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...been put together by one of the more prominent chefs in the city, Michael Mina. Then go straight to dinner at the brand-new La Mar Cebicheria Peruana, tel: (1-415) 397 8880, a Peruvian restaurant known for its seviche. It's a beautiful spot on the Embarcadero, located right on the water. I recommend the leche de tigre. I'd then take a stroll down the Embarcadero and stop in at the District wine bar, tel: (1-415) 896 2120. It's in a loftlike space with a brick-lined interior...
...city, however, will open opportunities to do things better. Hospitals could be redesigned to provide parking on the lower floors so that any future flooding would not reach the floors where patients and medical records would be kept. After the 1989 earthquake collapsed sections of San Francisco's Embarcadero Freeway, the city demolished elevated segments and developed a splendid park and waterfront esplanade. "We didn't replan the city," says Mary Comerio, author of Disaster Hits Home, a study of six postdisaster reconstruction efforts. "But we took these terrific opportunities to remake pieces...
...apparent in the most beautiful piece on their album, "Sunset Bay." The softest and most tranquil by far, "Sunset Bay" takes you to the Bay Area where the artists grew up. Ultra simple drum programming with understated saxophone notes will make you think you are walking down the Embarcadero with your special someone. The same can be said about "Eventide;" yet this time, the brothers add flute and something known as "wah wah" bass, making "Eventide" a much more dynamic and upbeat piece, created in a style reminiscent of the Yellowjackets jazz group. "Steppin' Out," the album's namesake...
DIED. JOSEPH ALIOTO, 81, charismatic San Francisco mayor; in the city whose skyline he altered with such projects as the Embarcadero Center. Tapped for mayor after the chosen Democratic candidate died in 1967, Alioto met his political demise because of unproven allegations of Mob ties and federal charges of bribery (he was acquitted...
When the party faithful gathered in San Diego, the biggest party animals were lobbyists. An estimated $25 million in corporate cash sloshed around for everything from the hospitality yachts that gridlocked the harbor to the G.O.P. gala at the Embarcadero Park, the single most profitable fund raiser Republicans have ever had at a convention. (At that one the G.O.P. took in $6.5 million from assorted contributors, $2 million more than at 1992's largest checkbook jamboree.) One of the busiest hosts was Dirk Van Dongen, president of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors. On Wednesday he introduced Jack Kemp...