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2013 Stories by Jonny Whiteside

• The Outspoken Chick

  published May 9, 2013

  In country music, the "girl singer" has always faced an uphill climb. And when she steps out of line -- as with Loretta Lynn's 1975... More >>

• The Ecstasy of the Agony

  published May 2, 2013

  North Hollywood's California Institute of Abnormal Arts is a wondrous spot, sort of a man-made Bermuda Triangle, where the unnatural collides with... More >>

• Elvis and the Birth of Rock and Roll

  published April 25, 2013

  Photographer Alfred Wertheimer's famed 1956 series of Elvis Presley shots presents an oddly austere black-and-white dreamscape, one so well... More >>

• Deep Throated Singing

  published April 18, 2013

  Burbank may be reeling from a wrongful-death suit brought by the family of a Burbank Police Department veteran who shot himself on a public... More >>

• The Monster Mash

  published April 11, 2013

  Whether scaly, one-eyed, furry, slimy, winged, shambling or even undead, monsters are a near-universal fascination. Yet lurking among us are a... More >>

• How to Win Friends and Piss Away an Acting Career

  published April 4, 2013

  Tough-guy character actor Tom Sizemore's mind-boggling devotion to the fine art of self-destruction has long been legendary. With his new tell-all... More >>

• Spring? Sprung

  published March 28, 2013

  If the post-Easter egg hunt doldrums kick in a bit too hard this year, the Spring Equinox Extravaganza might be the perfect antidote. This... More >>

• Oh Andrew (Yes Andrew)

  published March 14, 2013

  Rock & roll has produced plenty of fascinating behind-the-scenes characters -- Sam Phillips, Kim Fowley, Jack Nitzsche, Huey P. Meaux -- but... More >>

• S Is For Snuff Film

  published March 7, 2013

  Ah, death. Socrates called it "the greatest of all human blessings," while J.M. Barrie asked, "Why fear death? It's the greatest adventure of... More >>

• Before There Was Elvira

  published February 28, 2013

  In the lurid pantheon of Tinseltown demonology, very few can begin to approach the infernally revered altitude, which Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira,... More >>

• Follow Exene to the Library

  published February 28, 2013

  You gotta love Los Angeles, this strange showbiz city where a civic institution like the Central Library is willing -- and able -- to host such a... More >>

• Cinema Palaces on a Cinema Screen (How Meta!)

  published February 21, 2013

  Ah, celluloid. Not just "a colorless flammable material made from nitro-cellulose and camphor, used to make photographic film" but also the stuff... More >>

• Tee and A

  published February 14, 2013

  Like a weird, mythic blend of Jayne Mansfield and Medusa, Tinseltown uber-bimbo Angelyne has long defied categorization. Yet the do-nothing buxom... More >>

• Contamination: It's What's For Breakfast

  published February 7, 2013

  Between the triple threat reality of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the most recent — and, to date, probably most egregious —... More >>

• Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love

  published February 7, 2013

  Nothing captures the complex duality of love itself so much as Valentine's Day. On one hand, a perfect opportunity to pay homage to Eros, to deify... More >>

• The Ax Man Cometh

  published January 24, 2013

  For a full, frenzied decade, Deke Dickerson's Guitar Geek Festival has rallied a mind-bending army of six-string pyrotechnicians, and this, the... More >>

• High Art Hip-Hop

  published January 24, 2013

  REDCAT, that reliable downtown epicenter of creative expression, inaugurates another series of provocative and invigorating productions with the... More >>

• Banjo Unchained

  published January 17, 2013

  From its ancient, straight-outta-Africa origins to American mountain primitivo to the mad, minimalist '60s psych-garage style of The Monks' Dave... More >>

• ‘Scuse Me While I Kick the Jam

  published January 17, 2013

  Down through the rough and bloody years since Elvis first smashed through the gray flannel wall of square America, innumerable rockers have... More >>

• Gentlemen, Start Your Soapbox

  published January 10, 2013

  While the craven likes of Adam Lanza, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold settle the matter with self-inflicted gunshot wounds, when it comes to the... More >>

• Gerry's Vids

  published January 10, 2013

  As this modern digital Dark Age of technological advances threatens to drive physical film stock itself — the very stuff from which dreams... More >>

• The Dude and the Zen Master

  published January 3, 2013

  Buddhism can take many forms, from its intended beatific philosophical purity to Silver Lake's brand of passive-aggressive faux spiritual... More >>