Augusto Pinochet

Radar L.A. Festival: 5 Most Promising Shows

For theater-habituated Angelenos with an appetite for the cutting edge, the Radar L.A. Festival is more than the mere gathering of "the world's most influential performing ensembles" and "innovative Los Angeles artists" that its organizers dryly say it is. With 17 companies in 81 performances over ... More >>

With Dulce Rosa, an Isabel Allende Story Becomes Opera

The new work launches an L.A. Opera initiative to keep opera vital

Gael García Bernal and No Director Pablo Larraín Discuss Oscars, Politics and Why People Don't Vote

In 1988, Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet was forced to call a plebiscite, allowing the country to vote on whether or not he would rule for another eight years. Based on true events and using the real footage of the ads that ran during this time, the film No, out today, follows René (Gael García ... More >>

Gael Garcia Bernal Stars in No, About a Political Campaign in Pinochet's Chile

Musicals and Chilean Political Advertising: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. Friday, Jan. 25 Inspired by true events, No gives a behind-the-scenes look at the political advertising during the 1988 Chilean national plebiscite. The film flawlessly incorporates the real " ... More >>

Cannes Film Festival 2012: Highlights and Lowlights

Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No

The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarringly jump-intercut with scenes of Frank (Scoot McNairy) making his way through a tunnel onto a dismal Ameri ... More >>

Ana Tijoux: "Recording is like flirting with your songs. Touring is the relationship"

See also: *Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More *Reviewed: Ana Tijoux performs at MacArthur Park, 8/11/11 Having grown up in political exile in France during Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's reign, it seems natural that rapper Ana Tijoux -- now 34 -- would c ... More >>

The Iron Lady Review

Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher

Music Picks: Katy Perry, Phish, Deerhunter, Sia, Warped Tour

Also, Big Audio Dynamite, Jill Scott, Cypress Hill and others

The Lonely War

The California accountant who tried to overthrow a foreign despot

Tonight: Quality Chilean Hip Hop Princess Ana Tijoux at Little Temple

[From our LA Weekly music newsletter, for which you should sign up ASAP:] Though she has five albums to her name--plus collaborations with Bajofondo and Control Machete, and plenty of praise--Chilean rapper Ana [or Anita]Tijoux is only just making her U.S. debut. After playing a handful of SXSW sho ... More >>

Music Picks: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Donovan, Ana Tijoux, John Wicks

Also, Janelle Monae, Devendra Banhart, the Low Anthem and others

Yes We Did: What we know and what we don't about our new American era

Our moment of national redemption

Malibu Bad Neighbor

A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum

Run, Rummy, Run!

Could the Pinochet precedent keep Donald on the lam?

Teaching Torture

Congress quietly keeps School of the Americas alive

Lying Along the Potomac

10 fibs by our president

Their 9/11 and Ours

My testimony against Kissinger et al.

Letters

Assault on America II

Of secret military tribunals and other mischief to civil liberties

The World’s Worst

How the international justice system works

Henry: Portrait of a Serial Kissinger

Christopher Hitchens’ indictment of the former secretary of state

Dictators, Skyscrapers and Not-So-Nice Genes

New works from Marc Cooper, Richard Rayner, Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan

Viva Pinochet!

L.A. Chileans are pulling for their ailing dictator