Email Author Matthew Fleischer

Awards

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published August 24, 2007

  "Watani's Legacy"

• 2007 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published January 26, 2006

  "Navahoax"

• 2007 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 26, 2006

  "Navahoax"

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2007 Stories by Matthew Fleischer

• Gloria Molina Orders Meeting of Styles Mural Whitewashed

  published December 20, 2007

  Molina spokeswoman Roxane Marquez calls the mural a “public nuisance and a potential safety hazard,” citing the death of two... More >>

• Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turner

  published December 13, 2007

  Matt Taibbi has a singular approach to media criticism. As a writer for the Moscow alternative weekly eXile, he once held a contest to... More >>

• Commission Rejects Bukowski Nazi Claim

  published December 6, 2007

  Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe — at least for the time being. On Thursday morning, to the cheers of a half dozen Bukowski fans... More >>

• Bukowski's Ruin?

  published November 22, 2007

  It’s a miserable day in East Hollywood, and a cold rain is falling outside an abandoned, dilapidated bungalow on De Longpre Avenue. The... More >>

• Tookie and the Death Penalty

  published November 8, 2007

  In the nearly two years since the execution of Crips founder turned Nobel Peace Prize nominee Stanley “Tookie” Williams, the... More >>

• Best Place to Sing Karaoke and Pick Up Chicks With Mr. Belding

  published October 4, 2007

  It’s after midnight at Dimples karaoke bar, and you’ve just witnessed a second group of incoherent college girls stumble through a... More >>

• Most Fabulous Dance Club Masquerading as a Tough-Guy Dive

  published October 4, 2007

  It’s Sunday night outside a bar called The Study, and a large man with a teardrop tattoo is eyeing me suspiciously. Sunk 20 yards off... More >>

• Death and Girl Talk

  published September 27, 2007

  F ?or two months, Gregg Gillis lived the wild life of a touring musician. Now he was about to meet a fiery end on the tarmac of Dallas Love... More >>

• Children of the Revolutionary

  published August 23, 2007

  On the night of March 30, 1974, Watani Stiner and his brother George hugged their mother and stepfather good night, trying to hide the fact... More >>

• Femi Fatale

  published July 19, 2007

  It would seem a daunting task to step out of the shadow of a man known to his fellow countrymen as “the black president.” But Femi... More >>

• The Dating Game

  published July 5, 2007

  For some people, there’s nothing more arduous than hearing a friend drone on and on about his or her bad relationships. For Jon Huck, though... More >>

• Daddy From Hell

  published June 14, 2007

  {mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t... More >>

• Go Straight to Gallery

  published May 31, 2007

  {mosimage}On a hot and smoggy day in downtown Los Angeles, a little girl, no older than 4, strolls down... More >>

• New Orleans Jazzfest: Scenes From a Recovery

  published May 31, 2007

  At Evelyn’s Place in New Orleans’ French Quarter, change comes reluctantly if it comes at all. The walls and ceiling are covered in a dus... More >>

• Tweaking Bill O'Reilly

  published May 17, 2007

  {mosimage}Yellow Thunder Woman hates God. The outspoken lead singer of the L.A.-based filmmaking/musical duo the Bastard Fairies,she has no... More >>

• the Semantics of Suicide Aid in Dying

  published April 19, 2007

  Ben Dolin sighs deeply as he recalls the promise he made his wife, Eva, on her deathbed. “I told her I wouldn’t let her suffer,” he sa... More >>

• Gone With the Wind

  published April 12, 2007

  Sherman Alexie stands at the back of a dark, crowded theater at last month’s Palm Springs Native American Film Festival, scanning th... More >>

• Creative Capital

  published March 8, 2007

  Los Angeles has a new group of working-class heroes — and they don’t man the docks. A stu... More >>

• The Crescent Moon Is Down

  published February 22, 2007

  Given Henry Kissinger’s much publicized effort to get President Bush to read Alistair Horne’s account of the French occupation of Algeri... More >>