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2000 Stories by Staff Writers

• Mother's Milk

  published May 18, 2000

  A ticket to a male strip show, says Sylvia Tellez, the spokeswoman for Caranso Entertainment, which will present “Ladies Only” this Frid... More >>

• Window on Death Row

  published May 11, 2000

  With everybody and his crazy uncle getting on the Net, it was only a matter of time before death-row inmates got their own Web pages. The... More >>

• Paying Your Dues

  published May 4, 2000

  Acting is a crazy business. As Old Blue Eyes so immortally phrased it, “Riding high in April, shot down in May” — or, in the case of Ch... More >>

• Mr. Happy Does the Dew

  published April 27, 2000

  “It kills your sperm,” says 15-year-old Hollywood High School student Oscar. “It shrinks men’s testicles,” chimes in his pal Louis, als... More >>

• Shavian Wisdom

  published April 6, 2000

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• Shavian Wisdom

  published April 6, 2000

  As if his 37,000-word EPIC on the Staples Center scandal wasn’t enough, Pulitzer Prize–winning L.A. Times media writer David Shaw has deliver... More >>

• A Real Bargain Hunter

  published March 30, 2000

  Seems like every week OffBeat discovers that another seemingly benign pastime could be hazardous to our health. But yard sales? That’s what w... More >>

• Death on the Menu

  published March 2, 2000

  Texas may have streamlined its death-penalty appeals process down to almost nothing. But even as... More >>