Photo by Geraint LewisIN 1996, GUITARIST/PRODUCER RY COODER AGREED to participate in producer Nick Gold's recording project to unite French-Algerian musicians wi
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IT'S A COMMON WAY FOR WRITERS TO PASS THE time: Spot a face in the crowd and draft a story to go with it. Sketch in the person's background, create an occupa
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Photo by Debra DiPaolo”I WANT TO MAKE WESTERNS,” SAYS THE INtense-looking man in the coffee bar. It's the afternoon of the Academy Awards, and in a d
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Photo by Paul MeliaCRAZIES ARE OFTEN ACTORS' MEATIEST ROLES. Yet this winter might well go down as the “What were they thinking?” season, a cautionar
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About 25 years ago came a quiet revolution in local politics. Previously, governing agencies had tended to hold decisive get-together
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It was Mike Davis who came up with the concept of Fortress Los Angeles, in his book City of Quartz: a Southern California city-state where
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An average guy who works in a movie theater, plays in a rock band and likes video games, Wyatt Cusick, the singer for the not terribly well-known San Francisco band
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If you believe the conventional wisdom, this is neither the time nor the place for troublemakers. L.A., goes the mantra, is not a very political town, and, besides,
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Roy Hong: Korean Immigrant Workers Advocates
In 1992, Roy Hong helped organize 45 displaced Korean and Latino workers to demand inclusion in relief funds. Since then
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Near the end of every Third Grade Teacher show, singer Sabrina Stevenson rolls around onstage, twitching spasmodically as if suffering a seizure. Her glassy eyes bug
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Ted Hughes is the Prince Charles of modern poetry, the man who spurned the woman women love. (He is also poet laureate to the queen.) Birthday Letters, a long, somet
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