Word: pacificism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SPINANES Manos (Sub Pop LP/CD) The Spinanes are a duo from Portland, Ore.: Rebecca Gates sings and guitars, Scott Plouf drums. (He used to play the trumpet, too, but he seems to have stopped doing that since their last tour.) They're part of what must be the second, or...
But past the husks of homes on the Pacific Coast Highway, down a little farther, life resumes. On Wendt Terrace, the only thing burning now is a lamp in the living room of Gary Pattengill's home. The house is safe; the master is home. The garden hose, vessel of...
About 6,000 fire fighters scurried around the state, using every method from pumper trucks to air-dropped flame retardant to 100-gal. buckets slung under helicopters and dunked in the Pacific for refills. But they could not stop the flames while the ill winds blew. Before the week was...
With infernos raging over 150 miles, from L.A.'s northern exurbs to the Mexican border, there was no typical experience. Fires threatened the bedroom communities of Simi Valley and Chatsworth; they reached deep into Altadena, only eight miles from central L.A., and scorched the northern San Diego countryside. But their...
By Wednesday night, the road to Gary Pattengill's house in Laguna Beach looks like something out of a Balkan war zone. The Pacific Coast Highway is wreathed in billows of ebony smoke. "My God!" Pattengill exhales, watching flames engulf a nearby luxury residence that had once boasted a killer...