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FIRST, MY DISCLAIMERS. I have a home network of six computers, as well as broadband wireless cards in both of my laptops. My first e-mail account dates back to 1984. I got...
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An Even Heavier Load On Thursday, Nov. 1, the LA Harbor Commission unanimously approved a phased ban of the aging truck fleet working LA's ports with goal of...
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PSA on STDsThe recent article by Patrick Range McDonald [“Gay Syphilis Scourge Skyrockets,” July 13–19] is a welcome review of our efforts to stem the rise,...
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BOB RHEIN PILOTS AN ALL-ELECTRIC Toyota RAV4 up the precipitous one-lane blacktop that passes for a highway on Santa Catalina Island, dodging shuttle buses and Jeeps as he...
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WHEN THE STORY HIT the nightly news on July 16 that four local teenagers had been arrested for numerous attacks upon the homeless, it sounded like another senseless urban...
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THE BIG CUTS IN LOS ANGELES public-transit funding by state lawmakers have a sudden impact on Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who, in his current scandal-struck state,...
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Sherman Torgan, the selfless, universally well-liked and quite possibly heroic owner of the New Beverly Cinema, died July 18 of a heart attack while riding his bicycle on the...
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Kyra Sedgwick never had the movie career that Glenn Close or Holly Hunter did, but her success heading TNT’s ratings-hot police procedural The Closer — which just...
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One imagines the wives and girlfriends of Spike TV watchers feeling a little like media captives when the hetero-male candy-shop channel is blaring its adrenaline-pumping...
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As has been the case throughout our interview, his response is measured: “I hope,” says the voice on the other end of the phone, “that the mood of the...
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In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard ’round the world — or at least as far away as Washington, D.C. (which, given the...
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“Life is a mixture of happy and sad things. Movies are so lifelike — that’s why we love them.”“Then who needs movies? Just stay home and live...
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—Jacques RivetteOn the mezzanine of the Hyatt Hotel on Potsdamer Platz at the center of the 2007 Berlin Film Festival, Jacques Rivette moves slowly, quietly into a...
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Sadly, No Reservations is not the big-screen adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s snack-gulping, risk-taking Travel Channel show; you’ll find no monkey brains here,...
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ARCTIC TALE A smarmy score (“We Are Family” when it ought to be “Stayin’ Alive”), some orgiastic farting from a herd of walruses and a modicum...
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Seeing that George Lucas produced Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (1986), we should be thankful that striking a new 35 mm print is all that was done for the film’s reissue...
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THURSDAY, JULY 26 Chromeo, Flosstradamus at the EchoMontreal electro-funk
duo Dave 1 and P-Thugg erupted onto the retro-irony scene with their
hit “Needy Girl,” a dit...
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The 12th-annual Central Avenue Jazz Festival happens this weekend; it’s still this town’s best jazz festival, hands down, with a great mix of classic Central...
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Sitting on a hay bale next to a fire pit, staring at smoldering branches and trying (somewhat fruitlessly) to keep the flying embers from singeing my skirt, I listened to Bron...
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? POP MUSIC AS FOOD; FOOD AS PORN: To prove my devotion to you, the hungry pop fan, I went ahead and test-drove the new Elvis-based Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup (“The...
