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For eight years, mega-builder Donald Trump, the poster boy of the get-richer-quick set, has quietly endured a $50 million beating out West. Worse yet, the drubbing has come at the hands of the L.A. school district, which has fought him tooth and nail...
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Over the course of 25 years in L.A. politics, Richard Alatorre's name has become synonymous with backroom political deals. So perhaps it is fitting that the early jockeying to succeed the controversial Eastside city councilman involved an awkward att...
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SACRAMENTO - Shawn Thomas apparently got the wrong idea from a Western that he saw on late-night TV.
That's likely the place where Thomas, a.k.a. the gangsta rapper C-Bo, picked up his approach to handling guns. It was his loose ways with firearms du...
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The first thing I did at the Johannesburg airport was rush to the bathroom. No, no - not to pee, and not because I ate something disagreeable on the flight; this is not a story about what it's like to hold it through turbulence, or about the dangers ...
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An otherwise conservationist friend once said, "The problem with the Los Angeles River is that there is really no such thing. It's a concrete flood channel."
That was what I thought. Until I attended my first Friends of the Los Angeles River (FoLAR) ...
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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 last month announced his bid to win back the Orange County seat he lost to Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez i...
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on March 19, 1998
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Attitudes
Gerald Wiggins
Coming from New York, most of the guys here were strange. You know, they didn't dig New Yorkers at all. They said we had an attitude, and I guess we did. Well at that time I was under that false impression that these guys di...
on March 19, 1998
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''The further West one comes," Oscar Wilde wrote of his 1882 visit to the United States, "the more there is to like." The city he liked most was San Francisco, which dazzled him with its Chinatown and gave him the warmest reception of his American to...
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On one point, there has never been disagreement. The kids who live in the Echo Park and Temple-Beaudry areas near downtown L.A. need a school. Overcrowded, undersized Belmont High can barely accommodate its 5,000 students. Many teachers don't even ha...
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Competition is routine in the newspaper industry, but Jennafer Waggoner felt she would be an exception. After all, Waggoner is editor of Making Change, a "street paper" written, produced and sold by homeless people in Santa Monica. So it came as a sh...
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The new medical treatments that cut AIDS fatalities by 44 percent have forced a dramatic shift in emphasis for the AIDS-service community. But even as treatment takes precedence over providing social services, a leadership vacuum in L.A. County gover...
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Landlord-tenant disputes don't usually hasten the spread of AIDS. But there's widespread concern that an eviction proceeding against the city's most popular needle-exchange program will do just that.
An apparent victim of Hollywood gentrification, Ha...
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TIJUANA - When Norberto Cordoba left his home and family to seek steady work, he landed a job at the Han Young plant in Tijuana, making truck chassis for Hyundai Corp. The pay was nearly double what he had made as a welder in his home state of Veracr...
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I woke with a start. The Tuesday council meeting had been droning along with mesmeric predictability. There was a six-figure transfer from the Storm Water Abatement Fund. Some General Plan updates. A Request for Proposal for an L.A. Triathlon. A list...
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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, of MTA subway-tunneling mayhem.
Last December, in the wake of a front-page article in the Daily News ab...
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News Staff
on March 12, 1998
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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 different voices meld into a harmony straight outta hell. The institutional odor...
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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 International Inc.
Despite abatement orders issued last year by officials ...
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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 and drop them on us.
This may seem mad, but there's method in it. The inge...
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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 where so much of the Zapatista drama has been played out. Based in San Franc...
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John Ross
on March 5, 1998
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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 safari. But there aren't too many other Far Eastern places the city's 80-p...
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