Japanese director Seijun Suzuki has always embraced a dizzying narrative and visual turbulence. But it was the license Suzuki took in the 1960s in re-crafting tradit
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When three-quarters of the Style Council (Steffie, Linda and myself) decided to go to Joshua Tree for a weekend of high-desert shenanigans, we knew to expect the une
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There may be northern Chinese cafés more anonymous-looking than 101 Noodle Express, but I haven’t found them yet: a bleak mini-mall storefront adjoining a bowling
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ARIVACA, Arizona — A few miles from this hard-baked borderlands hamlet northwest of Nogales, we’re trudging uphill through a rock-filled desert gully. Some scatt
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I had the good fortune of meeting these three, Laura, Heather, and Ariel on the bus on the way to the Grammys (we're in full costume at this point). These chick
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So by now you've seen the Madonna-Gorillaz performance at the Grammy's on Wed. Holograms of the animated band rock-stared it out above what looked like a cru
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Listening to George Jones sing Funny How Time Slips Away,” the opening track on his latest disc, Hits I Missed?.?.?.?and One I Didn’t (Gramminated for a Nommy!),
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Just when you thought the ’80s revival was starting to chill, the musical Rock of Ages is here to reheat the hesher love. This headbangin&#
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If America is the nuclear reactor pumping out the perfect, standardized female image, Hollywood’s the core.”
—Eve Ensler, The Good Body
Eve Ensler is ready t
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Robot battles, mentalists and Emo Philips.
This doesn’t sound like the upcoming season at the Ahmanson or even the Groundlings.
In two years, the Steve Allen Theat
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I love power ballads, power naps and power tools! When I was 15 I asked for a power drill for Christmas, everyone laughed and I got some suede blue pumps and a few
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I could easily fill this list with returning shows that continued
to entertain us with quality TV — Deadwood, Veronica Mars, The
Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusia
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