QUEENS AND THINGS
Nightranger can’t decide where we get more eye candy/fashion fixes these days: out in the clubs or home watching the tube. The Cho Show, Glam God
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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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The slinky seduction of vintage disco beats or the raucous abandon of nu-rave rhythms? This Hump Night, dance denizens have two diversely dynamic parties to choose f
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From an environmentally conscious grind-fest to a last splash by the pool to a vampy burlesque bash and beyond, Labor Day weekend once again brings myriad mixers for
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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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In April, LA Weekly published a cover story about the city’s 4,000 illegal billboards and the newspaper’s legal struggle to get a simple list of billboards owned
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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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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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Ron Kaye, the former editor of the Los Angeles Daily News, looked happy. It had been only two months or so since he left the San Fernando Valley newspaper, and now h
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