It’s a hot Sunday noon, the Hollywood farmers market is shoulder-to-shoulder, and the swell of the heirloom-tomato-crazed crowd spills over into … not Kitche
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About the same time Barack Obama did his frosh year at Occidental College, I was an undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, fresh from my largely African-American, Jefferson
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FOR UCLA, BAD NEWS COMES in lowercase, typo-plagued vulgarity and anonymous communiqués,” like this one recently sent out to dozens of local and national media:
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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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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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It's the worst nightmare of both filmmaker and film festival organizer: you're all set to go, you've put your faith in the system, and suddenly…the
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Long Beach's Crystal Antlers, “more metal than a fucking scrapyard,” have signed to Chicago-based Touch and Go Records. Says the label in a press re
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When I lived in Manhattan, where public transportation is king and parking is as valuable as gold, friends would sometimes joke that the only reason I bothered to ke
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Last season, director Marianne Savell staged a King Lear for this company edited so severely, it played as a series of excerpts. Here, with Eugene O'Neill's
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Making notes in 1949 for a review of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, George Orwell wrote that Waugh is about as good a novelist as one can be … while h
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The mercurial spirit and gnomic intellect of Isaac Bashevis Singer are properly difficult to trap in a bottle, but German director Jan Schütte comes as close as any
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The doughnuts were first. A dozen of them appeared on Sarah Jo Marks’ dining room table one afternoon. They stared at her. They had eyes.
Honey, what did you do
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