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1. News

   Trouble In Paradise

   They Say You Write What You Know

   Eddie Little

   Published: March 5, 1998

   Echoing screams drip into my head like molten lead dripping into water, sizzling, steaming, then hardening and taking shape, morphing into distinct sounds and words. The...

2. News

   Oh! My Darling

   Meat processor offends neighbors here, nationwide

   David Richard Bloom

   Published: March 5, 1998

   While record-setting rains beat back the telltale stench, noxious fumes continue to plague the neighborhoods downwind of a meat-rendering plant operated near Vernon by Darling...

3. News

   Sex and the Single Fruit Fly

   If you can't beat them - mate them!

   Peter Garrison

   Published: March 5, 1998

   A decade ago, the California Department of Food and Agriculture was dropping malathion on us in order to kill medflies. Now they've changed their approach: They raise medflies...

4. News

   Zedillo's Xenophobia

   Outside agitators stirring up "our" Indians

   John Ross

   Published: March 5, 1998

   SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS, CHIAPAS - No one is answering the door these days at Global Exchange's Peace House, situated down a shadowy side street in this old colonial city...

5. City Limits

   Mayor Overboard

   Marc B. Haefele

   Published: March 5, 1998

   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.Where Alph the Sacred River Ran is actually not one of the named destinations of Mayor Richard Riordan's current Asian...

6. Offbeat

   Checchi on the Cheap

   News Staff

   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 could pay for his own...

7. Film

   Burn This

   Ella Taylor

   Published: March 5, 1998

   If it were news that Hollywood is a playground for narcissistic power-trippers, An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn would still be a snore. Not even the regulars at Spago...

8. Film

   In the Flesh

   The return of Doris Wishman

   Manohla Dargis

   Published: March 5, 1998

   The "queen of the nudies" buttons her green suede coat and orders the photographer back another 10 feet: After a lifetime behind the camera, director Doris Wishman is in no...

9. Film

   Soul Sisters

   Finding the real Bed-Stuy

   Ernest Hardy

   Published: March 5, 1998

   When the documentary Soul in the Hole opens, Kenny Jones - a round, profane, pissed-off black man - fills the screen. The coach of a Bed-Stuy b-ball team, he's cursing out a...

10. Music

    Mockin' Bird

    Patti Page comes out swinging

    Jonny Whiteside

    Published: March 5, 1998

    As half a dozen gaudy koi fish shimmy beneath a blue glass dolphin that appears to leap from the mosaic fountain dominating the front bar of Rancho Mirage nitery Basin Street...

11. Music

    Demolisten Derby

    Mara Schwartz

    Published: March 5, 1998

    Record-label A&R execs devote their days to appraising usually excruciating demo tapes and their nights prowling the clubs, searching for that hoped-for Next Big Thing and...

12. Music

    Music Reviews:

    Union, Fu Manchu, Sixteen Horsepower

    Music Staff

    Published: March 5, 1998

    Union (Mayhem) It was only natural that when voxman John Corabi and guitar slinger Bruce Kulick got dumped by Motley Crue and Kiss respectively they would marry each other....

13. Music

    Nothing's Definite

    Slurring sound with a Beatsystem

    Glen Hirschberg

    Published: March 5, 1998

    BEATSYSTEMBeatsystem (Emit)The name suggests everything tedious about new electronic music: robotic repetition, formulaic compositions, dead ideas stitched together and shocked...

14. Counter Intelligence

    Vietnamese rice in San Gabriel

    Go for Broken

    Jonathan Gold

    Published: March 5, 1998

    A French chef is not considered accomplished until he has mastered the classical repertoire from bouillon to ballotines; Italian chefs pride themselves on their ability to...

15. Roundabout

    Big Meat

    Jonathan Gold

    Published: March 5, 1998

    Al-WatanLike any serious Pakistani restaurant, Al-Watan ostensibly specializes in the complicated offal dishes that make up the heart of Muslim Pakistani soul food: masala,...

16. Theater

    Negritude Adjustment

    The finer points of Shangism

    Erin J. Aubry

    Published: March 5, 1998

    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...

17. Theater

    Flesh Palaces

    Bright lights, big titties

    Steven Leigh Morris

    Published: March 5, 1998

    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...

18. A Lot of Night Music

    The Spectacle of a Mind

    Alan Rich

    Published: March 5, 1998

    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...

19. Art

    Laserian

    Hiro Yamagata's art of optics

    Sue Spaid

    Published: March 5, 1998

    Internationally known among commercial-art enthusiasts for his pop-inspired faunal and floral imagery, Japanese-born and -educated Hiro Yamagata is best known in the U.S. as...

20. Art

    Je Voudrais Del Taco

    Orlan goes to the desert

    Michael Baers

    Published: March 5, 1998

    ''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...