In a strong rebuke of the Los Angeles City Council, which did not conduct a single discussion of safety issues before approving hundreds of digital billboards that h
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Tomorrow's L.A. Times carries an obituary for Ida Kinney, a onetime Rosie the Riveter who became a civil rights pioneer. Working at a Lockheed plant in Burbank d
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The new issue of Heeb, the hip Jewish mag, features a cover story on L.A.'s former Queen of the Damned, Courtney Love. Titled, “Riot Incorporated:
Inside t
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L.A. WEEKLY: Who do people say you look like?
TODD BARRY: My joke answer is usually Daniel Day-Lewis,” but that’s also my serious answer. Actually, I get Michael
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The passing of Bettie Page brings to mind how, last fall, Antinous Press released Bruce of Los Angeles: Inside/Outside, a collection of images by gay-beefcake photog
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Forget blood diamonds — for a limited time you can go straight to the
color-wheel source and behold the treacherous countenance of a bloody
rock — or mor
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We’re still not connecting. A few sleepy sheep claim to be having infrequent perfunctory sex, and,the women are softening, softening, softening, learning to become
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What happens in La Vida never stays in La Vida. Partly, I like to think of the section as a tour through the city’s various cultures and subcultures. The people pr
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Aptly titled Venice, Venice, Paris-based artist Paul P.’s current offering at Marc Selwyn is something of a tribute — feeling as if part travel diary and part re
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