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Kirk Franklin Talks About His New "Gospel Brunch"

Raspy-voiced choir director Kirk Franklin got around his limited vocal ability by channeling ideas through other singers, and repackaging gospel music with mainstream sensibilities. During the '90s the Ft. Worth songwriter put his hype man ad libs on rousing praise anthem hits like "Stomp" and "Revo ... More >>

LAPD Spy Device Taps Your Cell Phone

StingRay is secretly used without warrants

Rebel with a camera

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the End of Pacific Standard Time

Pacific Standard Time, that half-year, regionwide paean to L.A.'s art history, officially ends on March 31. A show of vintage photographs and one last performance event send it off. Everything else on this week's list is forward-looking. 5. Rebel with a camera When MOCA staged its big Dennis Hopper ... More >>

Getty Museum Gets a New Director: Timothy Potts

Timothy Potts is the new director of the Getty Museum, and will begin the job on Sept. 1. Potts, a native of Sydney, Australia, has been director of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, England, since January 2008. He also has been director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, and before ... More >>

Free Condoms in Venice Just in Time For Valentine's Day

AHF​L.A.'s AIDS Healthcare Foundation is trying to transform the porn industry by having the government require condoms for adult actors. Now it wants inside your bedroom for Valentine's Day. Ah, so romantic. Well, it is "International Condom Day" and, as such, the foundation is, er, rolling ... More >>

Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Is Exile The Best Stones' Album? Nope, It's Some Girls

​[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Today marks the re-release of the Rolling Stones' 1978 album Some Girls, which has been remastered and expanded. T ... More >>

WP24's New Dessert Menu: Sneak Peak

Known more for its unabashed luxury, its vertigo-inducing views of downtown L.A., its "tiny, crunchy triangles of the best shrimp toast you have ever had," WP24 has always had a secret weapon: its desserts. Though they didn't garner a ton of attention, the desserts under former pastry chef (and To ... More >>

Charles Calderon, California State Assemblyman and Worst Legislator: 96 Percent of His Cash Gushes in From Outside His District

By David Futch Charles Calderon: Counting his money, or slapping his name on a law he never wrote?​Emboldened by bulging campaign coffers, brothers Charles and Ron Calderon don't merely introduce laws designed to reap profits for huge special-interest groups. Many of the laws that bear their ... More >>

RIP Cornell Dupree

Cornell Dupree​Famed jazz and R&B guitarist Cornell Dupree passed away Sunday, May 8, in his hometown of Fort Worth, TX. He was 69 years old. At 19, the blues musician joined King Curtis and the Kingpins, playing alongside a young Jimi Hendrix. In the 1960s, he became one of Atlantic Records ... More >>

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Magicians: Marketing Lessons (and Lots of Handcuffs) from the Era of Houdini

Collection of Ken Trombly, Bethesda, Maryland. Photo by Dean A. Beasom.​ You wouldn't think, in an era before movies, TV, or even radio, that it would take much convincing to get people to a magic show. Even the cups and balls routine must have been a thrilling alternative to singing in rounds ... More >>

Wall of Shame

CNN, USA Today, and other media organizations got fooled

Hollywood is missing 30,300 people. Antonio Villaraigosa's "elegant density" plan says they'll appear

New, improved Hollywood Boulevard​Los Angeles City Hall produces padded "population growth estimates" for L.A., an over-jammed city now driving away more humans than it attracts. Now, Antonio Villaraigosa and Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner are using the junk data to further remake Hollywood. Cit ... More >>

L.A. Tops List Of American Cities With The Most Green Buildings

mccarthycook.comThe Trident Center in West L.A.​Los Angeles topped the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of major American cities with the most energy efficient buildings, the EPA announced Tuesday. This marks the second year in a row L.A. was tops in green buildings. L.A. has the l ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Edge of Heaven, The Foot Fist Way, The Strangers

Also, Blindsight, Hollywood Chinese and more

F YEAH FEST Announces Summer Tour

The Yeah Fest formerly know as Fuck has announced its summer tour across the Eastern, Southern, and Middle United States, and a little bit of Canada. Bands touring are Matt & Kim, Circle Jerks, Dillinger Four, The Death Set, Monotonix, Dan Deacon, Paint it Black, Team Robespierre, Brother Reade, Cr ... More >>

Born to Be Rad

John S. Rad, 1936–2007

In Defense of Defenders

Country & Folk Listings

Rock & Pop Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006 Country listings follow.

The Nutty Professors

Ingenious schemes to wash, pipe and blow away our worries

Ornette Coleman cover story, 1989

Loss and Loathing on the Cheney Trail

The environmental destruction wrought by the vice president’s secret energy plan

Pursuing the Vatican Vote

Bush woos John Paul II

Man of Many Worlds

Escape Artist

The triple life of Louis Kahn

Mice Behaving Badly

Front and center at the Disney-Eisner pissing contest

Built-in Obsolescence

Murder She Wrote

The talented Ms. Highsmith

Is This Jazz?

The school of Bobby Bradford

Made in the USA, Part III: US Government Agency Listings

I’m Linda, Fly Me

The real reason Tom Daschle didn’t run for president

Pot Shots

Darkness Falls

Johnny Dowd’s grim reaper rock & roll

Degrees of Deceit

How one inner-city L.A. high school played the numbers game and made its dropout rate go away

The L.A. Connection

Anybody out there write a check to Vicente Fox lately?

Kid AAAA

Ludwig the Eternal

Baby Let’s Twist

Letters

Cinéma Moralité

Teens and the classroom film

Twisted Sister

The strange world of Patricia Highsmith

DON'T CRY FOR ME, MEXICO

The World's Most Dangerous Musicians

L.A.’s post-jazz scene

Straight Time

The Battle for Drug Treatment in California Prisons

The Marsh

Prize Packages