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