KROQ INLAND INVASION with Guns N’ Roses, Alice in Chains, ?Muse, Papa Roach, Avenged Sevenfold and Atreyu ?at Hyundai Pavilion, September 23
Whaddaya know, the red
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The voice will grab at you first; perhaps you’ll remember it, vaguely, with a chill. It’s a wobbly, quivering baritone-falsetto reminiscent of Bryan Ferry circa
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The ripples of unease that emanate from the work of Austrian director Michael Haneke have been spreading ever wider for well over a decade now. Last year, Haneke rea
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Two thousand five was an odd year for the auto industry. Here are some of the pivotal highlights and low lights, good signs and bad, which in this world are sometime
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O-Dae San is the grandest fish restaurant in Koreatown, a high-ceilinged modern space with acres of glass and marble, and a sushi bar running the length of the dinin
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One day in 1973, Ellen Flanagan, an exemplary stay-at-home Berkeley mom who sewed and cooked and cleaned on demand, packed her husband and two daughters off to work
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It all begins with this dame called Emily, you see, a social climber who falls in with this bad-news crowd and ends up dead. Then this private dick — Brendan, who
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LIKE IT WENT IN 1994, when Latinos in Los Angeles took to the streets to protest Proposition 187, Mexican flags were seen flapping all over L.A. during this week’s
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a $14 hamburger. And not just a hamburger: Frequently, t
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Pine City, Minnesota, sounds like one of those small Midwestern
towns whose very names we’re used to snickering at, thanks to
Hollywood’s painting them
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If you’re like me, the peculiar selectivity of the ’80s revival has been a source of considerable perplexity and annoyance. Overlooking complex cultural touchsto
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The self-congratulatory show-biz bonanza on Sunday night didn’t seem to end when the Oscars went to commercial. There was M. Night Shyamalan’s preciously weird A
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