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  Negritude Adjustment - The finer points of Shangism

  Shang - formerly known as Shang Forbes - appears an unlikely comedian for our jaded age. Instead of keeping an ironic distance or an overheated ghetto sensibility more common to - and more expected of - black performers, he makes a commitment: wrestl...

  by Erin J. Aubry on March 5, 1998

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  Je Voudrais Del Taco - Orlan goes to the desert

  ''I see so much all the time," says Orlan. "Sometimes, I want to see nothing." This is why I'm driving the infamous French performance artist, in town for the opening of MOCA's "Out of Actions," along Highway 60 to Joshua Tree National Park. More Sou...

  by Michael Baers on March 5, 1998

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  Keeping Up Appearances - Two perspectives on how we look and what it means

  James cannot laugh or cry. He is unable to smile, raise his eyebrows, or even move his eyes from side to side. He has a rare condition called Mobius Syndrome. He believes his inability to register emotion on his face has suppressed his emotions. "Peo...

  by Diana Wagman on March 5, 1998

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  Flesh Palaces - Bright lights, big titties

  Yes, it's true that Dan Gerrity and Jeremy Lawrence's Melody Jones (in a return engagement at Theatre/Theater) is set entirely in a Buffalo, New York, strip club, and that the stage is filled with skin and all manner of "exotic" dancing. The club's e...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on March 5, 1998

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  Sledgehammers to the Streets - The zine scene

  Basically, Spin, Rolling Stone, Details and other ridiculously dumb glossy magazines have nothing to offer you but anorexic-model-strewn advertisements and articles where Hootie & the Blowfish get to sound off on world affairs. Instead, why not check...

  by Adam Bregman on March 5, 1998

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  The Spectacle of a Mind

  Here's a letter, one of many. Its writer - whom I'll identify only by noting that we have the same initials - has been rendered morose by my words that suggest a negative reaction to music closer to his heart than to mine. "There is no composition of...

  by Alan Rich on March 5, 1998

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  Reconstructing the Ephemeral - Performance art and the Schimmel effect

  The very idea of a large-scale museum exhibition that focuses on a group of artistic movements whose common hallmark was an untranslatable ephemerality is so perverse that only its sheer audacity partially balances out the dubiousness of the endeavor...

  by Doug Harvey on February 26, 1998

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  Divided We Stand - Putting the id into identity politics

  Although the American century arrived with the myth of its melting pot, today we live in a culture riven by identity politics and their dissonant vocabulary. It's no riddle why; while certain categories of people may enjoy more civil rights than they...

  by Steven Mikulan on February 26, 1998

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  The Best Things in Code Are Free

  To those of us who never pay for software anyway, Netscape's announcement, on January 21, that it was about to distribute its browser for free meant exactly nothing. Except for a Quicken financial-planning program I bought in the box for a friend one...

  by Judith Lewis on February 26, 1998

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  Mostly Magical Mozart

  Well, that was more like it. After a season pretty far down in the operatic dumps so far, our aspiring if not yet perfect company has rediscovered enchantment at the most likely fountainhead, the music of Mozart. Last week's Magic Flute, even braving...

  by Alan Rich on February 26, 1998

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  The Art of Artifice - Plays about the birds, the trees and men in drag

  Who says Anton Chekhov was a kind, compassionate man? I think he was a sadist and, even in death, remains one - lulling actors and directors into his moody, atmospheric worlds before pinning them to the stage and driving a stake through their hearts....

  by Steven Leigh Morris on February 19, 1998

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  Eros-ion - On fresh paint and tortuous complications

  If Brahma is a more endearing creator than Jehovah, it is because he wasn't pleased with what he had made. He found the world dull and dusty. Death was the answer, suggested Shiva. Living forever, people were bored. A time limit would galvanize, give...

  by Tim Parks on February 19, 1998

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  Objet d'art - In praise of decoration

  In 1912, Pablo Picasso took a piece of oilcloth printed like chair caning and glued it into one of his paintings. In so doing, he not only helped invent a new technique - collage - he also helped open the floodgate on all the unconventional materials...

  by Carmine Iannaccone on February 19, 1998

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  A Tale of Three Parties - Recalling Truman Capote

  Truman Capote was a born writer who died a celebrity, a downfall that has always seemed particularly painful to me because it was Capote the writer who changed my life. I was 20 years old: For three years, I'd been wrestling with the quicksands burie...

  by F.x. Feeney on February 19, 1998

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  The Low Life

  Untitled (1998)If we were queen of the universe - now that's a job we'd like - we would ban sports-utility vehicles, which usually seem to be steered by the most menacing maniacs on the road. However, we started contemplating the virtues of four-whee...

  by Kateri Butler on February 19, 1998

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  Great Britten

  Any critic worthy to wield a poisoned pen must be obsessed these days with drawing up lists: major events and masterworks of the decade, century and millennium now oozing toward their closure. I am not prepared to predict that Benjamin Britten's name...

  by Alan Rich on February 19, 1998

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  The Little Girl With a Big Head - David Schweizer directs a new translation of Salome

  Just before Christmas, amid a jumble of half-built sets and strange props that make you feel like you're in the middle of a junk shop, an early rehearsal for a production of Oscar Wilde's most misunderstood work, Salome (which opened last week at Act...

  by Mary Beth Crain on February 19, 1998

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  Missing Voices

  Caught up in the charms of Ervin Schulhoff's First String Quartet - as played by the Petersen Quartet at the Doheny Mansion last week in one of the Da Camera Society's "Chamber Music and Historic Sites" concerts - I found it was hard to avoid sheddin...

  by Alan Rich on February 19, 1998

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  Literary L.A.

  JERVEY TERVALON sold his first poem to Scholastic magazine while he was still in junior high school. "'My God,'" the Pasadena resident remembers thinking, "'I can make money at this.' And I've been deluded ever since." Raised in Los Angeles, he atte...

  by David L. Ulin on February 12, 1998

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  Literary L.A.

  By the time LEWIS MacADAMS discovered the Beats as a Dallas high school freshman, he already knew that "My fate was not connected with the future of the suburbs." After attending Princeton, he spent time in New York, then moved in 1970 to Bolinas in...

  by David L. Ulin on February 12, 1998