Sister Unity stood before me in West Hollywood Park on the first full day of legal gay marriage in California. She was dressed head-to-toe in drag and sounded somewh
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It’s hard to figure out if Rudolph Rudy” Wurlitzer’s new novel, The Drop Edge of Yonder, is newfangled or old hat, a relic or a revolution. In many ways, it f
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Anthony Pellicano, onetime P.I. to the Stars,” was convicted today of 76 of the 77 counts he faced for racketeering, wire fraud and identity theft. As Judge Dale
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FRIDAY, February 29
Baron Claiborne
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Audra McDonald, giver. See Friday.
“From Secularists to Frummies, from I'm Conservatives t
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Riefenstahl was a liar and a manipulator long before she met Hitler. A headstrong child whose authoritarian father could be worn down only by tears and tantrums, she
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Forget how famous you’re going to be as a writer — are your verbs flabby?” In a world where even unknown artists talk like businesspeople and PR apparatus, spe
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There are tons of art-gallery openings happening this week. None is mentioned here; see Art Galleries.
FRIDAY, September 8
Hi, my name is Thummer, and I’ll be your
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The basic story of Ian Buruma’s Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance is fairly well-known. In 2004, Van Gogh, a heavy-drinki
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IN-STORE DIRECTORY
AMOEBA MUSIC
6400 Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323)
245-6400
www.amoebamusic.com
Friday, June 16 – Fiery Furnaces (6pm)
Thur
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This week, correcting publicists’ grammatical errors has taken more time than usual. Thanks to Java Fit Coffee, an awesome collection of vitamin-enriched roasts, f
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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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