Growth Spurts Time of growth to 50 million households: radio - 38 years television - 13 years cable - 10 years Internet - 5 years (projected) (Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Reseach, 1997) There will be 150 million worldwide Internet users by 2000. (CyberAtlas, 8/97) There are 1.6 million domain names......

It's happened to all of us. You receive an e-mail that reads something like this: "Apparently, a new computer virus has been engineered by a user of America Online that is unparalleled in its destructive capability . . . What makes this virus so terrifying is the fact that no......

(Courtesy of the Ultimate Guide to Tomb Raider) 1. Elizabeth Hurley ". . . uncanny ringer for Lara . . . Hurley knows how to deal with sticky situations. After all, she still dates Hugh Grant." 2. Sandra Bullock ". . . Anyone who can make a 10 ton bus......

34D. That's the first thought out of the mouth of one gaming executive when asked to explain the story behind the highly successful Tomb Raider series. 34D, as in the bust line of Lara Croft, that action-adventure game's main character. Just another piggish male professing his own cheap thrills? Well,......

If he accomplishes nothing else during his megabucks run for governor, Al Checchi has already set the standard for party-giving. Delegates to last weekend’s state Democratic Convention at the Bonaventure Hotel were plainly stunned by Checchi’s Saturday-night reception. They dutifully cruised through the desultory soirees of Checchi’s rivals, Lieutenant Governor......

Oscars, schmoscars! As usual, our invitations to all those luminary-laden Academy Awards glitter galas seem to have got lost in the mail. But we did hear about a certain actor’s Oscar Mayer Wiener moment when we dropped by Indochine, where the juicy JENNIFER TILLY hosted a rip-roaring whoop-tee-loop-tee-do to celebrate......

In a culture centered paradoxically — dismally — on youth and hard work, traveling well is the real best revenge. Few words in the American language engender more enthusiasm than “Outta here!” And so we go, when we can afford both time and money, to places near and (mostly) far......

The L.A. Weekly was founded in 1978, which makes this our twentieth anniversary year. In celebration, we will be looking back at the paper’s history in occasional articles. This is the first. None of this is my fault. At least not all my fault. There are plenty of others to......