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1998 Stories by News Staff

• Riordan's Funny Bone

  published April 2, 1998

  At an MTA board meeting last week, Mayor Richard Riordan, within earshot of audience members in the front row, warmed up the crowd with what... More >>

• Myanmar's Friend at City Hall?

  published March 26, 1998

  UNOCAL Corp., the oil-and-gas giant, has brought out the heavy guns to combat a measure before the Los Angeles City Council that would prohibit... More >>

• Bob Dornan's Last Crusade

  published March 19, 1998

  For three years now, OC Weekly senior editor R. Scott Moxley has been dogging former and would-be Congressman Robert "Shut Up, Fag" Dornan, who... More >>

• Cracked Elvis

  published March 12, 1998

  Barely a year after an emergency face-lift, Elvis Presley's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is cracking again - the latest victim, critics say,... More >>

• Checchi on the Cheap

  published March 5, 1998

  With all the money megamillionaire Al Checchi is throwing around in his bid to be California's next governor, you'd think the former airline exec... More >>

• The Way of the Dinosaurs?

  published February 26, 1998

  In the years following its 1988 debut, the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City struggled to survive, and its founder, a deceptively... More >>

• Block Party

  published February 19, 1998

  It was just another Saturday night at the Hollywood Hills home of Dr. Susan Block and her husband/producer, Max Lobkowicz. Dr. Block, the... More >>

• Who is L.A. District Attorney Gil Garcetti protecting?

  published February 12, 1998

  Last June, Orange County Superior Court Judge Everett W. Dickey set Elmer "Geronimo" Pratt free, vacating the former Black Panther's 24-year-old... More >>

• Lewinsky:

  published February 5, 1998

  As we were doing some late-night data base prowling, we came across this little tidbit from a Los Angeles Times May 30, 1991, article on a... More >>