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The New Hollywood Sinkhole

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Where is Joel Wachs on the latest CRA giveaway? This time last year, the San Fernando Valley councilman (looking very much like a future mayoral prospect) was riding herd on the city's redevelopment agency to protect the $TK million public investment in the new downtown sports arena. And with the......

Buzz Killed

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A few weeks ago OffBeat brought you news of the increasingly dire financial situation at Buzz magazine - irate creditors at the door, accountants in hiding, office supplies being rationed, their spinoff weekly folding. At the time, Buzz Inc. president Scott Kramer assured us that the magazine, after eight years......

Mouse Trapped

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We had forgotten how easy — and fun — it can be to jerk the chain of a mouse-eared multinational entertainment conglomerate named Disney. It seems that OffBeat’s missive last week on Disney’s faltering big-ticket venture into "new media" touched a nerve with the head lady at Disney Interactive, Jan......
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Music Reviews – Apr 22, 1998

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POP PSYCHOLOGY: NICK LOWE'S BETTER TOMORROW NICK LOWE Dig My Mood (Upstart/Rounder) In nearly three decades of rocking, writing and producing, there’s very little that Nick Lowe hasn’t done. Launching the careers of Elvis Costello and the Pretenders (to name a few) and, a generation later, giving John Hiatt a......
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Monsters Galore

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If the 19th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards are any indication, 1997 was the year the newpaper’s theater critics couldn’t make up their minds, awarding a record-setting three ties (for Play Writing, Com edy Ensemble and Set Design). In a ceremony held at the Los Angeles Theater Center last Monday,......
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Music Reviews – Apr 8, 1998

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JOHN SCOFIELD A Go Go (Verve) John Scofield might have laughed if you told him his project with groovemen Medeski, Martin & Wood was going to be his best album ever. The jazz-guitar generalissimo probably figured he’d double-park outside the studio, blow through a few tunes to show the kids......

Weeping Willes

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Have we had it all wrong about Los Angeles Times publisher Mark Willes, once known in these pages as the "Cereal Killer"? That hurtful sobriquet — which we hereby forswear — referred to Willes’ previous stint as chairman of General Mills and his penchant for aggressively downsizing — sorry, we......

Riordan’s Funny Bone

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At an MTA board meeting last week, Mayor Richard Riordan, within earshot of audience members in the front row, warmed up the crowd with what might charitably be called a joke. It goes like this: Riordan has a bunch of politicos over at his house and polls them on the......

Riordan's Funny Bone

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At an MTA board meeting last week, Mayor Richard Riordan, within earshot of audience members in the front row, warmed up the crowd with what might charitably be called a joke. It goes like this: Riordan has a bunch of politicos over at his house and polls them on the......
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Bold as Love

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JIMI HENDRIXFirst Rays of the New Rising SunSouth Saturn Delta(both MCA/Experience Hendrix) Apparently, reports of Jimi Hendrix's demise have been greatly exaggerated, as this is at least the third time his catalog has been remastered for CD and something like his thousandth posthumous release. This time it's for Jimi's surviving......