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  Theater Reviews

  {mosimage}GO ECHO ONE ACTS 2006: Evening B "I once mistook my wife for a hat salesman," says widower Hank (Victor Raider-Wexler) in Padraic Duffy's Old Hat to a woman (Tara Karsian) who'd rather be left alone to eat her sandwich on a park bench than...

  by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on June 1, 2006

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  It's a Bad, Bad, Bad, Bad World - Selling tomorrow in The Futurist

  Former Young & Rubicam advertising executive James P. Othmer has written a debut novel so slick and seductive, you'll find yourself reaching for your wallet without even knowing what's for sale. The product is the book's protagonist: the world-fam...

  by Nathan Ihara on June 1, 2006

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  The Spider and the Wasp - John Updike and his Terrorist

  In Terrorist, a novel whose title will either roll eyes or raise eyebrows, John Updike seeks to crack open one of the hardest shells available to the New England writer: the mind of the young, angry, resentful Muslim. To meet this literary challenge...

  by Mehammed Mack on June 1, 2006

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  Timothy Liar - A biography

  Who was Timothy Leary? He's mostly remembered as the Johnny Appleseed of acid, the man who turned the world on to LSD. When he was dying in 1996, he was mostly famous for being famous, the oldest celebutant, a 76-year-old guy in a wheelchair at the ...

  by Lewis MacAdams on June 1, 2006

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  Graphic Oddballs - Funny ha-ha meets funny peculiar in Art Out of Time

  It's been something of a banner year for the funny pages, with comics and "graphic novels" getting ever more (and increasingly positive) attention in the mainstream press, previously unthinkable film adaptations like Art School Confidential and V fo...

  by Doug Harvey on June 1, 2006

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  Lost Classic - Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman

  During a crucial moment in the broadcast of Lost, ABC's popular television drama, the camera turned away from the castaways to zoom in on the cover of a book: The Third Policeman, the obscure Irish novel by Flann O'Brien. After one of the show's wri...

  by Jim Ruland on June 1, 2006

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  Hans and Fooligans - An unthinking (?) writer's guide to the World Cup

  As a quadrennial sporting event, the World Cup has a single rival: the Summer Olympics. But while the Olympics are bewilderingly diverse and often numbingly tedious (curling, triple jump, water polo ...), the World Cup is a spectacle ferociously p...

  by Brendan Bernhard on June 1, 2006

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  The Beaver Trap - Allan MacDonell survives 20 years at Hustler

  "Some of the appeal of working there was that I've always liked the sense of the criminal," says Allan MacDonell, author of Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine. "But I'm not a criminal -- I don't break the law, under any circumst...

  by Dave Shulman on June 1, 2006

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  Weekly Literary Supplement - Summer reading

  Weekly Literary Supplement: Summer Reading Sticks and Bones: CLAIRE MESSUD on Donald Antrim's anti-redemptionist memoir. The L.A. Word: BRENDAN BERNHARD on A.M. Homes away from home. New fiction from T.C. BOYLE's upcoming book, Talk...

  on June 1, 2006

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  Wishing Well - A furious Cherry Orchard closes Evidence Room

  Earlier this year, in a review of the Taper's Cherry Orchard with Alfred Molina and Annette Bening, I raised the possibility that Chekhov no longer speaks to our age -- not because Chekhov isn't one of the world's grandest and most profound dramatis...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on June 1, 2006

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  Fun in the Sun

  @ Public Spectacle by Caroline Ryder on January 27, 2006 @ 12:01 pm

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  Ain't We Lucky We Got 'Em

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 26, 2006 @ 11:01 pm

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  First Name Basis

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 26, 2006 @ 11:01 am

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  Sorry Mack Reed

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 25, 2006 @ 12:01 pm

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  Babe in Black

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 24, 2006 @ 4:01 pm

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  Saturday Eve of Destruction

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 22, 2006 @ 10:01 pm

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  Photo LA Your One Stop Art Shop

  @ Public Spectacle by Linda Immediato on January 22, 2006 @ 9:01 pm

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  El Dud

  @ Public Spectacle by Steffie Nelson on January 22, 2006 @ 3:01 pm

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  The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife - And weekend theater reviews

  A BED AND A BAR The music. The slang. The characters' and audience members' prowess with cell phones -- there's nothing like a comedy about young love to keep the monocled theater critic tethered to contemporary America. However, while Carlos Javier...

  by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on May 25, 2006

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  LA Weekly Book Party - Join the L.A. Weekly at Boardner's in Hollywood to celebrate the release of three books by our contributors

  This Thursday (May 25) from 6 to 8 p.m., we'll celebrate the release of new books by three longtime L.A. Weekly writers with a reading and soiree at the newly remodeled Boardner's in Hollywood. Please join us! Ben Ehrenreich (The Suitors), Ernest Ha...

  on May 25, 2006