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City Scribe. "Once you're a habit, you've got it made," says San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen. By that measure, the Sackamenna Kid, a bowdlerized self-reference to his Sacramento origins, has it made in three-dot spades: Caen's column has appeared in San Francisco for all but three of the past 46 years, and its six-day-a-week mix of gossipy tidbits, hand-me-down gag lines and occasional nuggets of hard news, all separated by three-dot ellipses, is the closest thing to universal wisdom in the variegated Bay Area...
...lowering a television housed in a lacquered cabinet. The choice of ablutions includes a Jacuzzi-equipped bathtub, redwood sauna and multijet shower, all within reach of one of the bathroom's two telephones. The Democratic front runner apparently has only one misgiving about his hotel: according to Herb Caen, he has already sent his daughter Eleanor on a scouting expedition to find a decent cheeseburger...
...studded if somewhat less adventurous, line-up, that includes Joe Jackson (June 25), the Go-Go's (June 29), return performances from Al Jarreau, James Taylor, and Chicago, as well as appearances by the Eurythmics, the Thompson Twins, George Benson, and dinosaurs the Moody Blues, the Everly Brothers, and Herb Alpert...
...legit. This week California's Berkeley Symphony Orchestra performs the world premiere of A Zappa Affair, a program of four short ballets. Zappa may have jettisoned the synthesizers and electric guitars, but he has kept his famous sense of the absurd. The ballets-titled Moe 'n' Herb's Vacation, Sinister Footwear, Bob in Dacron and Sad Jane-are performed by giant puppets attached to live performers. "There are a lot of things you can do with puppets that you can't do with dancers," explains Zappa. "In one scene a bartender gets so busy that...
...Both the seniors are from the Boston area," says Bruin Coach Herb Hammond. "Paul's from Bingham and Brain (Driscoll) is from Dorchester. You don't have to say Harvard twice to them...