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Under New Management

Alan Rich
In the realm of symphony-orchestra management there was some delicious double talk last week. On Friday, The New York Times broke the story that Kurt Masur, who has led the New York Philharmonic since 1991 and brought it out of the morass of irrelevance of the Zubin Mehta years, had......

Council Ousts Ostrich

Marc B. Haefele
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 of new "Technical Corrections for the Plumbing Code." My......
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She Conchs to Stupor

Jonathan Gold
Coconut-enriched seafood chowders, from new-wave Florida soups to the fiery mocquecas of northern Brazil, are a staple of the warm-water Americas. But Honduran sopa de caracol is perhaps the greatest seafood soup of all. The national dish of Honduras, sopa de caracol is lovely to behold, an ivory-hued liquid tinged......
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Tripped Out

Judith Lewis
When Barbara Simons accepted her Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award at this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Austin, she made an admittedly unorthodox move: She nominated next year's winner. EFF gives out Pioneer Awards to people who have made significant contributions to our increasingly computer-mediated existence with innovations......
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Soap Box Derby

Steven Mikulan
BURNING BLUE By DMW GREER At the COURT THEATER 722 N. La Cienega Blvd. Through April 15 COMBAT! By JOHN FISHER At the VICTORIA THEATER 2961 16th St.,San Francisco Through April 18 "I would have followed you to the ends of the Earth!" confesses one earnest character in Burning Blue,......

Forcing the Issue

David Bacon
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 Veracruz, but......
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Short Time for Needle Exchange

David Cogan
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, Harm Reduction Central is facing eviction this month from its Cahuenga Boulevard storefront by its new......

Room at the Top

Douglas Sadownick
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 government has thrown the local AIDS community into a crisis that could......

Street Fight

Queena Sook Kim
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 shock when Waggoner learned that The Big Issue,......
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From the Shadows

Glen Hirschberg
JOY DIVISIONHeart and Souls (London) The least funny great band in the history of rock music, Joy Division formed in the industrial gloom of late-1970s Manchester, England. By the time lead singer Ian Curtis hung himself on the eve of the group's first U.S. tour in 1980, they had produced......