Gaza Strip

3 Kentucky Products That Should be Smuggled Instead of KFC

As recently reported in The Washington Post, al-Yamama, a Palestinian delivery company, has been sneaking Kentucky Fried Chicken into the Gaza Strip from Egypt: a three-hour journey and an extra $20-30 for cold chicken, which admittedly can be good. Of course, if Colonel Sanders knew that the red-a ... More >>

Comments: Foster Care and Film Reviews Have Readers Wound Up

American Idol Meets the Museum

The Hammer's Mohn Award is a grand experiment in art-world democracy

Reviews of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Jolson at the Winter Garden; Laurel and Hardy; and more . . .

Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday.  Also check out this ... More >>

Stage Raw: Somewhere, Over the Radar

COMPLETE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE : A Case for Small Theater​The Groundings' Crazy Uncle Joe Show has a one-night only tenth anniversary performance (Wed., June 22, 8 p.m.) featuring (pending cast availability) Kristen Wiig, Kevin Nealon, Maya Rudolph, Michael Sheen, Will ... More >>

Cairo Time: Love Among the Pyramids

How Patricia Clarkson gets her groove back

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Marcy Winograd Finds an Issue

Challenger hopes that condemning Israel can win congressional seat

Theater Reviews: Treefall, One Woman, Two Lives, The Miser

Also, A Hatful of Rain, Franz Schubert: His Letters and Music and more

Stage Raw: The Miser

The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on improvised musicalsNEW REVIEW PICK  THE MISER ​Photo by Miriam GeerDirector Ellen Geer delivers a hilarious and highly polished production of Moliere's  comedy. It's a fait ... More >>

Annenberg's Showcase for Pictures of the Year International

Photojournalism at Its Best

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Gang Bank a Slush Fund? Angry words flew back and forth at a Montebello City Council meeting as one councilman accused another of using the city's Gang Diversion Task Force as his political ATM. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune reports that the allegations included one that  Bill Molinari used th ... More >>

Mayor Still Catching Flak Over Gaza

Today's L.A. Times reports that the city's Muslim community is continuing its criticism of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's high-profile support for Israel's invasion of Gaza. Representatives from Islamic groups say Villaraigosa's vocal endorsement for Israel's punishing assaults against Palestinian tar ... More >>

Stage Raw: Things That Matter, Like Theater Awards!

 THINGS THAT MATTER Louis Prima and Keely Smith circa 1958   The Gaza Strip is on fire; in the middle of a new year's freeze, Russia has cut off heating gas to Ukraine; the global economy is in shambles; the U.S. senate can't decide who should be seated from Illinois or Minnesota;& ... More >>

Gaza on Wilshire: Part 2

Today two implacable foes will fight over a barren strip of land that time seems to have forgotten. That would be, of course, the stretch of Wilshire Boulevard that is home to the Israeli Consulate, where pro-Palestinian demonstrators will protest the Jewish state's invasion of Gaza -- and where, ac ... More >>

Gaza Battle Continues -- On Wilshire Boulevard

Today will see two protest actions against Israel's counterattacks on the Hamas-led Palestinian territory in Gaza. At 3 p.m. Jews for Peace will assemble outside the Westwood Federal Building on 11000 Wilshire Blvd. Info: (562) 694-1637.Right: Gaza City ruins(NY Times photo: Abid Katiib/Getty I ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Indestructible, Reprise, Water Lillies

Also, Unsettled, Up the Yangtze and more

SXSW Thursday night: Le Loup rocked my world, the Playboy party rocked my privates.

Okay, so I actually cried tonight. Not sobbed, not wept, not got all blustery and snotty. But about five songs into Le Loup's remarkable, thrilling set at Emo's IV Lounge, they hit upon a combination of chords and chorus that, coupled with my joyful mood and the feeling of how lucky all of us asshol ... More >>

Chromeo: Stop Listening to Joy Division

Sound of silver

Joe Sacco on Comics, the Arabs and the Jews

Make it mandatory

Independence Day in Gaza Park

Love & Frustration

At 25, Outfest is older, but not necessarily wiser

Film Reviews: First Snow, The Last Mimzy, Dead Silence

Also this week's pick, Offside

22nd Israel Film Festival

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Did You Hear the Boom Boom?

Shit, Meet Fan

Middle East goes to brink while Bush fiddles about

Sundance in Fragments

Festival’s documentaries offer a survey of global disorder

Last Call in Gaza

A burned-out bar as an election symbol

The French Insurrection

Cars burn, Islam benefits

Jobless in Gaza

Arab commentators disagree about lasting meaning of Israeli pullout

The Wild, Wild West Bank

The planned chaos of illegal settlement outposts

Babes in Hummerland

Brueghel in Bosnia

Kristine McKenna talks with graphic journalist Joe Sacco

6 Photographs by Teun Voeten in Iraq, the Gaza Strip and Liberia

Visit Palestine

How an old tourism poster became a ubiquitous symbol of modern struggle

Fences Make Bad Neighbors

Palestinians working on Israeli security barrier wonder, 'What road map?'

The Art of being Civilian

Saying farewell to suicide bombers and victims of war

What’s Gone Wrong in Iraq?

How we lost the peace in this illegal war

Coffee Break

A view from Ramallah

A Family Divided

The challenge of Jewish peace groups to speak out

Just Saying No

Israeli soldiers vote with their feet

Caught in the Currents

Wading through conflicting views on the Middle East

Beyond Disappointment

The Middle East, according to Robert Fisk

A Witness to Devastation and Death

A sobering firsthand view from Ramallah

Boundaries Going Up

A layman’s (and statesman’s) guide to fencing in the Middle East

Naturellement

Behind Bush

Those “wag the dog” Democrats

Out of the Past

Arabs and Jews revive their blood hatreds

Lost Generation

Israeli and Palestinian youth share bond