A pair of space oddities from East Germany’s DEFA studio land on the shelves
this week, and, together, they bring into focus the other space race —
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If the funniest
man in America can’t
make you laugh, he’ll show you his balls.
That’s right, his testicles. He’ll let
them dangle and ji
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Photo by Anne Fishbein
Everybody knows that Manhattan is the capital of French cooking in America,
a borough home to roughly five times as many first-rate gra
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Eight local and federal law-enforcement agents loudly knocked four times
on the door of a two-story condo complex in a middle-class neighborhood of Van
Nuys before d
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Leaders of some of the L.A.’s most influential labor unions have expressed alarm at recent fundraising by the region’s biggest building owners for Antoni
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Illustrations by Joel Kimmel
To read the first part of Beheading
on Mount Baldy, click here.
As Marcia subsequently explained, when she and Judy first moved i
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We wear the mask that grins and lies
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes —
This debt we pay to human guile.
—Paul Laurence Dunbar
The resignation o
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Photos by Saeed Adyani
The word “homage” is hardly ever used
these days without a sneer. We infer pretension, thinly disguised plagiarism,
lack of
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Photo by Ted Soqui
During a break in defense attorney Gerry Schwartzbach’s three-day closing arguments to the Robert Blake–trial jury, Deputy D.A. S
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Marry me a little Love me just enough Cry but not too often Play but not too rough Keep a tender distance So we’ll both be free That’s the way it ought t
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I can’t remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed
reading a series of articles in the L.A. Times as this week’s Pulitzer-class
five-parter on the ho
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On November 27, LAPD officer Mario Cordona gunned down Jeremy
Andre Cervantes, 19, after he shot Cordona and wounded three partygoers inside
a flier party at an
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