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2011 Stories by Falling James

• It's Been an X Day's Night

  published December 8, 2011

  With its atmospheric look at Los Angeles, blending shots of Tinseltown's vanishing past with stark mid-'80s urban seediness, X: The Unheard... More >>

• The Elegant Elegy

  published November 10, 2011

  Although she lives now in New York, Joan Didion was for many years the quintessential L.A. woman, depicting the unsettling contradictions of the... More >>

• Club Dead

  published October 27, 2011

  In this season of wicked witches and groovy ghouls, it's sometimes easy to forget this is also a serious time of year to remember and commune with... More >>

• She Was a Punk Before You Were a Punk

  published September 22, 2011

  History is written by the victors, which is why, with the veritable flood of books about the late-1970s L.A. punk scene bubbling up over the past... More >>

• Legal Weapon

  published September 22, 2011

  Tonight's show is a direct blast from the early punk-rock past, led by the soulfully fiery exhortations of Kat Arthur and her hard-rocking Legal... More >>

• Anna Get Your Gainsbourg

  published August 18, 2011

  Anna Karina was one of the iconic faces of French cinema in the 1960s, with a stunning allure that appealed to both haughty intellectuals... More >>

• Ear Wax Remembered

  published August 18, 2011

  Many, many years ago, there were these round wax platters called records, which were used to store music, much like a modern MP3 file. Unlike an... More >>

• Oh, Sandy

  published August 4, 2011

  Without Sandra Bernhard, we really are nothing, to paraphrase the title of one of her early albums. The supremely sarcastic comedian hasn't... More >>

• You Don't Know Jack

  published April 28, 2011

  "The most successful serial killers are always the boys next door -- gentle children of summer, flashing smiles like soft breezes through a park,... More >>

• Variedades

  published March 24, 2011

  The celebrated writer Rubén Martínez hosts the debut of this monthly variety show in the spirit of his grandparents, who were... More >>

• PENALTY FOR SAYING "UNNECESSARY RUFF-NESS"

  published February 3, 2011

  The major question of the day isn't whether Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers can fend off the Pittsburgh Steelers' pass rush long... More >>

• THE HARDER THEY CORE ...

  published January 27, 2011

  Early Los Angeles punk rock was derided — much like the city itself — as plastic and shallow, especially in comparison to the presumably... More >>