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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 >>
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 >>
Photographer Alfred Wertheimer's famed 1956 series of Elvis Presley shots presents an oddly austere black-and-white dreamscape, one so well... More >>
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 >>
Whether scaly, one-eyed, furry, slimy, winged, shambling or even undead, monsters are a near-universal fascination. Yet lurking among us are a... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
Rock & roll has produced plenty of fascinating behind-the-scenes characters -- Sam Phillips, Kim Fowley, Jack Nitzsche, Huey P. Meaux -- but... More >>
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 >>
In the lurid pantheon of Tinseltown demonology, very few can begin to approach the infernally revered altitude, which Maila Nurmi, aka Vampira,... More >>
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 >>
Ah, celluloid. Not just "a colorless flammable material made from nitro-cellulose and camphor, used to make photographic film" but also the stuff... More >>
Like a weird, mythic blend of Jayne Mansfield and Medusa, Tinseltown uber-bimbo Angelyne has long defied categorization. Yet the do-nothing buxom... More >>
Between the triple threat reality of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and the most recent and, to date, probably most egregious ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
REDCAT, that reliable downtown epicenter of creative expression, inaugurates another series of provocative and invigorating productions with the... More >>
From its ancient, straight-outta-Africa origins to American mountain primitivo to the mad, minimalist '60s psych-garage style of The Monks' Dave... More >>
Down through the rough and bloody years since Elvis first smashed through the gray flannel wall of square America, innumerable rockers have... More >>
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 >>
As this modern digital Dark Age of technological advances threatens to drive physical film stock itself the very stuff from which dreams... More >>
Buddhism can take many forms, from its intended beatific philosophical purity to Silver Lake's brand of passive-aggressive faux spiritual... More >>
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