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Captain Bringdown Captures the Flag

It's the Economy, Moron

No one shops till they drop anymore. That's because the only thing dropping these days is the economy. Yet you wouldn't know this from bus-stop billboards across the city advertising a film called Confessions of a Shopaholic. The movie, starring Isla Fisher, is based on one of British author Sophie ... More >>

L.A. Times at the Abyss

"It was a really, really depressing thing," says the L.A. Times reporter. "If you weren't depressed before you came in, you were walking out." The staffer, who spoke to the L.A. Weekly on condition of anonymity, was describing the scene in the Times' newsroom last Friday, when Times editor Russ Sta ... More >>

Another Pioneer Dies: Echo Park Chicken Shack Bites the Dust

I swear, it was only a couple of days ago that I asked my wife if the Pioneer Chicken No. 1 stand ("Since 1964!") on Echo Park Avenue off of Sunset Boulevard was still operating. It had always looked dark inside, but recently it seemed really dark -- as in Lovecraftian, shuttered-room dark. The atmo ... More >>

Dressing Down With the 99 Cent Calendar Girls

Also, stores that are "so last year," and wearable pop art

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election

Theater Reviews

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election

Emotional Truth & Brother Leader

Our recommendations in the April 10 Los Angeles city election

Sideways to Stardom

The future of a rear-wheel-drive phenomenon

Art & Commerce

At an intersection near you

Star Whores

Why Lucas, Spielberg and Disney won’t give us our DVDs

Hidden Menus

Chinese DVD player evades security -- and it doesn't even need a hack

Pixel This

Digital filmmaking, part two

Cattle Call

The Race to Succeed Richard Riordan -- and to Shape the Future of Los Angeles -- Has Already Begun

Stuck in Translation

La Opinión searches for readers — and a mission — in the Times’ shadow

Radiohead Has Cake, Eats it Too, Thinks About Seconds...

There are quite a few twists to the story of the new Radiohead album that broke on the band's website last night . One that is getting very little attention is the terrible name of the album: In Rainbows. But here are a couple others: 1. Journalists won't get advance copies or early access. The ... More >>

Got Brains? They'll Settle For Pie: Hollywood Outdoor Cinema's 'Shaun of the Dead' Night

Nicole CamposStick that in your corpse pipe and smoke it.There's something about zombies - something innately unifying, a sense of shambling, blood-dribbling community - that brings people together. Especially at a time when the horror genre has turned tide toward mopey emo vampires and the latest ... More >>

Buy A Piece Of Local Royalty At Hotel Bel-Air Sale

That's armoire.​If filling your abode with cootie-covered furnishings and tableware from a hotel sounds as unsavory to you as it does to us, hold that thought: Goods from the Hotel Bel-Air are up for sale, and the cooties you end up with might have belonged to Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Taylor ... More >>

Sprouts Farmers Market Opens in Pasadena: Your Circuit City, Repurposed

A. ScattergoodSprouts Farmers Market in Pasadena​ Sprouts Farmers Market, the Phoenix-based chain of supermarkets, opened another store in Pasadena this past Wednesday. Sprouts is owned by the Boney family, who owned the Henry's Marketplace chain before it was sold to Wild Oats (now owned by W ... More >>

One Foot Out the Door

Grandpa John Steppling comes home, for a while

DJ Quik: Trials and Tribulations of a West Coast Legend

Grandpa John Steppling comes home, for a while

Wal-Mart Plans to Sneak 15 New Stores Into SoCal, Including Burbank, via Permit Loophole

"No Wal Mart in Burbank" via Facebook​Try as it might, looks like L.A. County can't keep scandalously low Wal-Mart prices out of its strip malls forever. After almost a decade of resistance from local governments and small businesses throughout California, Wal-Mart has found a loophole in the ... More >>