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Brit Marling Saves the World From the World-Savers, in The East

Sandra Fluke Headlines L.A. City Hall Rally For Increasing Taxes On Rich

Sandra Fluke, the activist Rush Limbaugh once called a prostitute because she said her Catholic law school, Georgetown, should offer free birth control for women, is in L.A. today. She's the headliner at a City Hall rally organized by a group called the Action. What do they want? An end to tax brea ... More >>

A November Roundup of Restaurant Openings and Closings

In opening news, Pizza Rev (fast-casual "craft your own" pizza concept) is coming to Woodland Hills on December 5. And, as if we need more butter and sugar to stuff ourselves with this holiday season, Georgetown Cupcakes opened in Beverly Hills and Sprinkles at The Grove, channeling Willy Wonka with ... More >>

We'll Soon Be Playing Instruments With Our Minds. Seriously

By Dave Good The future of music, says Los Angeles inventor Vince De Franco, will be hands-free. Instead of plugging in and tuning up in the conventional sense, musicians will engage various instruments with their minds. They will think the music. "The research that's going on in terms of reading ... More >>

5 Essential Back-To-School Food Titles

Summer tomatoes are at their prime, the first fall apples have arrived. Where else but L.A. can you continue to cook your way through the best summer cookbooks by day while starting on those fall reading lists at night? These are the sort of nightcap-worthy books to pull out when you don't quite f ... More >>

Good People

Quiara Alegria Hudes wins 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Good People at the Geffen, and More New Reviews...

David Lindsay-Abaire's Tony-nominated play about class rifts in America, Good People, now playing at the Geffen, is this week's Pick of the Week, by Neal Weaver. Paul Birchall was also taken with Doug Knott's autobiographical solo show at the Asylum Lab Theatre, Last of the Knotts Find all the lates ... More >>

Planned Parenthood Food Fare: Great Chefs, Great Cause

If watching a gaggle of the country's most arrogant, clueless and regressive men discuss the reproductive fates of millions of American women -- with almost no input from women themselves (apparently, we aren't "qualified") -- left you utterly appalled, perhaps you'll want to attend the annual Plann ... More >>

Frank McCourt's Money Man, Kevin Griffin, Stands To Cash In On Dodger Bankruptcy

Frank McCourt​The Dodger bankruptcy is a tragedy for all involved. All except for Highbridge Principal Strategies, the Wall Street hedge fund that stands to earn $10 million in fees from the deal.Highbridge's managing director, Kevin Griffin, agreed last month to pony up $150 million in bankruptcy ... More >>

Students At Loyola Law School Get Better Grades Without Having To Earn Them

Loyola Law School.​There's been a stereotype about the millennial generation that it has gone through its scholastic career with "grade inflation" on its side -- the coddling, praising and teacher-torturing ways of its baby boomer parents causing schools to give in and just give praise. If so ... More >>

Video Premiere: Sister Crayon's "(in) Reverse"

West Coast Sound is pleased to premiere the video debut of Sacramento-based Manimal Vinyl act Sister Crayon. "(in) Reverse" comes from the four-piece's upcoming Bellow LP, due out in June. The Robert Ascroft-directed short was shot in Northern California. After the jump, Sister Crayon singer Te ... More >>

A Letter at 3 PM

On Michael Ventura, L.A. Weekly's Bogart in cowboy boots

Election '08: Blogging Live in Las Vegas at John McCain's Last-Gasp Rally

BY MARC COOPER Yo via Blackberry! I'm at McCain rally right now Monday nite in Henderson, Nevada on outskirts of Las Vegas. A poor turnout my friends. I got here 3 hrs ago to beat the crowds. But my daughter just arrived as program is beginning and she got in. This venue holds about 5k and is n ... More >>

Burn After Reading: Intolerable Cruelty

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

Movie Reviews: College Road Trip, CJ7

Also Girls Rock!, My Name is Albert Ayler and more

John Edwards: I Am Third

Why I still love him

Aging Disgracefully

Trying and Quartet look at the costs and benefits of growing old

Surge This

Breaking out of the pack of Iraq war docs, No End in Sight devastates

Pushing Out Pisano

After an interminable 31 years, a controversial czar of planning is leaving

The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology

Dubai Bares All

So much for Arab-American assimilation in the U.S.

Kitty Galore

The Bush Dynasty and media hypocrites

Gay Marriage Squabble

Why California’s Supreme Court ruling was a lost battle, not a lost war

Hell Hath No Fury

Exorcist: The Beginning, a story of Hollywood possession

Rock Steady

My Life on the Couch

Bill Clinton’s Oprah Moment

Kerry’s Identity Crisis

Bush’s blunders and Woodward’s book don’t add up to victory for John

Viva Lost Innocence

The Girl Next Door and Nói

Aborting Abortion Rights — Then and Now

New details from Blackmun’s papers show how 1992 begets 2004

The Unhappy Warrior

Gray Davis: The rise of America’s most calculating politician

Blinded by the Fight

The miseducation of David Brock, snot-faced warrior for the right

Close Encounter: And a Spider Sat Down Beside Her

After Seattle

Free-trade protests coming soon to a city near you

Hey, Fatso

On the Line at Amazon.com

Blue-collar labor in a high-tech company

Larry Flynt Scores

And Washington may never be the same again

They Lost it at the Movies

Critics who were never left in the Dark