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Under the InfluenceI read Daniel Hernandez’s article [“Nuevo Cool,” Jan. 26–Feb. 1] about Tijuana artists, in which he says artists ignore “in...
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“How did we go from calling each other brother to saying, ‘Kill that nigga’?” asks Cle “Bone” Sloan, gang member turned filmmaker, in his...
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Kimberly Brennan found herself struggling through her daily routine of classes. Troubling her was the news she heard while driving to her Cal State San Bernardino campus on...
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YOU COULD BE FORGIVEN, in this town, for thinking David Beckham is just some English bloke who plays a sport most Americans don’t follow. You could also be forgiven for...
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FROM THE MOMENT HE WADED into the issue of public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s push for power at the Los Angeles Unified School District was packaged as a...
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{mosimage}With a city election a month away, the name John Noguez is on the tip of many Huntington Park residents’ tongues, as the incumbent mayor is running fo...
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LET ME MAKE SURE I GOT THIS RIGHT. We’re spending a couple of hundred billion dollars and investing — so far — more than 3,000 American lives to bring...
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{mosimage} L.A.’s
20 Best Italian Restaurants: From spaghetti to Italian sushi, JONATHAN GOLD
ranks the most delicious trattorias, pizzerias and ristorantes. Plus...
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If any preconceived notions about world diplomacy are shattered by the three-night BBC America miniseries The State Within — about the political ramifications of a...
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And now, some Super Bowl thoughts. I watched the festivities in North Carolina at my parents’ house, where they have succumbed to HD evangelism. Although one’s...
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As we’ve seen from British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, one actor’s...
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As it has for the past few years, the 1994 Rwandan genocide casts a shadow over the programming in this year’s Pan African Film Festival. The opening-night film, Rwanda...
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It’s generally agreed by film critics and historians alike that Roberto Rossellini is hard to place, and harder to recommend properly. One reason for this, I think, is...
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Two Nutty Professor movies and Eddie Murphy still hasn’t gotten the split-personality shtick out of his system. Original nut Jerry Lewis would say that comedy is at...
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BLACK FRIDAY The underused Indian actor Kay Kay Menon is perfectly cast as a crisply correct detective keeping a tight lid on his seething anger in Black Friday, a...
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Matthew Barney is big in Japan, notably so in Matthew Barney: No Restraint, Alison Chernick’s documentary companion to Barney’s 2005 film Drawing Restraint 9....
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There’s a long, rich history of hand-painted films, from the intense paint-on-emulsion shorts of Stan Brakhage and Len Lye to the stories that emerge through paint in...
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8Bill Kirchen at Safari Sam’sWhen
it comes to hip-hick, Sturm-und-Twang guitar heroes, Bill Kirchen’s
name always rises to the top of the list. ...
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The Bobby Bradford Mo’tet ?and other jazz picksTrumpeter Bobby Bradford has long thrived on the avant edges of L.A. jazz. There were two stints in Ornette...
