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ConcertChris Botti, Cassandra Wilson The jazz-lite trumpeter is joined by singer Cassandra Wilson and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by Scott Dunn. HOLLYWOOD BOWL, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hlywd.; Wed., July 23, 8 p.m.; $1-$95. (323) 850-2000.ClubsTHE BAKED POTATO 3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Studio City. 9:30 & 11:30 p.m.; cover......
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ConcertChris Botti, Cassandra Wilson The jazz-lite trumpeter is joined by singer Cassandra Wilson and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, conducted by Scott Dunn. HOLLYWOOD BOWL, 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hlywd.; Wed., July 23, 8 p.m.; $1-$95. (323) 850-2000.ClubsTHE BAKED POTATO 3787 Cahuenga Blvd. West, Studio City. 9:30 & 11:30 p.m.; cover......

a Boy’s, Boy’s World

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Of the summer’s many revenge-of-the-nerd fulfillment fantasies — from The Incredible Hulk to The Foot Fist Way — Wanted stands the best chance of dislodging Fight Club from fanboys’ Facebook pages. It has the same dizzying flipbook style, the same kicky ultraviolence, the same undeniable appeal of punch-clock payback —......
What the puck? Maddin’s Winnipeg; Credit: Jody Shapiro/Everyday Pictures

Film Reviews: Get Smart, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

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BRICK LANE Bracket the fact that it’s an adaptation of Monica Ali’s great big treat of a 2003 novel about displacement and feminine emancipation, and British director Sarah Gavron’s tale of a young Bangladeshi woman unwillingly transplanted to London’s East End is absorbing enough, moving enough and visually attractive enough......

Fighting About How to Fight Global Warming

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A Sprawling Debate (Click to enlarge) Your recent article criticizing efforts by Gov. Schwarzenegger and Attorney General Brown to encourage more compact development [“How Not to Fight Global Warming,” by Jill Stewart, April 18-24] erroneously suggests that there is “little basis in science” for concluding that increasing residential density will......
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Siouxsie Sioux at the Fonda

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Grizzly Bear and the Los Angeles Philharmonic OrchestraWalt Disney Concert Hall, March 1 Timothy Norris (Click to enlarge) Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen, he of the chrome-toned voice   (Click to enlarge) Siouxsie Sioux, "on the verge of an awakening" You knew last Saturday night was turning magical when a roustabout......

There Goes the Neighborhood Council

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Neighborhood NoiseRegarding "Bureaucrats Move to Silence South L.A. Black Neighbor­hood Group" [Jan. 25-31]: It's amazing that after my long conversation with Steven Leigh Morris, he authors a complete misrepresentation of the facts having to do with the decertification of a neighborhood council in my district. Both the Department of Neighborhood......

Letters on Marc Cooper and Column Dave

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Familiar FeudAs I read the various contemporary and lively pieces in L.A. Weekly's art issue ["Made in Los Angeles: The Art Issue," Jan. 11-17], I was saddened to find, buried in their midst, Marc Cooper still drudging up an over-a-decade-old feud directed at his lifelong adversary Bill Clinton ["The Battle......

Film Reviews

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 GO AMERICAN GANGSTER As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem dope king Frank Lucas in Hollywood heaven. Denzel Washington plays Lucas as a combination of ruthless thug and gentlemanly striver. To balance the moral equation, Steven Zaillian’s script introduces police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe),......

Film Reviews

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 GO AMERICAN GANGSTER As archetypal as its title, Ridley Scott’s would-be epic aspires to enshrine Harlem dope king Frank Lucas in Hollywood heaven. Denzel Washington plays Lucas as a combination of ruthless thug and gentlemanly striver. To balance the moral equation, Steven Zaillian’s script introduces police detective Richie Roberts (Russell Crowe),......