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Honk if You're Hungry

Jonny Whiteside
Los Angeles tenor saxophonist Clifford Solomon is one of the cool ones, a jazz and R&B man whose 53 years of bandstand experience follow him, like an exotic perfume, into a room. Solomon and his sax loom large, a presence characterized by warmth, spontaneity, offbeat humor and an artful dedication......

Letters

L.A. Weekly
IT'S NOT (EXACTLY) THE JEWS! DEAR EDITOR:Your May 15-21 Naked Hollywood article by Charles Fleming ["It's the Jews"] was irresponsible journalism at its worst. The article contained numerous factual errors and false conclusions. First, the description of the article provided on your contents page and describing my agenda as "anti-Semitic"......

The Coke Machine

Gary Webb
When I came to work in the sprawling newsroom of the Cleveland Plain Dealer in the early 1980s, I was assigned to share a computer terminal with a tall, middle-aged reporter with a long, virtually unpronounceable Polish name. To save time, people called him Tom A. To me, arriving from......
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Warm-Weather Edibles

Staff
Edited by Lovell Estell IIIWritten by Siran Babayan, Nicole Campos, Sara T. Dunn, Matt Grebow, Aaron Jacobs, Dan Laidman, Olivia Weber A'FLOAT SUSHI87 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena(626) 792-9779 Imagine a tranquil Japanese stream rippling through Old Pasadena! At A'Float Sushi your fresh seafood, prepared by masters of the art, is......
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Warm-Weather Edibles

Staff
HOUSE OF BLUES8430 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood(323) 848-5100 With five bars on the restaurant level, live music nightly, and a dazzling collection of Southern folk art, House of Blues is a party palace extraordinaire. Its signature dish is a spicy creole jambalaya, made with rice, shellfish, sausage, ham and scallops......
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Warm-Weather Edibles

Staff
TANDOORI NIGHTS8165 Santa Monica Blvd., West Hollywood(213) 848-8626 For six years, Tandoori Nights has satisfied the curry cravings of its loyal WeHo patrons. House favorites include tender lamb tandoori ($9.95), marinated in spiced yogurt and cooked in traditional clay ovens till it melts in your mouth, and the vegetable aloo......

Doggin' It

David Davis
You won't find a trace of cowboy-turned-movie-legend Bill Pickett during the airing of "Separate Cinema," the monthlong festival of "race" films currently airing on the Turner Classic Movies cable network. More's the pity, because Pickett has achieved the type of mythical status that only disappearing acts can engender: No copies......

From VH1 to DIY

Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
"It's so weird to be here now, because I really didn't think it would get this far." Filmmaker Susan Skoog is sitting in her hotel suite, musing not on the swanky room afforded by her distributor, Sony Pictures Classics, but on the strangeness of actually being on a press tour......

Idiots Delight

Manohla Dargis
Recently, a publicist who works at a movie studio asked me if I would fax her a quote. Earlier in the day, I'd left her an enthusiastic phone message about a film her company was releasing. My enthusiasm was genuine, and as far as I knew, nonbinding. In exchange, however,......
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Takashi Murakami at Blum & Poe

Jan Tumlir
Like so many of his peers, Takashi Murakami embodies the role of the artist as pop-culture connoisseur, the somewhat more rabid, and creative, varieties of which go by the name of otaku in his native Japan. The otaku are a kind of superconsumer whose particular expertise in their chosen object,......