¡Mas Suave! They’re handsome, charming and so good to their mothers. They’re Mexican American Princes, and they rule Los Angeles. By DANIEL HERNANDEZ
(Cover photo by Gregory Bojorquez)
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Number 19 A short story by NAOMI HIRAHARA, excerpted from the new anthology Los Angeles Noir. A Considerable Town
Banging bumpers with Mischa Barton, by MEHAMMED MACK
RENA KOSNETT partys with the 24-hour porny people.
Plus, in SEVEN McDONALD’s 24 SEVEN, a boy-meets-balloon-gets-girl story
GUSTAVO ARELLANO’s ¡ASK A MEXICAN!
An illustration by MAX KORNELL
a cartoon by BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN.
Newsroom
Politics Meets Street: Why are politicians and civic leaders bellying up to the eyebrow-raising Club 740? JEFFREY ANDERSON reports on the club and one of its patrons: convicted Bell Gardens Councilmember Mario Beltran.
Freed Sex Slave Caught in Legal Bind: Trafficking victim-turned-counselor Maria Suarez looks for a Schwarzenegger pardon, by JILL STEWART.
Plus, firm faces criminal charges for asbestos removal,
In DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD, NIKKI FINKE tells of the insanity behind an in-the-works Beatles cover-music movie, Across the Universe.
Plus, a cartoon from MR. FISH.
LA Vida
In Hot Water: Where to spend teatime in Los Angeles, by LINDA IMMEDIATO.
Plus, LIBBY MOLYNEAUX’s HOOPLA,
Art
Be Your Own Guinea Pig: Entering Andrea Zittel’s “Critical Space,” by ARTY NELSON.
Plus, MUST SEE ARTPaul McCarthy lecture at the UCLA Hammer Museum and “Sick-Amour” by Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter by AMRA BROOKS
Eat & Drink
Low and Slow: That is the tempo. Jaime Martin del Campo and Ramiro Arvizu’s La Casita Mexicana, by JONATHAN GOLD.
Plus, FIRST BITE: 750ml;
ASK MR. GOLD about artful dining
Screen
Road Warriors: High-velocity action in Fox’s new series Drive, by ROBERT ABELE.
In SURF REPORT, Notes from the Underbelly’s great expectations.
Stage
Gordon Davidson kills at the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards.by STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
Plus, new theater reviews,
ALAN RICH’s A LOT OF NIGHT MUSIC,
CLASSICAL PICK The Millennium Consort and Martin Neary at St. Sophia Cathedral by MARY BETH CRAIN
DANCE PICK Spirited Astray: Kenji Yamaguchi at El Portal Theater by ANN HASKINS
Film
Petaphilia: Molly Shannon shows some puppy love in Mike White’s Year of the Dog, by ELLA TAYLOR.
World Market: Something for everyone at City of Lights, City of Angels festival, by SCOTT FOUNDAS.
Gone With the Wind? Success remains elusive for Native American filmmakers, by MATTHEW FLEISCHER.
Killer of Sheep by Ella Taylor and The Best Film about Los Angeles by JOHN POWERS – Originally published 2003.
Plus, reviews of new releases,
GOOD REP Small Town Gay Bar by ERNEST HARDY
And Noir City: Los Angeles Vs. New York: The Eighth Annual Festival of Film Noir by PAUL MALCOLM
SHORT RUN: Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles by DAVID CHUTE|
Music
This Is Rock & Roll Radio!How Ron Cey and a 10-watt station in Long Beach changed one man’s life, by REVEREND DAN.
Roller Coaster of Wub: Disneyland goes all Chili Peppers and shit, in KATE SULLIVAN’s ROCK & ROLL LOVE LETTER.
Plus, ERNEST HARDY on Timbaland’s solo LP
LINA LECARO’s NIGHTRANGER
DANCE CLUB PICK
ROCK PICKS
Letters
Rockie Horoscope
SAVAGE LOVE by DAN SAVAGE.