Last Friday, actor David Schall failed to appear at his theater, Actors Co-op in Hollywood, for the opening night of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, in which he w
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We asked local fashionistas what they'd like to see less of, and more of, in 2003.
MONAH LI, designer and writer
DISAPPEAR NOW
George Bush's smirk
Anyon
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Photos by Debra DiPaolo (top) and Virginia Lee Hunter
TO NICK PACHECO, IT'S REAL SIMPLE: HE PAID HIS dues, and his mentors let him down three years ago w
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Los Angeles New Times, the second largest alternative weekly in the L.A. area, is shutting down, silencing a quirky and inconsistent, yet valuable, journalistic voic
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Photos by Anne Fishbein
IT IS WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, THE LAST DAY OF THE Los Angeles Police Department's West Point Leadership Program. Twenty-two officers
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LAPD’s budget for the fiscal year 2000–2001: $835,934,537
Number of officers LAPD is below its budgeted size: 1,100
Number of LAPD officers as of June
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Photos by Anne Fishbein
The very classification “amateur” has an apologetic ring. But that very word — from the Latin “amator, lover”
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The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars
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Photo by Anne Fishbein
IT HAPPENED AGAIN. TWO WEEKENDS AGO, while the Los Angeles Opera was showing off the buying power of million-dollar budgets in its ove
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Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter
KRISTIAN HOFFMAN. VERY CHARMING. Of noble visage. An appreciator of vintage recordings. And the most skillful American pop songwriter u
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Photos by Michael Powers
THE SILENCE WAS PROFOUND AS THE LIGHTS WENT UP. THEN came the applause. The new movie ivans xtc. — the one that, just prior to its re
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Aldea Hill, as it was and may still be known to the little children of Encino Village, is where the street I grew up on rises steeply to meet Burbank Boulevard, acro
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