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California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriage
How Republicans accomplished what the Dems could not
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD AND MATTHEW FLEISCHER
IN EARLY OCTOBER 1991, after several nights of mass protests, California Gov. Pete Wilson burned in effigy at the corner of San Vicente and Santa Monica in West Hollywood. … Keep Reading »
California GOP: The Queer Enablers of Gay Marriage
How Republicans accomplished what the Dems could not
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD AND MATTHEW FLEISCHER
IN EARLY OCTOBER 1991, after several nights of mass protests, California Gov. Pete Wilson burned in effigy at the corner of San Vicente and Santa Monica in West Hollywood. … Keep Reading »
Yvonne Burke's Crumbling Kingdom
She was hailed as a black pioneer and hero. Did she sell out?
By STEVEN MIKULAN
ONE GRAY SPRING AFTERNOON IN 1994, Britain’s charming Prince Andrew, joined by then-mayor Richard Riordan and other dignitaries, launched that year’s U.K./L.A. Festival at a Hancock Park lawn party. For all the ceremony’s transatlantic glitz, what most enchanted the gathering was the warm, down-home welcome offered by a local woman of uncommon grace. Yvonne… Keep Reading »
Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg
Harrison's daredevil archeologist returns, 19 years after Last Crusade
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
It’s been 19 years since the daredevil archaeologist Indiana Jones let the Holy Grail slip through his fingers at the close of 1989’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. But it’s the new Indiana Jones adventure that presents the more curious case study in the pursuit of immortality — and not just where its… Keep Reading »
Scarlett Johansson's Album of Tom Waits Covers Doesn't Suck
By JOHN PAYNE
Famous Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has made an album, and right away you’re probably thinking something snarky, say, along the lines of, “Oh, so now she’s a musician.” Well, it’d be a shame if Johansson’s Anywhere I Lay My Head suffered that cynical fate, because if it did, you’d miss out on the solid… Keep Reading »
Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Mecca
Splendor in the "grass" among pagodas, minarets and mine shafts
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
If you eliminate all the narrative meaning from Disneyland, or even Knott’s Berry Farm, you end up with something like Riverside’s Castle Park miniature golf. Here, instead of market-tested themes, your own imagination imposes stories on the fantasy landscape. At a putting green guarded by a pagoda, you almost expect to trip over little… Keep Reading »
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On the face of things, Ares Ramirez, the 12-year-old at the broken heart of…
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By Christopher Miles
Also, Carmine Iannaccone, Soo Kim and Sandeep Mukherjee
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Judging by this selection of eight artists at Milo Gallery, everything is up to…
Jim Lutes' Visual Rants, Laddie John Dill's Monumental Materialism
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On view at Kinkead and L.A. Contemporary
A Considerable Town
WeHo Reacts to California Supreme Court Gay-Marriage Ruling
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
God bless Gavin Newsom
L.A.'s Newest Gay Night Out: Tom Whitman's Cherry Pop
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
Opening of West Hollywood's "ridiculously fun" Saturday-night party at the Ultra Suede club
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Ladies Love Gay Male Porn
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I just got back from a weekend at the University of California at Santa…
Sega Will Send Maracas-Waving, Samba-Loving Monkeys into Your Home
Thu, May 22, 4:04 pm
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Geek Apparel of the Week: Bauer Power
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I know I try for subtle geek shirts, but I just can't resist the artistry of Nerdy Shirts' Bauer Power. I don't even watch 24, […]
Savage Love
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By DAN SAVAGE
Advice from the authors of The Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability
Not Open to an Open Relationship
By DAN SAVAGE
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L.A. People '08
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Dissonance: A McHillary McShame Mash-up
By Marc Cooper
The week McCain's not-so-straight talk met Clinton's funny number-crunching
Art Around Town: Daniel Dove, M.A. Peers and Takashi Murakami
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Also, Carmine Iannaccone, Soo Kim and Sandeep Mukherjee
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By Steven Leigh Morris
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Movies
Indiana Ford ... and the Kingdom of Lucas and Spielberg
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Harrison's daredevil archeologist returns, 19 years after Last Crusade
Paradise Lost: Surfwise
By ELLA TAYLOR
Parenting off the grid, and off the reservation, in this doc about Doc Paskowitz and family
Uwe Boll Goes Postal
By LUKE Y. THOMPSON
Notorious German director spars with his critics, makes an intentional comedy
The Children of Huang Shi: Epic Bore
By ELLA TAYOR
Fact-based tale is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption
Cannes Comebacks: Our Midfestival Report
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Mike Tyson, Jerzy Skolimowski, Terence Davies and more
Scarlett Johansson's Album of Tom Waits Covers Doesn't Suck
By JOHN PAYNE
Famous Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson has made an album, and right away you’re probably…
Van Morrison Once Again Ventures Into the Slipstream
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
I was originally supposed to write about the new Van Morrison album, Keep It…
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Nightranger: A Club Called Rhonda and a Moonlight Rollerway Jubilee
By Lina Lecaro
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Doin' the Cow-Bop Boogie
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LA Vida
Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Mecca
By GENDY ALIMURUNG
Splendor in the "grass" among pagodas, minarets and mine shafts
Grossman New Broadcasting & Cable Editor; Robichaux To Multichannel News
Thu, May 22, 8:46 am
Reed Business may be up for sale, but life goes on at the brands produced by the media giant. Ben Grossman has been named editor of Broadcasting & Cable, overseeing both digital and print. The announcement was made today by Reed Television & Publishing Group president Jeff DeBalko and Television Group publisher Larry Dunn, who also announced [...]
What's The Magic Number For 'Indy 4'?
Wed, May 21, 7:29 pm
THURSDAY AM UPDATE: The line forms for the 12:01 AM Thursday showing of Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull at the Vista Theatre in Los Feliz. And it keeps going, and going... (Photos by Jim Stevenson)WEDNESDAY: Forget all the hype. What matters is the Memorial Day weekend box office gross for Indiana Jones [...]
L.A. People '08
Features
New Fiction: "Sunday"
By JOE DONNELLY
Laura Branigan, Old Milwaukee and a tough angle on the eight ball: A short story
Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper
By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD
A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed
Billboards Gone Wild: 4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoods
By CHRISTINE PELISEK
Is City Hall corrupt, or just inept?
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