5693. ★ “The Solar Promise,” a film by Tom Putnam and Henry Mayer that teaches the basic principles of solar heating, is featured at a community forum on solar energy in Palo Alto. Three speakers talk about successful community projects, how to finance solar heating, how to obtain a free energy audit of your home and more. Thurs/27, 8 pm at the Spangenburg Aud., 780 Arastradero, Palo Alto. $1. Sponsored by the Sierra Club. 327-8111. ★ The University Art Museum is having a sale: a thousand collectible posters and hundreds of books including works by William Wiley and David Goines, production posters from the Santa Fe Opera, San Francisco Ballet and Joseph Papp, and film, crafts, art history and children's books. Priced from 50® to $20. All proceeds benefit the Museum. Today, Sat. and Sun. at 2626 Bancroft, Berk. 642-1438. The Bread and Roses Festival starts tonight at the Greek Theatre, UC Berkeley campus, at 7 pm. David Crosby, Hoyt Axton, Chick Corea, the Roches, Kris Kristopherson and Norton Buffalo all play tonight. There will be day-time concerts on Sat. and Sun. also: Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, Flora Purim and Graham Nash are orHy a few of the performers scheduled. Tickets are $8.50 and $10.652-9988 The Oakland Ballet opens the fall season tonight with performances of Copland's “Tender Land" (Loring), Brahm's “Intermezzi" (Marc Wilde), Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" (John Pasqualetti), plus a work to be announced. 8:30 pm at the Para¬ mount Theater, 2025 Broadway. Oakl. $2-$9.465- 6400. Oak, Ash & Thorn, a cappella balladeers, perform songs by and in honor of William Shake¬ speare. Presented by the SF Early Music Society at 8 pm at Trinity Chapel, 2320 Dana, Berk. $3.50, $2.50 students, seniors. 285-2215. ★ indicates general admission of $1 or less. —JenniferTodd Poole ADVERTISEMENT Only 15 minutes from Downtown SF to the FIRST NATIONALTEACH-IN ON BUILDING LASTING RELATIONSHIPS .. .in couples .. .in families .. .with children .. .issues facing singles at Laney College. 10th & Fallon Streets, Downtown Oakland easy access by car or bus 'nXtoy Jesse Colin Young, Marin County's songbird, plays two nights at the Old Waldorf this weekend. Tonight and Sat. at 8 and 11 pm. 444 Battery (between Clay and Washington). $7.50 advance, $8.50 day of show. 397-3884. “Modern Times” is a video performance piece by Max Almy about infidelity, narcissism and di¬ vorce, acted by Joanne Schmidman. The show is being given its premiere in San Francisco before a run at the Museum of Modern Art in New York later on in Oct. 8 pm tonight and Sat at Video Free America, 442 Shotwell. $3.648-9040. ★ The San Francisco Conservatory of Music, under the direction of John Adams, present their opening concert of the fall season tonight with works by Belioz, Respighi, Kirchnerand Mozart. 8 pm at Heilman Hall, 1201 Ortega. Free. 564-8086. The Earthly Company, a recently-formed San Francisco dance troupe, present three modern works by Sheri Gaia, the company's choreog- rapher/directorz: "Starry Night." "Duals" and "Rage." The show tonight is the grand opening performance for the new Earthly Studios, 223 Mississippi. The pieces will be performed Fri - Sun, through Oct. 13. 8:30 pm: tickets are $4 ad¬ vance. $4.50 at the door. 626-4622. ★ The California Slate Frisbee Champion¬ ships, held at Sonoma State University this week¬ end, feature world class players from the entire West Coast: 1979 Women's World Champion Teresa Gaman and the 1978 World Chamgjpns Corey Basso and Evan David. Events include Maximum Time Aloft, Frisbee Golf. Freestyle, Ul¬ timate Frisbee and Canine Frisbee. Today from 3 pm and Sat. and Sun. from 8 am. Entry fee for competitors is $12, but spectating is free. Call the Saturday Sept. 29 9am-7pm BETTY FRIEDAN DR. BENJAMIN SPOCK WILSON RILES JR. HERB KOHL HARRY BRITT FLO KENNEDY MICHAEL HARRINGTON REV. CECIL WILLIAMS DR. MICHAEL LERNER Although the event is called Family Day, it is for everyone interested in exploring the problems of building lasting relationships, including single parent families, singles trying to meet others, Gay families and issues in raising children. This is also a CELEBRATION, with Music, Entertainment, Pickle Family Circus (extra charge), Children's games. Child Care and Coke Escovedo Band. -SCHEDULE- 9 am-9:45 First session, Richard Riemer 9:45-12 and 11:30-1:00 Workshops on Building Lasting Relationships, Joys & Struggles of Parenting, Impact of Inflation on Personal Life. Love and Intimacy vs. The Culture of Narcissism, Gay Families, Jewish Families & workshops for teenagers and small groups for children. 12:30-1:00 Ron Dellums, Wilson Riles Jr., Harry Britt. 1:00-4:30 Betty Friedan, Benjamin Spock, Michael Harrington, Flo Kennedy, Michael Lerner, Cecil Williams 4:30-5:30 Coke Escovedo Band 5:00-7:00 Move workshops Admission: Only One Dollar Children: 50 cents Sponsored by the Institute for Labor and Mental Health, which offers individual, couple and family counseling and groups dealing with stress at work or in personal life. For more information call 653-6166. 09 > THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 with such issues as abortion and rejec¬ tion of male dominance—topics that few women in Western pop music have the courage to tackle. The band's music unfortunately derives much of its influence from the bombast of Cabaret, which makes Hagen come off as more than a little shrill. Since this album was recorded, Hagen has dumped her band. Hopefully, on future efforts she will team up with individuals as current as she herself is. This is by no means a musically innovative album, as the deceptive new-wave cover might lead you to believe But Hagen as a politically motivated performer is well worth keeping your eye on. —Jane Hamsher BOBBY RUSH: Rush Hour (Philadel¬ phia International). In this age of over¬ production, it's rare to find a soul record as raw. unpretentious and bare¬ boned as Rush Hour, the first album by this veteran Chicago singer who's best remembered for his 1971 Galaxy single, "Chicken Heads.” Stylistically, the album is reminiscent of the Sixties' garage funk of Dyke and the Blazers ("Funky Broadway"), and there's little concession to current trends—no horns, no strings, no syndrums. not even a mention of disco or shake your booty. While Rush's harmonica work is undistinctive. his raspy half-talked vocals are the essence of funk. And his lyrics are about as down-to-earth as you can get: “When you lose your keys you do get upset/You start fussin' and cussin'/Without your keys, let me tell you, you can't hardly do nothin'. " On another cut. he sings, “My daddy called me Junior, 'cause I'm named after him,/My mama called me String- bean, 'cause I'm tall and kinda thin." Rush even transforms Jerry Butler's old hit, "Western Union Man," into a tough medium-tempo blues, Philadel¬ phia's Leon.Huff produced in a manner entirely different from his usual work with partner Kenny Gamble. BOBBY BLAND: I Feel Good, I Feel Fine (MCA). Putting this album on my turntable, I listened as a female vocal group chanted the title and phrases like "shake it. rock it" over a disco beat. Then a tenor sax, which sounded like Oakland's Bobby Forte, took a solo, followed by more chanting, fol¬ lowed by a trombone solo. It was already five minutes into the cut, and Bobby Bland's voice was still nowhere in evidence. I checked the playing time —6:40. I checked my stereo to see if one of the channels was out. As the tune faded, I began to understand the title. Bland must have been feeling real good when they cut this. He was prob¬ ably back at his hotel room watching a football game. He does sing on the rest of the album, however, but the mater¬ ial is weak, and he sings without con¬ viction, almost as if he were half asleep. Only one tune makes it—a slow blues called "Soon as the Weather Breaks,” which he had a hand in writing. It sounds like the rhythm section from his own band on that one, and he even lets out a couple of his trademark blood-curdling lion roars. The album was co-produced by Monk Higgins, an arranger best known in these parts for his inane "It Was in the Trib" radio jingles of a few years back, and by Al Bell, the guy respon¬ sible for sweetening the Stax sound, eventually bringing about the decline of that great Memphis label. —Lee Hildebrand VARIOUS ARTISTS: Bread and Roses (Fantasy). Commemmorating the 1977 Bread and Roses Festival of Acoustic Music at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley (a benefit for Mimi Farina's charity group that brings free enter¬ tainment to institutionalized people), this double-record set features warm¬ hearted performances by some 20 acts. The late Malvina Reynolds wavers through "Little Boxes." Dave Van Ronk gruffly invites us to swing on a star, Hoyt Axton howls through "Boney Fingers" and “Evangelina" between gulps of white wine, and the Persuasions offer their a cappella soul solidarity with California's prisoners (some of whom were listening to the program live). Proceeds from the sale of this unique treasury help provide operating funds for Bread and Roses How can you go wrong? MUSjCREVjEW German feminist pop and Raspberry’s bubblegum- punkalbum MAGAZINE: Secondhand Daylight (Virgin). Eighteen months ago, Howard Devoto, formerly of the Buzzcocks, put together this band on a shoestring. Few of the members had much experience playing with a band. Ba'rry Adamson had never even picked up a bass before. But in this short time, Magazine has managed to achieve an amazing level of professionalism and sophistication. Devoto’s poetic lyricism, entwined with the multi¬ layered. rich-sounding music of the band, represents some of the most adventurous stuff being recorded today. Unfortunately, Magazine is a band with a problem: it just can't seem to find the right producer. On its first album, Real Life, the production merely attempted- to transcribe the band's live sound on tape, which it did with only minimal success. On this, the band's second album, the music takes on a much more ethereal quality. But in doing so, it has been robbed of its intensity. Magazine’s rich, orches¬ trated sound-.removes it from the spectrum of what is currently consi¬ dered 'new wave' (whatever that means). As such, it would lend itself well to studio manipulation, perhaps at the hand of someone like Robert Fripp, However, even as it is, Secondhand Daylight contains some dynamite music. Listen to "Rhythm of Cruelty," perhaps the album’s most accessible cut. For all of Magazine's musical intellectualism, the band still comes up with some great hooks, which makes the album worth exploring even if you aren't interested in Howard Devoto's profound lyrical statements. NINA HAGEN BAND (CBS). America, get ready for Nina Hagen, one of the most dynamic female per¬ formers you're likely to encounter for some time to come. Her debut album on the German CBS label quickly inspires the listener with the feeling that she's not an individual to be toyed with. Her classically trained voice emphatically delivers feminist-inspired lyrics in an almost operatic style. The music itself isn't terribly interesting, but by sheer force of personality Hagen makes this album worth listening to. You'll never catch her wistfully cooing such mellow anthems as "I Honestly Love You" or "You Light Up My Life." Instead, she blows her audience away with a version of "White Punks on Dope" that makes the Tubes seem limp in comparison. Her own songs (sung in German) deal Since 1795weve welcomed our guests with our best. A traditional taste of Cuervo Gold. Visitors to Cuervo have always been greeted in a special way. They're met at the gates and invited inside to experi¬ ence the unique taste of Cuervo Gold. This is the way we've said "welcome”for more than 180 years. And it is as traditional as Cuervo Gold itself. For this dedication to tradition is what makes Cuervo Gold truly special. Neat, on the rocks, with a splash of soda, in a perfect Sunrise or Margarita, Cuervo Gold will bring you back to a time when quality ruled the world. Cuervo. The Gold standard since 1795. CUERVO ESPECIAL® TEQUILA. 80 PROOF. IMPORTED AND BOTTLED BY © 1978 HEUBLEIN, INC., HARTFORD, CONN Next time you're in Mexico , stop by and visit the Cuervo fabrica in Tequila. ELLEN FOLEY: Nightout (Epic) If the aggressive vocals on Nightout seem familiar, it's small wonder. Ellen Foley is the powerhouse singer who parried and panted with Meat Loaf through ' Paradise by the Dashboard Light," on his Bat out of Hell LP Anyone who heard that classic battle-of-the-sexes- staged-as-a-baseball-game number will find those vibrant, gutsy vocals pushed to the fore on Foley's solo debut This pale, waiflike girl, with her lank blonde hair and huge eyes, sings like a cross between Lesley Gore and Ethel Merman Unfortunately, Night¬ out goes too far by trying to cast Foley as a sort of female Meat Loaf (un¬ likely as that may sound). Producers Ian Flunter and Mick Ronson (who also perform throughout the album) opted ti c. lush, intensely dramatic show¬ case—nearly every song is a crashing Wagnerian opera of teen trauma and heartbreak and l-will-survive pluck. Waves of orgiastic strings herald the arrival of armies of choristers in basic rock tunes like the Rolling Stones' "Stupid Girl” and Graham Parker's “Thunder and Rain." "We Belong to the Night," a ballad that Foley co¬ wrote, comes off sounding like a Phil Spector production of the 1812 Over¬ ture. Come on, Ellen I It's only rock 'n' roll.... LARRY RASPBERRY & THE HIGH- STEPPERS: No Accident (Mercury). Who is Larry Raspberry, and why didn't he take up computer programming in¬ stead of music? The cover of this album smacks of new wave trendi¬ ness with none-too-subtle hints: L. R stands in a stagey defiant pose, sport¬ ing a dark, short-but-straggly coif, a beat-up electric guitar and an ob¬ scenely angry facial expression. Ac¬ tually, No Accident is the world's first bubblegum-punk record—it's all high- style rage on the outside and regurgi¬ tated lowbrow licks on the inside. The music reeks of shopworn, bar band sludge on the order of "Older Woman," the LP's opening cut. The chorus to this tune, like everything else here, is pure trash: "The boy prefers the older woman, he likes his meat well done/The boy prefers the older woman, he likes the feel' of a rusty gun." Can you believe that tripe? Sup¬ posed rockers like this are inter¬ spersed with putrid, absolutely for¬ gettable ballads and uptempo filler with titles like “When It Comes to Lovin', You're a Real Encyclopedia." FRANK ZAPPA: Joe’s Garage, Act One (Zappa). This is the first record of a trilogy Zappa recorded this spring in L.A. The story line is fairly sophomoric: all about an electric guitarist named Joe and his adven¬ tures with the music-hating Fu'jre Police, promiscuous Catholic school¬ girls, venereal disease and other modern pleasures. The music, however, is some of the most cohesive and listenable the Sultan of Sleaze has ever recorded. "Lucille has messed My Mind Up" is a gentle, Todd Rund- grenishfove ballad—probably the first completely innocent bit of romance Zappa has ever recorded under his own name. "Crew Slut," beyond the lewd lines about a girl's sexual adventures with a rock band's road crew, is a bone-crunching rocker with a great interchange between harmonica and slide guitar. While Zappa delivers lines like, "Just add water, makes its own sauce," the band pumps out a monstrous boogie that stomps out of your speakers in size-16 boots. "Catholic Girls" is the follow-up to his "Jewish Princess." which enraged the B'nai B'rith when it was released on Sheik Yerbouti earlier this year. This newest ditty is sure to ruffle a few fegthers.with its allusions to fellatio parties in a rectory base¬ ment, but it's all in the best Zappa tradition. Joe's Garage, Act One is offensive, cutting, brilliantly produced, occasionally self-indulgent and very funny. DUMI & THE MARAIRE MAR¬ IMBA ENSEMBLE: Chiwoniso (Dumi). One of the most pleasant sur¬ prises at the recent Monterey Tribal Stomp was the appearance of this Seattle-based group. Dumi and his family, natives of Zimbabwe, have teamed up with some fine West Coast musicians to form a marimba band that hits home with striking clarity and balanced ensemble playing. This album was- recorded in a studio, but bubbles with a happy, spontaneous feeling nonetheless. All seven cuts will have you chanting along and dancing around the house. “Chemtengure," especially, is a spritely romp with an enchanting, hypnotic melody riff utilized in inspired marimba interplay. (Available from Dumi Maraire, 1412 North 50th, Seattle. 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M.A. and Ph.D. programs in Asian Studies Buddhist Studies East-West Psychology Integral Counseling and Psychology Write California Institute of Asian Studies 3494 21st Street, San Francisco 94110 (415)648-1489, 648-3949 The Cheung-Mann Foundation Stressing Preventive Medicine, Acupuncture, Acupressure, Chinese Herbal Medicine, Nutrition and Western Diagnostic Techniques Chiropractic Manipulation Performed by Physicians Hours 9 to 5 Call for appointment 843-9838 or 843-9839 2131 University Ave., Suite 208 Berkeley DANCE continued from page A15 San Francisco Moving Co.: performs •'Turning by Shela Xoregos, "The Windows," (world premiere), "An Unveiling, Pari III" by Emily Keeler and "Cantes Jondos" and "Country Suite" by Rhonda Martyn. Fri/28-Sat/29. 8 30 pm, Mar¬ garet Jenkins Dance Stuido. 1590 15th St. (at Mission). SF. $4 general, $2 50 seniors or PAS plus $1.863-7580 Berkeley Dance Co.: full concert with new jazz works, Sat/29, 8 pm, American Legion, Oak¬ land War Memorial Bldg , 200 Grand Ave (near Lake Merritt). Oakl. for further information call. 548-5962 “Motivity”: Terry Sendgraff performs air dancing, a merging of dance, gymnastics and motional-emotional improvisation on various levels of trapezes, Sun/30, 8 pm, the Motivity Center at Skylight Studio 2547 8th St.. Berk , $3 50 general or PAS plus $1,841-6500. Chiang Ching Dance Co.: performs both classical and original works in a fusion of elements from East and West (traditional Chinese dance blended with contemporary Western forms). Thurs/4. 8 pm. Herbst Theatre. Civic Center. SF. $3 and $5. tickets available at the SF Opera House, Ticketron. and Bass outlets, for, further information call, 986-1823. _ “El Cuadro Flamenco”: presents an evenmq ot Flamenco dance with quest artist Cruz Luna. Fri/5. 9 pm. La Pena Cultural Center. 3105 Shattuck Ave , Berk.. $3 general, 849-2568 Reine de Sabah Ensemble: a contemp- orary Harvest Dance Ritual inspired by the ancient art of bellydance, Part 1. Fri/5 and Part 2. Sat/6, 9 pm. Berkeley Moving Arts, 2200 Parker (at Fulton). Berk . $3 general or $5 for both performances. 848- 4878 Oakland Ballet: opens their Fall Season with performances of Loring's ' Tenderland," Marc Wilde's "Intermezzi." John Pasqualettfs "Rite of Spring," and Ronn Guid.'s "Trois Gymnopedies," Fn/5-Sat/6, 8 30 pm. Paramount Theatre. 2025 Broadway. Oakl, $2, $6, $8, $9, for further infor¬ mation call 465-6400. Earthly Co.: grand opening performances for the new Earthly Studios, the recently formed SF- based dance troupe will present three modern works by choreographer-director Sheri Gaia, “Starry Night," "Duals," and "Rage" (premiere). Fn/5-Sun/7 and Fri/12-SaI/13. 8 30 pm. Earthly Studios, 223 Mississippi St. SF, $4 in advance, $4 50 at the door, for further information call 626- 4622 DANCE PARTIES “Dance Extravaganza”: San Franciscans for Reasonable Growth present a disco/rock extra¬ vaganza to benefit Prop "O". Sat/29. 8:30 pm. the Women's Center. 3543 18fh St (near Valencia). SF. $3.50. for further information and ticket reserva¬ tions call. 566-7050. ★ Dance Benefit: sponsored by the Potrero Hill Tenants Alliance for the San Franciscans for Affordable Housing Rent Control Initiative, live entertainment featuring Lenny ("Ballad of Dan White") Anderson, dancing, food, no host bar, Sat/29, 8 pm. Opic Nerve Studio. 141 10th St. SF. $1,861-4385 Ashkenaz Folk Dance Cooperative: International folk dance night, Sat/29; Israeli, Sun/30; boogie night (salsa), Mon/i, Balkan. Tues/2; Near East night, Wed/3, Greek, Thurs/4. Square Dancipg with Karana Drayton calling and music by the Arkansas Sheiks. Fri/5, lessons (includes party), 8-9 30 pm. $2. party, 930-late. $1 50, 1317 San Pablo Ave .Berk .525-5054 Fairfax Pavilion Friday Night Dances: ongoing dances featuring perfor¬ mances by musicians and light-artists. 8 pm- midnight, the Fairfax Pavilion, behind Town Hall on Bolinas Rd , Fairfax. $5, 332-9100 Friday Night Dance Jams: at the Healing Ourselves Center, free-form dancing to taped music. 9-12:30 pm every Friday. 2547 A 8th St .Berk .$3. 841-6911 NOTES ★ Margaret Jenkins Dance Co: presents open rehearsals Tuesday evenings in October m preparation for the Company's Home Season, questions from the audience and discus¬ sion will be encouraged. 7 30-8:30 pm, the Mar¬ garet Jenkins Community Performance Space, 1590 15th St.. SF. free to the public. 863-7580 ★ indicates general admission of $1 or less. —Jeannette Doob MIND& MATTER Alexander Technique: a 6-week class on how to acquire good habits and incorporate them into daily activities, begins Thurs/27. 6:30-8 00 pm, Berkeley VMCA, 2001 Allston Way. Berk . $40. 848- 6800. ext 15. An Elegant Evening with King Tut a slide lecture by author and ancient historian, Dr Ed¬ ward L Jones. Fri/28, 7 pm, the African-American Historical and Cultural Sociely, 680 McAllister. SF $5. 864-1010 ★ Meditation Class: a lecture senes, ac¬ companied by the practice of- meditation .exer¬ cises. with Susan Buchner, begins Fri/28, 7 30 pm. Potrero Hill Neighborhood Center. 953 DeHaro. SF free. 664-3552 ★ Art and Conversation: a program for senior citizens, includes light refreshments and a guided tour of "Art for Wearing exhibit. Fri/28, 10 30 am, 4th floor, SF Museum of Modern Art. Van Ness at McAllister, SF, free, 863-8800 Batik: a class to give you the basic tools to be¬ gin designing fabric pieces using the batik (wax re¬ sist) process, with Shelby Harmon, begins Fn/28. 9:30-12 30 pm, Falkirk Community Cultural Center. 1408 Mission. San Rafael, $36. 456-1112. ext 266. Hawaii Calls: learn some of the beautiful and enchanting hulas of Hawaii, a 10-week class with Irene Weed, begins Fri/28. 10:30-11 30 am. Har¬ vey Milk Recreational Arts Bldg . 50 Scott. SF. $27. 751-5468 Handwriting Analysis: a workshop in graphoanalysis. taught by Sister Cecilia Cronin, Sat/29. 10 am-4 pm. Bertrand Hall. Dominican Col¬ lege, San Rafael, for information, call 457-4440. ext 243 A Woman’s Image Reflected in Her Speech a course about how women character¬ istically speak and the image they proiect. with Carol Fleming, Sat/29. 1 pm, Unitarian Center, Franklin at Geary. SF. $5 The Brain and Consciousness: Karl Pribram and Julian Jaynes discuss the latest theories and research on awareness and brain physiology. Sat/29. 9 30 am-4 pm, UC Extension. 55 Laguna, SF. $30. 861-6833 “More Than Simply Shelter...”: a workshop designed to explore and model the healthful house of the near future, Sat/29. 10 am-4 pm. 1245 24th Ave . SF. $25 per person, $45 couples, preregistration required, 681 -6115 Childbirth Practices: what they are where they came from and where they are going, a workshop with Suzanne Arms, Sat/29. 10 am-5 pm. Holistic Childbirth Institute. 1627 Tenth Ave. SF, $18,665-3200 Back Pain: Frank Wildman, leads a workshop on prevention methods and exercises to relieve chronic pain and discomfort, Sat/29. 9 30 am-4 30 pm, UC Extension. 55 Laguna, SF. $25.861-6833. Money Matters: a workshop sponsored by Options for Women Over 40. Sat/29, 9 am-5 pm, Women's Building, 3543 1 8th St.. SF. $40, bring brown bag lunch. 641-0718 Vegetarian Cooking Demonstration: sponsored by the Vegetarian Society of SF, Sun/30. 5 pm. Real Food Company. 2140 Polk, SF. $3 includes samples. 775-6874 White Elephant Sale: benefit presented by Professional Photographers of SF. Sun/30, 9- 11 am. Preview, 11 am-5 pm. Sale. Fort Mason Center, Laguna at Marina. SF. 397-4874 Introduction to Cervical seit-Exam: drop in and learn to use your own speculum. Mon/1, 7:30 pm. SF Women's Health Center. 3789 24th St., SF. $3, 282-6999 Home and Street Safety for Gays: a special program for gay men and lesbians, with Donald C. Biggs. Mon/1. 7:30 pm. Newcomer's Service. 85 Carl, SF. $2, free to unemployed per¬ sons. 566-3336 or 648-5948 ★ Berkeley Career Forum: a weekly discussion and support group for people chang¬ ing jobs, exploring new careers, Mon/1. 7 30 pm. Right Livelihood Associates. Berkeley U-U Fel¬ lowship, Cedar at Bonita, Berk , free, 549-2423 Turf Grasses and Groundcovers for Drought-Tolerant Gardens: a lecture by Dave Hanson, Agriculture Extension Agent. Tues/2, 10 * am. Hall of Flowers, 9th Ave at Lincoln. SF. $3. 661-1316 How to Change Relationships: Dr John Dusay teaches a new technique called Ego- grams. Tues/2, 8 pm, SF Jewish Community Cen¬ ter. 3200 California. SF. $3. 346-6040 Family Nature Night on Games: learn a variety of games using nature's rules and strategies, and your own senses, Tues/2. 7-8 pm, Lucie Stern Community Center, 1176 Emerson, Palo Alto. free. 324-8737. How to Find the Right Job: a lecture by Pat McGee, job counselor Irom Right Liveli¬ hood Associates, Tues/2, 8 pm, the Network Coffeehouse, 1036 Bush, SF. $1 unemployed, $2 employed. 989-6097. “Games People Play: why do we Choose Certain Types of Relationships?'’: a lecture on communications between men and women, with Carl Levinson. Tues/2, 7 45 pm. SF Jewish Community Center, 3200 California, SF. $3. 346-6040 Lifesaving Certification: a^sweek class for both Red Cross and YMCA certifica¬ tion, begins Tues/2, 7:30-9:30 pm. Central YMCA, 220 Golden Gate. SF. for information, call 885- 0460 Stop Smoking Class: a 5-week class Mary China, group leader, begins Tues/2, 6 pm, Health Center #5, 1351 24th Ave . SF. $8. to pre- register, call 661-4400. ★ Children of Divorce: a lecture by Joan Berlin Kelly. Wed/3, 9:30 am, Sutter Auditorium. Mount Zion Hospital. 1600 Divasadero. SF. free. 346-5097 ★ An Early Mongol Capitol in Iran: a lecture by Eleanor Sins on recent work at Sultan- lyeh. Wed/3, 8 pm. 101 Moffitt Library, UC Berk . free. 642-3734. ★ Overcoming Negative Childhood Programming: a lecture, Wed/3, 7 30 pm. Quad- rinity Center. 1 005 Sansome. SF, free. 397-0466. Pre-Christian Survivals in the seas- onal Festivals of Rural Ireland: a lecture on Cel¬ tic society past and present by Jim Duran. Wed/3. 8 pm, Fort Mason Center, Bldg. 312, Laguna at Marina. SF. $2.50. 465-5996 “Meditiation— Add a Little Magic 10 Your Work Life”: a seminar for working people sponsored by S.Y.D.A. Foundation. Wed/3. 7:15- 9:30 pm, Hyatt on Union Square. Powell at Post, SF, $3, for information, call 655-8677 “What Was Modern in European Sculp¬ ture 1918-1945?”: a lecture by Albert E Elsen. Wed/3, 7 30-8:30 pm, Herbst Theatre. SF, Museum of Modern Art, Van Ness at McAllister, SF. $2. 863-8800 ★ Hypertension: a community health edu¬ cation lecture. Thurs/4, 12 45-1 45. pm. Si Francis Lutheran Church. Creative Retirement Program, 1 52 Church, SF, free. 666-2325 ★ Grief and Bereavement: a communi- ty health education lecture. Thurs/4. 1 1 am-noon. St Philip's Church Senior Club, 725 Diamond, SF. free, 666-2325 Morley Baer: presents a slide show and dis¬ cussion of his architectural and environmental photography. Thurs/4, 7 30 pm, Studio One. 365 45th St . Oakl .$2,655-4767 ★ Modern Society and the Treatment of Animals: a lecture by Cleveland Amory, Thurs/4. 7 pm. Fort Mason Center, Bldg 310. Laguna at Marina. SF, free. 474-4020. ★ The All-lnclusiveness of Life: a talk by Vimala Thakar, Tues/2. Thurs/4, 7 30 pm, Pacific School of Religion. 1798 Scenic Ave . Berk .$3 Trekking in Nepal: a slide lecture by Francis Chamberlain. Thurs/4. 8 pm. Room B- 226, College of the Arts and Humanities, Indian Valley Colleges, Ignacio Blvd., Novato. $2. 883- 2211 . ★ Great Works: a series on great paint¬ ings, sculptures and buildings, led by publisher Harry Koch, begins Thurs/4. 2 pm. Stonestown Family YMCA. 333 Eucalyptus Drive. SF, free. 731-1900 ★ Preventive Eye Care Seminar: covers the prevention of nearsightedness, nutri¬ tion as a factor in our vision, biofeedback, visual hygiene and the exercise techniques. Thurs/4, 7:30 pm, Fort Mason Center. Bldg 312, Laguna at Marina. SF, free, 441-5^05 You and Your Money: a course to ex¬ plore emotional and practical money concerns, four 2-hour sessions, begins Thurs/4. 7 30-9 30 pm, Women for Women Educational Center. 421 Locust. SF, $50, 668-7112 NOTES Ghost Adoption Agency: offers weekly classes on the spiritual realm. Wednesdays. 7 30- 9 pm, classes are being held throughout the Bay Area, for information on locations and times, call 795-5266 ★ indicates general admission of $1 or less. — Harriet Salley RADIO FRIDAY/28 New Horizons: "Beyond Biofeedback Elmer and Alyce Green, research team at the Menninger Foundation, are pioneers in biofeed- back, a method of monitoring" the body to gain control of normally unconscious functions They examine creativity, meditation, states of con¬ sciousness. the role of the mind in cancer therapy, self-image and the powers of psychic healers and Indian yogis and warn of the public misuse of these principles in recent "mind training" and hypnotic techniques, noon, KPFA 94 FM Golden Gate Bridge: Harold McClain reminisces about the Golden Gate, a bridge he helped to build, and Stephen Cassady talks about "Spanning the Gate." a book that spans the history of the famous bridge, ‘2 pm. KCBS 740 AM Oakland A’s: vs Kansas City, 5:10 pm. KXRX 1500 AM In the Spirit of Yom Kippur: Antici- patmg the highest Holy Day of the Jewish calender. Karl Haas offers a philosophical look at its.music and its meaning, 7 pm. KQED 88.5 FM Giants: vs San Diego Padres in SF, 7 15 pm, KNBR 680 AM Opera Overture: preview ol me SF Opera s live broadcast of "Elektra with recorded ex¬ cerpts. 7:30 pm. followed by the opera at 7 50 pm, KKHI 95 7 FM and 1550 AM Science Fiction Theatre: me Bureau of Disillusionments vs The Great Garbonzo, or Come Back Duke of Earl! " written and produced by Tom Lopez. 10:30 pm. KPFA 94 FM Hot Canaries: features Eartha Kitt. Elaine Stritch and Kaye Ballard. 11 30 pm, KALW 91.7 FM SATURDAY/29 Oakland A’s l vs Kansas City. 10:30-am. KXRX 1500 AM Radio a la Carte: features the best songs in France this summer, 5 pm. KQED 88 5 FM San Jose State: vs Arizona. 705 pm. KXRX 1500 AM Golden State Warriors: vs Seattle Supersonics. 9 pm. KNBR 680 AM Alien Worlds: features "The Himalayan Parallel," 9 30 pm. KSFO 560 AM Mystery Theatre: presents Passing of Black Eagle" by O Henry. 10 pm, KSFO 560 AM SUNDAY/30 . Oakland A' S: vs Kansas City, 11:10 am. KXRX 1500 AM Live from the Met: verors oteiio simulcast with Channel 9. noon, KQED 88 5 FM “Sons and Lovers” Part 4: ciara leaves her husband and begins a new Job in the factory where Paul works. Although Paul has now grown close to both Miriam and Clara, he has no physical relationship with either ot them, 8 pm and Thurs/4 at 11 pm. KCSM 91 1 FM Matthew Manning/Psychic: the famed English psychic talks about the nature of his powers. 9-11 pm. KALW 91.7 FM MONDAY/1 Options in Education: schooling in China, patt I ot VI. 3:30 pm, KQED 88.5 FM NFL Football: New England at Green Bay 6 pm, KCBS 740 AM Jazz Alive!: features the Pat Metheny Quar- let Dave Friesen and John Stowell Duo, Eber- hard Weber and Colours. 10 pm. KQED 88 5 FM TUESDAY/2 The Goon Show: The Jet Propelled Guided Nalfi." starring Peter Sellers. 12 30 pm, KALW91 7 FM Golden State Warriors: vs l a Lakers at Fresno, 7 30 pm, KNBR 680 AM Living On Indian Time: the world as seen by Native Americans, 10 pm, KPFA 94 FM WEDNESDAY/3 California Driver: Don Moziey has a unique way to save gas with car windows open, 7.50 pm, KCBS 740 AM Chicago Symphony Orchestra: presents Beethovens "Fidelio" (complete opera), performed by soloists Hiidegard Behrens, Peter Hoffman, Theo Adams, Hans Sotin. Sona Ghazarin, David Kuebler and Gwynne Howell with the Chicago Symphony Chorus, conducted by Sir George Solt: 8 pm, KKHI 95 7 FM and 1550 AM THURSDAY/4 Opera Preview: discussion notes and musi¬ cal selections designed to heighten the listener's enjoyment of the SF Opera s live broadcast of ' Don Carlo. 8 pm. KKHI 95 7 FM and 1550 AM Sears Radio Theater: Love-and-Hate night with hostess Cicely Tyson features "A Matter of Priorities, starring Peggy Webber and Vic Perrin; a new look at life in her small town lures a young Hollywood script writer away from a promising career in the movie business, 8:06 pm, KCBS 740 AM Not Tonight, I Have a Headache: a call-in program on the delights and dilemmas of sexuality, ranging Irom the benign to the bizarre, hosted by Sue Donati, 10 pm. KPFA 94 FM — Fiona Mackenzie OFFBEAT MOVIES ASIAN ART MUSEUM: discovering the ART OF KOREA, 2 pm, Sat/29-Mon/l. Golden Gate Park, near 9th Ave at Lincoln Way, SF, free except for price of admission to museum, $1 adults. 50® youths ages 12-i 7. free to seniors and children under age 12. 558-2993 ★ ASHKENAZ ‘Comedy Classics features THE COMMITTEE. 1968. THE CREDITORS, plus three by Charlie Chaplin THE IDLE CLASS, (1922- PAY DAY (1922). and A NIGHT AT THE SHOW -1915), 9 pm. Sat/29, 1317 Sari Pablo near Gilman. Berk , $2 adults, $1 children. 525-5054 ★ CINEMATHIQUE: "Suzanne Simpson Four American Artists with the Filmmaker in Person." Suzanne Simpson is a local filmmaker who specializes in documentaries on artists, program features KARL WIRSUM (1973), ROY DE FOREST (1974) HASSEL SMITH (1975), RAKU (1976), plus ISIS. A SCULPTURE BY MARK Dl SUVERO (1978), 8 pm, Sun/30; "New German Filmmakers Presented in Conjunction with the SF Art Institute and the Goethe Insti¬ tute," 8 pm, Wed/3-Thurs/4. SF Art Institute, 800 Chestnut. SF, $2 includes coffee. 586-8486 ★ COLE HALL CINEMA: the buddy HOLLY STORY, with Gary Busey. 7 and 9 pm. Fn/5, UCSF. Medical Sciences Bldg . 513 Parnassus, SF, $2 general, $1.50 members and students, $1 children ages 14 and under, 666- 2019. INTERSECTION: improvisationai Comedy," features comics from the Holy City Zoo m a live performance, plus the films. THE COMMITTEE. 1968, THE CREDITORS, plus shorts with Woody Allen and Lenny Bruce. 8 pm, Sun/30. 756 Union. SF. $2 adults. $1 children, 397-6061 80 LANGTON STREET: presents New York filmmaker Red Grooms who introduces three films and talks about his work, program includes SHOOT THE MOON (1962) FAT FEET (1966), plus RED RIDING HOOD (1979), 8 pm, Fri/28. Odd Fellows Hall, 3rd Floor, 26 7th St, SF, $3 or PAS (plus $1), 626-541 6 Tues -Frir 1 -5 pm ★ LE CONTE SCHOOL: "La Politique de Subversion" (The Politics of Subversion) features STATE OF SIEGE (Costa-Gavras). 7:30 pm, Fri/28. BATTLE OF ALGIERS (Gillo Pontecorvo), 7 30 pm, Fri/5. 2241 Russell at Ellsworth, Berk . $2 general. $1 students with Merritt College Activities Card, for information call Merritt College at 531-4911. ext 324 or 325 ★ NOE VALLEY CINEMA Betty Boop Festival, features MINNIE THE MOOCHER. THE OLD MAN AND THE MOUNTAIN. SNOW WHITE, MOTHER GOOSE LAND, plus BETTY BOOP’S BIRTHDAY PARTY. 8 pm, Fri/28, THE RULES OF THE GAME (Jean Renoir. French with English subtitles), plus a short based on James Thurber's fable. THE UNICORN IN THE GARDEN (1958), 8 pm. Fri/5. Noe Valley Ministry, 1021 Sanchez at 23rd St . SF. $2 general, $1 50 members, $1 seniors, 75® children ages 12 and under, 282-5354 PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE: "In Memoriam Larissa Shepltko (1939-1979)." features THE ASCENT (Larissa Shepitko. 1977, USSR English titles), with Boris Plotnikov. Vladimir Gostjuhin, Anatoli Solomtzin and Sergei Jakovlev, 7 30 and 9:30 pm. Fri/28. "Cartoons with Expressionism." feature.s GYPPED IN EGYPT (John Foster, 1930). CROON CRAZY (1933), TECHNO CRACKED (Ub Iwerks, 1933), LET’S RING DOOR BELLS (Sid Marcus. 1935). BIMBO’S INITIATION (Dave Fleischer. 1931). UP TO MARS (Dave Fleischer. 1930). plus MECHANICAL MONSTERS: SUPERMAN (Dave Fleischer. 1941). 2:30 and 6 40 pm, $1 admission; "James Cagney and the Early Warners' Talkies, features JIMMY THE GENT (Michael Curtiz. 1934). with James Cagney, Bette Davis and Allen Jenkins, 3 45 and 7:55 pm, $1 admission, plus FIVE STAR FINAL (Mervyn LeRoy. 1931). with Edward G Robinson. Frances Starr. Marian Marsh and Boris Karloff. 5 and 9:10 pm, $1 admission. Sat/29 "Videotapes by Tom Marioni with Tom Marioni in person." 2 pm. free admission, "Chaplin's Masterpiece, ' features CITY LIGHTS (Charles Chaplin. 1931). with Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill. Harry Myers and Hank Ivfann. 4 30 and 8 20 pm. plus "Two Rare Comedies from the Twenties, leatures FEEL MY PULSE (Gregory La Cava. 1928). with Bebe Daniels. Richard Arlen and William Powell, and LOVE 'EM AND LEAVE ‘EM (Frank Tuttle. 1926). with Evelyn Brent Lawrence Gray and Louise Brooks. 6 and 9:50 pm. Sun/30, call theater for future titles and times 2621 Durant. Berk, $2 50 double feature. $2 single feature. $1 matinee, call for special rates 642-1412 ★ SF PUBLIC LIBRARY, tumble¬ weeds (1919), plus INTRODUCTION TO TUMBLEWEEDS (1939), noon. Tues/2, Lurie Room, Mam Library. Civic Center, free. 558-3191. CALCUTTA (Louis Malle). 7 pm Tues/2. Sunset Branch, 1305 18th Ave . tree, 566-4552 THE ELEANOR ROOSEVELT STORY, 7 pm Wed/3, Anza Branch, 550 37th Ave . free. 752- 1960 UC BERKELEY: "Jean Renoir Tribute," features GRAND ILLUSION (Jean Renoir, 1937, France), with Jean Gabin, Pierre Fresnay. Erich von Stroheim and Marcel Dalio. plus THE CRIME OF MONSIEUR LANGE (Jean Renoir, 1935. France), with Rene Lefevre, Florelle. Jules Berry and Marcel Levesque. 7:30 pm. Thurs/4, Wheeler Auditorium. UC Berk . $2.50. 642-0212. ★ UCSF: LAMAZE PREPARED CHILDBIRTH FILMS, 8 pm, Wed/3. Rm 214 S. Medical Sciences Bldg.. 513 Parnassus. SF. free ★ VIDEO FREE AMERICA: Ma* Aimy Video Performance" Almy has created a new video performance work especially for her Video Free America showing titled MODERN TIMES. It deals with narcissism, infidelity and divorce, 8 pm. Fri/5-Sat/6. 442 Shotwell. SF. $2. 648-9040 CHILDREN’S FILMS ★ LAWRENCE HALL OF SCIENCE. "Young Children's Films, features HANS IN LUCK. METRIC MEETS THE INCHWORM, plus LITTLE TIM AND THE BRAVE SEA CAPTAIN, 10 30 am and 2 pm. Sat/29-Sun/30. UC Berk . $1 75 adults, 75® students, seniors and children ages 7-12, free to members and children under 6, 642-5132 ★ indicates general admission of $2 or less. — Fiona Mackenzie MOVIE HOUSES SAN FRANCISCO MOVIES ALEXANDRIA: Geary at 18th Ave , 752-5100 ALHAMBRA: Polk at Green, 775-5656 BALBOA: Balboa at 38th Ave ,221-8184 BRIDGE: Geary near Masonic. 751-3212 CASTRO: 429 Castro at Market. 621-61 20 CENTO CEDAR: Cedar at Larkin 776-8300 CINEMA 21:Chestnut at Steiner. 921-1234 CLAY: Fillmore at Clay, 346-1123 COLISEUM: Clement at 9th Ave , 221-8181 CORONET: Geary and Arguello. 752-4400 EGYPTIAN: Market at 6th St , 673-7373 EMPIRE: West Portal, 661-5110 FOUR STAR: Clement at 23rd Ave , 752-2650 GATEWAY: 215 Jackson at Battery, 421-3353 GHIRARDELLI: Beach at Polk, 441-7088 GRANADA: Mission at Ocean, 584-68C0 KOKUSAI: Post and Buchanan, 563-1400 LUMIERE: 1572 California. 885-3201 METRO I: Union at Webster. 221-8181 METRO II: Union near Fillmore. 931-7666 NEW MISSION: Mission at 22nd St.. 647-1261 NORTH POINT: Powell at Bay, 989-6060 PARKSIDE: Taravalat 19th Ave . 6^-1940 PLAZA: Serramonte Plaza Daly City, 756-3240 REGENCY I: Van Ness at Sutter. 673-7141 REGENCY 2: Sutter at Van Ness 776-5505 RICHELIEU:. 1075 Geary at Van Ness. 771 -5200 ROXIE: 16th St near Valencia. 863-1087 ROYAL: Polk near California. 474-2131 SERRA: 2170 Junipero Serra. 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Patrick, establishes vivid and believable characters, yet the form of the play results in a flood of words—and these words have a brilliance and power of their own, independent of the actor or the production. The plav exists for me like a beloved mu¬ sical score that I am delighted to get a chance to hear in a new interpre¬ tation. The play is an elegant variation on the confessional play set in a bar. As in other bar plays, the characters dig into themselves deeper and deeper as they get drunker and drunker, hut Patrick is dealing with an issue larger than the indi¬ vidual Ifves portrayed onstage. The monologues are unified hv a single theme: the 1960s. It’s as if someone has asked, just before the beginning of the play, “Where did the Sixties leaveyou?” A secretary tells us about the dream of an ideal America shat¬ tered by the assassination of John F. Kennedy. A young Vietnam veteran reads from his war diary. A beautiful would-be actress and sex symbol tells about her defeat in the sexual jungle of New York City. An ex-hippie radical activist talks about her disillusion and her boy¬ friend’s paranoid madness. A gay actor (partly Robert Patrick him¬ self) describes the brief golden age of the first Off-Off Broadway thea¬ ter, ending in horrifying tragedy (the episode is based on the famed Caffe Cino and Joe Cino’s suicide after the death of his lover). Each account of the Sixties is al¬ most totally unlike and unrelated to any of the others. A tacit theme of the play, embodied in its form, is the disunity of America in the Six¬ ties. In the newly revised version of the play being presented by the Theatre Rhinoceros, Patrick has added a child of the Seventies, the bartender. His involvement in a wild life of drugs and sexual affairs (one with a woman and one with a man) is shown to he a panic- stricken retreat from a present state of the world too frightening to face. Yes, it isa play that shakes you up and drains you emotionally, hut don’t avoid it because of this. It is also, like all of Patrick’s plays, bril¬ liantly funny and rich in the details of life and of our culture. To avoid it would be like refusing to listen to Beethoven. The Theatre 1 Rhinoceros pro¬ duction, directed by Allan Estes, works very well for the most pa^t and manages to sustain the high emotionality of the climactic se¬ quences. It’s their best work so far, and it is,a real pleasure to watch a young group find its way and grow . Charlie Hut ford as the actor is the best I’ve seen him. He uses the intense undercurrent of hysteria in his voice more wisely and more sparingly than in his previous per¬ formances, saving it for when it counts and making it pay off very well. Kate Flatland as the ex-hippie activ ist is wonderf ully real for most of the play, but goes a hit too far at the climax of her monologue, losing her lines in unintelligible wailing and blubbering. Kathleen Murphy as the secretary starts out too briskly to he believable, hut her character grows during the course of the play and involves us. Terry Ross as the would-be sex idol earned applause at the end of one of her speeches on opening night, and Martin Xero as the Vietnam veteran delivers his harrowing tale convincingly. Randy Bennett, who took on the role of the bar¬ tender a week before opening, be- traved some nervousness in the jerkinessof his movements hut suc¬ ceeded in establishing his character reasonably well. I have only two general quarrels with Estes’s direction. First, he occasionally has too much extra ac¬ tivity onstage, and this detracts from some of the monologues. Second, he has the characters inter¬ act physically from time to time, when, to me, a major point ol the play is that the characters do not relate to one another. In this latter point I seem to he in disagreement with the playwright, by the wav, w ho directed his play last June in New York: it was an intriguing, ec¬ centric performance (rather like a Glenn Gould interpretation) and included a great deal of psychologi¬ cal and physical interaction between the characters. DUCK’S BREATH MYSTERY THEATRE, Great American Music Hali, SF, Sept. 15, on the eve of a nationwide tour. o begin with, I know you’re not supposed to think about Duck's Breath. I also admit that 1 did not stay for their second set Saturday night at the Great American Music Hall. It was all my fault and not theirs. The rest of the audience was gob¬ bling up the nonsense gleefully and having a great time. But 1 was tired and in a rare brown study. I could not get into the show. My thoughts combined several strands, starting with I) very mixed feefings about the new black play I had just come from at the Western Addition Cul tural Center (John Hatch’s Episode From an Ancient Script)—earnest, primitive and tedious, yet reaching for and nearly touching something 1 respect enormously: the collective experience and sensibility of a peo¬ ple; and 2) how I handled the situa¬ tion a half hour before when two black youths offered to heat me into a bloody pulp for what they correctly took to he evidences of my sexual orientation. So the show starts. Two jocks come out wearing dresses, "claiming to he from the Transvestite Farmers Association of Iowa. It s good-natured jock fun. But I don’t laugh. Am I losing my sense of hu¬ mor? What a delicate thing humor is! Flashback: 1972, Damariscotta, Maine. The old community movie house. “Laugh!" I nudge my wife — “Isn’t it funny?” On the screen Charlie Chaplin rollerskates, blindfolded, apparently oblivious to the fact that his backward circles carry him to the very edge ol a 20- foot drop-off. “No,” she says, “it's too much like life." The rest of Modern Times suddenly becomes a horror movie.' It’s too much like life. A Duck's Breath joke: “Lack ol brains! He's a typical deficient per¬ sonality. the type you see walking around laundromats every day.” A roar of laughter from the hoard of young people out having a good time at $5 each. I think of the fat old woman who comes into the laundromat and offers to read my palm. If this is humor, it’s not my kind. Kind" [Middle English kynd(e), kindle). Old English cynd, ge- cynd(e), birth, nature, race.] What is mv kind? Flashback one week: a semi-secret sneak preview of a work in progress, advertised only hv a single poster on a lamppost at 9th and Folsom. It's the closest I have ever come to the roots ol thea¬ ter as community ritual, the most numinous theater I have ever ex¬ perienced. My kind. Can differing kinds communi¬ cate with each other? Yes. I think of some of the skits in the Asian American Workshop’s re¬ cent review: humor that is subtle and suggestive of many possibili¬ ties, and with which I feel com¬ fortable because there are no jokes putting down anybody else. But Duck’s Breath is not really putting down any nationality, re¬ ligion, sex or sexual orientation or anything like that. They know bet¬ ter (and heaven knows not all com¬ edians do). Sure, here they are jumping around and mugging in a parody of ethnic dances (Scottish. Turkish, Iranian and Paraguayan) — hut it’s not offensive to anybody. But it’s still not my kind of hu¬ mor. Its basic message is: “I’m nor¬ mal. Anybody differing from me is a joke." In a mild form, it is the hu¬ mor of the oppressor — or, at least, the humor of those born to power, though they might well be uncon- sciousof this as to them their power is part of their normality. They are not publicly scorned or arrested and beaten for wearing dresses. They do not suffer deficient per¬ sonalities. They are not “ethnics." So at halftime, I leave and wan¬ der down O'Farrell Street thinking about it all. Just thinking about their title, summing it all up: Duck’s Breath Mystery Theatre. Sure, it's theater. No. it has nothing to do with mystery in any sense. And the "Duck’s Breath" — well, that’s typical of one of the mainstays of their humor: ludi¬ crous incongruity. But in my overlv serious mood. . even that turns inside out for me. Ducks do breathe. So do trails- DOPPO, CLOWN OF YES¬ TERYEAR. Created and performed by Leonard Pitt, at the Marina Theatre, Bldg. 310. Ft. Mason. Bay and Laguna Streets, SF. Fri-Sun. evenings through Sept. 30,848-5396. vestitrs, farmers, Iowans, Scots, Turks, Iranians and Paraguayans. So do earnest young black play¬ wrights and so do queer bashers. And breath is sacred. At the very least, it’s a sign of life; it’s a symbol of commonality; some people called primitives equate the breath with the soul. What’s funny about duck’s breath? Yes, it’s odd to think about at first. But isn't laughing about that a bit like a child’s laugh¬ ing at the first effeminate man or masculine woman he or she sees? Or a white child making “Chinese eves”? My kind are .odd people, and we know that there is no normality. Home, still wondering about what has happened to my sense of humor. I reassure myself that I still have one by thumbing through Tristram Shandy— a great book of odditites, my kind of book. “I want you to call the new dance ‘Jenny,’ ” I say to my kind of lover, who creates dances. And I reread my favorite passage, ad¬ dressed to “my dear Jenny.” It's fanciful, sensuous and terribly poignant, and it ends in a joke: “Now, for what the world thinks of that ejaculation— I would not give a groat.” — Robert Chesley A s the aging French clown, Doppo. mime Leonard Pitt gives a rich and splendid performance. Departing from classical mime, in which the performer is silent, Pitt uses language (in this case, French) in conjunction with his body to convey character. Doppo is a proud and endearing old man whose spirit dwells in his youth when he was a strong and agile clown and his legs were as powerful as those of of an elephant. His belongings — an old birdcage inhabited by an imaginary bird (Napoleon) and ancient traveling bags— are the artifacts of memory. The music that once accompanied his movement acrossa high wire pours forth from a battered valise. The whimsy and wistfulness of this piece emerge from the obvious disparity between Doppo’s present state of physical deterioration and his lingering sense of himself as a facile clown. In his near- blindness, he mistakes his toes for mushrooms and is unable to step down from a stool without the aid of an audience member. One wonders if Napoleon exists in Doppo’s imagination, the imagination of the audience, or both. Pitt is a masterful performer able to express a vast spectrum of character qualities by the precise and fluid^articulation of his body and the use of a hand- carved three-quarter wooden mask. One hand carries on a conversation with the other as Doppo darts from one object of interest to another. Pitt’s nimble Wendy (Mary Valentino) Is a groupie, and Peter (Rhonda Zirkle) is a rock star In Les Nickelettes’ “Peter Pan: A New Wave Fairy Tale.' transitions provide many pleasing surprises and his Doppo is a genuinely loveable and irascible fellow. Pitt’s 20/9 Blake —his most recent performance prior to Doppo —toured EuFope and the U.S. in addition to its suc¬ cessful San Francisco engage¬ ment. You need not understand a word of French to follow Doppo. However, Pitt’s usage is so rudimentary that those with just a vear of French behind them will think themselves geniuses. PETER PAN: A NEW WAVE FAIRYTALE. Book and lyrics by Les Nickelettes. music by Richard Burnley. Performed by Les Nickelettes at Studio Eremos, 401 Alabama (at 17th St.) SF, Fri.-Sun. through Oct. 7, 621-0448. n the most up-to date and inventive version of Peter Pan I’ve ever seen, Peter and V.D. the Pirate Queen—two well-known rock stars—com¬ pete for groupies, power, and fame at the Never Never Land Rock Palace, as Tiger Lily toils selflessly to raise funds for Indi¬ an Causes. Will Peter overcome V.D. in the camp battle of the century? Will Wendy get her man? Will Tinkerbell—having openly admitted “it’s not easy being a fairy”—receive sufficient clap(s) to restore her to life? Created and performed by Les Nickelettes—a troupe of eight talented women who've been strutting their stuff around the Bay Area for the past several years— Peter Pan is 'outrageous, dirty and very funny. Denise Larson has directed with vitality and freshness. The many musical numbers, composed by Richard Burnley with lyrics by Les Nickelettes and fine musical direction by Liza Kitchell, are clever, spirited and energetically per¬ formed. Members of the troupe are Jane Huether, Monica Gurney, Mary Valentino, Rhonda Zirkle, Amy Ryder, Lauren Cloud, Virginia Lombard and Ellin Stein. Being somewhat in the tradition of the let’s-have-fun- and-put-on-a-play genre of theatre, Peter Pan is not your most polished work and, for the verv same reasons, does not suffer from the restrict ions often imposed on more self¬ consciously serious Drama. The right-on pop humor derives from the trendv and the timely and is positively superior. Like all good fairytales, this one has a happy and satisfying ending. As Peter so aptly puts it. they're,“all off the same wall." — Barbara Graham EVERYSUNDAY! KARATE-DO STUDIO 1819 MARKET ST.SF History and Philosophy ZEN 12:00 to 1:00 Mind Control Meditation SELF-DEFENSE Psychological & Practical Both classes personally conducted by Duke Moore, Kyoshi, 9th Jujitsu black belt. 40 years experience in the martial arts. 863-2455 4 weeks, both classes “Hey hey, my my Rock & Roll can never die There’s more to the picture Than meets the eye...*” ^COPYRIGHT SILVER FIDDLE MUSIC 1979 A CONCERT FANTASY SHAKEY PICTURES presents NEIL YOUNG * CRAZY HORSE WITH A CAST OF THOUSANDS Directed by BERNARD SHAKEY • Executive Producer ElUOT R ABINQWITZ • Produced by L A jOHNSON PGiPARENTALGUIDANCESUGGESTED -SJ? 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(2) FOUL PLAY, plus NORTH DALLAS FORTY, opens Fri/28, call theater for times. BALBOA: (1) M00NRAKER, dally at 8 40, with matinees Sat-Sun, at 12 10 and 4 20. plus THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY, daily at 6:40 and 10:45, with matinees Sat.-Sun. at 2:20, (2) ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, opens Fri/28. daily at 8:30. with matinees Sat.-Sun. at 12 45 and 4:35. plus THE PROPHECY, daily at 6:35 and 10.25, with matinees Sat.-Sun at 2:45 BRIDGE: till marriage do us part, with Laura Antonelli, daily at 6, 8 and 10. with matinees Wed . Sat.-Sun. at 2 and 4 CASTRO: death in Venice (Luchino vis- conti, 1971), with Dirk Bogarde. 9:45. plus THE DAMNED (1969), with Dirk Bogarde and Helmut Berger. 7. Fri/28. ROMEO AND JULIET (Franco Zeffirelli, 1968). with Olivia Hussey. Leonard Whi¬ ting and Michael York, 3 30 and 8 30, plus BROTHER SUN, SISTER MOON (Franco Zeffi¬ relli, 1973), with Graham Faulkner and Alec Guin¬ ness. 1 30. 6 15 and 10 45, Sat/29: THE LAST , WALTZ (Marlin Scorsese. 1978), with The Band, 8:15, Sun/30-Mon/1, with Sun, matinee at 4:15, plus * FILLMORE (1972), 6:15 and 10 15, Sun/30-Mon/1. with Sun matinee at 2:15: BLOW-UP (Michelan- gelp Antonioni, 1966), with David Hemmmgs and Vanessa Redgrave, 0:30, plus ZABRISKIE POINT (Michelangelo Antonioni. 1970), with Mark Fre¬ chette and Daria Halprin, 6 30 and 10 30. Tues/2; GET OUT YOUR HANDKERCHIEFS (Bertrand Blier, 1979), with Gerard Depardieu, Patrick Deweare and Carol Laure. 1:30, 4 45 and 8:15, plus FEMMES FATALES (Bertrand Blier, 1976). 3 15, 645 and 10:15, Wed/3 THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Franco Zeffirelli. 1967), with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, 9:30, plus A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC (Harold Prince. 1978). with Eliza¬ beth Taylor. Diana Rigg and Hermione Gingold, 7:15, Thurs/4, THE SEVEN SAMURAI (Akira Kuro¬ sawa, 1954, Japan), with Toshiro Mitune and Taka- shi Shimura, 7 and 9 45. Fri/5. CENTO CEDAR: orchestra rehear- SAL (Federico Fellini), daily at 6:05, 8 and 9:55, with matinees Wed .Sat.-Sun at 2 15 and 4 10. CINEMA 21 ALIEN, weekdays al 7:30 and 9:45, Fri. at 6, 8 15 and 10:30, Sat.-Sun. at 1.3.15, 5 30, 8 and 10:15. CLAY: Monthy Python's LIFE OF BRIAN, daily at 12:30, 2.15, 4, 545, 7:30 and 9:15, with late shows Fri -Sal at 11 COLISEUM: ANIMAL HOUSE, opens Fri/28. daily at 7:15 and 9:15, with matinees Sat -Sun. at 1, 305 and 5 15 Northern Lights: A progressive film with popular appeal BY ROBERT DIMATTEO NORTHERN LIGHTS. Written, directed and edited by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson. At the Surf Theatre, SF. I t had its world premiere in Crosby, North Dakota—the only world premiere ever held in Crosby. It played in festivals from Mannheim to Los Angeles. Then, this past spring, it won the Best First Feature award at Cannes. And now. Northern Lights , a pro¬ duction of San Francisco’s own Cine Manifest, comes home to the Bay Area to begin a first-run engagement at the Surf Theatre. Inspirational stories may be rare these days, but Northern Lights offers two: one the story of its making, the other, the story that is told on the screen. Both are tales of bucking th^jystem. Co - writers - directors - editors John Hanson and Rob Nilsson began Northern Lights in 1974. Beyond sharing roles as film¬ makers, the two men had the commonality of Scandinavian ancestry and childhoods spent in the Midwest—Hanson hailing from North Dakota, Nilsson from northern Wisconsin (with a grand¬ father who happened to he North Dakota's first filmmaker). The sub¬ ject for the film grew out of Han¬ son's interest in the transformation of his state from a land of small family farms to a haven for agri¬ business. Digging into the area’s past, he unearthed a long history of labor struggles— and one big grass¬ roots victory. In 1915, the beleagured farmers banded together to form the Nonpartisan League—an organization designed to protect the farmers against the powerful interestsof the railroads, banks and Eastern capitalists. The results was one of the strongest Populist move¬ ments in this country's history—a movement that eventually reached 13 states. Then, in the Twenties and Thirties, divisiveness and corruption set in. By 1956, the radi¬ cal members of the league forced a last-ditch merger with the Demo¬ cratic Party. Hanson and Nilsson decided to fot'us their attention on the League's inception rather than on its troubled progression. They wanted to make a hopeful film. Funded by the North Dakota Committee for the Humanities and Public Issues, Northern Lights was filmed on location in Divide County, with many of the local larmers playing roles, providing props and costumes or offering ad¬ vice on matters of authenticity. (There are only four professional actors in the film.) It was decided that interior scenes involving the main family of characterswould be filmed in San Francisco at David Schickele’s -pre-earthquake house in the Upper Fillmore. Two North Dakota couples (Ray and Helen Ness and Mable and Thorbjorn Rue), who make their acting debuts play ing relatives of the hero¬ ine, were jlown to San Francisco for a week of filming. The intensity of involvement of the nonprofes¬ sionals was a continual source of amazement to professional actors- like leading man Bob Behling. “One day I watched Helen Ness do a scene where- she has to break down crying. A lot of actors train for years in sense-memory work to do such a scene. After Helen was finished, I asked her what she did to make the scene work. 'Well, I think of something sad,’ she said simply. ” If the film's nonprofessional actors suggested anew the neorea¬ lists'claim for their supremacy over posturing movie stars, a feisty old Socialist named Henry Martinson really took the cake. In his 96 years, Martinson has been a homesteader. Secretary of the Socialist Party, Nonpartisan League organizer. Labor Commissioner of NORTH Dakota, poet, historian and all around rabble-rouser. Hanson and Nilsson decided he would be the perfect narrator for the film, and so they devised a prologue and epi¬ logue to feature him. (They are presently editing a documentary called Survivor about Martinson's life.) Because funding for Northern Lights came in increments, the filmmakers found themselves expanding some scenes and adding others as they went along. Duties Shared by Hanson and ‘Nilsson CORONET : SOLDIER of ORANGE, daily al 7 and 9 45, with matinees Wed , Sat Sun at 1:30 and 4 15 EGYPTIAN : call theater for titles and times EMPIRE: (I) ROCKY II, weekdays at 9. Sat.-Sun at 4 10 and 8 45, plus THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY , weekdays at 7. Sat.-Sun at 2 and 6:30. (2) MANHATTAN, opens Fri/28, weekdays at 7 15 and 9, Sat -Sun at 2 15, 4. 5 45. 7:30 and 9 20. (3) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, weekdays at 9 Sat -Sun at 2. 5 45 and 9:30, plus THE WORLD'S GREATEST LOVER, weekdays at 7 15, Sat.-Sun at 4 and 7:45 FOUR STAR: la cage aux folles (BIRDS OF A FEATHER) (Edouard Molinaro. 1979, France), with Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault. daily at 6:30, 8 30 and 10:30. with mati¬ nees Wed , Sat.-Sun. at 2:30 and 4 30 GATEWAY: THE DEER HUNTER (Michael Ci- mino. 1978), wilh Robed DeNiro and Christopher Walken, plus THE BIG FIX (Jeremy Paul Kagan. 1978), with Richard Dreyfuss, runs through Sat/29; HIGH SOCIETY (Charles Wallers, 1956). with Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Louis Arm- strong, plus IT’S ALWAYS FAIR WEATHER (Stanley Donen. 1955), Stanley Donen, 1955). with Gene Kelly and Dan Dailey. Sun/30-Tues/2 THE WOMEN (George Cukor, 1939)/ with Norma Shearer. Joan Crawford. Rosalind Russell, Joan ^ntam^an^Paulem^oddar^plu^nt^PHL were divided up according to their specific strengths. Hanson wrote the script and directed the actors, while Nilsson critiqued the writing, directed the cinematogra¬ phy (of Judy Irola) and, in general, attended to the more technical aspects of production. The film took three years to make and ended up costing the penny-pinching figure of $330,000 (plus deferrments). And then, in keeping with the Populist spirit of the project, the Cine Manifest team took the finished movie back to the people whose lives it touched. They gave the film a gala opening in Crosby and soon had it hooked into half of North Dakota’s 80 theatres. As Amanda Spake has reported (Mother Jones, January 1979), in some places the film even outdrew Star Wars. Northern Lights opens with Martinson telling us that he “wants to put down a good yarn about those old times." He sits down at the typewriter aided by a diary belonging to one Ray Sorenson and startshis story. We are in North Dakota in 1915. 40 yea rs after L itt le Bighorn. Fields of wheat dance in the wind, and the endless sky seems to reach right down and touch the earth. One feels an awesome spaciousness and an expectant quiet. To live here, one could not easily forget that nature's beauty is often harsh and its force humbling. Judy Irola’s black-and-white cinematography frames a portrait of the American landscape akin to what Nestor Al- mendros brought to Days of Heaven, except that Irola's is less grandiloquent, less precious. In Days of Heaven, people were dwarfed by the landscape—the characters' fates seemed almost be¬ yond their control, bound up in some plague of nature. Northern Lights expresses the humanistic opposite: it’s a very people-oriented film. The characters struggle with an often inhospitable natural world, but they also struggle against social conditions that keep them down. And the point is that they do struggle. We come to know why these people are stoic and crabbed and tactiturn in a way that we’ll never understand the poetic- ciphers that dominate Days of Heaven. And when the characters speak in the language of their Nor¬ wegian ancestors, seeming to usher us into a Bergman film or Jan Troell’s The New Land, their temperaments link up with a specific Northern European culture. Just as the political side of this film is not allowed to dwarf the aesthetic, so the drama is carefully balanced between the personal and LADELPHIA STORY (George Cukor. 1940), with Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Wed/3-Sat/6. call theater for times GHIRARDELLI: A little romance, daily at 3.10. 5.15. 7:25 and 9'30, with matinees Sat- Sun at 1 GRANADA: call theater for titles and times. KOKUSAI: tora san love song (Yoji va- mada), w>th Kiyoshi Atsumi and Junko Ikeuchi, plus KILL THAT SHADOW, with Tetsuro Tamba, runs through Tues/2. THE PHOENIX (Kon Ichikawa), with Tomisaburo Wakayama, Masao Kusakan and Tatsuya Nakadai. plus TRAIL OF BLOOD #3 (Kazuo Ikehiro), with Yoshio Harada and Atsuo Nakamura, Wed/3-Tues/9, call theater for times. LUMIERE WHY NOT? (POURQUOI PAS?) (Colme Serreau, 1978. France), with Sami Frey, daily at 7:15 and 9:30. with matinees Wed , Sat - Sun at 1, 3 and 5. METRO 1: THEWANDERERS, daily at 7:30 and 9:45, with matinees Sat-Sun at 1 10. 3:15 and 5:20. METRO II: young Frankenstein, daily at 7 and 9 10. with matinees Sat-Sun. at 12:30. 2:40 and 4:50 NEW MISSION: north Dallas forty, plus BLOODLINE, opens Fri/28, call theater for times. NORTH POINT: apocalypse now, daily al 11.2.5.8 and 11 PARKSIDE: same time next year, with Ellen Burstyn and Alan Alda, 8 45. plus HOUSE CALLS, with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, 7 and 10 55, Thurs/27-Fri/28. THE SONG RE¬ MAINS THE SAME, with Led Zeppelin, 3, 6:30 and 10, plus JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY, 2. 5 30. 9 and 12:25, Sat/29 HEAVEN CAN WAIT, with Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, 1:40. 5:10 and 8:45, Sun/30, 8 45, Tues/2-Wed/3, plus HAROLD AND MAUDE, with Bud Cort and Ruth Gordon. 3:30, 7 and 10:35. Sun/30, 7 and 10 35. Tues/2-Wed/3. GIRLFRIENDS (Claudia Weill), with Melanie May- ron and Eli Wallach, 9. plus WOMEN IN LOVE (Ken Russell), with Alan Bates, Oliver Reed and Glenda Jackson. 6 45 and 10:40, Thurs/4-Fri/5 PLAZA: ( 1 ) THE MUPPET MOVIE, daily at 6. 7:55 and 9:45, with matinees Sat.-Sun. at 2:15 and 4:05, (2) ANIMAL HOUSE, opens Fri/28, daily at 5:40. 7:45 and 9:50, with matinees Sat.-Sun at 1.30 and 3:35. REGENCY I: time after time, opens Fri/28. call theater for times. REGENCY 2: abba, call theater for times. RICHELIEU DOUBLE INDEMNITY (Billy Wll- der, 1944), with Barbara Stanwyck. Fred MacMur- ray and Edward G. Robinson, plus THE GLASS KEY (Stuart Heisler, 1942), with Alan Ladd. Veroni- Susan Lynch brings a homespun beauty and tender strength to her portrayal of the young farmer’s wife, Inga. the social. The story of the forma¬ tion of the Nonpartisan League is filtered through the relationship of the farmer Ray Sorenson (Bob Behling) and his fiancee Inga Olsness (Susan Lynch). When the first dissident farmers come to Ray to enlist his support, he acts the rugged individualist who has chosen to keep his distance. We see him growing more and more frus¬ trated. We also see that he expects his pluck to carry him, and his love for Inga to be a balm to heal all wounds. And then, the local bank forecloses on Inga’s father’s farm, and she is forced to go to a nearby town to stay with relatives. The world keeps getting in the way of Ray’s dreams. Slowly, he comes to see that there is no way to avoid entering the fray. There may not be much you can do about a blizzard that comes out of nowhere to ruin vour crop, but there is something to be done about exploitatively high mortgage rates and grain prices set at levels amenable only to a few Eastern industrialists. Ray recognizes the Nonpartisan League as a way to regain some control over his life. Meanwhile, Inga must reconcile the moral necessity of Ray’s turning to politics with her own needs. Where is her place? What good is f ighting all her life for a better life and never getting to live it? There is a fine, questioning.intel* ligenee to this film which only lends weight to its message of political affirmation. Of great aid in this regard are the performances of Bob Behling as Ray and Susan Lynch as Inga. Behling captures Ray’s brooding side, as well as his quiet charm and flowering integrity. Lynch gives Inga a homespun beauty and tender strength. And there are individual scenes that haunt the memory: the farmers threshing wheat while a blizzard rages; Inga and Ray playing hide- and-seek in a barn; Ray morosely drunk and yowling in the dark, a lamp in his hand, and the moon a little light in the black sky. There are flaws. The middle of the picture sags a bit, and since the pace is leisurely to begin with, this is temporarily disconcerting. And then Joe Spano (as Ray’s brother) mars an otherwise skillful performance by speaking his English with a thick accent that seems meant to be Norwegian but that sounds Irish. (He talks like he just got off the boat.) But, in gen¬ eral, one feels that, with Northern Lights , the Cine Manifest company has realized their uncommon goal: “to make a progressive film for a mass audience.” WORTH SEEING FELLINI’S ORCHESTRA REHEARSAL. Something of a sur¬ prise—a short, lean fable from a director given to elephantine three- ring circuses of depravity. Gone are fhe orgiastic groupings of ca Lake. Brian Donlevy and William Bendix, runs through Sat/29: THE CORN IS GREEN (Irving Rapper. 1945). with Bette Davis, plus JOHNNY BELINDA (Jean Negulesco, 1948), with Jane Wy¬ man, Sun/30-Tues/2, THE BLUE ANGEL (Josef Von Sternberg, 1930), with Marlene Dietrich and Emil Jannings. plus MAYERLING (Anatole Litvak. 1937), with Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux, Wed/3-Sat/6, call theater for times. ROXIE: THE DEVILS (Ken Russell, 1971), with Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave, 6 and 9:55, plus PERFORMANCE (Nicolas Roeg and Donald Cammell, 1969), with Mick Jagger, James Fox and Anita Pallenberg, 8, Fri/28-Sat/29. with Sat matinee at 4 05; CEDDO (Ousmane Sembene. 1977, in Wolof with English subtitles). 9:15, Sun/30-Mon/1, with Sun matinee at 4 45, plus XALA (Ousmane Sembene. 1974, French with English subtitles), with Seun Samb, 7. Sun/30-Mon/1. "A May 21st Defense Fund Benefit for Those Arrested at the City Hall Riot Following the Dan White Verdict." features THE LAST SUPPER (Tomas Gutierrez Alea, 1976, Cuba). 8:30. plus ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (Sara Gomez Yara, 1974), 7 and 10:30, Tues/2. $2 50 admission; LULU (Ronald Chase 1977), 8:15, plus SALOME (Alla Nazimova, 1922), 7 and 9:55, Wed/3-Thurs/4; BEAT THE DEVIL (John Huston, 1954), with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Gina Lolabridgida. 6 45 and 10:15, plus continued next page _ hem aphrodites, dwarfs and fat women in this 72-minute film made by the maestro for Italian TV. An orchestra rehearsal breaks down into the petty bickering of its members, each of whom needs to assert the individuality and uniqueness of his or her instrument and position in the group, but each of whom lapses into assertions of his or her superiority. Meanwhile, the German conductor tries to remain in unifying control. Is this a viable metaphor for the decline of the West? What does the ending mean? Is it reactionary or just realistic? There is definitely food for cocktail party conversation here. LIFE OF BRIAN . Hilarious, essential sacrilege. The greatest story ever told gets its come¬ uppance at the hands of the Monty Python team. BENEATH THE VALLEY OF THE ULTRAVIXENS. Porno auteur Russ Meyer’s Tex-Mex tribute to Our Town, complete with an all-knowing narrator w ho takes us on a nonstop tour of bed¬ banging concupiscence. Meyer is such an up-front, flagrantly talented dirty old man that he almost redeems himself. Not that he’d care. No one should go through life without seeing at least one Russ Meyer film. SOLDIER OF ORANGE. Rc rnsing old-fashioned World War II hokum in which the Dutch resistance triumphs over the Nazis. The film offers a view of war as romantic heroism that can only seem poignantly nostalgic after one experiences the harrowing moral ehaosof Apocalypse Now. WHY NOT. Coline Serreau’s warm, appropriately messy tale of a bi-sexual menage a trois— and then some. San Franciscans should take particularly kindly to this film. TIME AFTER TIME. H.G. Wells (MalcolmMcDowell) rideshistime machine to San Francisco in 1979 in pursuit of Jack the Ripper (David Warner). While there (or rather here) he falls in hive with the sort of emancipated modern woman (Mary Steenburgen) that the real-life Wells longed for. Nicholas (The Seven Per-Cent Solution) Meyer has an entertain¬ ing gift for taking famous people into the realm of the hypothetical. His what-if game with Wells is winningly acted hv McDowell and by the fresh and funny Steenburgen, though Meyer’s direction is less than inspired, and the special effects make one long for a rerun of George Pal's The Time Marhipe. Next week: Apocalypse NowH • noiffiWB titiI :fiV> I nl . one of the most moving, truly American films I’ve seen in years... a must see.” St mis Icrkcl. Author ot Hurt/ Times and Working . a small miracle... one of this year s real discoveries.” Chicago Sun f WINNER N Golden Camera Best 1st Feature Cannes Film y. Festival y V 1979 S NORTHERNULIGHTS />' THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 MjCROTjLMS A British Victorian in our very own court continued from )Drevious page THE AFRICAN QUEEN (John Huston, 1952) with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, 8:25, Fri/5-Sat/6. with Sat, matinee at 4:45; "Late Show," teatures ROCK *N‘ ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, mid¬ night, every Sat ROYAL THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN, call theater tor times. ST. FRANCIS: (1) JAGUAR LIVES, daily at 11 40, 3 10, 6 40 and 10 10. plus BRUCE LEE, THE MAN AND THE MYTH, daily at 1:20 , 4 50 and 8:20. (2) ANIMAL HOUSE, opens Fri/28. daily at 11 45. 3 40 and 7:30, plus WHICH WAY IS UP? daily at 1 45.5:40 and 9:30 STAGE DOOR: closed for renovation STRAND: NORMA RAE (Martin Ritt), with Sally Field, 115, 5:20 and 9:30, plus JULIA (Fred Zinne- man), with Jane Fonda and Vanessa Redgrave. 11:10, 3:15 and 7:25. Fri/28. MEATBALLS (Ivan Reitman), with Bill Murray. 11:10, 4:30 and 9:50, IT'S A MAD, MAD, MAD. MAD WORLD (Slanley Kramer), with Spencer Tracy. 1:50 and 7:10, plus THE 3 STOOGES, 12:50 and 6 10, Sat/29; BONNIE AND CLYDE (Arthur Penn), with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, 1 and 9, BADLANDS (Terrence Malick), with Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, 11 10 and 7:20. IN COLD BLOOD (Richard Brooks), with Robert Blake and Scott Wilson, 4:50, plus DEATH WISH (Michael Winner), with Charles Bronson, 3:05, Sun/30; A VERY NATURAL THING (C. Larkin). 11:15, 2:50, 6:25 and 10. plus WORD IS OUT (Peter Adair), 12:50, 4 25 and 8. Mon/1 DEATH ON THE NILE (John Guillerman), with Peter Ustinov and Bette Davis, 1115. 4 10 and 9. plus MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS (Sidney Lumet), with Albert Finney, 1:50 and 6:50, Tues/2; NEWSFRONT (Phillip Noyce), 1 15, 5:10 and 9:05, plus THE FRONT (Martin Ritt). with Woody Allen and Zero Mostel. 11:25, 3:25 and 7:25, Wed/3; WHEN WOMEN HAD TAILS, with Senta Berger, 11 15, 2:45, 6:15 and 9:45, plus BARBARELLA (Roger Vadim), with Jane Fonda. 1, 4:30 and 8, Thurs/4; MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (Alan Parker), with John Hurt and Brad Davis, 1 15. 5:20 and 9:25, plus FORTUNE AND MEN’S EYES (Harvey Hart), with Michael Greer and Wendell Burton, 11 20, 3:25 and 7 30. Fri/5; "Late Show," teatures THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, midnight, every Fri - Sat SURF: NORTHERN LIGHTS, opens Fril28, daily at 7:15 and 9:15, with matinees Wed . Sat- Sun. at 1:15, 3;15 and 5:15 VOGUE PEPPERMINT SODA, daily at 7 and 9. with Sun, matinees at 1,3 and 5 WARFIELD: no movies this week YORK: THE CHINA SYNDROME (James Bridges), with Jane Fonda and Jack Lemmon, 8:40, plus MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (Alan Parker), 6:35 and 10:45, Fri/28, SOLARIS (Andrei Tarkovski), 4 and 830, plus THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH (Nicolas Roeg), with David Bowie, 2. 6:20 and 10:45, Sat/29; THE INLAWS, with Alan Arkm and Peter Falk, 4:40 and 8:30, plus SILVER STREAK (Arthur Hiller), with Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh and Richard Pryor, 2:40, 6:30 and 10:20, Sun/30; AN ACTOR’S REVENGE (Ken Ichikawa). 8 40. plus ENJO (Kon Ichikawa), 7 and 10:40, Mon/1, ASSAULT OF PRECINCT 13 (John Carpenter). 7 and 10:20, plus VANISHING POINT (Richard Sarafian). 8 40, Tues/2; THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS (Rainer Werner Fassbinder). 7 and 10:10. plus ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (Rainer Werner Fassbinder), 8:30, Wed/3; DAY FOR NIGHT (Francois Truffaut), with Jean-Pierre Leaud. plus 8% (Federico Fellini), with Marcello Mastroianni, Thurs/4, MEATBALLS (Ivan Reitman), with Bill Murray, plus HAROLD AND MAUDE (Hal Ashby), with Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort, Fri/5. call theater for times. EAST BAY ACT CINEMAS: (i) la' cage aux FOLLES, daily at 7 and 9, with matinees Sat- Sun at 1, 3 and 5 and late shows Fri.-Sat. at 10 50. (2) WHY NOT? (POURQUOI PAS?), daily at 7:15 and 9:15. with matinees Sat -Sun. at 1 .15, 3:15 and 5:15. ALBANY: BREAKING AWAY, daily at 7 and 9. with matinees Sat.-Sun. at 1. 3 and 5 and late show Sat at 10:50. BERKELEY: young Frankenstein, plus SHERLOCK HOLMES’ SMARTER YOUNGER BROTHER, call theater for times. CAPRI: THE SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN, Time AllerTime It's London, 1893. Very Victorian gentleman H.G. Wells (Malcolm McDowell) has made enough money from his sensational articles on free love to build a time machine that gets two years to the minute. But doctor friend David Warner (really Jack the Ripper) rips it off and escapes to Nov. 5, 1979. The machine returns to McDowell who hotfoots it after Warner and lands in his own 1979 San Francisco exhibit. He then experiences in quick order Hare Krishna, McDonald's, plastic, the Golden Gate bridge and women’s liberation in the form of bank execu¬ tive Mary Steenburgen. He also catches up with Warner, but at about this time, and to its detriment, the film takes off in a different direction by concentrating on the McDowell/ Steenburgen romance and the weird Warner murders and runs out of steam. But acting honors to all, and, cinematically speaking. San Francisco has never looked so squeaky clean or the early interiors so beautifully Sherlockian. (Opens Sept. 28; Regency 2, SF.) Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens “X-rated sex in suburban theaters? Oh, no!'' you ejaculate. But yes. it's raunchy Russ Meyer (whose view of women is a bust) and lots of double- entendred dialog undressed up as penetrating social satire. The movie's main thrust is heroine Lavonia's efforts to cure lover Lamar of his anal fixations (“butt out, man"), and those are great Frederico's of Wisconsin outfits most of the female cast almost have on. It all takes place in Small Town, USA, and a lot of the action is centered, appropriately enough, in the junkyard run by over¬ flowing Junkyard Sal. There's also a 64-DDDDDDDD cup radio revivalist (if you thought Silicon Valley was in Santa Clara County, think again) who brings solace and succor to her listeners. But although some of the cinematography's good and the core's not too hard, there's one in¬ evitable question: what's a raunchy softcore movie like "Ultravixens" doing in a nice neighborhood theater like this? (Alexandria, SF) —ZenaJones EAST BAY MOVIES ACT CINEMAS: Center off Shattuck. Berk 548-7200 ALBANY: 1115 Solano. Berk . 524-5656 BERKELEY: Shattuck at Haste, Berk , 848-4300 CALIFORNIA: Cinema Center Kitlredge and Shattuck Berk 848-0620 CAPRI: 1653 Willow Pass Rd . Concord, 687-4310 CENTURYS: Nimit^Fwy Oakl . 562-9990 CINE 7: 38’ * MacArthur Blvd bet 35th Ave and High Oakl . 530-3382 ELMWOOD: College at Ashby. Berk . 848-0931 EL REY: 1649 North Main, Walnut Creek, 935-3770. FESTIVAL: Hesperian and A St . Hayward. 785-8000 GRAND LAKE: Grand Ave Oakl . 452-3556 HAYWARD 5: 24800 Hesperian Blvd . Hayward. 786-3000 HILLTOP MALL: 1 303 Hilltop Mall. Richmond, 223-2288 NORTHSIDE: 1828 Euclid. Berk 841-2648 OAKS: 1875 Solano near Berkeley, Berk . 526-1836 PARKWAY: Park Blvd and E 18th, Oakl, 835-3535 PIEDMONT: Piedmont at 41 si, Piedmont, 654-2727 RIALTO: 841 Gilman, Berk . 526-6669 ROXIE: 1 7th and Telegraph, Oakl . 893-3311 SHOWCASE: Broadway at 51st, Oakl, 654-3600 SOUTHLAND CENTER: Hayward. 783-2601 SOUTH SHORE CINEMA: So Shore Shop¬ ping Center. Alameda. 521-4200 TELEGRAPH: 2519 Telegraph Berk 548- 2519 U.A. CINEMAS: 2274 Shattuck. Berk . 843-1487 UC THEATRE: 2036 University, Berk 843-6267 daily at 7 and 9. with matinees Sat.-Sun at 1, 3 and 5 CENTURYS: (21) escape from alca- TRAZ, opens Fri/28 at 5:50 and 10:20. with a sneak preview at 8; THE PROPHECY, opens Sat/29 at 1 55, 6 and 10:05, Sun at 1 25. 5:30 and 9 35. weekdays at 9:35. plus ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, Sat at 3:55 and 8. Sun at 3 25 and 7:30. weekdays at 7 30. (22) THE INLAWS, opens Fri/28 at 8 15. Sat. at 4 and 8 15, Sun at 3 30 and 7 45, weekdays at 7 45. plus ROCKY II, Fri at 6 and 10:15, Sat at 1 45, 6 and 10:15, Sun. at 1:15, 5:30 and 9:45. weekdays at 9 45 CINE 7: DAWN OF THE OEAD, plus PHAN- TASM, call theater for times. ELMWOOD: SOLDIER OF ORANGE, dally at 7 and 9 45, with Sun. matinees at 1:30 and 4 15. EL REY: RUST NEVER SLEEPS, opens Fri/28, daily at 7:30 and 9:30. with matinees Sat - Sun. at 3:30 and 5:30; "Late Show," features THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, mid¬ night. every Fri.-Sat. FESTIVAL: (i) time after time, opens Fri/28. daily at 12 45, 3, 5:15. 7:30 and 9 45, (2) ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ, opens Fri/28, daily at 12:45, 4:50 and 9:20, plus THE PROPHECY, daily at 2:50 and 7:15, (3) A LITTLE ROMANCE, daily at 1. 3:05. 4 55. 7 and 9. (4) THE MUPPET MOVIE, daily at 12:55. 2:55, 4 55. 7 and 9. (5) YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN, daily at 2:50 and 6 45, plus HOOPER, daily at 12 55. 4 45 and 8:40, except Fri/28 at 12:55 and 4 45, with a sneak preview at 8:40, (6) Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN, daily at 1,3. 5, 7, 8:50 and 10 40 GRAND LAKE: wanda Nevada, plus HOOPER, opens Fri/28. call theater for times. HILLTOP MALL: (i ) escape from alca- TRAZ, opens Fri/28. daily at 1:05, 5 and 9, plus THE PROPHECY, daily at 3:10 and 7.05, (2) TIME AFTER TIME, opens Fri/28, daily at 1, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15 and 9:20. (3) ANIMAL HOUSE, opens Fri/28. daily at 1, 3:10, 5:15, 7:30 and 9:45, (4) ROCKY II, daily at 1.3:10. 5:20, 7:30 and 9 45 NORTHSIDE: (i) a little romance, new times begin Fri/28. daily at 6. 8 and 10. with mati¬ nees Sat.-Sun at 2 and 4. runs through Sun/30, call theater for future schedule. (2) ANNIE HALL, daily at 6 and 9:25, with matinees Sat.- Sun. at 2:45, plus MANHATTAN, daily at 7:35 and 10:55, with matinees Sat -Sun at 1 and 4 15. OAKS. (1) NORTH DALLAS FORTY, plus HEAVEN CAN WAIT, (2) SAME TIME NEXT YEAR, plus HOUSE CALLS, call theater for times. PARKWAY: (i) rich kids, plus the MUPPET MOVIE, opens Fri/28. (2) ANIMAL HOUSE, opens Fri/28. call theater for times RIALTO: (i) escape from alcatraz (Don Siegel), with Clint Eastwood, daily at 6 45 and 10:45, with matinees Sat.-Sun at 2 45, plus BLUE COLLAR (Paul Schrader), with Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto. daily at 8 45. with matinees Sat.-Sun al 4 45. (2) ROBERT ET ROBERT (Claude Lelouch). with Charles Denner and Jacques Villeret, daily at 6 30, 8:30 and 10 15, with matinees Sat -Sun at 2:30 and 4 30. (3) THE INLAWS, with Alan Arkm and Peter Falk, daily at 6:20 and 10 15. with mati¬ nees Sat-Sun at 2 30. plus WHO IS KILLING THE GREAT CHEFS OF EUROPE? with Jac¬ queline Bisset. George Segal and Robert Morley, daily at 8:15. with matinees Sat.-Sun at 4 20. (4) EDVARD MUNCH (Peter Watkins), daily at 6 and 9.15. with matinees Sat -Sun. at 2 45 ROXIE ALIEN, plus TAKE THE HARD RIDE, call theater for times. SHOWCASE: ( 1 ) Monty Python's LIFE OF BRIAN, daily at 1.2 45. 4 30, 6 15. 8 and 9 45. (2) MANHATTAN, daily at 2:50. 6:25 and 10. plus ANNIE HALL, daily at 1.4 40 and 8 15. SOUTHLAND CENTER: (i) rich kids, daily at 1:45, 3:45. 5 45. 7:45 and 9 45. (2) THE DEER HUNTER, opens Fri/28. daily at 115, 4 40 and 8 15. (3) NORTH DALLAS FORTY, daily at 1:30,4 10. 7 and 9 30 TELEGRAPH: (I). "The Films of Humphrey Bogart," features THE PETRIFIED FOREST (Archie Mayo. 1936), with Humphrey Bogart. Les¬ lie Howard and Bette Davis. THREE ON A MATCH (Mervyn LeRoy. 1932), with Hum(5hrey Bogart. Warren William, Joan Blondell and Bette Davis. DEAD RECKONING (John Cromwell. 1947), with Humphrey Bogart and Lizabeth Scott, plus IT ALL CAME TRUE (Lewis Seiler. 1940). with Humphrey Bogart and ZaSu Pitts, (2) ENTER THE DRAGON (Robert Clouse. 1973), with Bruce Lee. plus YOJIMBO (Akira Kurosawa, 1961, Japan), with Toshiro Mifune, call theater for times U.A. CINEMAS: (i) young fhanken- STEIN, opens Fri/28. daily at 1, 5 10 and 9 20, plus SILVER STREAK, daily at 3 and 7:10. (2) THE WANDERERS, daily at 1:30. 5 45 and 10. plus THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, daily at 3 45 and 8, (3) JAGUAR LIVES, daily at 2:50. 6:25 and 10. plus A FORCE OF ONE, daily at 1, 4 35 and 8 10. (4) RUST NEVER SLEEPS, opens Fri/28 daily at 1 30. 3:30, 5:30, 7:45 and 9:45 UC THEATRE: the deer hunter (Michael Cimino. 1978), with Robert DeNiro and Christopher Walken. 9. plus GO TELL THE SPARTANS (Ted Post. 1978). with Burt Lancaster, 7, Fri/28. THE GRATEFUL DEAD FILM (Jerry Garcia). 1:25. 4 55 and 8 25. plus JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY (Peter Pilafian. 1970), 4 and 7:30, Sat/29; SUPERMAN (Richard Donner 1978), with Christopher Reeve and Margot Kid¬ der, 4 50 and 9:15. plus BARBARELLA (Roger Vadim, 1969, France), with Jane Fonda. 3:05 and 7 30. Sun/30. BAHIA (Marcel Camus. 1978. France), 9:20, plus BLACK ORPHEUS (Marcel Camus, 1960, Brazil), with Bruno Mello and Mar- pessa Dawn, 7 30, Mon/1 THE GODFATHER PART ONE (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972). with Marlon Brando and Al Pacino. 6:30. plus THE GODFATHER PART TWO (Francis Ford Coppola. 1974), with Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino 9:35, Tues/2; MAX HAVELAAR (Fons Rade- Tnakers, 1976. Holland), with Peter Faber. 8 30. plus HOW TASTY WAS MY LITTLE FRENCH MAN (Nelson Pereira dos Santos. 1971, Brazil) 7, Wed/3. THE MALTESE FALCON (John Huston, 1941), with Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, 8 40, plus BEAT THE DEVIL (John Huston. 1954), with Humphrey Bogart and Gina Lollobrigida, 7 and 10 40. Thurs/4, THE EROTIC ADVENTURES OF PINOCCHIO (Corey Allen 1977), with Alex Roman and Dyanne Thorne. 8:20, plus ALICE IN WONDERLAND (Bill Osco, 1975), with Kristine De Bell, 7 and 9:55. Fri/5. Late Show, features THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW, midnight, every Fri -Sat Titles and times subject to change. Call theater to verify. — Fiona Mackenzie Mary Steenburgen as a feminist bank executive who tails In love with time-transported H.G. Wells, played by Malcolm McDowell. VOLUNTEERS Subscription and other departments need help with various, sometimes tedious tasks, weekdays. You receive a six-month subscription for every four hours of work, as well as a chance to make some interesting new con- tacts. To arrange a convenient time, 7 please call Eileen, Monday through ‘ \ Friday 9am-5pm at 824-7660 rL\ • / v \ Thanks a lot. D. xlian 26 A NATURAL SENSATION! , y\d fl J! lytyiou IH AO CLASSjCAUONCERTS “LaGioconda”: Spectacular sets but dull opera BY JULIA CHEEVER LA GIOCONDA. By Amilcare Ponchielli. At San Francisco Opera, War Memorial Opera House. Remain¬ ing performance Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. For ticket information, call 431-1210. Broadcast (taped from earlier perform¬ ance) on KKHI. 1550 AM/95.7 FM. Oct. 27at7:50p.m. T he pyrotechnics in the San Francisco Opera’s La Gioconda are literal: The most spectacular moment of the com¬ pany’s lavish production occurs when the tenor hero, played by Luciano Pavarotti, sets his ship af ire to prevent a Venetian inquisi¬ tor from capturing it. Unfortunately, the ship is the only part of the opera that catches on fire. Weaknesses in the cast and the opera itself result in a dull per¬ formance that was a poor choice for the company’s first television broadcast. Except in three or four arias, Ponchielli’s music is workaday fare. Four of the six principal singers are disappointing in one way or another. In the Sept. 12 per¬ formance as well as the Sept. 16 telecast, soprano Renata Scot to showed strain and sang harshly in the demanding dramatic passages of the title role. Baritone Norman Mittelman and bass Ferruccio Furlanetto Jacked the vocal power and stage presence needed to carry off the roles of the evil spy Barnaba and the inquisitor Alvise. Pavaro¬ tti’s singing was predictably impressive, but he made little effort to act his role in the Sept. 12 performance (although his impersonation improved under the cameras of the television broad¬ cast). The production’s sets of 17th century Venetian palaces and plazas and its colorful crowd scenes, however, are sumptuous. The only conspicuous flaw in the staging is Margo Sappington’s campy choreography for the "Dance of the Hours” at a court ball, which clashes with the sober elegance of the sets and costumes of the rest of the opera. In the television broadcast, the scenic production became the show, seeming even more magical and otherworldly on the screen ■than in live performance. But it was a pity that what the company showed off in this international telecast was its ability to come up with a grand production rather than its ability to present a great opera performance. The most in¬ teresting part of the broadcast was the intermission interviews with Scotto and Pavarotti and the com¬ bination of candour and conscious¬ ness of stardom that both singers showed in their answers to interview questions. PELLEAS ETMELISANDE. By Claude Debussy. At San Francisco Opera through Sept. 23. T he contemporary composer Ned Rorem once wrote that Fellcas et Mclisande , his favorite opera, should never be performed, because neither the staging nor the musical performance could live up to his ideal of Debussy’s impression¬ istic music. The San Francisco Opera challenged that view this fall with a memorable, though not perfect, production. Julius Rudel, former director of the New York City Opera and an internationally praised opera conductor, appeared in his local conducting debut to lead a radiant performance of the opera’s subtle music. Two relatively young singers, mezzo-soprano Maria Ewing and baritone Dale Duesing, vividly conveyed the tenderness and innocence of the young lovers of the title roles. A rapturous scene between them by a well in the castle garden, as they first begin to fall in love, stood as a high point of the production. Michael Devlin, John Macurdv and Gwendolyn Jones lack the ideal vocal strength for the roles of Golaud, Arkel and Genevieve, but gave musically sensi t ive perf orm a nces. Designer Thomas Munn used semi-abstract projections and con¬ tinuously changing lighting to artistic effect to suggest the gloomy castle, gardens and grotto of the opera’s symbolist drama, some¬ times, as in a beautiful moonlit scene at the grotto, with strong Art Nouveau overtones. His designs struck a good balance between pro¬ viding a visual complement to the music and maintaining the drama’s sense of mystery and lack of speci¬ ficity. DON CARLO. By Giuseppe Verdi. At San Francisco Opera. Remaining performances Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. and Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. Live broadcast on KKHI, 1550 AM/95.7 FM.Oct. 5at7:50p.m. I f the San Francisco Opera had only lavished the same care in sets and staging on Don Carlo as on La Gioconda , it would have a mag¬ nificent production on its hands. The current presentation has a pan¬ oply of good singers, music by Ver¬ di, whose least melodiesjnake Pon¬ chielli’s best pale by comparison. Giacomo Aragall and Anna Tomowa-Sintow lead the panoply of good singers in “Don Carlo.” and a noble drama, but the effect is undercut by a skimpy and inappro¬ priate seen i c p rc )d u ct i < >n. The story of Don Carlo , which is set in the court of Philip II of Spain during the 16th centtirv Inquisi¬ tion. ranges over themes of quests for political freedom, conflict between church and state and romantic love and jealousy. The action consists largely of mono¬ logues and dialogues in which the characters talk about their situations, however. More than most operas, Don Carlo needs a rich stage design — for Philip’s court, a monastery, a cathedral and a prison— to show the context of the drama. The basic ingredient of the sce¬ nery, designed by Wolfram Skalicki and on loan from Canadian Opera Company, is a three-sided backdrop of tall white walls. It proves to be bland in most scenes, and in the way in the cath¬ edral square scene. Plastic flowers and slide projections of trees make a pallid cloister garden, and blown- up projections of religious paint¬ ings are distracting in the monas¬ tery scenes. The strong singing of the six prin¬ cipal cast members (of whom four are Eastern Europeans) more than makes up for the visual defects, however. The German baritone Wolfgang Brendel and Russian bass Evgeny Nesterenko, both in their local debuts, and Bulgarian ■soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow particularly stood out in the Sept. 15 performance in the roles of Rodrigo, Philip and Elisabeth of Valois. Tenor Giacomo Aragall, in hisseventh consecutive season here, sang the title role well after a slow start in the first act, but dramati¬ cally he has never recaptured the dashing effect he made in his debut here as the duke in Rigoletto in 1972. ■ GUARDIAN CLASSIFIED 824-2506 INDEX Categories within Sections are alphabetized. 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Co-ordinator Direct instructional and performing programs CETA funded East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond 234-5624 Organizers wanted low pay. good training Must be interested in housing issues Projects include anti-speculative housing organizing, youth or¬ ganizing. commercial re-vitalization and others Goal of organization is to maintain Bernal Heights as low and moderate income integrated neigh¬ borhood Call 826-3959 for more information Secretary and Bookkeeper CETA tunded positions at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts. Richmond 234-5624 Best Part-time Job Put money where your mouth is" 1 Convenient Market and Third location Evenings plus Satur¬ day mornings Flexible hours. 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TYPIST SUBSCRIPTION Need fast (50+ wpm), accurate typist part time Tues. morn Th & Fri., hrs. flexible, 8-12 hrs/wk Call Tom for more details. 824-7660 COORDINATOR GUARDIAN GRAPHICS Energetic, motivated person to bring in new accounts and manage typesetting service Graphic skills, paste-up and knowledge of type essential Willing to do initial sales, keep accurate records and coordinate production 20 hours per week to start Send resume to: Jean Dibble, SF Bay Guardian, 2700 19th St, SF 94110. SECRETARY DISPLAY ADVERTISING There's a lot of variety and public contact in this busy job. You'll type correspondence, set up and maintain files, answer phones, do mailings, etc. You must be very well or¬ ganized. a good typist and a fast worker. Call Claudia at 824-3322. M-F, 9-5 VOLUNTEERS We need help with various, sometimes tedious tasks, weekdays. You receive a six- month subscription for every four hours of work, as well as a chance to make some in¬ teresting new contacts. To arrange a conve¬ nient time, call Eileen, Mon.-Fri 9 am-5 pm at 824-7660 People needed to work as attendants for disabled Duties include personal care, home- making services.*shopping and errands, trans¬ portation etc Part-time $3 25-4 00 per hour Interviews Thursday mornings at 9 30, Indepen¬ dent Living Project. 814 Mission. 2nd floor, 543- 0223. Mathematician Socially oriented ecologically conscious resi¬ dential educational community accepting appli¬ cations for internships in the seemingly incom¬ patible areas of math instruction for poor and minority children and building restoration B.S in Math for teaching positions Stipends. The S E E D Learning Center Call 642-3070 business hours E O E Fpy A COUPLE 5LICE5 OF BACON BPOINN CHICKEN IN THE GREA5E, REMOVE FROM PAM, AMP THEM 5AUTE THE VEGGIE5. 5MASH 3 GARLIC CLOVES WITH THE FLAT OF YOUR KNIFE. BE CAREFUL- LIVE-IN SITUATIONS Live in-out Aupair Native Italian speaking young woman to take care of young child (Live-m, live-out), room and board and monthly salary Pleasant house, pro¬ fessional family, ample tree time 845-0970 Berkeley VOLUNTEERS College Activists Friends of the Earth announces its new college activist network If you're a student, instructor, or would like to volunteer, call Robin Jackson, 495-4770 • HOUSING & PROPERTY COMMERCIAL SPACE Work Spaces Availalbe APPROX. 500-1600 SO. FT. High ceilings, good light Space in a larger space with small business that does antique restoration and fine lacquer work Available Oct 1st Call for more information 824-2440. Thomas Choice Downtown Studio Time/space and administration for workshop Three afternoons/week at $100/week 433-1226 Sausalito office/studio See at 200 Gate Five Rd #203 $250/mo 707/823-0988 _ Space specifically designed for dark room No$ Valley. $50/mo , 826-6397 COMMUNITIES U-LA8-II. Intentional family-style cooperative living, emphasis on group relationships, open communication and attainment ol individual goals. 929-0671 HOTELS Best Cheap Hotel Guardian selection '78 — Obrero Hotel and Basque Restaurant. Bed & breakfast, $18 single. $23 double, immaculate rooms, large breakfast, traditional Basque famny-style dinners nightly at 6 30 — $6.50 plus tax includes wine Reser¬ vations 986-9850. HOUSEHOLDS FORMING Why Live Alone? Are you a single man or woman, recently retired or nearing retirement? Why not live with others like yourself in a small group, sharing expenses, work, problems 9 Forming a study group to dis¬ cuss this interesting possibility Please call George Goldmark, 654-4025, for further infor¬ mation. East Bay extended family Caring, equality, free¬ dom, happiness, nonsmoking. 237-1485 HOUSES FOR SALE CUSTOM VICTORIAN Unique & too BIG (3,000') & too many doors (dozens) & too many stories (3). Located in safe- central-country-like part of warm belt in SF Ideal for big family! or 2 families? Est. value $145,000 but; transferred owner must sell quickly so sell to the quickest $127,500 (possible OWC part of down payment @ low interest) Robert, 239-2928, eves. HOUSESITTING SERVICES Going away 9 Attorney, 40s, consummate house- sitter Non-smoker. Loves cats, plants. 557-31 7§, days Responsible employed housesitter seeks new SF location as of Oct 1 References Bob. PO Box 5118 SF 94101 285-9854 RENTAL SERVICES Computer Roommate By phone, 7 days, 9 am-10 pm Only $5/month Yellow-Phone Inc., 870 Market #612 956-4357. SF Roommate Referral Service $7 fee List your vacancy free Over 100 vacan¬ cies 610-A Cole St.. 626-0606 BERKELEY^ CONNECTION EAST BAY RENTALS HOUSES. COTTAGES, FLATS. APARTMENTS And All Types of Shared Housing Advertise Your Vacancies for FREE! 2840 College Ave, Berkeley 845-7821 Need a Roommate? SERVING THE BAY AREA SINCE 1967 SINGLES. CO-ED PARENTS STRAIGHT AND GAY FEE GUARANTEED San Francisco Roommates Bureau 956-6499 RENTALS Garage Apartment Private entrance, 2 rooms plus Vs garage (share with large fermenting vat), Potrero Hill Some fur¬ niture Back jungle $160/mo utilities included Call Breck. 648-6704, alter 5 30 pm Victorian lower flat plus garden, Noe Valley area $425 plus caring for garden No shares 626- 6776 Noe Valley Separate room with cooking, bath facilities, opens to garden, $175 With space spe¬ cifically designed for dark room. $200 826-6397 Studios and one-bedrooms $250-$355 Nicely renovated Victorian building 312 Fillmore St 621-3722,543-2320 RENTALS TEMPORARY Marina, large, sunny studio w/view 10/8-10/27, $100/wk. 931-5979, 626-2657 RENTALS TO SHARE Beautiful Sausalito apt Bay view, fireplace Share with professional person $325 332-5335 Native SF flat seeks M/F to enjoy it Share with one male. AEK, view, fireplace, own bedroom & bath $250 626-1793 _ Seeking 2 roommates to share a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in S SF Rents negotiable 583-0263 Five diverse professional people, in our 30s and 40s. M & F. looking for a sane working male, over 30. omnivorous, to share huge Berkeley Hills home View. deck, hot tub. yard & dogs (sorry, no more pets) $150 plus utilities 525-6658 Room in sunny 2 bedroom Hat near UC Med Quiet female only $45 weekly, $ 1 70 monthly Liz, 664-8193 _ Share large, pleasant N E Berkeley house with one $285 Peter. 843-6665, evenings Man or woman to share seven room flat with woman, 28, interested in art. antiques, entropy and social critique $200 386-1780 Linda Responsible, straight female seeking M/F 27 plus to share very nice 6 room, sunny, clean, quiet, upper flat Separate living facilities — two private rooms each—share kitchen/bath No pets/kids. Avail 10/15 Dolores Street $143 plus deposit and Vs utihties. 777-2210 Wanted apartment-mate Well educated, disci¬ plined, male/female Young female teacher/stu¬ dent most welcome to share with respectable el¬ derly artist director. Financial security/reference essential. Garden view Large kitchen Ashbury Street Rent $140. Utility Deposit Call morning/ night. 863-7154 $185 for woman. 25 plus, lo share large, fur¬ nished. quiet flat No pets On 55 bus plus #1 line Good shopping 567-8667 Studio apartment $200/mo including utilities, backyard w/patio. Glen Park district Call 334- 1687,eves Male or female, employed, neat to share a beauti¬ ful large sunny flat on Potrero Hill with fireplace, hard-wood floors, yard and study with straight male $225 826-1813. evenings and weekends. Female wanted to share 2-br home, next to G G Park and beach Washer and dryer, non-smoker, no pets, $175, includes util., call Bob 681 -7689. Sunny Flat Person wanted to share large flat in the Rich¬ mond $l25/mo plus utilities We don't care what you smoke, eat, or practice as long as you're n eat and have a sense of humor 387-9364 _ Room available in beautiful, quiet Berkeley Hills home for office, writing or other work space $100/mo 527-7260 Gentleman lawyer (51) will offer to neat lady of good grooming and taste separate room and bath m elegant Russian Hill residence in exchange tor housekeeping or secretarial services Spacious, Sunny Woman over 30 to share spacious, sunny 6 room flat overlooking Dolores Park with warm, sharing, professional woman over 30 Non-smoker only —no pets $180 plus util 431-6637 Professional man seeks sane, amiable person to share his four-bedroom Victorian house with him and one other House is very sunny, with hard¬ wood floors, fireplaces, a large kitchen beamed dining room, backyard, deck and parking Near UC Med Center/Golden Gate Park Good trans¬ portation $250/month including weekly house¬ keeper (willing to discuss reduced rent in ex¬ change for 3-4 hours per week of housekeeping and light gardening Call 566-7520 evenings and weekends Relaxed, creative, pleasure/prosperity minded FI CpI to share 7BR Victorian Ho. city view near GGPk. UCMC Goal emotional & financial control over our lives $200 665-0716 SPACE WANTED Sublet/housesit wanted for 1-3 months, pet/plant care okay.—to $300/mo —local references. 386- 7599 Michael Photographer looking for studio space to live and work Around $250. Call Alan 621-4420, 864-4636._ Honda Needs Home Wanted garage to rent near Haight and Masonic. 552-9645 or 841-6500 x 577 _ Tennis pro, 30. seeks free accomodation in ex¬ change for tennis lessons Shawn, 848-5562. eves I would like to share an apartment with a similar minded person(s). I'm a straight male, profes¬ sionally employed, whose interests include: running, skiing, backpacking, hanggliding, para¬ chuting, economics, and meditation I'm a non¬ smoking vegetarian-and prefer a place on the quiet side Leave your number at Box 403. San Bruno, 94066 I'll call you, Bill Cotton. Male student needs room in household Em¬ ployed. quiet, responsible Pay up to $130/mo. Home 538-0168, work 652-7464 SF preferred INSTRUCTION ARTS & CRAFTS Introduction To Sculpture explores principles of making sculpture, in practice and via studio and gallery visits Cali¬ fornia College of Arts and Crafts. Saturdays. Oot 6-Dec 15 Instructor: Jo Hanson. Phone 864- 7139 for information Make Leather Chesspieces Complete patterns and instructions. $3 95 No special tools needed. Classy! Don Morns. 1096 Fullon #5 SF 94117 DANCE Come Dance With Me Dance-exercise, breathing techniques, beautiful inspired music and ambience combine to build health and strength thru dance Ongoing classes in Berkeley hills. Information Ann Quitzow 223-9274___ New Dance Spectrum Classes Ballet, Modern. Jazz. Children's program— morning & evening 3221 -22nd St. 824-5044 Betsy Kagan teaches advanced modern tech¬ nique classes beginning October 1st Mon Wed Sat 10-11 30 am at 2640 College Ave, Berkeley (formerly Epic West) 524-7798 Modern/Jazz Classes Now at the San Francisco Conservatory of Ballet Instructor Virginia Kester Call 731-7755 or 863-2666 EARTHLY STUDIOS SHERI GAIA, DIRECTOR Former soloist with the Nederlands Dans Theater Classes in Modern and Ballet Call 626-4622 for brochure 223 Mississippi St. SF, LANGUAGES “Learn French” Fluency of speech, clear pronunciation guaran¬ teed Well trained teacher from France Small evening study groups Michelle 558-3628 Learn Japanese Professional native tutor Flexible rates/hours Done at my home 848-8016 French Studio School Classes limited to 5 students $6 for hour, native qualified teachers, 771-8324 Bay Area Language Center Spanish. French. Portuguese. Mandarin. Arabic German. Italian, English. Conversation classes BART location 552-9899. 1-5. JAPANESE Beginner class starts every month Small classes— AM. evening, or Sat Beginner class fee $1 10 (16 lessons) Advanced classes, private lessons available JAPANESE LANGUAGE WORKSHOP 16 California St. San Francisco 956-8325 Near BART, ferry, buses, economy parking MUSIC & VOICE Enjoyable Methods of guitar instruction Most styles Eight years teaching experience Introductory lesson tree Rick 931-8933_/_ Piano Instruction Experienced teacher seeks students interested in classical music Harmony and theory included $12/hr Bernal Heights 282-1874 Piano Instruction All levels Comprehensive approach emphasizing practical knowledge and personal creativity Theory, arranging, composition David Fenwick. 776-3740_ Mandolin Lessons Learn to pick old time styles Beginners welcome Call Valerie Mmdel (formerly of Any Old Time String Band), 673-1357 (SF) MUSIC THEORY CLASS Learn the fundamentals ot the written and spoken language of music For musicians and vocalists. •Ghords/scales ‘ •sightsinging •music notation Call Ben Herr 763-2984 Let Your Fingers Do The Picking Very experienced instructor will teach guitar mandolin, banjo, autoharp, ukelele. etc What do you want to play 9 Ask for Tom 826-2136. late afternoons Classical Guitar Instruction Experienced teacher w/BA m music All levels welcome North Berkeley area Philip Johnson 524-4557 Private Piano Lessons Children and beginners a specialty Reading, im¬ provising, theory, technique Sunset District Call Helen at 564-7508 Classical Piano Instruction for beginning through advanced students of all I ages, given by a patient, experienced teacher B A. in music, UCBerkeley Annette Cohen. 848-1509 Vocal Coach—Jazz, Rock, Pop Breathing, articulation, mike technique, stage presence, etc Private sessions Beginners & advanced. Special rates for groups Ann Channm 647-0730, SF _ Banjo Lessons For 5-string banjo, clawhammer/frailing style Beginners, intermediate, advanced Instructor is performer/recording artist Kate Brislin of Any Old Time String Band Cost is $5 per Vs hr. paid monthly ($25 per mo ) Phone 387-9648 (SF). SELF-DEFENSE Ju-Jitsu Self-Defense & Zen Meditation Classes are held Sundays heg Sept 2 • 12-1 pm Zen Meditation • 1 -2 pm Jujitsu Self-Detense Tuition $25/month CALL JOHN PEREIRA KARATE DO. 1819 Market. SF 863-2455 SPECIALIZED COURSES Teachers' Use drama as a classroom tool lOwk wkshp begins Oct. 11. Call Deah Schwartz 332- 9100 Leave message for information. The AlexanderTechnique Move with ease and flexibility Private or group lessons by Michael Chase Member ol the American Center tor the Alexander Technique. 832-4242 Don’t Stop Learning! Discover the University ol Utopia Cooperative education in a communal atmosphere 33 tuition- free colleges to choose from, including the Rmky Dink College of Economic Knowledge, the Pass World Hunger College. Theater Arts College & College of Music Free 1 Introductory Drop-In Wednesdays 11am to 5pm & 8-11pm 543 Frederick (near Stanyan). San Francisco 566-6502 THEATRICAL Puppetry and creative drama wkshp for kids 7-14 begins Oct. 11. Call Deah Schwartz 332-9100 leave message for more info Children’s Theatre Classes For various age groups now forming at The Next Stage, 3844 Mission For info , call Marcia Kim- mell 584-0729 or 332-9100 THE NEXT STAGE Theater Games Workshop •Actors, Teachers, Therapists, Beings* No previous experience in improvisational theater necessary Demonstration class held once a month For info call Marcia Kimmell 584-0729 or 332-9100 Ms. Kimmell studied with Viola Spolln, originator of Theater Games, for 3Vi hears. TUTORING Mathematics tutor, Ph D , experienced in working with students at any level Helpful and under¬ standing (415) 845-5721 VOCATIONAL Rocky Mountain Healing Arts Institute offers advanced training program in Body Mind Con¬ sultation for practicirvg health professionals. Contact RMHAI Box 1881. Boulder, Colorado 80306.(303)443-5131 MERCHANDISE ANTIQUES/COLLECTIBLES Aniique roll lop desk beveled all sides, golden oak. waterfall' S' curve. 50' wide, 49" high. 27" deep Remarkable piece Serious appreciators only $2,500.__ Nepali Artifacts Antiques and contemporary thankas, bronzes, bell bowls, altar pieces Special orders on re¬ quest, 664-7520 CREATURES Beloved Family Dog needs new home — smart, playful sheperd/mix 647-2464 BOOKS & PUBLICATIONS Primal Scream Pillows!!! Scream anywhere without being heard Copy¬ righted/attractively designed Send $19 95, W H Mills/Gold Star Productions, 2118 Channing Way #E, Berkeley, 94704 New York/Los Angeles Times Sunday SF, Berkeley, southern Marin. Palo Alto Daily Financial District, Pacific Heights. 332-4790__ The Free & The Unfree a different American history book By Peter Carroll and David Noble (Penguin Books) Train Your Dog to Protect You can train your dog to bark at intruders and attack on command using proven methods from the secrets of schutzhund police work Step-by- step manual with diagrams and "WARNING" sticker $5 ATTACK RESEARCH FOUNDATION 2428 WOOLSEY, BERKELEY, CA. 94705 HOME FURNISHINGS Oriental Rugs Beautiful handkno'tted rugs from Persia 428-2192 _ Rugs, unclaimed 9' x 12'. $14.95 and up. Su¬ preme Rug Cleaners. 2931 Geary Blvd , SF. FRIENDLY FOAM SHOP Foam Mattress "Cot of Many Colors" Folding Beds Advice 5C 1500 Ocean Ave . 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No hammers $135 Call 668-9269 _ Moog Micro-Moog with hard case Ribbon and wheel bending plus all the other classic Moog sounds 771-7065 Piano. 1978 Wurhtzer Console Beautiful lone, ex¬ cellent condition. $2000. 929-1458. after five OFFICE EQUIPMENT Punch And Bind Like Crazy! Like new plastic ring binding set. 21-ring punch and binder 9/16" centers. $300 for both 863-P7R8 PHOTOGRAPHIC Minolta SRT200 with 50mm M .2 and 135 mm f2 8 $200/b.o 661-2817 Dry Mount Press Seal 160 Jumbo. 16 x 20. Excellent condition. $350 661-3132 SPECIAL SALES Moving-tor Sale: 2 sofas, bed, super-8 movie camera, mandolin, call Judy. 752-5818 House Sale v I am moving back lo New York after living in San Francisco for 3 years and I am selling almost everything I own Hfgh quality hardwood furniture in very good condition, women's clothing, size 7- 9, craft supplies, fabrics, books, handcrafted jewelry, macrame, stained glass panel, plants, rugs, other home furnishings. 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Attractive, open, humorous, sometimes shy, honest, hairy, sensitive, ethical, incurably ro¬ mantic ex-UC Prof, age 37. hopelessly in love with beautiful wife, has so far reserved for his in¬ tensely active fantasy life his numerous attrac¬ tions to other women and ability to establish deep cross-sex friendships despite his legendanly powerful personal sexuality and some flirtations from women students Wonderfully ethereal wife, who believes her life art is expressed in how she shares herself, recently has become more artistic Improved balance, expanded personal space, and growth are sought thru additional relationship with complementary woman Enjoy sharing great food and wine Asian art, slow dancing, the ocean, people watching, time in the country, good talk and correspondence as paths to friendship or as foreplay Guardian Box 2-J Attractive man 34 musician, seeks select female for occasional massage exchange No strings PO Box 27574, S F Ca. 94127 _ Attention older ladies Are you 35-55, attrac-tive, sensual, bored, unsatisfied, unfulfilled? 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Tall, handsome, affluent, bachelor, 39. corpora¬ tion president, Ivy League background, seeks attractive female college grad counterpart for fun. adventure, cultural events and lasting rela¬ tionship Guardian Box #3-E Unattached blue-chip bachelor. 37, 5'11", 170 lbs., Ph D , seeks live-together relationship with a very pretty lady who is ready for a share and care romance Let's check rapport. Photo and phone a must P O Box 1663, Burlingame, CA. 94010 Couples 1 Let’s explore alternatives to conven¬ tional "norms." Bx31282SFCA 94131. If you are a very good looking, sensuous and con¬ siderate woman, and if you would like to meet a well-educated, easygoing man. late 30's, and if you believe success is to live well, laugh often and love much, send your phone number and photo to PO Box 249, San Carlos. 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I am attractive, tender, nurturing, erotic, and serious about this ad Guardian Box 2-K Couple 31 and 29 good looking seek similar couple. Write Guardian Box 1 -R Ebony Lady Dentist, age 36, interested in a young, intelligent black lady who enjoys travel (Vegas, Tahoe. La Baja, etc.) As well as life's other finer things. If you have the above qualities plus a curvy, ath¬ letic, voluptous figure please write for discreet mutually rewarding good times Write KW PO Box 3673 Napa Ca 94558_ Somewhere There’s Got To Be a bright, talented man with a social conscience worried about the world, but able to make small- moments count, into films, firesides, friendship, laughter. 30's W/F. attractive, accomplished, witty, sensual, seeks comrade/lover Letter (photo appreciated) to Guardian Box 2-1. W/F, attractive, hip intelligent. 44, would like to meet male with compatible qualities Guardian Box 4-D. Non-descript male couple wants friends for sharing, conversation, art, music, food, caring. 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Box 193, 1409 Addison Si, Berkeley, Ca 94702_ Unique Experience Attractive, together, male seeks adventurous female for explorations in Tantra Photo appre¬ ciated All sincere inquiries answered PO 642 Sausalito Asian American Male, 29 Seeks Asian American female, 21-30 for friend¬ ship and companionship who is fnteresled in film, arts, rock music, is warm and caring, can empa¬ thize with loneliness Occidentals need not apply Guardian Box 1-M Tall white male athletic outdoorsy. 34, seeks woman, 25 +, photo and phone number appre¬ ciated. Guardian Box #1 -G. Feminist preferred Are you a career woman interested in people, politics and poetic prose—with maybe a little tai chi and vegetarian cooking thrown in too? I'm a tall gentleman (38), publisher and teacher, who'd like to meet you Guardian Box #2-F_ Let’s Dance There's lots of good live music around — Rock, salsa, reggae, jazz, country, swing Greek, etc If you're a woman who would rather dance than sit. let s. Also interested m being part ol a group who enjoys dancing together Dave. 2000 Center St.. Box 1142. Berkeley. Ca. Are You A Woman Alive With enthusiasm, warmth, feelings 9 Honesty 9 Candor 9 Openness 9 Upfrontedness 9 Softness? Unafraid¬ ness 9 Write Box 31612. S F., 94131 Watch me pretend I'm a chipmunk Affectionate, spiritual, sensual, successful W/F, 39. seeks gentle man of wit and means Guardian Box 1-J. _ Exec., 32, W/M seeks attractive woman 18-31 for affection, sex Beautiful Diamond Hts. Apt. (SF) with fireplace. Bayview, bar, TV, stereo and spare bedroom. I am intelligent, easygoing Would be nice if you are. too Open to lasting relationship if desired by both. Picture and phone number appreciated Guardian Box 4-B Cheerful personable Berkeley woman fifties desires solvent man to share joys of life—music, plays, folk-square dancing, ethnic cooking, conversation, hiking, humor Guardian Box 1-1 Black Male Is there such thing as left/politicized boy scout 9 I'm really goody-goody, re commitment, manners, making friendship prior to physical inti¬ macy Also, pretty, intellectual black woman and don't eat apple pie Want to meet black men with like charaoteristics. P O Box 6273, SF. CA. 94101 Romantics Ladies of heart, humor and longings, cello &/or wind players, pathologic encouragers: I am about to undertake the grand and only recording of my songs while loft-sifting in SF. 10/1-11 I'm a mad class guy (thin Jonny Cash w/some Rod McKuen style), a toker. straight (tho I don't exclude gays from friendship), looking to fill a jacuzzi with good company. Guardian Box 1-K Someone To Share Lonllr^ess is the only disease where you hurt all over.but for which there is no medical cure W/M wishes to meet slim, attractive, non-smoking women. 25-35. who likes classical music, jogging, children, camping, creative arts, reading, a person to share walks in the rain, one to one talks, wine by the fireside and Sunday breakfast. Photo and phone number appreciated Write Guardian Box 4-C Sensitive 36 year old male 6 ft . 165 lb , beard, long hair I 'd like to meet a tall, long-haired, gentle woman To share nature Travel Intimacy Psychospiritual growlh Good conversation I'm gentle, easygoing, shy at times, non-smoking, healthy and self-employed Box 258, 625 Post St., SF.Ca ,94109_ We’re Two Attractive successful professional people, male & female, interested in art, film, literature, Jungian psycho¬ logy. & the body-mind, & wanting some new & interesting relationships We'd like to invite 16 like-minded people to a pot-luck Please write us a letter describing yourself, including your work, age & interests, send a picture if possible. & a phone number where you can be reached Guardian Box 3-F Stubbornly Persistent & Optimistic in the belief that there must be at least one phy- sically/emotionally alive, intellectually coura¬ geous, independent, very attractive, sexy, viva¬ cious and truly-liberated feminine woman. 30's through mid-40's, who has survived and thrived on life's adventure, is unattached and now ready to meet me I'm a dynamic, vital, intelligent, cre¬ ative. attractive man in the prime of life (40's, excellent health, vast energy and stamina), un¬ attached (divorced), widely-travelled, involved scientist and want a good, "together woman to share my fascination with life, sex, love of travel, high mountain sunrises, fine food, sailing, good books, theatre, films, graphic arts and truly crea¬ tive work We share a respect for honesty, candor, real people and have little patience for racists. 3-piece suits, fearful conformists, role playing, status games and other life-polluting bovine merde If you feel that we may be compatible, mutually stimulating and possibly much more, a letter, photo and phone number would be greatly appreciated Guardian Box 2-G. Two handsome, single W/M, educated, success¬ ful. 35. wish to meet attractive W/W for stylish entertaining We enjoy sports, art. fast cars and fine food Steven G . PO 372. Lafayette. CA 94549_ Nicelooking, sensitive W/M, 29. seeks an exciting affair with a warm, sensual, attractive young woman I am a professional man, 5'9" tall, adven¬ turous and married. Greg, Box 1209. 2000 Center St.. Berkeley Ca. 94704 Bright, attractive man wishes to meet strong, loving, independant woman Write MFS, P O. Box 26068, SF 94126 _ Amiable attractive blonde seeks scholarly male in forties Some brawn, sense of humor helpful c/o Simms, Box 10003, Oakland Intellectual, sensitive, hansome B/M. 32. w Master's, seeks female companionship (24-30) for personal growth and cultural dating (theater, symphony etc ) Openness, honesty, and sincerity a must Photo exchange? I will respond to sincere inquiries in like fashion P O Box 34, Berkeley. Ca 94701 Handsome, WM, 27. 5'8", intense, driven, intro¬ verted, alienated sense of humor Interests: languages and literature—education here still thin-music-classical-Boris Godunov is favorite- jazz. some rock; writing (novel); Socialist politics- (not socially or organizationally connected-don t care to be)-films. mostly highbrow-but also Bogart, seeks woman much the same Guardian Box #1-E._ Are you an independent-minded active woman (40-55) already leading an interesting life but missing that something that comes from sharing intimacy, but fearing losing your own space and identity? This 50 year-old liberated male would like to work on this dilemma with you while sharing exciting cultural events. Write Guardian Box #2-E. Mature Ladys W/M 45 seeks friendship ladys 55-75 intressed theather, books pets Guardian Box #3-A Easygoing 30 year old W/M professional with masters degree. Love outdoors, camping, hiking, history, horses, and young ladies. Seek attrac¬ tive. pleasant lady for friendship and possible re- lationshiD. Guardian Box #3-B. Renaissance man, 40, seeks tall, attractive, kind, feminist-amazon. P O Box 11390, San Francisco Calif. 94101. Warm autumn days and a weekend at a country inn near Mendocino or Big Sur, or perhaps cool nights and fall colors in the gold country; a cozy fire, a special friend appealing? Then if you are a bright, trim, affectionate, woman, 25-45. un¬ encumbered and a joyful spirit, a fun-loving at¬ tractive W/M awaits your reply Box 5393. Berke¬ ley 94705 Sincere, playful, warm, nice-looking (jeans/T- shirt) W/F, 36, seeks similar, supportive, feminist, nonsmoking W/M, 30-50, for occasional lunch¬ time companionship downtown (his treat) and possible friendship/intimacy Write Nancy (in¬ cluding address). Guardian Box 14-01 -C. TV or me? Friendly? Available? 35+ ? Joy. Box 31332, SF. CA 94131 ( + Stamp) I'll enjoy becoming friends with a woman who re¬ quires absolute honesty I'm W/M. 36, 5'11", #1 50. attractive, high self-esteem PO Box 31612, SF 94131, _ Feminist Companion Jewish man, 30. left-feminist, childcare worker, seeks feminist woman companion to share sup¬ port. ideas, feelings and play Guardian Box 14-01-B Uncharacteristic Daring I am a shy. ectomorphic 6'. W/M age 30 l want to be enslaved by a women's inspiration in a love re¬ lationship of liberating intensity I need her dis¬ belief to dissipate my self-doubt I need her rarely to compliment me and never to come to my res¬ cue I want her to give me the pleasures of touching, feeling, seeing the*beauty I know in her POB 2221 Stanford, CA 94305 Kind, giving, contemplative, active, creative WJM 50 seeks companionship and coring with warm woman Appreciate sensitivity, work involvement, and the courage to discover Fond of brunettes, full figures, sensual awareness, and quiet to¬ getherness Enjoy children and elderly Yes, sometimes I ski. fish, backpack, and enjoy the mountains But always I love having my back rubbed Guardian Box 1-D Energetic senior woman artist seeks Bach loving gentleman companion for sketching, dancing badminton and pleasantries Guardian Box 2-B Woman wants other "nifty woman sensitive, aware, attractive and professional Guardian Box 14-04-A Secure single man. 35. seeks discreet correspon¬ dence with articulate, sensitive, intelligent woman Guardian Box 2-C Kind Man Berkeley professional W/M 42 attractive and sen¬ sitive. with romantic and fun sides, into the arts, the wilderness and staying fit. wants to share with bright active trim non-smoking together indepen¬ dent woman. Guardian Box 14-02-A Are you married? Frustrated emotionally, sexual¬ ly? How about a lusty affair with a great lover! I'm tall att. slim, 38. white, single meet day or eve 1 Bill. Guardian Box 14-01-A Woman seeking meanings beyond materialistic answers, interested in self-discovery and devel¬ oping more caring for others, would like to know more people of both sexes who are attuned to inner essences of people rather than outer pack¬ ages and how they perform Special concern Problems surrounding miscommunication and stereotyping experienced by all physically or cul¬ turally different people (am without sight) Like- minded friends, may we talk? Guardian Box 2-D. Printed or typewritten letter preferred SOCIAL SF communal grapevine Non-competitive pot- luck volleyball (Golden Gate Park) 929-0671 Interested in experiencing the alien? Send phone number to "There Is No Name". Box 1160. Berkeley. Ca 94704 Datagay Computerized introduction service for men Dis¬ creet. confidential. For information call 391-9628 or 673-6464 Contact High A newsletter for conscious singles who enjoy cor¬ respondence. Free details Write Dept BG4. Box 504, Mendocino 95460. Private Single Parent Society now forming. Interested? Call 334-3520 after 11 am. Looking For The Right Person? We offer personal, confidential introductions for serious-minded people The Matchmaker, 929- 0866, SF Computer Introductions for hobbies, dates, roommates, travqlmates— by phone Only $5/month Seven days, 9 am-10 pm. 956-4357 PERSONAL GROWTH COUNSELING & THERAPY Integral Counseling Center OF THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF ASIAN STUDIES A holistic approach—harmonizing and integra¬ ting the spiritual, mental, emotional and physical aspects of one s being Individuals, couples, and groups CRISIS AND GROWTH COUNSELING Sliding fee scale Initial interview free 1780 Church St. 648-2644 Free-Lance Rabbi You don't have to remain stuck where vou are' Reichian holistic focus with a caring person Alee 681-4055_ Emotional-Opening Therapy My approach focuses on working through emo¬ tional blocks, getting more deeply in touch with feelings, and expanding relationships Individuals and couples. Call Jan DiSanto, RN, MS at 285- 4364 Sliding scale Holistic Counseling An approach which includes working with an in¬ dividual on the intellectual, physical, emotional and spiritual levels Barbara. Ph D candidate 641-9123.__ Lonely, Depressed, Suicidal? Work on understanding why in a caring, suppor¬ tive group setting Call Chris, 332-9100 Fees rea¬ sonable Rebirthing Free your breath, free your mind Trained, experi¬ enced rebirthers who can assist you in freeing your own 415/549-3167. Surrogate Partners for sexual dysfunction. Berkeley Sexual Develop¬ ment Group Established 10 years Bay Area. 843- 2167 evenings Box 9439, Berkeley 94709 Human Behavior Center Learn to stop smoking, lose weight, control al¬ cohol or drug habit, and/or overcome other self- defeating behaviors Don Schubert, Ph D . Clini¬ cal Psychologist 566-0617 Primal Therapy Intensive and follow-up The Center Within at The Berkeley Center. 2820 Adeline, Berkeley 94703 (415) 548-3543 _ Dream Interpretation Based on Senoi dream culture. Groups and indi¬ viduals. Trained with Kilton Stewart, originator of method. Directed dreaming gives power to re¬ structure personality, to be one's own authority, release energy for greater creativity, personal re¬ lationships. Quick, lasting results Rose Shaw. 468-3484 GESTALT INSTITUTE OF SAN FRANCISCO Awareness Program Every Monday, 6-8 pm Focuses on awareness and personal growth. Drop in when you can. stay as long as you want Groups led by advanced trainees under the supervision of Institute members Fee $5 per visit at the door 320 Judah, San Francisco 564-6804 Reichian/Gestalt I combine slow & easy bodywork with verbal interaction For a "give it a try" session call: 681-4055. 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Spotless interior like new Excellent m.leaqe $1000 or best offer 567-7862 BOATS For Sale 15'/? ft. windmill sailboat w/trailer and 7 hp outboard Sail, mast & motor like new boat needs bottom $400 or B/g 665-7974 after 7 pm. M0PEDS GASOLINE SOLUTION Ride A Moped! College Ave. Cyclery 6026 College Avenue Oakland 94618 Telephone: 654-3361 31 > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 > THE BAY GUARDIAN DAY & NIGHT, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 32 often complex, but rationally ordered compositions, usually capped by a poetically hazy horizon line. Watkins's photographs of Yose- niite can now be seen at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and as part of a group show. Yasemife. at the Fine Arts Mus¬ eum's Downtown (Embareadero) Center start ing Oct. 1 ★ ★ ★ Some regard William Blake (1757-1827) as both the premier poet and graphic artist ol the Romantic era. His reputation as a visual artist will continue to rise as we place more value on works on paper I vs. canvas) and as our interest in the relationship of word and image, text and illustration, grows. Thaekrey and Robertson's exhibition of 22 black-and-white full-page engravings of the Book of Job provides an opportunity to scrutinize the work of Blake, the draughtsman. No lyrical colored washes embellish these engravings as they do the prints Blake made to aecompam his own epic verses. There's nothing here Jmt black lines. Sublimely sensual black lines indsed with an ease and vitality unmatched in the 19th century until Aubrey Beardsley. Blake's work has much in common with Beardsley's, despite the fact that Beardsley tended to work in the more fluid medium of pen and ink. With Blake, we pore over each detail, each nuance of line, each foliate border or wonder¬ fully expressive cherub's head just as we do with Beardsley's sinuous art nouveau creations. I marvel at Blake's extraordinary tonal range, the varieties of gray that incremen¬ tally bridge the cavernous gap from black to white. Blake's eccentricity Ins special gift, derived from a dual interest in the muscular corporeality of Michelangelo's I iguros and the linear, dematerialized grace of English Gothic tomb sculpture. Forms are alternately flattened out or rendered with illusionistic, three-dimensional force. The arm of the Lord merges with clouds that metamorphose into borders tor the images in a manner ty pical of med¬ ieval illuminated manuscripts. The entire history of Christian art¬ making, in fact, seems encapsu¬ lated in these 22 engravings: from t he layered silhouettes < if horses up¬ dated from the Greco-Roman/ Early Christian sculptural relief tradition to the abbreviated repre¬ sentation of landscape and starry nights borrowed from medieval manuscripts to the theatrical flam¬ boyance of Renaissance/ Baroque gestures, including God's famous arm's-length reach from Michel- angelo'sLosf Judgment. 1 must confess that at first 1 felt little interest in the Old Testament narrative these engravings show and tell. How can one relate to this harsh tale of blind faith and an intransigent God who needed, at all costs, to be served? As 1 see it, the artist’s problem was to make the Lord a compassionate presence in the lacs' ol the cruel and irrational injustice Job must endure. Blake succeeded brilliantly. The face of the Lord radiates wisdom, strength and love. Blake’s profound spirit¬ uality informed these engravings, enablinghim torestageand rev ital- ize a 5,000-year-old morality plav. — ROBERT ATK N S CARLETON WATKINS: PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE PACIFIC COAST at the Fraenkel Gallery. 55 Grant Ave.. SF. through Oct. 20 The Columbia River, photographed by Carleton Watkins in 1867. CARLETON WATKINS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE COLUMBIA RIVER AND OREGON at the Simon Lowinsky Gallery. 228 Grant Ave., SF, through Nov. 4 WILLIAM BLAKE: ILLUS¬ TRATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB at Thaekrey and Robertson. 2266 Union St., SF. through Oct 31 S ummer's over and they're off and running. San Francisco galleries have trotted out the favor¬ ites. banking on splashy September shows to draw attention from tan lines to more artistic compositions. As far as I’m concerned, the first heat's been won not by local front runners Joan Brown or Nathan Oliveira, or Canadian long shot Yousuf Karsh or even national treasure Ansel Adams, but by 19th century photographer Carleton Watkins and 19th century poet/ printmaker William Blake. Carleton Watkins’s name may ring a bell from the widely reported spring photography/’book auctions in New York. Two rare Watkins albums— consisting of 100 prints— were auctioned for $198,000, the highest price ever paid for photo¬ graphic properties. As a group, the photographs will be seen just once before being individually sold— and only in San Francisco. No later than 1867, Watkins opened his own Yosemite Art Gallery on Montgomery Street, a Few blocks away from the Grant Ave. galleries currently exhibiting his work. There, in the days prior to the momentous invention of the picture post card, he sold photo¬ graphs of Yosemite to middle- and upper-class tourists. Watkins made his photographic- mark in Yosemite, and after two visits to the future national park he turned his attention, in the late 1860s, to lesser-known scenery. The Oregon album documents both the majestically unpeopled expanses of the Columbia River Valley and the tiny county seats and agricultural hamlets of the newly settled Oregon territory. The Pacific Coast album takes us on a journey from boomtovvn San Francisco, up the coast past the Farallons to Mendocino, then inland through mining and resort townstoMount Shasta. Watkins's photographs wore taken on 16x21 inch glass negatives known as “mammoth plates." The cumbersome negatives required immediate development after exposure to light. Watkins had to travel with his own mule-carried portable da rk r<#>m. Apart from the considerable technical expertise' involved, the golden, sepia-tone albumen prints are brcathtakinglv beautiful. They are majestic, straightforward, poetic— in short, classicistic rather than Victorian. To me, the best photographs seem to have been shot from a low-flying helicopter. Movement and stasis are perfectly harmonized. Trun¬ cated compositional elements in the foreground—a railroad bridge, the shadow of a cliff, a redwood tree, the mast of a ship—both frame and pull the eye into the ART BEVIEW WATKINS & BLAKE The new season’s front-runners Watkins’s 1869 shot of the Magenta Flume, Nevada County, California. roading’s technology. The flagman, who kept coming back to the rear of the train and shouting into a squawking two-way radio, explained that he was watching for more trouble with hot wheels. As the train rushes along, it periodically crosses sensors in the track. The sensors are wired to electronic digital-display screens mounted on poles. If any of the wheels record as being too hot, a number flashes up on the screen and the flagman radios a warning up to the engine crew. If the wheels seem to be cool enough, he signals an all-clear. All night long as we raced across Nevada we were serenaded by the man’s shouting and the radio’s furious crackling.) We actually didn’t have much com¬ plaint about our nights on the train. ZEPHYR aside from problems with trying to convince a restless baby to sleep (not Amtrak’s fault). The temperature dropped, the beds were comfortable, the old-fashioned clackety-clack of the rails is still there and still a proper lullaby, and it was clear why this form of travel is so habit-forming. The ride is rougher than it should be, but not enough to keep you awake, by any means. Day 2 presented more of the same. By the time we had crossed the top of Utah and into Wyoming, we were nearly three hours behind, and now we had a full day of the heat and discomfort to look forward to, with no repairs in sight. And there was an additional problem: a shortage of supplies, especially ice. (That may not be a critical commodity for most people, but for parents of a teething baby for whom it is the only solace for painful gums, it is more valuable than gold.) Finally, two hours before Denver, the last cubes melted away. We were now without ice, air conditioning and even our rear-door ventilation, since another car had been attached in Ogden, Utah. The emotional atmosphere in our and other compartments was becoming intermittently very testy. A man two compartments up, co-owner of a small Reno casino, started circulating a peti¬ tion of protest for Amtrak. He had no trouble getting signatures; even some of the staff helped pass it around. Approaching Cheyenne, desperate for a respite from the tropical zone, we decided to brave the enormous lines and eat dinner in the dining car. And finally we had some luck. The dining car is the exclusive domain of a steward, who has dictatorial power over the highly sensitive subject of seating. And to our great and pleasant surprise, the steward on this particular train chose to take pity on the sweltering masses, giving those of us from the hottest cars — the sleepers — first crack at dinner. An excellent decision. As we enjoyed a simple (but good) meal with a half-carafe of wine—total bill just $ 10.20 — in the blessedly cool air, Cora Hawthorne, our steward/benefac¬ tress, tossed remarks our way about Amtrak and the trains as she juggled the hungry passengers. She has only been on the job for five years, she said (prior to establishment of Amtrak, there had been virtually no women train workers), but added that there were still plenty of old- timers on board who had been working the rails for 30 years or more. Like most other train workers we talked with, Cora was contemptuous of then Secretary of Transportation Brock Adams and other Washington admini¬ Authors Ristow and Murphy, with son Liam, board the nouveau Zephyr at its Oakland terminus. California Governor Goodwin Knight and a cast of hundreds christen Western Pacific’s new California Zephyr on San Francisco’s Embarcadero, March 19,1949. Nil mi mi mi mi nij ■2 23 mJLmu ■-I iiny strators who, they felt, were strangling the railroads with insufficient equip¬ ment, maintenance and staffing. And in fact, wherever you look while crossing the country with Amtrak, just about the only thing that is still working properly, despite its shortages, is the staff. We probably came into contact with a score or more Amtrak employees en route, sometimes under very trying circumstances, and almost without exception we found them to be friendly, helpful, dedicated to the trains and solicitous of the passengers. These aren't the good old days, but there are plenty of train workers who remember those days, and they are evidently passing along some of the traditions to the new staff. And work on the train certainly isn’t easy, especially now that every run is so solidly booked. Just the sight of a porter preparing the beds at night is enough to make you tired: After shooing you out into the corridor, they would attack your tiny (about 5' x 8') compartment in a frenzy of activity, clambering around on a ladder, wrenching bunk beds out of the walls, straightening sheets, fluffing pillows, all the while tripping over your luggage, books, picnic basket and other belongings. This process gets repeated for as many as nine double compart¬ ments and as many as a dozen or more single roomettes in a single sleeping car— or a sleeping-car oven, in our case. No wonder that late each evening you find the dining car, emptied of diners, filling up with the exhausted, sprawled-out bodies of the staff. But on to Denver— and another fringe highlight, a chance to walk around a bit of the old downtown (the warehouse district, undergoing a distinct trendif ica- tion, with architects’ offices, art galler¬ ies, continental cafes and the like sprout¬ ing up in buildings whose sidewalks are still largely the domain of the down-and- out) and another old-style railroad station. The Zephyr finally left Denver 2 Vt hours behind schedule, but the growing delay was actually to our advantage. If we had been on time, we would have arrived in Omaha at 4:05 am. Instead we got there at a considerably more civilized 6:45 in the morning. It was even light enough to enjoy the pathetic sight of what passes as Amtrak’s “station” in Omaha — a rickety shed, topped with a j corrugated roof and stuck off in a side lot in the shadow of the two (count ’em) grand passenger depots that once served this bustling railroad city. Two days later, refreshed and rested by our stay in an air-conditioned apart¬ ment, we were even optimistic again about our journey. With a new train, we figured, our fortunes on the Zephyr would have to improve. And anyway, Omaha is only about nine hours from Chicago, where we would change once again. Still, just to be sure, we phoned Denver the night before to check on the progress of our new Train No. 6. It was a fortunate call, since this version of the train was even later than the other. We had the chance to sleep in the next morning before finally boarding at 9:55 instead of the scheduled 4:15 am. The Zephyr was already nearly six hours behind. The problem, we learned from our new carmates, was that there had been a freight derailment back in Wyoming, and this train had actually been forced to back up for several hours to bypass it. This business of derailments makes vou a little nervous. This was just one of three freights that went off the tracks along our route within a day of our journey, and the assurances of our flagman that passenger trains never derail weren’t altogether comforting, especially since on some stretches when the, engineer is trying to make up time the ride is very rough, bouncing you around wildly in your compartment. Late though it was, our new train did have the air conditioning intact, and we smiled weak smiles of relief at that. But our smiles were short-lived. By noon it was clear the system was expiring. And then, at 2:40 pm, the water in our car dried up as well. Our neighbors, with a good jab of black humor, recounted how, on their earlier trip from Manhat¬ tan to Denver, they had been without continued next page 7 THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 CT> e~ O) r- C\J cr LU m 2 LU I— CL LU CO < o cr < 3 0 > < 00 O o CO o z < cr z < CO LU I 8 continued from previous page electricity (lights, fan) as well as every¬ thing else part of the way. And this was the second time this particular car had run out of water, they said. Once pre¬ viously, somebody had just forgotten to attach the hose at a tanking-up station. (This time we had to wait nearly three parched hours for a refill.) A word on the delays. When you’re traveling for three days, a few hours difference doesn’t usually matter. It does matter, however, when the extra hours are spent in discomfort—or without adequate supplies. For example, the Zephyr is scheduled to arrive in Chicago daily at 1:25 pm, and, logically enough, Amtrak uses that schedule to determine how much food should be put on board. But what happens when, as with our train, it doesn’t arrive in Chicago until 8:25 pm? Nothing hap¬ pens. Nobody sits in one of those old train stations tele¬ graphing ahead for more food, like they used to do to warn John Wayne the Indians were coming. Nobody stocks up the trains in advance with extra food, knowing that the odds are that any given train will be late enough to require at least one additional meal service. Instead, the overflowing crowd of hot, tired, thirsty passengers has to make do with what’s there. And at 1 pm that day, when we went forward for a couple of sandwiches and Cokes, we found ourselves standing in the snack bar buying the last bag of potato chips available, alongwith aTab, the only available soft drink. The chips were the most substantial food on hand, and they didn’t carry us very far. Later in the day, the dining car served up a limited number of sandwiches—but even this tiny offering disappeared quickly, and there was nothing at all resembling dinner. It was a hungry crowd that disembarked at Chicago at 8:25 that night. The other thing about the delay, of course, is that you miss connections. This is a serious matter indeed for trains going into Chicago, the busiest transfer point in the country. One result of Amtrak’s problems with keeping its schedules, in fact, is that there is an entire large passenger lounge in Chicago given over to receiving trainloads of delayed passen¬ gers as they come in, with a battery of Amtrak agents dealing with all the missed connections. This is apparently the thing Amtrak does best, actually, perhaps because it has so much practice at it. But it still takes time. We were toward the front of the train load of passengers, getting to the lounge in time to grab a relatively low number in the first-come, first-served system. Even so, it was close to 45 minutes before our turn came, and when we finally left the lounge, it was still crowded. Since there were no more trains to Washington until the next day, and even those were booked solid, we were rapidly issued vouchers for hotel, meals and limousine and pointed to the Amtrak IXSO. CMMVIftOa phone we could use to call our relatives in Washington about the delay. The cost of all this to Amtrak must be spectacular. We figured that just for the two of us our overnight stay in a Holiday Inn plus our meals, phone calls and transportation must have run to $75 or more. Considering that there were several hundred people in the lounge, the direct costs—just from this one train, in this one city—must have run into the thousands of dollars. If you add adminis¬ trative expenses, agent salaries, bus fares for passengers who were transfer¬ red, plus the lost revenue incurred by having to place passengers in open seats on later trains, the total is surely enor¬ mous. Since we weren’t facing any deadline, however, we didn’t mind the layover. In fact, we were just getting comfortable in the Holiday Inn the next morning and eyeing the swimming pool with glee when an Amtrak agent phoned to say they could get us on a train in half an hour. This was one time we wished Am¬ trak hadn’t been so efficient, but we fig¬ ured we should take the opportunity, so we jammed our clothes into our bags, grabbed our baby and the limousine, and made it to Union Station with a few minutes to spare. An additional benefit to us—and financial loss to Amtrak—was that although we had reserved just the modest slumbercoach accomodations to Washington, the train we were now being sent on was a different route, and it had only the complete sleeping compart¬ ments. No extra charge, naturally, since we had been delayed the day before. This ride,- on the Chicago- Washington train called the Cardinal, was by far the smoothest of the three portions of our journey. The air condi¬ tioning worked, most of the equipment was the brand-new Amfleet stock, and we had only a few modest objections. Our bathroom sink kept falling off, for example (the porter seemed unpertur¬ bed, fastening it back on with lightning speed and a bit of sleight-of-hand). The only other thing that disappointed us was that the train carried no dining car, only a snack bar, although this was a full 24-hourjoumey. That one small snack bar, in fact, had to handle all meals for nearly 300 travelers, including one entire coachful of hungry teenagers on a field trip to Washington from Chicago. And haute cuisine in these Amcafes (as the snack bars are called) features such specialites de la maison as spaghetti and meatballs a la microwave oven. A far cry, indeed, from the fresh beamaise sauce and giant strawberries of old. Well, the high-school kids loved it, anyway. They were holed up in a coach way at the very end of the train, with a hand-lettered cardboard sign at the door warning trespassers against setting foot inside, and it was good to see a new gener¬ ation choosing to travel by rail. All in all, the Cardinal gave us a far more satisfactory run than did the Zephyr, and we were pleased to see it (w.i )rLBvt tit,/. -)in ?, "jUbiA ndo the trip is everywhere incredibly smooth and comfortable (aided, in part, by the wider gauge of the Russian tracks). While we were there, what’s more, we saw an important sign of the Russian commitment to their railroad, in the form of a large-scale track-replacement project, with crews of soot-covered men and women installing concrete ties and welded sections of rails in place of the older equipment. The continual freight derailments and passenger-train delays in the U.S. attest to how badly this sort of attention is needed here, but Amtrak has only recently begun track-upgrading work in fairly limited stretches. In the end, it was the greater comfort and efficiency of the Russian train (like most of the European trains we rode on) that win it more points than Amtrak. Some of the American scenery may be more spectacular, but on the other hand the Siberian sights are/or from dull, and at least the windows are clean so you can see those sights. And even allowing for inflation, the Russian journey was a tremendous bargain. It cost the two of us roughly $475 for a journey of 5,801 miles from Nakhodka to Moscow (including a connecting line from Nakhodka to Khabarovsk), a total of eight days and seven nights with a private compart¬ ment, all meals included. (Since we didn’t eat the meals, we were able to turn in our food vouchers for cash in Moscow.) On Amtrak, the current fare for two for the 3,363 miles from San Francisco to Washington with a sleeping com¬ partment, is $556— and that is the family plan, which is full fare for one spouse, half for the other. Put another way, the Russian train at full fare costs about 8. 2c per mile including meals; the American one at a discount costs almost twice as much, 16. 2c per mile, excluding meals. That expense is the sort of thing that can make you angry when the higher-priced train doesn’t even work properly. But back to the original question: Would we take Amtrak across the country again? We would, despite all the drawbacks. But we would choose our time more carefully, and we would probably try not to make the trip with such a young child. All our difficulties aside, there was much that we enjoyed. This is undeni¬ ably the most pleasant way to travel across the country. You suffer no jet lag, the room and the beds are comfortable, the view is often gorgeous and always interesting, the personnel on board are nearly all friendly and helpful, the food is satisfactory (and not, in our exper¬ ience, overpriced). When Amtrak introduces America’s first new sleepers since the 1950s later this year and early next, that may even solve some of the critical mechanical difficulties that plagued our trip and made us resent the high cost. So by all means take the train— but for now, take it in a more seasonable time of the year, not in the summer, with the air- conditioning disasters, and not in the winter, when the reverse problems occur and you can find yourself being delayed for hours in a snowstorm while your blankets freeze to the windows of your sleeping compartment. Instead, go in late September or October, or else in late March or April, and you may yet bump into us in the next compartment. ■ , nEiTionJ ni ingmrn'wisz ou lent?: yaw,* PHOTO BY JANET FRIES ON GUARD THE CLASSIC ELECTION BATTLE IN DISTRICT 9 A grassroots neighborhood activist takes on a consummate ward politician B Y DAVID ISRAELS t a Saturday afternoon block party on the slopes of Bernal Heights, Sup. Lee Dolson (Dis¬ trict 9) arrives early in his gas- guzzling Ford Granada. Only a few Moultrie Street residents are lounging on the stoops of their single family homes. But Dolson gets right to work, glad¬ handing the mostly middle-aged and elderly voters, drawing them easily into conversation with a heart-tugging story about hisailing 87-year-old mother. Campaigning among these constitu¬ ents he calls “salt-of-the-earth people,” Dolson is the picture of affability, the Father Knows Best of supervisorial poli¬ tics. It’s a well-crafted performance. And as he winds up the mother story, a tale he tells throughout the day, he draws a campaign leaflet from his back pocket, offering it almost as an afterthought. Most of his listeners take it eagerly, un¬ aware that Dolson is a conservative Re¬ publican. There’s certainly nothing in the literature to clue them in. All they know is that he’s government in the flesh, taking time to munch a hotdog and sip a beer at their neighborhood picnic. It’s a part of his supervisorial job Dol¬ son has perfected, working his precincts, playing the consummate ' ward politician. “There’s never been a time when I failed to go or be represented at a community meeting, ” he says. And for many of the moderately liberal voters in District 9, that’s enough to muffle their disagreements with Dol¬ son’s conservative views. For example, Alan Perdue, Moultrie Street block club president, favors the anti-highrise ini¬ tiative, but he is undisturbed by Dolson’s opposition to the measure. “He’s been here,” says Perdue, “and that’s what I look for in a supe. ” But behind Dolson’s benign image is a politico who seems to have a penchant for indulging in a mean-spirited brand of politics. LEE DOLSON’S TIT-FOR-TAT POLITICS “He approaches politics the way a pro¬ fessional soldier approaches battle,” John Kidder, a one-time Dolson adver¬ sary on the San Francisco school board, told a reporter shortly after Dolson was elected to the Board of Supervisors. And it wasn’t long after Dolson was sworn in that his District 9 detractors learned what Kidder meant. In early 1978, Dolson set up a short-lived district¬ wide advisory council. But his Glen Park opponents were frozen out, says Ruth Gravanis, a Glen Park activist and now a supporter of Nancy Walker, Dolson’s major opponent in this year’s election. Dolson was blunt about the freeze-out, according to Gravanis: “You can’t cash losing chips at the winning window, ” the newly elected supervisor told her. Though in subsequent months he modified his winner-take-all stance and met with Gravanis and other nonsup¬ porters, she remains suspicious of Dol¬ son’s tactics. “He’s not receptive to people who haven’t supported him,” Gravanis says. “He believes in tit for tat. ” Nancy W alker says she too has been on the receiving end of Dolson’s tit-for-tat politics. In April 1978 he opposed her appointment to the San Francisco Advi¬ sory Council of the West Bay Health Systems Agency, which is involved in health planning for San Francisco, Marin and San Mateo counties. Dolson now says he had a “more qualified ap¬ pointee” than Walker, but by press time his office was unable to come up with the person’s name. According to Walker, Dolson wanted to do more than sabotage her appoint¬ ment. She says he warned her that her political activity in the district was en¬ dangering her job with San Francisco’s pre-trial diversion program, a non-civil- .service CETA position. “It was a veiled threat,” Walker says. “He told me I had powerful enemies and if I wasn’t careful I was going to lose my job.” Dolson denies he threatened Walker. “I never talked to her about that at all,” he says. Yet others too have felt the sting of Dolson’s opposition. Gay activist Cleve Jones says Dolson held up his appoint¬ ment to the Juvenile Delinquency Pre¬ vention Commission, claiming to have continued next page « THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 O THE SAN FRANCISCO BAYGUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 ON GUARD continued from previous page information that Jones was a convicted child molester. Jones, 24, says the accu¬ sation is a “lie.” According to Jones, Dolson brought his information to Sup. Carol Ruth Sil¬ ver, who was sponsoring Jones’s appoint¬ ment, an hour before the board was to vote on it, requesting that the vote be put off while he investigated the accusation. During the next week, Jones says, Dol¬ son never spoke with him or gave him the chance to confront his accuser. Jones’s appointment was eventually approved unanimously. “Supervisor Dolson engaged in the worst kind of McCarthyism and witch- hunting mentality,” Jones says. “Gay people are, unfortunately, accustomed to that kind of behavior. We’ve seen it before from Anita Bryant and John Briggs.” Dolson refuses to confirm or deny that he went to Silver with the child molesta¬ tion information. Silver also declined to comment. But a close associate of the late Harvey Milk, who asked that his name not be used, wasn’t surprised by the Jones affair, saying, “Lee Dolson’s a regular Joe Schmuck who never passes up an opportunity to take a cheap shot at gay people and minorities. ” While Dolson’s tactics may have earned him the enmity of many of the city’s progressives, he remains a favorite of the downtown set. MONEY AND VOTES If money really is the mother’s milk of politics, then the Dolson campaign is sucking contentedly at the corporate breast. In three months, from March 24 to June 30, 1979, Dolson raised $9,330, all of it coming in large chunks ($100 or more) from special-interest corporate and real-estate contributors. The list of Dolson’s largest donors reads like a who’s who of downtown power centers: Bechtel Power Corpora¬ tion,. $500; Wells Fargo Bank, $500; Cost Plus, Inc., $500; Mo Bernstein, $350; PG&E, $300; Macy’s, $250; Bank of America, $200. And it appears the money deluge has only begun, with Dolson boasting that his campaign snared most of the early special-interest contributions “without even trying. ” Downtown’s faith in Dolson is re¬ flected in his two-year supervisorial record. Though he prides himself on his fiscal conservatism— opposing post- Prop. 13 business tax increases and restoration of funds for city services— Dolson’s penny-pinching doesn’t extend to most downtown boondoggles. He has supported the $115 million Moscone Convention Center as well as the $37 million Performing Arts Center. He has, however, been a staunch critic of the city’s increasingly unpopular $2 billion sewer program. On neighborhood development Dolson has consistently supported the real-estate industry. He opposed the city’s 1978 downzoning revisions, which POLITICAL ALERTS AND EVENTS BY SUSAN FERRELL FORUMS, LECTURES AND CONFERENCES Michael Harrington. Socialist author of “The Other America” (which was at least partly respon- siblefor launchingLBJ’s"Waron Poverty") makes three public speeches on "A Left Strategy for 1980 and Beyond. "Fri/28, noon, SFSU, Student Union. Barbary Coast Room; 2:30 pm, UC Berk.. Wheeler Auditorium; 8 pm, the New College, 777 Valencia, SF, 543-8555 or 387-7971. San Francisco’s Neighborhood Platform Convention convenes to develop a nonpartisan neighborhood platform and to elect delegates to the National Neighborhood Platform Convention (which takes place Nov. 9-11). Issues to be dis¬ cussed include housing, government services, jobs, have curtailed neighborhood overde¬ velopment. And in June 1979, Dolson voted against the Nob Hill height limita¬ tions passed by the Board of Supervisors. Nor has Dolson forgotten his real- estate friends in their battles against housing activists. Until his recent vote for the city’s watered down rent-stabiliza¬ tion law, he has consistently voted against rent control, rent rollbacks and rent-increase moratoriums. His solution to the city’s housing crunch is to “build more and build up. ” Walker's campaign against the conservative incumbent is an attempt to fulfill the promise of district elections. Says Dolson, “The law of supply and demand hasn’t been repealed”—a view enhanced perhaps by his own wealth: His financial portfolio includes a four- unit apartment building valued at $119,000; blue-chip utility and oil company stocks valued somewhere between $40,000 and $430,000; his salaries as a teacher at City College and on the board; and his Navy retirement pension. WALKER’S RUN Nancy Walker’s campaign to unseat Dolson is, to many observers, a quixotic venture, as she faces a combative incum¬ bent who has spent the last two years squirreling away his political IOU’s. But for W alker the race is a matter of keeping thefaith. On election night in August 1977, when Props. A and B went down to de- education, health, parks and open spaces, crime and air and water quality. All San Francisco residents are invited. Speakers include Mayor Dianne Feinstein and Sup. Quentin Kopp, and the convention abounds with resource people, who have special knowledge of the issues. Hosted by the Coalition for San Francisco Neighborhoods, and sponsored by a coalition of community and neigh¬ borhood groups too numerous to mention. Sat/29, 8:30 am-4:30 pm. First Unitarian. Center, Franklin at Geary, SF, $2, 647-3052 or 285-2648. Northern California Alliance for Survival ( AFS) holds a major peace organizing conference to plan upcoming actions. Sat/29, 10am-4:30pm, Trinity Methodist Church, Dana and Durant, Berk., bringa lunch, 752-7766, 626-6976or524-5619. Berkeley Mayor Gus Newport talks about his first few months in office and takes listeners’ calls and questions on the KPFA (94 FM) studio line (848-4425). Sat/29, 9-9:30am. election victory bash in the City Hall rotunda, an appropriate bit of symbol¬ ism. San Francisco politics had been transformed, seemingly, and the com¬ munity activists and neighborhood agitators thought that City Hall power was now theirs for the asking. But the district election activists turned out to be better campaign tech¬ nocrats than candidates. In District 9 their electoral hopeful. Bob Covington, lost to Dolson, a recently defeated school board member, who won with 29% of the vote in a ten-way race. Today, Walker’s campaign against the conservative incumbent is an attempt to fulfill the promise of district elections: bringing a neighborhood- oriented supervisor with a liberal voice to the board. “Dolson is a reactionary. The district is liberal. I believe I can better represent it,” she tells the voters in District 9’s Ber¬ nal Heights, Glen Park, Miraloma/Mt. Davidson and Ingleside neighborhoods. A supporter of the grassroots anti-high- rise and rent-control campaigns, she says, “1 want to make district elections work in District 9.” But if Walker’s hopes are to become reality, she must overcome the damage done to her campaign by her own initial reluctance to run, her inexperience as a candidate and her awkwardness on the campaign trail. During early spring W alker and other District 9 progressives wasted valuable months trying to find a suitable black progressive to run in the 59% Third World district. By the summer they had given up. “Nobody else was going to do it,” W alker says of her decision f inally to take Dolson on. But the delay cost her campaign precious organizing time, necessary to develop a precinct-based effort. “A grassroots campaign is no good without grass, ” saysGene Colman, a W alker sup¬ porter and director of the Canon Kip community center. t4 ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT Roy Brown and Aires Bucaneros, one of New. York's most exciting Puerto Rican new song ensembles, performs a benefit concert for a Free Chile and Reconstruction of Nicaragua. The evening also features speakers Michael Moffitt (whose wife. Ronni Karpen, was murdered with Orlando Letelier, Chile’s former ambassador to the U.S., on Sept. 21. 1976) and Aura Beteta, Free Nicaragua's first Consul General in SF. Fri/28. 7:30pm, GlideChurch. 330Ellis, SF, $5advance. $6 at the door, childcare, wheelchair accessible, tickets available at Cody’s, Modem Times, BASS, Old Wives' Tales, 433-6698. ”La Poblacion — The Shantytown." a multi- media program using song, slides, narration and drama to tell the story of Latin America's poblaciones, the oppression of the people and how resistance movements find their bases there. Fri/28, 8:30 pm. La Pena Cultural Center. 3015 Shattuck, Berk., $3, 849-2568. 1979 GREENPEACE SKATEATHON Skate vour way around the Polo Field at Golden Gate Park on Sat/6 and help Greenpeace save the w'hales and baby harp seals. Bring a picnic and friends, and plan to spend the day with entertain¬ ment and music. To get a registration packet, call the Greenpeace Foundation at 474-6767 or pick them up at all Record Factory stores and Viking SubShops. Startsigningupsponsorsnow. ■ And though Walker has almost a decade of political experience as a com¬ munity activist, district elections trea¬ surer and co-chair of the Covington cam¬ paign, this is her first time out as a candi¬ date. Even her supporters admit she’s not the stuff a campaign manager’s dreams are made of. “Nancy’s a sharp organizer and strate¬ gist,” says Ruth Gravanis, “but she’s not a fleshpresser or door-knocker. ’’ CAMPAIGN SCOREBOARD During this month’s citywide en¬ dorsement game, Walker fought hard but came out on the short end of the scale. The San Francisco Labor Coun¬ cil’s COPE, the Police Officers Associa¬ tion and the Firefighters and the Transport Workers unions all gave their nods to Dolson. He has endeared himself to big labor with his opposition to the anti-highrise initiative and the contracting-out of city services, as well as his sponsorship of a ballot measure to give police and fire¬ fighters collective bargaining rights. The conservative Black Leadership Forum has also voted him their support. Walker has gotten the stamp of approval mainly within the Democratic party, including both major gay Demo¬ cratic clubs, whose endorsements were endangered for a while by her failure to support Sup. Harry Britt at the Demo¬ cratic County Central Committee’s Sept. 9 endorsement session (see Guardian 9/13/79). Walker’s only union support has come from ILWU Local 6, though her camp succeeded in blocking an expected Dolson endorsement by SEIU Local 400. Though Walker admits Dolson’s support is a “mile wide,” she insists it’s only an “inch deep. ” Dolson remains confident of victory, though, predicting a win with 60% of the vote. But true to form, he’s playing for keeps. Says Dolson, “I intend to run as though the devil is on my tail. ” Also running in District 9 are Dennis J. Mulvihill and Earl Gilman. ■ ON GUARD continued from page 5 their right. I don’t see anything wrong with it.” But the spending ordinance was enacted to reduce the influence of big money in political campaigns and the use of expenditure committees effectively thwarts the law and allows major contri¬ butors to spend any amount in behalf of any candidate or ballot measure. And the Prop. U campaign was not the first instance in which special interests have gotten around the spending limits. In 1977, local billboard companies spent a quarter of a million dollars against Prop. W, a measure that would have elimi¬ nated billboards in San Francisco. 3. TheSFAHcomplaint: The SFAH complaint does not attack expenditure committees directly. Instead, the complaint alleges that the funds spent by Parkmerced, Golden Gateway and Paul Sack Properties, through Solem, were in effect, contribu¬ tions to CFBH/SFARC. As such, SFAH contends, the payments should have been limited to the $500 maximum and reported as contributions by CFBH/SFARC. Were the corporate payments actually contributions? In defining a contribu¬ tion, the Political Reform Act states that “an expenditure made at the behest of” a committee is a contribution to that committee. Thus, the question: were the payments made by the three firms made at "made at the behest of” CFBH/SFARC? Robert DeVrejs of SFAH told the Guardian that he believed the payments, were made at the behest of CFBH/SFARC because Solem was representing both CFBH/SFARC and the three real estate companies simulta¬ neously. DeVreis said, “Solem was representing the committee and at the same time was directing the companies as to how they should spend their funds. So the money had to be spent at the behest of the committee. ” Don Solem disputed SFAH's conten¬ tion in a phone interview with the Guar¬ dian. He said, “the money was not spent at the behest of the committee,” and maintained that his firm carefully kept the funds from the three companies sep¬ arate from the funds of CFBH/SFARC and used the funds to purchase advertising that was substantially differ¬ ent from the promotions Solem put together for CFBH/SFARC. However, Solem acknowledged that his firm coordinated the spending between the two groups “in the sense that we had a general knowledge of what both were doing. ” P.S. 1: The Guardian sought to interview individuals from the three corporations who signed each firm’s expediture statement: Claude Scovill of Parkmerced Management Corp. and Paul Sack of Paul Sack Properties were both out of the city. David Towne, general manager of Golden Gateway Center, has been replaced by Joseph Finch, who did not return our calls by presstime. P.S. 2: The SFAH complaint notes that in February a trade association called the Coalition for Better Housing (separate from CFBH/SFARC) had registered with the state Department of Corporations giving 100 Bush St., Solem's offices, as its address. This trade association has not registered as a committee. but the SFAH complaint asks the District Attorney to notify the Coalition for Better Housing that it cannot spend funds it may have already raised for campaign purposes until it registers as a committee. Peter Necar- sulmer at Solem said the Coalition was not a political committee, would not contribute funds to campaign against rent control and had no money to contribute anyway. P.S. 3: Chief Assistant District Attorney Charles Breyer said after the SFAH complaint was filed that the DA’s office would investigate the charges made by SFAH. But DA Joe Freitas may run into potential conflict of interest problems since he has accepted a recent campaign contribu¬ tion from Golden Gateway Center, one of the three real estate companies cited in the SFAH complaint. Freitas accepted a $250 contribution from Golden Gateway Center in May of this year, according to his cam¬ paign spending reports on file with the Registrar. Incidentally, Golden Gateway Center is 54% owned by Perini Land and Development Co., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of Perini Corp., which among other things is building the George Moscone Convention Center and the Seabrook nuclear power plant in New Hampshire. LEGAL NOTICES FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 40649 The following person is doing business as QUALITY CAR¬ PENTRY COMPANY, 1222A 22nd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122 David Merrihue. 1222A 22nd Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94122 This business is conducted by an individual Signed David Merrihue This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, California by clerk Tat- suo Maruyama on September 21,1979 Pub Dates September 26, October 3.10.17,1979 BG-13471 SUMMONS CASE NO. 742937 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO In re the marriage of the Petitioner; EDWARDO GALLETTI. and the Respondent: LINDA DIANE HILDEBRAND GALLETTI NOTICE! You have been sued The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days Read the information below. iAVISO! Usted ha.gido demandado. El tribunal puede decidir contra Ud. sin audiencia a menos que Ud responda dentro de 30 dias. Lea la informacion que sigue 1. To the Respondent a. The petitioner has filed a petition concerning your marriage You may file a written response within 30 days of the date that this summons is served on you b If you fail to file a written response within such time, your de¬ fault may be entered and the court may enter a judgment con¬ taining injunctive or other orders concerning division of proper¬ ty. spousal support, child custody, child support, attorney's fees, costs, and such other relief as may be granted by the court, which could result in the garnishment of wages, taking of money or property, or other relief c. If you wish to seek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be filed on time. Dated September 6. 1978. Carl M. Olsen. Clerk. By P W Murphy. Deputy MICHAEL R.SHER 3386 25th Street San Francisco, CA 94110 821-1600 Pub. Dates: September 5.12.19.26.1979. BG-13445 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40511 The following person is doing business as LEDRONE. 1390 Market #908. San Francisco. CA 94102: Lon Klingaman, 1725 Fox Plaza. San Francisco, CA 94102. This business is con¬ ducted by an individual. Signed Lon Klingaman. This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Tat- suo Maruyama on September 13.1979 Pub Dates: September 19, 26. October 3,10.1979 BG-13467 V .tlljf'ttito * UKI i.I .i ).) * • ) 1 V | FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 40314 The following person is doing business as SAN FRANCISCO EMPLOYMENT SERVICE. 4096 18th Street #37, San Fran¬ cisco. CA 94114: Thomas P. Standish, 4096 18th Street #37. San Francisco. CA 94114 This business is conducted by an in¬ dividual. Signed Thomas Standish This statement was filed with Carl M. Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, California by clerk Valaida S. Mason on August 31,1979. Pub. Dates: September 5.12,19. 26, 1 979 _ BG- 13442 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40313 The following persons are doing business as KILBY & PATTER¬ SON ASSOCIATES. 1733 Scott #4, San Francisco, CA 94115 Albert B. Kilby, 66 Cleary #808. San Francisco, CA 94109; Terence E. Patterson. 1830 Eddy. San Francisco, CA 94115. This business is conducted by an unincorporated association other than a partnership. Signed Terence E Patterson This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Valai¬ da S Mason on August 31, 1979 Pub. Dates: September 5,12,19. 26, 1979. BG-13447 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 40315 The following person is doing business as SERVICES BY SUSIE, 214 Clara. San Francisco. CA 94107 Susanne S. Jarvis, 2535 35th Avenue. San Francisco. CA 94116 This business is conducted by an individual. Signed Susie Jarvis. This statement was filed with Carl M. Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Valaida S Mason on August 31,1979. Pub. Dates: September 5,12,19, 26,1979. _ BG 13441 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 40431 The following person is doing business as HIGH T & CO., 116 Belvedere. San Francisco. CA 94117: Aaron H Mazria. 116 Belvedere, San Francisco. CA 94117. This business is con¬ ducted by an individual Signed Aaron Mazria This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Tat- suo Maruyama on September 7.1979 Pub. Dates: September 12.19, 26. October 3.1979 BG-13454 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 40432 The following persons are doing business as BOOKKEEPING COOPERATIVE. 234 Pierce. San Francisco, CA 94117: Patricia Henderson. 234 Pierce, San Francisco. CA 94117; Sandra Stein, 22120 Broadway St.. Sonoma, CA 95476. This business Is conducted by a general partnership. Signed Sandra Stein. Patricia Henderson This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Tat- suo Maruyama on September 7.1979 Pub Dates: September 12.19. 26, October 3.1979 BG-13455 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 39612 The following persons are doing business as OPTIONS. 1458 Page #8, San Francisco. CA 94117: Diane L. Webb. 1458 Page #8, San Francisco, CA 94117, Robert M Calderaro. 1458 Page #8, San Francisco, CA 94117. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Signed Diane L Webb This statement was filed with Carl M. Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk D Flanagan on July 26.1979 Pub. Dates: September 5.12.19. 26.1979. BG-13443* FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40435 The following person is doing business as CLIFTON LEMON .DESIGN & PRODUCTION. 1451 Shotwell. San Francisco. CA 94110 Clifton Stanley Lemon, 1451 Shotwell. San Francisco. CA 94110 This business is conducted by an individual Signed Clifton Stanley Lemon This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Tatsuo Maruyama on September 7.1979 Pub. Dates September 12.19. 26, October 3.1979 _ BG-134S1 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40434 The following persons are doing business as REBA & VANCE. 143 Fillmore, San Francisco. CA 941 1 7 Richard Vance Martin. 143 Fillmore, San Francisco. CA 94117. Rebecca Kmiec. 535 Haight, San Francisco, CA 94117 This business is conducted by a limited partnership Signed Richard Vance Martin. This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Tat¬ suo Maruyama on September 7.1979 Pub Dates September 12,19, 26. October 3.1979 __ BG 13452 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS^AME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40433 The following persons are doing business as HOTEL VICKS¬ BURG, 1476 California, Box 40, San Francisco. CA 94114 Christopher Beaver, 161 Vicksburg, San Francisco, CA 94114; Judy Irving. 161 Vicksburg, San Francisco. CA 94114. This business is conducted by a limited partnership Signed Chris¬ topher Beaver This statement was filed with Carl M. Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk Tat¬ suo Maruyama on September 7.1979 Pub. Dates September 12,19, 26. October 3.1979 BG-13453 SUMMONS CASE NO. 751653 SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA IN AND FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO In re the marriage of the Petitioner LUIZ GALLETTI. and the Respondent HELEN RENE GOUAX NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days Read the information below iAVISO * 1 Usted ha sido demandado El tribunal puede decidir contra Ud. sin audiencia a menos que Ud. responda dentro de 30 dias Lea la informacion que sique. 1. To the Respondent: a The petitioner has filed a petition concerning your marriage You may file a written response within 30 days of the date that this summons is served on you. b. If you fail to file a written response within such time, your de¬ fault may be entered and the court may enter a judgment con¬ taining Injunctive or other orders concerning division of proper¬ ty, spousal support, child custody, child support, attorney's fees, costs, and such other relief as may be granted by the court, which could result in the garnishment of wages, taking of money or property, or other relief. c. If you wish to sefek the advice of an attorney in this matter, you should do so promptly so that your written response, if any, may be filed on time Dated May 18. 1979 Carl M. Olsen. Cjerk. By Joseph Rasch- Chabot, Deputy MICHAEL R.SHER 2822 Van Ness San Francisco, CA 94109 441-0121 Pub Dates September 5.12.19. 26.1979 BG-13446 ** * ' * * Gl. 1(4 '/ u L 410 a . | . FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40498 The following persons are doing business as JAZZLAND, 852 Stanyan. San Francisco. CA 94117: Annette Jarvie. 144 Carl, San Francisco. CA 94117; Phillip Philbin III, 144 Carl #6, San Francisco. CA 94117. This business is conducted by co¬ partners. Signed Annette Jarvie This statement was filed with Carl M. Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, California by clerk Tat¬ suo Maruyama on September 12.1979 Pub Dates September 19. 26, October 3,10.1979 BG-13466 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40533 The following persons are doing business as AD RESPONSE LINE, 754 Columbus, San Francisco. Ca 94133: Duane Byron Busby. 2434 Bonar Street, Berkeley, CA 94702; James Jude Wallrabenstein. 2434 Bonar Street. Berkeley. CA 94702. This business is conducted by a general partnership. Signed D Byron Busby. This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk D Flanagan on September 14,1979 Pub. Dates: September 19, 26, October 3.10.1979. _BG-13465 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMESTATEMENT FILE NO. 40534 The following corporation is doing business as BRAND X. 570 Castro. San Francisco, CA 94114 Keneka corporation (Cali¬ fornia). 917 Grove. San Francisco. CA 94117. This business is conducted by a corporation Signed K N Kapleau, President, Keneka Corporation. This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk D Flanagan on September 1 4,1979. Pub. Dates: September 19.26, October 3.10.1979 BG-13464 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 40535 The following person is doing business as ART DECOR ENTER¬ PRISES. 2832 Gough. San Francisco. CA 94123: Faye A De Spain. 2832 Gough. San Francisco. CA 94123. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed Faye A. De Spain. This statement was filed with Carl M. Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, California by clerk D Flanagan on September 14,1979. Pub. Dates September 19. 26. October 3.10.1979. BG-13463 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO 40536 The following person is doing business as HOWARD ENTER¬ PRISES. 625 Post #1237. San Francisco. CA 94103 Howard L Sparks, 1440 South Mayfair. Daly City. CA 94015. This busi¬ ness is conducted by an individual. Signed Howard L. Sparks. This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco. California by clerk D Flanagan on September 14,1979. Pub Dates September 19. 26. October 3.10.1979 _ BG 13461 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAMESTATEMENT FILE NO. 40552 ~ The following person is doing business as TIGHT MUSIC. 1560 Eighth Avenue Penthouse. San Francisco. CA 94122: Ana Perez. 901 Cedar, Berkeley. CA 94710 This business is con¬ ducted by an individual. Signed Ana Perez This statement was filed with Carl M Olsen, the County Clerk of the City and County of San Francisco, California by clerk D Flanagan on September 14.1979. Pub. Dates September 19.26. October 3.10.1979 BG-1346B .fc.Vukl»Jfi iM.fiW.AAtt' .» vf. fill v.* THE SAN FRANCISCO BAYGUARDIAN, SEPTEMBER 27,1979 »W»] was founded by singer Mimi Farina several years ago, it has put on hundreds of shows in institutions in Marin County, San Francisco and in state prisons. The Bread and Roses Festival was established in 1977 to help raise money for the day-to-day operation of the organ¬ ization, to ensure that the schedule of 35-40 small shows a month can be maintained. Ideally, the festival will raise about 80% of Bread and Roses’ annual budget, with the remaining funds coming from foundation grants, government grants and private contributions. Last year’s Labor Day weekend fest, however, was not as successful (financially, at least) as the first year’s shows, and Bread and Roses needed a large concert (held at the San Francisco Civic) a few months after the festival to meet its budget. Ticket sales for this year’s three shows—Oct. 5th through 7th— have been brisk, indicating that Bread and Roses stands a good chance of meeting its financial goal. "What we learned last year,” says Bread and Roses Festival co¬ producer Tom Lapinski. “is that more people go out of town during a holiday weekend than come in to town. The other thing we learned is that although a show might be beautifully put together in terms of the artists represented on a program, you still need a headliner tosell tickets.” Certainly , there is no paucity of big names scheduled for this year’s festival. Friday night’s show alone features three or four top-drawing acts. The show kicks off with har¬ monica whiz Norton Buffalo, playing a set with Steve Burton, guitarist for Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge. Norton and Kris¬ tofferson have spent the last few months in Montana working on Michael Cimino’s new film. Heaven s Gate , and both are taking time out from their acting chores just to appear at the festival. If you have never seen Norton Buffalo, you have never seen what can be done with a harmonica. Buffalo will be followed by Hoyt Axton, whose appearances at the first two Bread and Roses Festivals are still talked about fondly. Axton is a performer who enjoys playing "loose” (read “bombed”), and his set is always a delightful blend of raucous humor and fine country¬ folk tunes. The first half of Friday night’s show will close with a rare solo appearance by David Crosby. A songwriter of great depth and a singer of considerable emotion and color, Crosby is certain to be one of the bright spots of the festival. And, of course, with his longtime partner Graham Nash scheduled to appear solo at Sunday's show, don’t be surprised if the two appear together during each other’s set. Opening the second half of the show.willbe the witty, highly idio¬ syncratic Roche * 1 sisters, who hash- TIME AGAIN In decades of concerts, Pete Seeger (above) has never failed to get a crowd singing along. Jerry Lawson (below) and the Persuasions are never anything less than awesome. BY BLAIR JACKSON I n just two years, the Bread and Roses Festival of Acoustic Music, held at Berkeley’s 9,000-seat Greek Theater, has become perhaps the most important and consistently entertaining annual musical event on the West Coast. Though the Monterey and Berkeley jazz festivals continue to be well attended and offer a number of exceptional acts, they fall short of matching the joyous spirit that seems to permeate virtually every minute of the Bread and Roses fete. Each Bread and Roses Festival has skillfully blended seemingly ageless folkies with current stars, rock and roll with jazz, gospel with light folk. The performers, all of whom donate their services, always appear to enjoy the shows thoroughly, and the camaraderie that is evident between performers never fails to make an audience feel good. The hackneyed term “good vibes” must have been invented to describe even ts 1 ike th is. Bread and Roses, of course, is a Marin County-based nonprofit operation dedicated to bringing entertainment to people in prisons, hospitals, nursing homes and the like—to people who are, literally, “shut-ins” for one reason or another. Since the organization irs BREAD AND ROSES Bread and Roses founder and director Mimi Farina and sister Joan Baez at the first Bread and Roses festival. become favorites in the Bay Area through their performances at the Boarding House and opening for Boz Scaggs at the Greek. While their album is a little cutesy for my tastes, 1 understand they are brilliant live. We’ll see. Following the Roches will be Chick Corea, playing a rare solo gig (the last few times he was in town he played duets with Herbie Hancock), and Kris Kristofferson, who I fervently hope will have the good sense to leave wife Rita Coolidge at home that night. Saturday afternoon's show appears to be devoted primarily to folk and acoustic blues. The “names” that day are Joan Baez, who rises to these sorts of occasions with a brilliance that is both heart¬ warming and inspiring, and folk immortal Pete Seeger, who in decades of concerts has never failed to get a crowd singing along with him. The Bay Area turned out in force to see Seeger just this past July, when he performed for free in front of 16,000 people at Stern Grove in San Francisco. Bring your pitch pipe and get ready to sing! Also on the bill Saturday are Paul Siebel, who is perhaps best known for writing the lovely tune- “Louise” (which has been recorded by Bonnie Raitt, among others); Leah Kunkel, sister of the late Mama Cass and now a recording artist herself (she has one excellent album on CBS); blues singer/ guitarist John Hammond; and the Chambers Brothers, who will offer what is sure to be an exciting set of blues and gospel tunes. Sunday’s show begins with perennial Bread and Roses favorites the Persuasions, who, like Hoyt Axton, have performed at the previous year’s festivals. I’ve seen these a capella giants several times over the past th ree or fou r yea rs (in- cluding twice at last year’s festival, and most recently opening for Joni Mitchell) and can say without hesi¬ tation that they are never anything less than awesome. They always succeed in bringing down the house. Next up on the bill is Flora Purim, sans husband Airto, in a set of Brazilian jazz. Purim is one of the most distinctive vocalists in music, and to hear her in an exclu¬ sively acoustic setting should be a real treat. Her latest album on Warner Brothers Records, Carry On, was just released last week. The first half of Sunday’s show concludes with a set by Graham Nash, one of the true “nice guys” of the music industry. Always politi¬ cally minded, Nash writes decep¬ tively simple and beautiful tunes that suit his appealing tenor quite well. Again, I would not be sur¬ prised to see David Crosby join Nash onstage for a song or two. The second half of the Sunday show is sure to be uplifting. Follow¬ ing a set by Maria Muldaur will be the New Generation Singers, a 50- voice gospel choir from Oakland, and Peter, Paul and Mary, whose classic folk hits still sound great more than a decade after they were recorded. It seems fitting that the most popular folk group of the past two decades be on hand to usher in the Eighties. The universal mes¬ sages in their songs will probably still be relevant at the turn of the century. As has always been the case, the performers at the Bread and Roses Festival are offering their talents for free. So are the companies offering sound and lights, the fellow whose responsi¬ bility it is to keep the dozens of acoustic guitars in tune and even artist Stanley Mouse, whose stun¬ ning rose logo is the sy mbol of this year’s festival. It is not every day that you get to help a worthy cause and have a whale of a good time in the process. The Bread and Roses Festival comes but once a year— the good feelings it generates help others enjoy good music year ’round. PARTICULARS: When-Oct. 5 at 7p.m., Oct. bat 1 p.m., Oct. 7at 1 p.m. Where — the Greek Theatre on the U.C. Berkeley campus. Tic¬ kets—available-in advance at all BASS outlets (as well as the Univer¬ sity Box Office) for $10 per show (theater seats) or $8.50(general ad¬ mission); $1 more per show for tickets purchased at the door. I strongly advise buying advance tickets, as all three shows will probably sell out. The doors will open two hours before each show. I’d recommend bringing some sort of warm clothing to each show, as the Greek is often chilly in the late afternoon and evening. If you plan to sit on the large concrete area of the theater, a pillow w ill certainly -help. ■