Challenger Steve Cooley enjoys an anyone-but--Gil Garcetti mood in his race for Los Angeles County district attorney. The incumbent’s disapproval rating is up around 70 percent. His greatest asset: ”Steve Cooley is the un-Garcetti,“ said Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, political commentator and senior associate at the School of Politics and Economics......
Few proposition campaigns have been entirely factual, but the finalists in the category of phoniness are unquestionably Proposition 37 — a vaunted “taxpayer protection” scheme that will raise your taxes — and Proposition 34, a “campaign-finance reform” measure that undoes what Californians already voted overwhelmingly to do. Proposition 34 also......
For the complete text of our endorsements, consult last week’s issue. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES RALPH NADER (conditionally — if you’re in a state where Al Gore’s lead, or deficit, is below 5 percent, we recommend a vote for the veep to keep George W. Bush from becoming president)......
NIGOApe Sounds (ApesoundsMo‘Wax) Nigo may very well be Japan’s au courant answer to Andy Warhol. A purveyor of lifestyles (which, he says, extend naturally from clothing to music), his Planet of the Apes--inspired line of street fashion (”A Bathing Ape“) flies off Japanese and Hong Kong shelves as fast as......
Only 16 years (1945--1961) separate Benjamin Britten‘s Peter Grimes from his War Requiem; they are alike in many ways but different in many more. Hearing them both on the same day, last Saturday at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, underlined their common bond and their differences. Both are the works of......
Oh God. Oh baby. --popular 20th-century pre-orgasmic incantation In my early 20s I was an idiot, but I looked good. So I took a job as a doorfellow at Mom’s Saloon in Brentwood, replacing Jack Wagner, who‘d just accepted a higher-paying position on General Hospital. It was that kind of......
Now is the autumn of our anxiety Made dangerous bummer by this son of Bush Panic is now permissible. If the elections were held as of this week‘s press time, the likeliest outcome would be a GOP trifecta, with George W. Bush taking the White House and the Republicans clinging......
The scandal over genetically engineered (GE) animal feed making its way into the human food supply just keeps getting bigger. But the story can’t seem to make its way out of the L.A. Times business section. StarLink biotech corn, which was not approved for human consumption because of questions about......
MR. WONG DEAR EDITOR: I am one of the many people who found the ad insert for Mr. Wong’s Kitchen [September 29– October 5 issue] highly offensive. While I regret that the ad was ever disseminated, I write to commend you for your policy of rejecting “racially offensive” ads and......
One night, a neighbor found Nasrudin on his hands and knees, searching for something on the ground. ”What have you lost, Mullah?“ asked the neighbor. ”My key,“ said Nasrudin. After a few minutes of searching, the neighbor asked, ”Where did you drop it?“ ”At home.“ ”Then why, for heaven‘s sake,......
