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1996 Stories by John Sullivan

• Dog Bites

  published May 8, 1996

  From Boring to Born Again Film Threat founder Chris Gore has bought back his magazine from Larry Flynt Publications and is moving it to San... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published May 1, 1996

  The Unhappy Hookers Ever since the days of the Barbary Coast, San Francisco has been something of a haven for sexual persuasions and... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published April 10, 1996

  That's Not Funny Never try to explain a joke; you only get yourself in deeper. That's advice SF Weekly should have taken when it received... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published March 27, 1996

  Mime-Boggling If the San Francisco Mime Troupe could telegraph its plight, its players would flash a semaphore for "Help!" The collective's... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published March 13, 1996

  Don't Come All Ye Faithful It seemed like an answered prayer: The Committee to Save St. Brigid Church, a group of Catholic parishioners... More >>

• Willie Brown's Beau Brummell

  published March 13, 1996

  In etiquette parlance, the situation could best be described as "delicate." Late last month in the Veteran Building's Green Room, Willie Brown was... More >>

• Art for Art's Sake

  published February 21, 1996

  The inscription over the locked doors of the Old Main Library bears a certain irony: "May this structure throned on imperishable books be... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published February 21, 1996

  The Million-Dollar Question What would you do for $1 million? Chris Phipps and Brian Elliott would do almost anything -- legal -- and they... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published January 31, 1996

  Buzz Off Media hounds sniffed another whiff of doom for the Examiner after Magazine Editor Paul Wilner announced earlier this month that he... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published January 24, 1996

  Missing Out in the Mist You're standing in the dense drizzle next to a Muni shelter (An ironic label for a billboard, you think), waiting... More >>

• High Anxiety

  published January 10, 1996

  The Financial District drones were shuffling out to lunch late that Thursday morning last October when two women in business suits walked into the... More >>

• Dog Bites

  published January 3, 1996

  The Rematch The face-off between Arlo Smith and Bill Fazio for district attorney promised a vicious row, but then Terence Hallinan stepped... More >>