The Family Dog After The Fall

The long - suffering Family Dog, closed for four days in January by the Internal Revenue Service, has reopened again but this time Chet Helms, who is the spiritual if not titular leader of whatever community combine runs the Dog at this point, has a little different perspective now; that perspective, Helms feels, is a direct result of the changes San Francisco and San Franciscans went through in the wake of the Altamont disaster.