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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2008 Stories by Matthew Fleischer

• LA People: Wil Wheaton — Child Star, Adult Geek

  published November 27, 2008

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• The Lost Art of Walking: Creative Fuel for History's Greatest Thinkers

  published October 30, 2008

  Nearly 90 years ago, an Oxford scholar named Sherington took a dead, skinned cat, removed its brain, and found a way to make it... More >>

• Down and Out at the Americana

  published October 16, 2008

  Click here for main feature, Rick Caruso's Aria: L.A.'s Mall King... More >>

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  Rick Caruso's Aria: L.A.'s Mall King Mulls a Mayoral Run

  published October 16, 2008

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• Best Pub Crawl

  published October 2, 2008

  Putting together a proper pub crawl is a sacred trust — a responsibility I don’t take lightly. As one of the... More >>

• Best Day in the 'burbs

  published October 2, 2008

  You did it. You may not have wanted to, but curiosity overcame you. You drove all the way out to Glendale to check out the Americana mall. Now,... More >>

• Exiles on Main Street: Searching for the Ghosts of Bunker Hill's Native American Past

  published August 14, 2008

  It’s a Sunday night in downtown Los Angeles and my friend, Kumeyaay Indian filmmaker Cedar Sherbert, hits me with an... More >>

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  Parks and Wreck: L.A.'s Fight for Public Green Space

  published July 17, 2008

  There’s a foul smell in Pershing Square. Well, several foul smells, really. Most prominently, there’s the smell... More >>

• Tip of the Spear: An Interview With Generation Kill Author Evan Wright

  published July 10, 2008

  “Have you ever smoked... More >>

• Confessions of an Aspiring Kept Man: Is That a Cucumber in Your Shopping Cart?

  published July 3, 2008

  I have a friend, Andrew, who lives in Paris. Every day, Andrew wakes up at 11, stretches, and prepares himself a leisurely... More >>

• California Prisons' Big Group Hug

  published July 3, 2008

  On April 3, two shank-brandishing members of the Southern California–based Surenos gang charged into the... More >>

• Is Art Center Gehry-Rigged? Richard Koshalek Says No

  published June 19, 2008

  Nathan Cooke isn’t a miscreant. He isn’t a troublemaker or a misguided teen. He is a 26-year-old industrial... More >>

• Protecting Obama from Gay Marriage Politics

  published June 19, 2008

  AT 4:46 P.M. on Monday, an anxious Paul Waters stands on the steps of the Beverly Hills courthouse, waiting for news. Inside,... More >>

• California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriage

  published May 22, 2008

  IN EARLY OCTOBER 1991, after several nights of mass protests, California Gov. Pete Wilson burned in effigy at the corner of... More >>

• Pau Gasol

  published May 15, 2008

  When you’re seven feet tall, an inconspicuous stroll down the Venice Boardwalk is a difficult thing to pull off. When... More >>

• Sam Cherry

  published May 15, 2008

  Sam Cherry sits in the living room of his Fairfax District home, staring at a photograph of Charles Bukowski on the toilet.... More >>

• Why L.A. Is Park Poor

  published March 27, 2008

  ON A COOL, SUNNY MORNING in South Los Angeles last week, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, flanked by Parks and Recreation General... More >>

• Fake Memoirist Channels Sherman Alexie

  published March 13, 2008

  PERHAPS THE MOST FASCINATING and instructive moment in Margaret Seltzer’s now discredited memoir Love and... More >>

• California Supreme Court Set to Consider Gay Marriage

  published February 28, 2008

  On a cool Valentine's Day afternoon in Beverly Hills, Robin Tyler paces the front steps of the Beverly Hills Courthouse, cell... More >>

• Key Moments in the Struggle for Gay Marriage in the U.S.

  published February 28, 2008

  1969: Troy Perry presides over the "holy union" of two women, Neva Heckman and Judith Belew — the first public same-sex... More >>

• Food, Dude! Stoner Caterers

  published February 7, 2008

  'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.—William Shakespeare More >>

• Arroyo Seco Mural Feud

  published January 10, 2008

  STANDING ON A BRIDGE overlooking the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles rivers, Friends of the Los Angeles River founder... More >>