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21. Ask Mr. Gold

    Ask Mr. Gold

    Jonathan Gold

    Published: March 17, 2005

    QUESTION: On my last trip to Vietnam, I ate a spicy-red beef noodle soup that was quite delicious. Presumably the dish is available in Los Angeles, but every time I ask...

22. Where to Eat Now

    Vietnamese

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Blue Hen. Blue Hen is an unusually pleasant place to linger, listening to old soul tunes and jacking yourself up on glasses of super-strong Vietnamese filtered coffee...

23. Dining

    The Revolutionary: Ludovic Lefebvre at Bastide

    Joe Pytka's restaurant under Lefebvre has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, and then some

    By Jonathan Gold

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Ludovic  Lefebvre  may  be the perfect chef for the media-saturated world of Los Angeles kitchens, a young, great-looking Burgundian guy with a classical...

24. Theater

    Bitch Bitch Bitch

    At home with Nellie Oleson

    Siran Babayan

    Published: March 17, 2005

    “Someone has called me a bitch every day of my life since I was 11 years old,” proclaims Alison Arngrim, who accepts the fact that she has never been able to shake off her TV...

25. Theater

    Fear of the Dark

    Melanie’s Marnich’s Blur

    Steven Leigh Morris

    Published: March 17, 2005

    We haven’t seen much of playwright Melanie Marnich’s work in these parts, despite her being a darling of the Actors Theater of Louisville playwriting stable — which is sort of...

26. A Lot of Night Music

    The Glorious Fourth

    Alan Rich

    Published: March 17, 2005

    CONVERSATIONS Beethoven’s Fourth Symphony is so seldom played that every new hearing becomes a trove of rediscovered delights; so was it with the Philharmonic last week. The...

27. Books

    The Politics of Home

    Sexual hypocrisy, fractured identities and Azadeh Moaveni’s Lipstick Jihad

    Ann Marlowe

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Illustration by Pamela JaegerIn her gripping memoir of “growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran,” Azadeh Moaveni illuminates one of the broadest political truths:...

28. Art

    Call Them the Dazzle Dogs

    Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery gives the boulevard more bark

    Arty Nelson

    Published: March 17, 2005

    It’s a little after 9:30 on a Saturday night, and I’m watching a 7-foot-tall skeleton aptly named Sleepy Bones shuffle and pirouette about in an elongated cube crowded with...

29. BEK

    Struggle

    Bruce Eric Kaplan

    Published: March 17, 2005

30. Style

    Caught in a Trap?

    Can fashion shake its retro fix? Should it? 17 L.A. designers on what’s next.

    Kateri Butler

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Illustration by Kelly TunstallI always imagined I’d be wearing some sort of Barbarella-with-a-twist-of-Jetsons ensemble in the year 2005. Perhaps that’s what comes of growing...

31. Style

    High Fashion

    Deborah Vankin

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Photos by Wild Don LewisYou’re 60 feet above ground, meandering the open-air rooftop of Sunset Gower Studios, with panorama views that, on a clear day, rival the evocative...

32. Rockie Horoscope

    Rockie Horoscope

    Published: March 17, 2005

    February could be quite the festive month, filled with one romantic opportunity after another. Although Valentine's Day falls on a Monday, you shouldn't postpone...

33. A Considerable Town

    Give PEACE^® a Chance

    Published: March 17, 2005

    The day I’m scheduled to interview Deepak Chopra, I awake with a sore throat and soaring fever. I immediately call Chopra’s assistant to tell her I’m coming down with...

34. Column Dave

    Operation Liquid Freedom

    Dave Shulman

    Published: March 17, 2005

    Illustration by Mitch Handsone“Hey, man.” “Hey.” “Something to drink?” “The Usual.” “Sounds good. Coming right up.” To understand The Usual, one must understand the...