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2010 Stories by Nicole Campos

• TUNE IN, SELL OUT, MELT DOWN

  published March 25, 2010

  As the kids today might be prone to say, Meltdown Comics is made of so much WIN. The venerable comics outlet on Sunset Boulevard has made a name... More >>

• STAND BY YOUR DAN

  published March 18, 2010

  Of 2009's myriad dearly departed who were left out of this year's Oscar telecast's much-shorter-than-usual obituaries montage, the one that stung... More >>

• OH, HENRY

  published March 6, 2010

  Later this year, Buck Henry will turn 80 years old, and in his eight decades the diminutive, bespectacled satirist has racked up a staggering CV... More >>

• Freebie and the Bean

  published March 6, 2010

  There's a lot you can say about Richard Rush's 1974 precursor to the buddy-cop genre, Freebie and the Bean, and not all of it is... More >>

• Dexter in the Darker-Than-Ever: Night Five of Paley 2010

  published Mar 05, 2010

  When Showtime's Dexter was first featured as part of the annual Paley Center television festival during its first season, it was one of the most talked-about series on the air -- a visceral, challengi... More >>

• Last Luau on the Island: The Final 'Lost' Panel at Paley Festival 2010

  published Mar 02, 2010

  The Saban Theater (formerly the Wilshire) is hopping with almost 1,900 people, ranging from excitable hoodied students to equally excitable Brentwood housewives, all of whom have gathered for the annu... More >>

• GEEK LOVE

  published February 26, 2010

  Folk/power-pop trio Common Rotation is one of those must-see indie acts; knowledge of them rises exponentially depending on how tapped in you are... More >>

• Up in the Hair: Reitman Blows Off the BAFTAs to Guest Program the New Beverly

  published Feb 23, 2010

  Writer-director -- and recent LA Weekly guest blogger -- Jason Reitman is in the midst of a banner awards season, his much-lauded George Clooney-starrer Up in the Air having raked in a truckload of no... More >>

• GEEKY OUEVRE INVADES L.A.

  published February 18, 2010

  If there is one voice-of-the-people, Dylan-esque figure of the modern geek world, it's Jonathan Coulton. The Brooklyn native and Yale alum rose to... More >>

• YOU CAN'T AFFORD NOT TO READ THIS ITEM

  published February 18, 2010

  Of all the foibles of the great American sitcom, few, if any, have proven as cringe-inducingly awesome as the "very special episode," in which our... More >>

• THERE'S SOMETHING FUNNY GOING ON MONDAYS AT 11 P.M.

  published February 5, 2010

  Human Giant was one of those sketch shows that flew under the radar, hunkered down in the midst of endless reality-tinged bullcrap on what passes... More >>

• THE POD COUPLE

  published February 5, 2010

  The venerable 21st-century form of entertainment that is the podcast can be a daunting one to embrace, not because it isn't piss-easy to obtain... More >>

• Body Art in Motion: Zulu Tattoo's Benefit at Boardner's

  published Feb 02, 2010

  In a city where body art studios are both plentiful and popular (and in some cases, nationally televised - hi, Kat!), it's a test to find a shop that draws as much universal praise and as loyal a clie... More >>

• WHAT STUART GORDON REALLY WANTS TO DO IS PICK MOVIES FOR US

  published January 14, 2010

  The good news for local film lovers in the past decade has been the resurgence of revival mainstay New Beverly Cinema, which at one point seemed... More >>

• OKAY EVERYBODY, SING YOUR INCH OUT

  published January 14, 2010

  At the top of 2010 with endless “best films of the decade” lists whizzing by, one movie from the naughties that has turned up on a few... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Rushmore meets Fight Club: Lots of Youths, Just a Little Revolt at Montalban Screening

  published Jan 07, 2010

  Be gone, miserable graveyard of cinema that is January, when the studios are notorious for dumping sub-par product while everyone plays with their Christmas toys and spends any movie-going time catchi... More >>

• POT SHOTS

  published January 7, 2010

  Unintentional though its humor may be, it's hard to make the 1936 antimarijuana propaganda flick, Reefer Madness, any funnier than it... More >>