IT’S A LOT LIKE those grainy tokusatsu kaiju, sci-fi horror films where the gigantic mutant dinosaurs — or, in this case, newsosaurs” — spend most of their s
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One morning, Gary Walkow was suddenly transformed into a successful Hollywood filmmaker. Gone were the hat-in-hand searches for financing, the deferred salaries, the
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Journey sing-alongs are normally reserved for moments alone in your car or an a cappella rock block in the shower. But at Spaceland Friday night, we screeched throug
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I’ve never been much of a believer in miracles, despite the fact that on the CBS 2 News program I co-anchor every morning, we often do stories about the image of t
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How does that phrase from the playground go again? Quitters never win, and winners never quit, right? It’s a good concept to keep in mind when following Los Angele
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Well, it's been a quiet few days, involving mainly indigestion and a marathon L Word viewing session (seven episodes, back to back). So here's a funny story
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Cold cliques of black-swathed art snobs sipping wine and expounding esoteric about the hidden meaning of a $10,000 paint-splattered canvas in a sterile, white room .
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By this time next year, 365 of Suzan-Lori Parks’ new playlets will have received about 5,000 premieres at theaters across the United States alone, and will likely
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A WEEK BEFORE ELECTION DAY, Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn called one of his community town-hall meetings on the ground floor of City Hall. Your typical civic-minded
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Theater publicist Kim Garfield, known for her deep voice and magnetic personality, died October 31 from complications following surgery for stomach cancer. In 2001,
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Deep Waters Flow Still
Invited to a party among humans last month, I blundered into a quietly alert gentleman who spoke with urgent patience. This was a lifelong jaz
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Patrick Chamusso didn’t set out to become a terrorist, but the times in which he lived made him into one. An oil-refinery worker in the South African town of Secun
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