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Among the questions about a war against Iraq is the effect it would have on the world economy. Some things we already know, and many of them aren't good: •The Japanese economy is in shaky shape. Japan imports all its energy supplies. Oil accounts for more than half of those supplies, and more than 80 …
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Photo by Brian NewelThe story of Scrooge, that penny-pinching misanthropist from Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, has proven remarkably open to interpretation. We've seen female Scrooges, Scrooge as a network executive, Mr. Magoo as Scrooge. Now the Maverick Theater unveils a brand-new adaptation featuring Scrooge, the tool. Scrooge (Mike Martin) has always been a tool. …
Playboy’s Nude Playmates hit the newsstands in April, a “Special Edition” bereft of ads, articles and executive gadgetry, nothing but page after page of naked women by the pool; in lakes, mansions and art studios; and on rooftops. Pages 69-71 belong to Elisa Bridges: six photos of her on a white couch in a white …
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Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's dotty performance Sunday on Meet the Press signals just how vicious Bush can be when he puts his buddies out to dry. O'Neill's insistence that the fundamentals of the economy are great is buttressed by the administration's deliberately twisted facts, such as: •Bush projects that the stock market will rise this …
Photo by Jack GouldTwo years ago, Local 681 of the Hotel Employees N Restaurant Employees (HERE) had a lot going for it. A string of brand-new hotels in downtown Garden Grove, full of workers who wanted to join a union, a crew of dedicated organizers—everything but a contract. But now the campaign is over. The …
Martinis are here and now. They're also yesterday and the day before. They just won't seem to go away but keep getting new life beat into 'em like they're Madonna discovering cowboy hats. Some astute observers say that the only reason people drink martinis is for the packaging: that slender, sexy stemware magically turning whomever …
Photo by James BunoanThe Sharp Ease/Squeak Toy Que Sera, Long Beach Saturday, May 4 The Sharp Ease have been playing all our favorite rock N roll shit holes forever now—the Smell, the Ruptured Intestine, the Illegal Teenage Firetrap—but our paths never crossed until we hit Que Sera's new club, C*U*R*V*E. (“Support women in music; support …
If your radio were working, you'd hear Richard Thompson on it. What's broken isn't an easily remedied matter of capacitors and speaker coils, though, but a moribund corporate monopoly that only plays “product” dull and calculated enough to be songs from Amortizing, the Musical. Jeez, it's boring just talking about it, so let's instead address …
Illustration by Bob AulMONDAY, Jan. 14On his morning radio show (broadcast locally on KLSX-FM 97.1), Howard Stern asks Dana Reeve, the wife of actor/director Christopher Reeve, if they killed the horse that threw the Superman star, who was left paralyzed. “No,” answers the missiz. “This lady named Joan Irvine Smith gave us $1 million” to …
JANUARY The realfirst day of the millennium came and went without a hitch. Did anyone really think something bad, evil, deadly, horrific and life-as-we-know-it-altering would ever happen to us? . . . Patti Dalby and ex-boyfriend C. Brooks Brann entered a Newport Beach courtroom to fight for custody of a 125-pound, black-and-tan rottweiler named Guinness. …