What I heard was but the melody of children at play . . . and then I knew that the hopelessly poignant thing was not Lolita’s absence from my side, but the absence
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There are famously two schools of Los Angeles sushi at the moment, one of them, like Matsuhisa, looking to the global future of sushi; the other toward the past. Som
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Mastro, Arnie Morton's, Wolfgang's, BLT Steak, Ruth's Chris, the Palm — the city is awash in expense-account steak, empurpled slabs of rare, prime beef
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Two stories below Broadway, beneath the ceaseless hustle and/or bustle, there’s a ballroom in the belly of the Los Angeles Theatre. When it’s an empty belly, eve
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Comic book geek or hip alt-comedy scenesters? The line is pretty blurred on the fourth Friday of the month at Meltdown Comics. That’s when the back room stays open
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Big hair, bigger egos, vapid groupies, never-ending guitar solos, spandex — there’s much to mock when it comes to ’80s-era metal, especially the brand of hairs
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Not to be glum about it, but it made sense that the flags stood at half-mast for the duration of the deep, angry, at times desperate show at the Hollywood Bowl last
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Yosi Sergant is not the type of publicist one sees on TV. The 32-year-old environmentalist rides his bike everywhere — he gave up his Mitsubishi clunker a few year
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I was 16 in 1976 when I attended Manny Farber’s lecture on Fassbinder’s Effi Briest, at a community college in Costa Mesa. The lecture was incomplete, a shambles
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I never met Manny Farber, but about a decade ago, when I was just starting out as a freelance film reviewer for Variety and had fallen under the spell of Farber’s
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Well, we lost another one to New York. Damn it! And such a pleasant guy!
LA Times' August Brown published an incredibly revealing glimpse into the mind of Arthu
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With Monday's fatal shooting of postal worker Kevin Wicks by an Inglewood police officer the number of deaths this year at the hands of law enforcement in Los An
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