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By MICHAEL LACEY, EXECUTIVE EDITOR, VILLAGE VOICE MEDIA
Published:
June 25, 2009
Los Angeles Times media columnist James Rainey attempted to pass off an ad hominem attack on L.A. Weekly’s news editor, Jill Stewart, as his own thoughtful criticism in...
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Veteran LAPD cop Greg Kading had since his days as a rookie cop in Newton Division 21 years ago been intensely interested in George Torres, whom he watched rise from lowly...
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Mediocrity is so entrenched in Los Angeles public education that an entire lexicon has emerged.“Teacher Jail” refers to the housing of wayward instructors inside...
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Still the Hero: Tom Laughlin as Billy JackRe “Billy Jack Is Back at the Los Angeles Film Festival: LAFF restores a drive-in classic to its karate-chopping glory,”...
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It's a great week for benefits that make you laugh. Here you can help a great organization, 826LA, which provides tutors in creative writing for kids. "Tiny Vaudeville #4"...
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Carol Leifer's book When You Lie About Your Age, the Terrorists Win may be the only book you need. It's full of wisdom, life stories and laughs. Such as? "Never out your...
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Once a year, the irresistible sound of accordions and those washboard things fill Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach for the Long Beach Bayou & Mardi Gras Festival . You don't have...
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(1935, Frank Lloyd). It's Fletcher Christian versus Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty.
Tue., June 30, 1 p.m., 2009
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Get your motor running and head out on that highway to the Los Angeles Film Festival's "Hell on Wheels: Hot Rods and Fast Times," a weekend of reckless roadstering by bratty...
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In director Penelope Spheeris' world, the line between the real and imaginary lives of L.A. punks has always been blurred. Following her first documentary, 1981's The Decline...
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Sing with me: "So, come all ye good sailor men who sail the wintry sea/And come, all ye apprentice lads, a warnin' take from me/Beware of lofty clipper ships, they'll be the...
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If you're naive enough not to fear robots (and I strongly encourage you to develop a robot phobia), come on down to the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center's...
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Named for an album by inscrutable Brit band Felt, the group exhibition The Splendour of Fear features such apparently disparate artists as filmmaker Stan Brakhage, conceptual...
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Lewis Black may be the only comedian working as an anger cyclotron to study the science of satire. Just look at him -- if you think he won't one day implode and become a...
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"Strange being an older first time father. Here I am having a baby when all of my friends are already sending their kids off to rehab.
When it came to baby proofing our...
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Bharatanatyam, the elegant, percussive, and joyous classical dance of the Indian subcontinent, has always had a strong following in SoCal's large Indian community. Over the...
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You know you've been to more than a few of these events over the years when the first thing you see is "Presented by Insomniac Events" and you immediately think, "Whatever...
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With its amiably hammy seven-person ensemble of mostly veteran character actors who prance around caparisoned in codpieces with Slinkys attached, this high-spirited rendition...
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Playwrights Ted Dykstra and Richard Greenblatt have created an amusing play with music about two aspiring piano students. Prodigy isn’t the right word to describe either...
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A sequel to his 1995 post-apartheid play Valley Song, Athol Fugard’s latest work, Coming Home, tells of the decimation of one person’s dream and the recasting of...
