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2009 Stories by Falling James

• Kinda Fonda Wanda

  published December 3, 2009

  The concept of a jazz musician improvising riffs while a writer earnestly reads her poetry may seem like a boho cliche, but when that poet happens... More >>

• BEST WHERE'S JOHNNY

  published October 1, 2009

  Who's buried at Grant's tomb? That's a tough one, and for punk rockers a similar trivia question/existential riddle might be: Which member of the... More >>

• WELCOME BAT, MANNY!

  published July 9, 2009

  Revelations and allegations of the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs have sullied the reputations of such Major League... More >>

• LYRIC GAL

  published July 9, 2009

  Before Florida native Exene Cervenka reinvented herself in Los Angeles as a wild-eyed singer and punk-country-folk priestess with such bands as X,... More >>

• Wonder Woman

  published April 30, 2009

  This "syncopated woman" is an iconic poet-mystic-activist-Buddhist-feminist-teacher who possesses the uncanny (and magical) ability to "Write down... More >>

• Sympathy for the Devils

  published March 26, 2009

  There have been a lot of biographies about the Rolling Stones, but most skip over the '80s and '90s in favor of the band's heyday in the '60s and... More >>

• Life After a Death Sentence

  published March 19, 2009

  Vanessa Place is just a wee bit more ambitious than most local writers/dreamers/soothsayers. Her first novel, Dies: A Sentence (2005, Les... More >>

• Ice Pick of the Week: We Are the Worlds

  published March 19, 2009

  Is winter over already? In fact, did winter even arrive here this year? Los Angeles may not seem like a winter wonderland, especially to folks... More >>

• Best War Painter

  published March 5, 2009

  It's a shame that Barack Obama didn't select Yusef Komunyakaa to deliver the invocation poem at the Inauguration ceremonies in January. The... More >>

• WHATEVER HAPPENED TO PLEASANT GEHMAN?

  published February 12, 2009

  Love is a many-splendored, no-good, rotten thing, making Valentine's Day the most misery-inducing and suicide-provoking holiday this side of... More >>

• Snark Attack

  published January 29, 2009

  The contributor to The New Yorker discusses the finer points of snarkiness, as recounted in his latest book, Snark, in a... More >>