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Late Christmas Eve 2005, Demond Whiting and a friend left the recreation center at Nickerson Gardens and turned right down Compton Avenue. Whiting was 32 and an original...
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Fried FishOur cover story “Dennis Kucinich Has Five Minutes for You: Mr. Fish meets America’s peace candidate” (Nov. 30–Dec. 6) by Dwayne Booth stirred...
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HERE’S SOME NEWS YOU MIGHT USE about Barack Obama. Did you know he was, in reality, a government plant, a sort of Manchurian Candidate activated by Big Brother to...
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LITTLE UNSHKINS CAN FLY. Not a transatlantic flight, but short trips of 10 feet or so. Last week, Unshkins made one of those flights and helped save his owner. Unshkins is a...
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THE LONGTIME HOLLYWOOD MAXIM is that he who loses his temper first loses. Well, the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers pitched a hissy fit Wednesday after...
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FOUR LOS ANGELES COUNTY EMPLOYEES who allegedly diverted special funds intended for foster kids into nights on the town for themselves and their pals — and whose names...
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Curated by Malik Gaines of My Barbarian, this show features the work of 19 contemporary artists who all use different media to explore language and how we use it to identify...
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When new episodes of your favorite TV series run out, and they will, even if the studios and striking writers settle their differences soon, you will turn to your DVD player....
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The opening shot of the Extras series finale airing on HBO Sunday marks another hilarious humiliation for Ricky Gervais’s aspiring-actor character Andy Millman....
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Janie Geiser and Susan Simpson’s Frankenstein (Mortal Toys) unites flat puppet characters pushed and pulled by spindly sticks and black thread, a small proscenium set,...
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Youth Without Youth, Francis Ford Coppola’s self-financed return to the fray, is a curious project — well-crafted, personal, and movie-movie old-fashioned even in...
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Kites fly high over the San Francisco Bay and Kabul (okay, China), but not much else soars in Marc Forster’s flaccid adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s vivid 2002...
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When Adrian Lester answers the phone at his London home and immediately pauses to tend to his two daughters, ages 6 and 3, I feel intrusive and offer to call back later, or...
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There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is given by the movie’s star, Will Smith, whom I’ll get to in a minute. The...
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A large digital screen featuring a clip of Jean-Paul Belmondo in Breathless, puffing on his Lucky Strike in an endless loop, was the closest the audience at the 20th European...
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ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS The only way a Chipmunks movie could be even remotely interesting would be if it deconstructed the characters à la Scrappy in the...
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Dewey Cox? Yes we do. But not without hesitation. There may be renewed interest in Cox in the wake of Walk Hard, and he may be strutting about the Roxy all re-energized,...
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The legend speaks for itself, and so does ?the Legend himself, uninhibitedly and scabrously. On the eve of a long awaited, career-spanning biopic (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox...
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Peanut Butter Wolf PresentsBadd Santa: A Stones Throw Xmas | Urban Outfitters
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DOLL MAULEcho Parque’s gang gals might be tough, but they got nuthin’ on the crash-and-tumble chicas who just moved into the neighborhood: the Derby Dolls. The...
