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Berlin Wall

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    Best of Coachella: Sunday, April 22

    See also: Our complete Coachella coverage By the third day of Coachella's second weekend -- the sixth and final day of this year's festival -- folks had more or less learned to ignore the dust and the heat. Here are our intrepid writers' favorite things about the final hours of the 2012 event.

  • Blogs

    March 13, 2012

    The Vex and Chicano Punk: A Very Brief History

    See also: The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands Chicanos have played a defining role in punk rock since its inception. In fact, Michigan's ? and the Mysterians are a strong contender for the first band to be labeled "punk rock." A little closer to home, East Los's Cannibal and the Headhunter ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 5, 2012

    Berlin Meets Bakersfield

    See also: The Five Best East L.A. Backyard Punk Bands Chicanos have played a defining role in punk rock since its inception. In fact, Michigan's ? and the Mysterians are a strong contender for the first band to be labeled "punk rock." A little closer to home, East Los's Cannibal and the Headhunter ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    reliq, SYMBOLCLUB and More: Berlin Goths Keep It Up All Night

    grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

  • Music

    March 31, 2011

    Music to Pick Up/Download

    grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 21, 2010

    GHETTOPHYSICS

    grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2010

    GONE WITH THE WENDE

    grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Classic Tetris World Championship Celebrates 20 Years of Knocking Down Virtual Walls

    It was the summer of 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and millions of Americans were knocking down virtual walls of their own alongside their Soviet counterparts as Nintendo released the Game Boy with Tetris packed in with the system. Ivan Fernandez​Over 20 years later (25 fo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2010

    IT'S NOT JUST FOR FREAKS ANYMORE

    It was the summer of 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and millions of Americans were knocking down virtual walls of their own alongside their Soviet counterparts as Nintendo released the Game Boy with Tetris packed in with the system. Ivan Fernandez​Over 20 years later (25 fo ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2009

    THE POLITICS OF DANCING

    It was the summer of 1989, shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and millions of Americans were knocking down virtual walls of their own alongside their Soviet counterparts as Nintendo released the Game Boy with Tetris packed in with the system. Ivan Fernandez​Over 20 years later (25 fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Holy Warhol Maos! China's Carsick Cars Cover the Velvets' "Sunday Morning"

    Meet the Carsick Cars​This morning you woke up and we bet you didn't think "You know what my life needs right now? An underground Chinese band doing a live cover of the Velvet Underground's 'Sunday Morning'!" Let's pretend you thought that and, magically, the godess of music (Euterpe or somet ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Gigantic Gift from The Pixies: FREE Live EP!

    The Pixies were just in town celebrating the 20th anniversary of Doolittle, which, oddly enough, probably had nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall (or did it?). Not content with sharing the entire album as a live performance at the Hollywood Palladium, Black, Deal & Co, Inc. have decided ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2009

    Germany Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Historic Impromptu Hasselhoff Concert

    Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    THE BOULEVARD OF TORN-DOWN DREAMS

    Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 5, 2009

    THE BOULEVARD OF TORN-DOWN DREAMS

    Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    The Wende Museum at the Hammer

    Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    February 12, 2009

    Divided We Stand: Art of Two Germanys

    Both sides now at LACMA

  • Columns

    July 31, 2008

    Obama: "Ich Bin Nicht Ein Berliner"

    Live, from the front

  • Film+TV

    April 17, 2008

    Movie Reviews: Zombie Strippers, Floating Life, Lost in Beijing

    Also, Flight of the Red Balloon, Dark Matter and more

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH

    Also, Flight of the Red Balloon, Dark Matter and more

  • Art+Books

    November 15, 2007

    It Can't Happen Here (Again)

    Saul Friedlander receives a peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair

  • Stage

    March 15, 2007

    Carnaby Street Carnage

    Spoofing a spoof, in The Defenders

  • Music

    November 23, 2006

    Rock PIcks

    For the week of Nov. 24 - 30

  • News

    October 19, 2006

    Hived In

    Pornography, apocalypse and betrayal

  • LA Life

    September 28, 2006

    Rockie Horoscope

    Pornography, apocalypse and betrayal

  • Film+TV

    May 4, 2006

    The Essential Kieslowski

    Pornography, apocalypse and betrayal

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    This Just In

    Hal Fishman

  • Art+Books

    February 2, 2006

    Corrected Legacies

    The Getty Villa, the Reagan Library

  • Art+Books

    July 28, 2005

    A Fowler Trifecta

    And then some

  • Columns

    March 10, 2005

    Outisde Looking In

    And then some

  • Music

    December 16, 2004

    Lit Up and Emotional

    And then some

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    The Future Belongs to Crowds

    A brief history of spontaneous gatherings

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    Letters

    A brief history of spontaneous gatherings

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    Watch Them All Fall Down

    Domino dancing to communism’s collapse

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    On the Border of Hypocrisy

    The unintended consequences of getting tough on illegal immigration

  • Film+TV

    July 25, 2002

    Doomsday Machine

    How Hollywood learned to stop worrying and love the Rooskies

  • Film+TV

    June 6, 2002

    Depth Charges

    Goethe Blockbusters dive beneath the surface

  • Art+Books

    December 6, 2001

    The Handsome American

    Walter Russell Mead makes a case for U.S. foreign-policy effectiveness

  • Music

    October 12, 2000

    The Power of 9

    What comes before The Big Tune

  • News

    August 3, 2000

    Free To Protest

    Thanks to Judge Feess, you can say more things in more places

  • Art+Books

    July 20, 2000

    Virtual Fiction

    Richard Powers’ Plowing the Dark

  • Stage

    June 8, 2000

    Brechtmachine

    When the wall came tumblin’ down

  • Calendar

    May 25, 2000

    Frida, Friduca, Mami

    My Chilean Jewish Mother

  • Art+Books

    April 6, 2000

    Neighborhood Watch

    Life in the target area

  • Calendar

    December 16, 1999

    100 Years of Weltschmerz

    Gunter Grass’ century

  • Calendar

    December 16, 1999

    The Coffee Table

    Gunter Grass’ century

  • Art+Books

    July 8, 1999

    Count the Days

    Eugen Weber's Apocalypses and Juan Goytisolo's The Marx Family Saga

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    The War at Home

    Orange County’s Little Saigon confronts the ghost of Ho Chi Minh

  • News

    December 10, 1998

    Lost Soul

    A lament for black Los Angeles

  • Music

    October 8, 1998

    Burn, Li'l Debby, Burn

    A lament for black Los Angeles

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