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Underground Power Broker:
The name Vignali receded into L.A. history after the "Pardongate"
scandal of 2001, but questions remain. Was drug-dealing son
Carlos just the fall guy for his father? Did the criminal
justice system drop the ball? And why are politicians so silent
about Horacio Vignali, a mysterious and well-insulated real
estate developer who just might be pulling the strings in
the remaking of downtown L.A.? BY JEFFREY ANDERSON
HAROLD
MEYERSON on our mayor-elect’s
first week.
MARC
COOPER returns from his fallout shelter with new
disrespect for Congress.
JUDITH
LEWIS wonders who will get stuck with the
bill for San Onofre’s rehab.
STEVEN
MIKULAN checks in with Coca-Cola
picketers.
STEVEN
LEIGH MORRIS looks to the
future of Center Theater Group.
Newsweek
blows L.A.’s election.
The
nuke option averted in FILTERED
and
IMAGE CONTROL.
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New
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A
CONSIDERABLE TOWN
JOSHUAH
BEARMAN gets past the Red
Bull and velvet ropes at E3.
Rodney
Rothman among the Early
Birds.
Mezmerized
by System
of a Down.
Dreaming
of the
Salton Sea.
DAVE
SHULMAN receives the pity
of the Mudgrails in COLUMN DAVE.
Plus, a
cartoon by BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN.
MARK
HUNTER’s COBRASNAKE
party pics.
Our
Lady of Guadalupe sightings by J.T. STEINY.
In
SNAP, Hollywood’s invasion of the Audioslave
and Star Wars people.
LA
VIDA
Hot
spots for barbecuing this Memorial Day weekend.
Surveying
the sneakerhead
loot and obscure pop-culture books at the new shop Reserve.
In
STYLE, the rising fashion star Juan
Carlos Obando.
Plus,
LIBBY MOLYNEAUX’s HOOPLA
Letters
We write, you write...
ROCKIE
HOROSCOPE
FILM
ELLA TAYLOR peels back the layers of Gregg
Araki’s Mysterious
Skin
DAVID
EHRENSTEIN talks to Joseph
Gordon-Levitt about shedding his sitcom past in Araki’s
picture.
The
verdict is in: SCOTT FOUNDAS on
judging Cannes.
TV
ROBERT ABELE on the working-class hearts of
HBO’s Empire
Falls.
Also,
ABELE clocks in with 24 in SURF
REPORT.
BOOKS
BRENDAN BERNHARD trails Harry
Mathews, our man in Paris.
THEATER
Flailing
in Chelsea: STEVEN MIKULAN reviews relationship plays
Never Tell and Between Us
ART
DOUG HARVEY experiences the end of the world
as we know it on a
tour of Terminal Island.
MUSIC
On their fourth album, SIRAN BABAYAN finds,
System
of a Down can still Mezmerize.
GREG
BURK recalls 1970s
songwriter Judee Sill — a mystery, a myth, a dream that
almost came true.
Plus,
LIVE
IN L.A.
LINA
LECARO’s NIGHTRANGER
ALAN
RICH’s A
LOT OF NIGHT MUSIC
RESTAURANTS
JONATHAN GOLD gets a biologist’s advice on fruit-fly behavior
and the spicy chicken at Lucky
Dragon.
Plus,
ASK
MR. GOLD
WHERE
TO EAT NOW: Glendale
CALENDAR
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