No Mercy

Marc B. Haefele
Homeless activist Bob Erlenbusch's usual eloquence ebbed slightly during his last attempt to get the Board of Supervisors to stay this month's General Relief termination, which would drop 7,000 people from the rolls. You saw him wondering just how many times he had to say, "They'll return to homelessness, to......
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Hong Kong Chow

Jonathan Gold
Empress Pavilion-- A recent meal at Empress Pavilion included shiitake mushrooms braised with snow-pea leaves - a musky combination that somehow breathed summer - and Chinese water spinach sauteed with blindingly pungent fermented soy. You will also find Cantonese classics here, most of them done extremely well: steamed rock cod......
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Prize Packages

Alan Rich
Among the piano soloists listed for this summer's concerts at the Hollywood Bowl are Garrick Ohlsson, who in 1970 won the Chopin International Competition in Warsaw; Jon Nakamatsu, who won last year's Van Cliburn Competition in Fort Worth; Natalia Troull, silver medalist at the 1986 Tchaikovsky in Moscow, gold at......

Ties That Bind

LA Weekly
These are the kinds of relationships the subway was built on. Neil Papiano, the sort of downtown attorney people describe as "well-connected," counts among his longtime clients both the Nederlander Organization, operator of the Pantages and Greek theaters and one of the largest landowners in Hollywood, and Richard Alatorre, city......
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The Virtual Driveway

Judith Lewis
I saw them both online at the same time, and I just wondered, were they going at it or what? --Woman overheard in a Larchmont bar, June 1998 Obsessive love affairs used to require at least one or two driveway scans toward the end, a quick spin around the block......

The Virus Fights Back

Mark Schoofs
GENEVA - At least three separate research teams here at the 12th World AIDS Conference announced that strains of HIV resistant to many drugs, including the powerful protease inhibitors, have been transmitted from one person to another. And right in the midst of nearly 14,000 conference participants was a couple......
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Music Reviews- Smashing Pumpkins, Gang Starr, 22-Pistepirkko, more

LA Weekly
SMASHING PUMPKINSAdore (Virgin) Like most everybody else who first surfaced on a SubPop 7-inch, the Smashing Pumpkins came on heavy with the Black Sabbath routines. But the Gourds o' Grunge could get psychedelic on your ass, too. Singer-guitarist Billy Corgan's tunesmithery was as erratic as it was ambitious, but the......
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World Cup ’98

Brendan Bernhard
MR. MACHIAVELLI HAS LEFT THE BUILDING Merci Dieu. The Italians are done in, and beyond the borders of the boot-shaped country itself and half a million expatriate pizzerias, the tears are not exactly flowing. The Italians ruined the last World Cup Final with their ultracautious play, and it’s a relief......
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A Real Drago

Michelle Huneven
L’Arancino, Celestino Drago’s fourth restaurant, is now open for business in the space formerly occupied by Jackson’s on Beverly Boulevard in West Hollywood. The walls gleam with fresh white paint; chairs look smart in new linen slipcovers. And on the walls hang Wayne Thiebaud–like paintings of oranges (l’arancino means orange......

Heavy Bad Mojo

Robert Lloyd
EVERYTHING THAT RISES TNT Premieres Sunday, July 12, 8 p.m. MY OWN COUNTRY Showtime Premieres Sunday, July 12, 9 p.m. BARBIE NATION PBS Tuesday, July 14, 10 p.m. Dennis Quaid, the noted motion-picture actor, turns director this week with the Turner-produced TV movie Everything That Rises, in which he also......