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Feinstein Lite

Harold Meyerson
This year, California will experience a new kind of election. And as of last week, it may just have a politician who'll be able to exploit it. In June, Californians will encounter a primary ballot unlike any seen in this state since the '40s. Under the open-primary law passed by......

Reno Relents on Refugees

Sandra Hernandez
Department of Justice officials took a first step last month toward finally closing out the cases of an estimated 240,000 Central Americans who have been living in legal limbo since they fled their war-torn countries to seek asylum in this country. As of January 29, the Immigration and Naturalization Service......

Special Inquiry at LAUSD

Bryan Steele
Internal investigators have cleared a Huntington Park middle school of allegations that staff members falsified special-education documents for as many as 120 students last May in the face of a state audit of the Los Angeles Unified School District. A review of the district's inquiry, however, shows that investigators failed......
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Looking for Blood

Adam Bregman
THE DONNASAmerican Teenage Rock 'n' Roll Machine (Lookout!) Let any first-time Donnas listeners be forewarned that this record delivers a serious ass-kicking. These four teenage girls from Palo Alto have spent an enormous amount of time in a shitty little garage perfecting the furious sound of high school rebellion. While......
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Music Reviews – Feb 11, 1998

LA Weekly
KAREN DALTON It's So Hard To Tell Who's Going To Love You the Best (Koch) Once heard, the voice of Karen Dalton creates a fascination. Everything about her transcends familiar presumptions - her race and even gender are not immediately identifiable. She sounds like an injured bird singing to herself,......

Notes From Underground

Glen Hirshberg
It's raining, December, well after midnight, and inside Rusty's Surf Ranch, the Russians have stormed the floor again. They come in a torso-wriggling, leg-jiggling wave. They are smoking, laughing, shouting to the music. The girl with the perfect pale skin and streaked red braid circulates through them, strewing laughter and......
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Confessions of a Tender Pervert

Lawrence Ferber
The name Nick Currie, much like his alias of "Momus," draws little more from most Americans than a confused head tilt, clouded eyes or general disinterest. Until now, Momus - who took his appellation from Greek mythology's sarcastic little god who venomously mocked other gods, resulting in his permanent expulsion......
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Macaroni & Cheese

Luis Alfaro
Having just turned 36, I am, of course, looking back. Searching for something from my past that might give me a sign, a meaning for the future. Images of my childhood race by in a sensory love feast. I contemplate asking my parents for one of their Elvis coffee mugs,......
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The Low Life

Kateri Butler
Untitled (1998)If we were queen of the universe - now that's a job we'd like - we would ban sports-utility vehicles, which usually seem to be steered by the most menacing maniacs on the road. However, we started contemplating the virtues of four-wheel drive as we tooled downtown through profoundly......
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Liver

Jerry Stahl
I live for liver. I have to, 'cause I don't have one. (Well, that's not true. I have one. But it lives in Miami and only writes when it needs money. More or less.) But I exaggerate. The thing, if you must know, is that I fucked up my big......