Steve White

Magdalena's Cafe and Pastries, 17818 Bellflower Blvd., Bellflower, (213) 925-6551. Lunch, Tue.-Fri.; dinner, Tue.-Sat. Beer and wine. All major cards. Dinner for two, food only, $40-$65. Glenn Gould, the mercurial pianist who played Bach with such brilliant frenzy, was loath to perform in front of an audience. He claimed that the responsibility of pleasing his listeners diluted his inspiration and ultimately reduced his stature as an artist.

Heading to the witness table to be quizzed by the Senate Rules Committee recently, Steve White, the state's inspector general, toted two bulging briefcases. State Sen. John Burton, the committee's chairman, asked if White was going to read everything in the cases to the panel, which was going to recommend whether his appointment by Gov. Gray Davis should be confirmed.

Black people have no jazzy retort to racial insults because "honky" never really caught on, Steve White complains during one of his animated monologues. "You call a white person honky and he'll laugh in your face!" Because the 32-year-old African American comedian attended both white and black schools while growing up on Long Island, N.Y., he feels eminently qualified to comment on the prickly issue of race relations in America.

Black people have no jazzy retort to racial insults because "honky" never really caught on, Steve White complains during one of his animated monologues. "You call a white person honky and he'll laugh in your face!" Because the 32-year-old African American comedian attended both white and black schools while growing up on Long Island, N.Y., he feels eminently qualified to comment on the prickly issue of race relations in America.

Heading to the witness table to be quizzed by the Senate Rules Committee recently, Steve White, the state's inspector general, toted two bulging briefcases. State Sen. John Burton, the committee's chairman, asked if White was going to read everything in the cases to the panel, which was going to recommend whether his appointment by Gov. Gray Davis should be confirmed.

'We have our field of dreams. If we don't take advantage of it now, who knows when we'll ever have another chance to take advantage of it?' STANLEY J. PAWLOWSKI, California United Bank executive * 'What's the rush here? I didn't hear the stadium was on fire. The reason they're moving so fast is they're trying to do this as secretly as they can.' STEVE WHITE, Leader of homeowners group

Citing a conflict of interest in pursuing a criminal investigation of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp Tuesday named two special prosecutors to conduct the probe--Dist. Attys. Ira Reiner of Los Angeles County and Steve White of Sacramento County.

For most people, fireworks are a special treat — loud, luminous displays to savor on Independence Day or New Year's Eve. But for some who live near Disneyland, where fireworks blossom in the skies above Sleeping Beauty's Castle almost every night, the rockets' red glare has worn out its welcome. Residents have added double-paned windows and extra insulation to soundproof the walls. Juanita Driskell, a retired teacher who has lived a few blocks from the Anaheim theme park for nearly three decades, is so accustomed to the fireworks that when the crackling and hissing starts around 9:30 p.m., she just cranks up the volume on the television.

After years of complaints from Anaheim residents about the towering gray clouds that its fireworks shows create, Disney scientists have come up with an answer: a smokeless launcher. The new technology uses compressed air to propel fireworks into the sky, rather than smoke-producing black powder. But neighbors aren't impressed. They acknowledge that the smoke is not as heavy as it has been in the past, with the switch to mostly air-launched fireworks.

New World Pictures, Los Angeles, named Steve White president of motion picture production.

'We have our field of dreams. If we don't take advantage of it now, who knows when we'll ever have another chance to take advantage of it?' STANLEY J. PAWLOWSKI, California United Bank executive * 'What's the rush here? I didn't hear the stadium was on fire. The reason they're moving so fast is they're trying to do this as secretly as they can.' STEVE WHITE, Leader of homeowners group

Citing a conflict of interest in pursuing a criminal investigation of Lincoln Savings & Loan, Atty. Gen. John K. Van de Kamp Tuesday named two special prosecutors to conduct the probe--Dist. Attys. Ira Reiner of Los Angeles County and Steve White of Sacramento County.

Magdalena's Cafe and Pastries, 17818 Bellflower Blvd., Bellflower, (213) 925-6551. Lunch, Tue.-Fri.; dinner, Tue.-Sat. Beer and wine. All major cards. Dinner for two, food only, $40-$65. Glenn Gould, the mercurial pianist who played Bach with such brilliant frenzy, was loath to perform in front of an audience. He claimed that the responsibility of pleasing his listeners diluted his inspiration and ultimately reduced his stature as an artist.

They aren't the kind of heroes usually honored during Black History Month. They didn't challenge Jim Crow laws or invent more ways to use peanuts. But they were pioneers 40 years ago in this city's first school integration campaign. Rudy Pittman, now a teacher, was 14 when he took that first bus ride from Watts, one of seven kids, escorted by police, headed over the hill to Van Nuys' Birmingham High. It was 1972 and the Los Angeles Unified School District had been found guilty of intentionally segregating city schools.