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John Gomez Jr. parks his silver family van in the back row of one more anonymous strip mall off California’s Highway 79, an hour and a half southeast of Los Angeles, on...
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“Bhutto men die youngand the women live forever,” Benazir Bhutto told me. We were sitting together in the villa she shared with her three children on the outskirts...
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WITH CALIFORNIA HURTLING TOWARD a February 5 presidential primary and a bitter writers’ strike starting to cripple TV programming, the decision by Bill Clinton’s...
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DES MOINES, IOWA —This is one of the strangest columns I’ve ever had to write. I tap this out in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, a day before the dramatic...
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Greens Seeing RedHaving read Marc Cooper’s “Green Party, RIP — McKinney’s shenanigans sent the party further into irrelevance” [Dec....
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I've been looking forward to the Skirball's new exhibit opening today — except that it turns out it's called "The Inflatable Crown", not "The Inflatable Clown." Oh well,...
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Tonight begins a monthly residency by The Hollywood Hot Shots. On the second Wednesday of the month, the Steve Allen Theater is the place for "upstairs hot jazz" with...
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Television-series actors have the unenviable task of repeating the same emotional cues over and over and over again, all while not letting on that in any real-world situation,...
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Some years it can be hard to come up with enough stellar lead performances to make an awards minyan. But every year is a good year for supporting roles, and not just because...
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After seven editions, the almost-traditional Village Voice poll of alt-press (and now other) film critics took a hiatus last year (lotta changes going on around here; maybe...
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Look for the through-line connecting the four feature films of South Korean writer-director Lee Chang-Dong and you will find that they are all stories of the clash between...
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It was only a couple of years ago that the horror genre seemed newly resurgent, like an undead killer digging himself out of the grave. “Fresh-faced” directors...
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ONE MISSED CALL was not screened in advance of our publication deadline, but a review will appear here soon. (Citywide)
THE VIOLIN Writer-director Francisco...
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In these media-mad times, with such god-awful, colossal loads of music, art, film, video games, etc., etc., being hurled at us with such remorseless corporate frenzy, one...
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Jonny Greenwood There Will Be Blood (soundtrack) | Nonesuch
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You wouldn’t know it by looking at him, but drummer Ben Hansen is exhausted. Yesterday he played two two-hour sets with his performance group Street Beat, a high-energy...
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There’s a nice selection of jazz if you crave the experimental, edgy, cathartic, visceral, or just a nice new sound. Sierra Madre is just down the 210 from Bobby...
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Soul Scienz’s Boombox bash continues to pump up the volume for old school and underground hip-hop heads with its casual, cool vibe and mega-potent...
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THURSDAY, Jan 3
Dirty white boys: Captain Ahab (Photo by Renata Raksha)
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Atop a newish mini-mall in Artesia’s Little India, Tirupathi Bhimas is a glowing flying saucer of a restaurant, a circular second-story dining room ringed by windows...
