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OPEN CITY
An interview with accused SUV bomber from his jail cell. BY STEVEN MIKULAN

Pullout: The Now Garde
Ten L.A. designers who transform cloth into art; photographed by DEAN CHAMBERLAIN. Edited by KATERI BUTLER

Invasion of the Elegant Trogons
The roots of the most recent brawl over control of the Sierra Club go back at least 30 years, when white Protestant elites ran the country’s premier environmental organization and three idealistic men worked at Paul Ehrlich’s Zero Population Growth. BY SUSAN ZAKIN

University of Fear
Homeland Security is now the big man on campus, doling out scholarships and creating a stampede for research dollars not seen since the dawn of the space program. Even Tommy Trojan’s alma mater has a chunk of the action. BY STEVEN MIKULAN

An American Family: Chapter 2
What a tense, unpredictable month it has been for Luis and Frances Aguilar. Turns out that Luis’ drug rap may not be what it seems. Meanwhile, Frances delivers a beautiful girl named Gennisis. The lives of the Aguilars are part of a continuing series by CELESTE FREMON.

BEK’s Life in Cartoons
An excerpt from This is a Bad Time, a new collection by cartoonist BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN.

News

The Well-Oiled Deal: OK, so who cares that the state Energy Commission wants to take away local control on all matters dealing with oil refineries? For starters, it involves a high-placed husband-wife team. BY WILLIAM J. KELLY

Deluged at City Hall: Sparks this week over a proposed DWP increase speak to the larger issue of who is running the show. BY ROBERT GREENE

Duped by Wal-Mart: How the poster girl for Wal-Mart’s ballot measure in Inglewood got fooled. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN



LETTERS
We write, you write...

A CONSIDERABLE TOWN
Zooey Deschanel and Samantha Shelton’s Tangier nights. By DEBORAH VANKIN and JOSHUAH BEARMAN
Steve Zee’s ghosts of tappers past. By HOWARD BLUME.

CONSIDERABLE PEOPLE
Fashion sloganeer Reny Monk. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN

24/SEVEN
An afterschool moment with eighth graders Liz and Max. By SEVEN McDONALD

OPEN CITY
An exclusive interview with accused SUV bomber from his jail cell. BY STEVEN MIKULAN

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD
While Trump prances around like a peacock for NBC’s The Apprentice, the truth is his empire is crumbling again. BY NIKKI FINKE

DISSONANCE
Karl Rove, move over, MARC COOPER serves up advice on how the White House could have dispatched with Richard Clarke in one news cycle.

COLUMN DAVE
The column formerly known as Sitegeist: In Service to the Patron Saint of Cirrhosis. BY DAVE SHULMAN

ROCKIE HOROSCOPE

FILM
I was a teenage Hellboy: Plus, the kick-ass monks of Shaolin Soccer. BY JOHN PATTERSON

Why dharma and dames don’t mix: SCOTT FOUNDAS on the serene iconoclasm of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring.

BOOKS
X marks the spot: Surfing, sundry subcultures and Super X Media Combine. BY JOE DONNELLY

The sound of one hand painting: The big books of Ed Ruscha. BY DOUG HARVEY

ART
Lie of the land: Some of DOUG HARVEY’s favorite art hoaxes.

THEATER
Daisy in the Dreamtime, Lynne Kaufman’s drama of a Celt in the Outback, reviewed by STEVEN MIKULAN; plus, STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS remembers theater critic T.H. McCulloh.

STYLE
Chair dare: MICHAEL HOINSKI sits in judgment at the design competition “Seating of Some Sort.”

MUSIC
Voices in the night: Charles Lloyd and Billy Higgins, alone together. BY GREG BURK

Triple Echo: Eagles of Death Metal, 15.60.75, Thermals, Christian Vander, Joanna Newsom, Bohren & Der Club of Gore. BY JOHN PAYNE

Young People burn the Great American Songbook. BY FRANKLIN BRUNO

Forever young: Kurt Cobain, Adán Sánchez. BY JONATHAN GOLD, BEN QUIÑONES

Live in L.A.: Stills, Ambulance Ltd., Stellastarr, Greenhornes, Ponys and more at SXSW; Franz Ferdinand

A Lot of Night Music: Gloria Cheng in Santa Monica, LACO at Royce, Xtet at LACMA. BY ALAN RICH

PULPit
MICHAEL DOUGAN on “The Day We Shot My Car.”

COMICS
"BEK," BY BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN

COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
Wines on Target: Andrea Immer, the people’s sommelier. BY JONATHAN GOLD

ASK MR. GOLD
Wonton time — again. BY JONATHAN GOLD

WHERE TO EAT NOW
A list of favorite restaurants compiled by JONATHAN GOLD and MICHELLE HUNEVEN.

 


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January 2 - 8, 2004
Features

  • In the Heart of the Universe
    Jay Babcock talks with visionary comics author Alexandro Jodorowsky

  • Keep It Real by Kim Deitch

  • Kidnapped by the Fox by Tony Mostrom

  • My College Experience by Lauren Weinstein

  • Pullout Poster! by Kozyndan

  • Pullout Poster! by Marc Bell

  • Reviews: Talking Sausages, Forlorn Rodents, Sibling Gods and a Wartime Fixer
    Some of the best comics and graphic novels from 2003

  • Tom the Dancing Bug’s Super-Fun-Pak! by Ruben Bolling

    Complete list of articles


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