Bigger Than God
OC Weekly
Cover story: Church du Soleil -- The Rev. Schuller's daughter puts on a show.
On the longest day of the year, a man dressed in black rides shotgun in a cheap white Toyota, stuck in post-theater gridlock, trying to exit the Crystal Cathedral parking lot....
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Great Books With Cars
Forbes Autos.com
Thumbing through like a would-be hitchhiker, reading the pages of leading American literature, it doesn't take long to discover what makes a "car" book just that.
In the early pages of John Steinbeck's classic novel The Grapes of Wrath, Tom Joad, just out of prison, catches a ride from a reluctant trucker. Soon the Dust Bowl epic sprawls, in snarls and fits, westward, with the main characters and the storylines riding on an archetypical Depression-era jalopy — a Hudson Super cum customized contraption...
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The Joss Bar
Book Excerpt from "The Muse in the Bottle"
Non-Fiction: From "The Muse in the Bottle: Great Writers Celebrate the Joys of Drinking" (Citadel Press, 2003) Book Anthology featuring the likes of Mark Twain, Pete Hamill, Bert Sugar, Lou Johnson, Martin Booe and Jeremy Rosenberg.
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Planespotting
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Features column: On the observation deck of the city's most distinctive building, British enthusiasts use telescopes and reference books to identify and catalog, if possible, every airplane that takes off and lands at LAX.
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Crime Seen
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Features column: A former photographer for the county's Bureau of Investigation talks about the gritty, and haunting, task of documenting L.A.'s underbelly of crime.
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The Minds of Missionaries
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Features column: Two young Mormon men come to Los
Angeles, see
the sights, meet new people--and try to convert
them.
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Voices in the Night
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Features column: The purchase of a reel-to-reel player at an estate sale leads two men to build and broadcast a part-time pirate radio station.
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Tag, Judge Judy--You're It
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Features column: Billboard advertisements all over town depict the TV personality nabbing a graffiti writer. Is this a direct provocation or clever marketing? You be the judge.
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24 Hours, 12 Heroes
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Features column: At Fire Station 21, heroism among local firefighters and paramedics is abundant, even when headlines are not.
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Mark Brown: Two Good Cups of Coffee
Excerpt from the book, "Green Mountain Boys of Summer"
Non-fiction: From "Green Mountain Boys of Summer: Vermonters in the Major Leagues" (The New England Press, 2000). Book anthology featuring profiles of more than a century's worth of professional baseball players. Edited by Tom Simon with art by Lance Richbourg.
Sex with Parrots and Other Jokes
OC Weekly
Alt news": A Day At The Pond With America’s Top Motivators—and Jerry Lewis
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The Slimmer Side of Sumo
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Features column: A world champion Bulgarian and a scrawny American sumo activist hope to transform the ancient sport's gargantuan image. With the help of a Japanese league legend, they just might pull it off.
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Notorious BEP
OC Weekly
Food Review: True story. New Year’s Eve. Aisle 12 at the supermarket. Me, scanning the canned and bagged legumes, searching like Hans Blix in Baghdad. I was trying to peep some black-eyed peas, that humble...
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Sandow Birk: Prisonation
D'ART Magazine
Art Review: I was kickin’ it with Maus author and New Yorker comics editor Art Spiegelman the other day. “Sandow Birk be big,” Spiegelman told me, right after I gave him the beat down on Sega Madden 2000. “He sumo-ass big.”
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Vive l'avant garde
Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine
Profile: Jeremy Scott Left Paris at the Height of his Popularity to be L.A.’s Designer. But Does the City Share His Vision?
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John $3.16
OC Weekly
Alt news: My pen displays the Ten Commandments. Does yours?
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The Buff Monster?
WYWS
Profile: Graff antagonist Joe Connolly loves attention, hates disorder,
talks as if has a taste for thuggery and oughta be an A.M. radio talk show
host. Jeremy Rosenberg takes a ride with Los Angeles' vigilante deleter.
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These Angels Are No Hit
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Features column: Maverick art critic and curator Mat Gleason
loves the Angels. Unfortunately, he's talking about the
baseball team, not what he believes is a lousy public
sculpture project.
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Ride 'em Cowgirl
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The 17th annual L.A. Rodeo is just like any other tough, rough stock competition--except for the drag queens.
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The Urban Potter
Los Angeles Times Sunday Magazine
Profile: Adam Silverman shifts his focus from dressing cool kids to crafting clay with an eastside edge.
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Various Auto Shows - Datelined Coverage
New York, Los Angeles, Pebble Beach Concours, etc
Forbes Autos.com, Cars.com
Examples include:
Top 10 Video Games With Cars
Forbes Autos.com
Come autumn, new car models aren't the only much-anticipated consumer products to enter the marketplace...
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Zen and the Art of Lawn Bowling
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Meet some of the players of this
meditative
sport, learn some history -- and revel in our
columnist's
humbling defeat.
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Spot Coverage of the 2004 Los Angeles Auto Show
cars.com
Automotive: Every year, the author covers west coast auto shows for cars.com.
Read 15 spot reporting articles from the 2004 show.
Following Villaraigosa's Trail
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Antonio Villaraigosa is hoarse. Out on the trail, the mayoral candidate who boasts endorsements from a Republican mayor and Democratic Governor has joked about the throat polyp he has, the one that makes him sound like Ruth Buzzi...
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It Ain't Easy Being Cheesy
OC Weekly
Food Review: The last time I had hard cheese and stale bread, I threw them in the damn trash. What was I thinking? I should’ve prepared fondue...
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Good Morning, Mojave
Pulp Syndicate
alt news: Behind the scenes at the SpaceShipOne launch
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The Park Politico
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For five years, Sierra Club executive Louis Alvarado has been known as the honorary mayor of Griffith Park
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Star Power
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At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in
Pasadena,
the future is now.
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The Sacrificial Succulent
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Features column:At the Huntington, one plant dies so
that others
may live
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What They'll Do for a Role
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Features column:Actors' resumes have a 'special
skills' section where they list such abilities as ear wiggling, eating
with chopsticks and sneezing on
cue.
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Yong Kim's Decade of Change
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Features column:In our columnist's final Secret City offering, he visits an Echo Park shoe store owner... a contemplative man once reborn by the riots, but feeling just so-so about the future.
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Robert Therrien's Table
Art Connoisseur
Art Essay: When it comes to these sculptures, bigger is better
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The Long Walk
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Features column: Two friends take a 24.6 mile hike from
one end of Sunset Boulevard to the other. Here's what they witnessed.
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Is It a Warhol? Not Quite
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Features column: A former Andy Warhol "Factory" member finds extends his 15 minutes of fame by copying the master's works.
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Our Own Buena Vista Social Club
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Features column: An all-star
big band of
veteran jazz musicians plays a weekly gig to a packed
house of
admirers
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The Collaborators
Art Connoisseur
Art: John Sonsini and his model, Gabriel, make a fine art pair. A magazine Q&A.
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Paintin' and Playin'
Art Connoisseur
Art / Jazz / Comparison : Linking famous visual artists with famous jazz musicians
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The Signature Man
Art Connoisseur
Art / Books / Profile: John Castagno's quest to catalog
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Ask the Art Guru
Art Connoisseur
Art / Satire: Dear Art Guru: I read that a docent at your museum was fired for showing a group of 5th graders...
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Late Night at Tang's
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Features column:
This 24-hour
donut shop in Silverlake hosts chess games through
sunrise.
And that's just the beginning of the
Weirdness
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Robbie Conal's Mixed Media Musing
Art Connoisseur
Art: A political poster artist expands his palette.
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