British television personality Vivienne Vyle is a scalpel-tongued ice queen of a talk-show host who regularly baits her wretched, working-class guests — their live
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I like “Swagger Like Us.” Sort of. Its goals are minimal: Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, T.I. and Kanye trade bars about their mutual awesomeness over a sampled ho
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By most measures, the films of Azazel Jacobs are on the offbeat end of the cinema spectrum. From his award-winning short Kirk and Kerry and the melancholic cult feat
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UPDATE: A Lifetime movie featuring LA Weekly reporter Christine Pelisek explores the DNA-based manhunt for the alleged Grim Sleeper. Suspect Lonnie Franklin Jr.
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The ferociously talented blues-rocker, best know for his association with 80's-era Hollywood legends Top Jimmy & the Rhythm Pigs, is one of this town's
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LeChein Taylor took out a cell phone and called his brother Bo.
Bo Taylor, founder of the gang-prevention, intervention and life-skills program Unity One, didn’t p
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Has Antonio Villaraigosa fallen so far back in the 2010 race for California governor that his former consultant and negative research hound Ace Smith, who dug dirt o
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The federal trial of private eye Anthony Pellicano and his co-defendant, super-lawyer Terry Christensen, resumed this week after a long, 10-day break. In some ways t
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Yes, I'm aware that this is a month late. I never said punctuality was my strong suit. (That would be rambling, stoned gibberish. ) Look for the best 10 non-r
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As you can probably imagine, we see a lot of “hot” and “not” fashion out there while patrolling LA's clubs and hubs every week, but somet
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The leader-impresario, Harlequin (Andrew Mueller), of a stranded, down-on-its-luck commedia dell’arte troupe meets a wealthy patron who promises them traveling
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So these eight Christopher Walken impersonators glide onstage, strutting and yowling and wearing bad wigs. Most are decent Walkens, and the best have mastered the pi
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