Email Author Ernest Hardy

2006 Stories by Ernest Hardy

• Dreamgirl Power

  published December 21, 2006

  One night, a chartered bus picked us up and drove to Century City, where a special surprise awaited us. As we pulled up in front of the Shubert... More >>

• Kim.She.Is.

  published November 30, 2006

  Kim Hill swings her blue 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser onto her residential street in South-Central, and for the millionth time during the ride, the... More >>

• Fourth Annual Fusion: The Los Angeles LGBT People of Color Film Festival

  published November 30, 2006

  Now in its fourth year, Fusion film festival is still trying to find its legs. It’s more notable as a cool, all-inclusive cultural... More >>

• ''Just Be Butt Naked. With Glitter.''

  published November 23, 2006

  Before the Music Diesscreened at Circus Theatricals, November 16Last Thursday night, in a dozen locations across the country... More >>

• The Bluegrass Is Greener

  published October 19, 2006

  For artists tossed to the sidelines by tunnel-visioned major labels, freedom may await. We hear about the personal and professional suffering... More >>

• Tenth Annual Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival

  published October 5, 2006

  When it debuted a decade ago, the Los Angeles International Film Festival was not only filling a void (although Latino films play at assorted... More >>

• Kansas Shitty Woman

  published September 14, 2006

  After an embarrassingly lackluster set by Angie Stone — who was handpicked by James Brown to open this historic show last Wednesday... More >>

• Outkast in Love

  published August 24, 2006

  André 3000 enters the lavish hotel room wearing huge sunglasses and a stylish hat cocked to the side. Carrying a bottle of artesian water,... More >>

• Southern Comfort

  published August 24, 2006

  The prologue that plays out beneath the opening credits of Idlewild is fantastic — witty, funny, adrenaline pumping, seamlessly... More >>

• Revenge of the N.E.R.D.

  published August 10, 2006

  Damn, how many times was Pharrell’s long-awaited, much-hyped solo debut, In My Mind, pushed back from its original release date?... More >>

• Like a Star

  published August 3, 2006

  CORINNE BAILEY RAE at House of Blues, July 31Corinne Bailey Rae’s exquisite, self-titled debut CD is not flawless, but... More >>

• Petey Wheatstraw

  published July 13, 2006

  Rudy Ray Moore, as the cult figure Dolemite, has come to straddle multiple adoring worlds — those of grimy rap fans and artists (see:... More >>

• Diana Ross: O.G. Diva Sings the Blues

  published July 6, 2006

  Voice too thin? Image too glitzy? Ambition too flagrant? The snipes against Diana Ross throughout her career have too often dodged the deeper... More >>

• Strangers With Candy

  published July 6, 2006

  For its first two seasons, the cable series Strangers With Candy was never less than good, and was often quite brilliant. A wicked... More >>

• Music Video Showcase

  published June 22, 2006

  Back when MTV was in its infancy and the cable landscape was dotted with shows devoted to off-kilter music videos, the kinds of clips that are... More >>

• Revolutionary Fetishist?

  published May 25, 2006

  In a medium-sized photo that hangs on the wall of Rick Castro’s fetish-art gallery, Antebellum, a male fist is deeply embedded in a mal... More >>

• Track 6: For the Love of Money (I'll Bee Dat)

  published May 25, 2006

  What’s even more depressing than the sight of Tommy Wear blanketing the world (is there much on the planet that’s uglier?) is the... More >>

• DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Madlib, Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, MF Doom—No Shit!

  published May 25, 2006

  L.A. music fans (as well as heads the world over) are reeling from the recent losses of J Dilla and DJ Dusk. And now the call has gone out that... More >>

• Soul Love

  published May 11, 2006

  Soul Sides Volume One . Zealous Records . www.soul-sides.comOliver “O-Dub” Wang is a hip-hop fanatic,... More >>

• VC Filmfest 2006

  published May 4, 2006

  Though movies from across the Asian continent are highlighted in this year’s VC Fest (a.k.a. the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film... More >>

• Eastside Story

  published April 27, 2006

  The space at 1813 Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz, long known as Eastside Records, was a low-key, organically cool, second-hand-vinyl, DVD and CD... More >>

• Hood With a Heart

  published April 20, 2006

  Los Angeles–born and raised, Clifton Collins Jr. (grandson of celebrated character actor Pedro Gonzales-Gonzales) is one of those... More >>

• Founding Father

  published April 20, 2006

  Tucked in the back of the small building that serves as the headquarters for the Pan African Film and Arts Festival lies the cluttered office... More >>

• The Method Fest

  published March 30, 2006

  Now in its eighth year, the Method Fest (named for the Stanislavsky approach to acting) continues to hold to its goal of celebrating actors and... More >>

• Party Over Here!

  published March 2, 2006

  A year and a half ago, as word quickly circulated via radio and the Internet that Dave Chappelle was putting together a concert in Brooklyn,... More >>