You’re probably familiar with the ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. The curse has two other parts that are progressively more dire: May you
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Rolling out of bed and onto the Internet Saturday morning, I come across a New York Times review of Buraka Som Sistema, a Portuguese DJ collective who made their New
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Dear Mexican: I’m an illegal alien. Got here on a tourist visa and stayed for a job. My gabacho employer knows about it and doesn’t give a crap. I don’t apolog
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“L.A. is my lady,” Bryan Rabin is saying while enjoying a nosh at a Bronson Canyon hang. It’s the morning after an event Rabin produced at the Paul Smith b
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LeChein Taylor took out a cell phone and called his brother Bo.
Bo Taylor, founder of the gang-prevention, intervention and life-skills program Unity One, didn’t p
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PERHAPS NOWHERE IS THE CURRENT PUSH led by Los Angeles City Hall and its platoon of private lobbyists for an overbuilt, overcommercialized, re-engineered L.A. bette
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Other than the infamous Tijuana bibles and now Memín Pinguín, I don’t know much about comics from south of the border. How about a short history of comics in Me
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The LA Weekly was taking a peek at court papers when we came across an interesting tidbit by a federal district judge who issued a preliminary injunction in June bar
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No Dark Knight for You!
Major and even minor Hollywood moguls hate to see a new movie in a public theater, much less buy a ticket to see it. Instead, they have th
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Without Pete Kameron, L.A. Weekly probably wouldn’t exist. And instead of spending 19 years at the paper, I might not have lasted three months.
When I arrived a
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As the airline industry collapses in on itself faster than the top speed of a Concorde, there are still a couple of non-frustrating things about a visit to LAX. No
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BOTH GEORGE CLOONEY and now Tom Hanks were dragged into the SAG vs. AFTRA battle the other day. The two A-listers denied taking sides in this ongoing actor-against-
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