All the President's Flings

Susan Faludi
Already the story of Bill Clinton's alleged "sex scandal" has been framed as a clear-cut case of the sex war, with wronged women who aren't gonna suffer in silence on one side, and on the other, heartless male scoundrels who are doing their best to clap their slimy hands over......
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Reconstructing the Ephemeral

Doug Harvey
The very idea of a large-scale museum exhibition that focuses on a group of artistic movements whose common hallmark was an untranslatable ephemerality is so perverse that only its sheer audacity partially balances out the dubiousness of the endeavor. For many of the artists included in "Out of Actions," MOCA's......

AIDS Panic at the County

Marc B. Haefele
By the arcane calculus of county politics, Peter Kerndt's National Institutes of Health grant caused a lot more than $1.5 million-per-annum's worth of trouble. That's why, though it promised to facilitate research to cure the world's most widespread deadly disease, the County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday officially voted the......
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Missing Voices

Alan Rich
Caught up in the charms of Ervin Schulhoff's First String Quartet - as played by the Petersen Quartet at the Doheny Mansion last week in one of the Da Camera Society's "Chamber Music and Historic Sites" concerts - I found it was hard to avoid shedding a tear for what......

Riordan's Back

Marc B. Haefele
Dick Riordan did the right thing by California last week - counter to the urgings of rich business friends and certain ranking egos at the Los Angeles Times, he declined to run for governor. You could follow his reasoning. Competing against Jane Harman and Al Checchi, Republican Riordan wouldn't get......

Block Party

LA Weekly
It was just another Saturday night at the Hollywood Hills home of Dr. Susan Block and her husband/producer, Max Lobkowicz. Dr. Block, the lingerie-clad sex therapist, was taking phone calls and entertaining guests in the bedroom/studio set of her Internet radio program and public-access TV show, and all was going......
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Great Britten

Alan Rich
Any critic worthy to wield a poisoned pen must be obsessed these days with drawing up lists: major events and masterworks of the decade, century and millennium now oozing toward their closure. I am not prepared to predict that Benjamin Britten's name will appear on many of these lists, yet......
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The Little Girl With a Big Head

Mary Beth Crain
Just before Christmas, amid a jumble of half-built sets and strange props that make you feel like you're in the middle of a junk shop, an early rehearsal for a production of Oscar Wilde's most misunderstood work, Salome (which opened last week at Actors' Gang Theater), is in full swing......
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Salad

Sandra Tsing Loh
I had my first salad in the fall of 1976. I was 13, the standard age when American girls have their dietary privileges torn away from them - their All-Access Passes to the Universal Amphitheater of food abruptly voided, if you will. I'd spent that last summer of unconditional self-love......
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Keep –

L.A. Weekly
LA CABANA738 Rose Ave., Venice(310) 392-6161 Eight blocks from Venice Beach lies one of the last treasures from the Aztecs, La Cabana. This authentic Mexican eatery, decorated with Spanish tiles and colorful murals, has a garden patio for intimate dining. Montezuma would have devoured the steak picadu with potatoes and......