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On Tue, 23 Nov 1993 22:50:12 GMT, f.odonnell@jpl.nasa.gov (Frank O'Donnell) said:

> dlee@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (David Lee) writes:

>>While I'm glad that both Michelle Hunveen and Jonathan Gold made it over
>>to the Times after having read their delightful reviews in California 
>>Magazine (RIP), Michelle's pieces lately have quite a few alliterations
>>to her study in religion at the graduate level.  I have no qualms about
>>whatever she wants to do - I'd just rather that a review focus on the
>>place, the food, & what's good.
>>
>>...
>>Anyone want to comment on food reviewers/critics in other publications?

> Well, here's my two cents as someone who used to write food
> and who used to write for California Magazine (although when
> I did it was called New West, if that dates me ;-)

Not really; I read {New West} sporadically when I was in high school,
but abandoned it long before it became {California}.  They had some
wickedly funny parodies in the {New West} days.  One of the funniest
skewered ponderous, simpleminded {Sunset} with faux article titles
like "Windows: let light in your house!" and "Doors: they open and
close!" and other painfully obvious stuff.

Does anybody else have fond memories of {New West}/{California}?  Does
anybody remember why the name changed?  And when did {California} go
belly up?

On a similar but happier note, I see that two other magazines that
richly deserved to vanish have done so: {L.A. Style}, and {Mondo
2000}.  The former merged with some other archetecture/clothing-as-
pornography magazine.  Their "we don't have to care how oversized we
are" attitude always grated; worse, it seemed to always appear in the
living rooms of immigrants from <unfavorite state here> who needed
remedial lessons on how to live in Los Angeles.

{Mondo 2000}, however, had the good grace to completely disappear from
the newsstands.  Their prose style bordered on the hallucinogenic,
with a techno-poseur editorial stance.  Articles by near-illiterate
pubescents sold as the "voice of the hackers"?  Interviews with
irrelevancies like Diamanda Galas?  Sheesh.

Neither will be missed.
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