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J. Edgar Hoover

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2012

    Eagle Rock's New Rock and Eagle Shop

    Last Saturday, less than a week after she opened The Rock and Eagle Shop on Eagle Rock Boulevard, artist and curator Bettina Hubby heard a man outside the door. "I'm just going to make sure it's not just an adult rock and eagle shop," he said to his children. The exterior is painted a bright, pot-d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If you are a fan of American history, Alabama is a very interesting place. To say that a lot has ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 29, 2011

    Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If you are a fan of American history, Alabama is a very interesting place. To say that a lot has ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    November 10, 2011

    J. Edgar Review

    Clint Eastwood's inspired take on a giant of the 20th Century

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Marilyn Monroe's Iconic Upskirt Dress to be Sold at Auction in Beverly Hills

    The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

  • LA Life

    May 19, 2011

    Dustin Lance Black: Black & Proud

    The subway dress.​You could probably argue that it's the dress that started modern fetishism (although Hitler and J. Edgar Hoover might have had something to say about that). At the least, it popularized the "upskirt." Yes, Marilyn Monroe's up-the-air-number from The Seven Year Itch is being ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2010

    Pat Boone Kicks Off Beverly Hills Tea Party Rally

    Pat Boone.​Liberals can breathe a little easier knowing that the conservative Tea Party's recent launch in Beverly Hills over the weekend is being led by Pat Boone, the singer whose political views are only slightly more sane than those of Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is man, after all, w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Where Cute Meets Evil: Guerrilla Poster Artist Robbie Conal Talks Political Animals, New Book

    Robbie Conal"Read My Apocalips"​You've seen his work before. Perhaps in a gallery like Track 16 or wheat-pasted across some L.A. street-side, traffic light switching box. Perhaps you saw 2002's rare "Secretary Of Offense" poster depicting a wrinkly Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney posing as "Dr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2010

    Stage Raw: The Wooster Group's "North Atlantic"

     COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSECHO CHAMBERS Resonances from The Wooster Group's North Atlantic​Ground Control to Major Tom Photo by Paula Court If you drive through the San Gabriel Mountains, where radio reception is already dodgy, set ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 14, 2010

    Public Enemies: Chicago Vices

    Michael Mann on personal crises — and his latest feature

  • News

    September 17, 2009

    Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

    The investigation into a cop killing in the ’70s leads to a Chicago law professor involved in the early stages of Barack Obama’s political career

  • Film+TV

    July 2, 2009

    Digital Dillinger: Public Enemies’ Johnny Depp plays hard to get

    Michael Mann’s latest is fast and furious

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2009

    Inauguration Day Extravaganza: The First Hip-Hop President?

    Image via Hip Hop is Read Unless you've been living in the Madagascan Rain Forest or are a cave-dwelling ignicolist in Outer Mongolia, you're well aware that today marks the inauguration of Barack Obama. To the delight of the rap world and the chagrin of the social security set, Obama has been bi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2008

    What's Not in a Name?

    Burbank was not named for horticulturalist Luther. Stanton was not so called in honor of actor Harry Dean. Nor was Carson dedicated to late-night talk-show host Johnny. These are just some of the disillusioning facts one learns over the course of living in L.A. According to William Bright's ever-hel ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    January 31, 2008

    Samantha Hunt's The Invention of Everything Else

    Traveling through time with the world's most amazing inventor

  • Music

    February 22, 2007

    Rock Picks

    For the week of February 22 – March 1

  • News

    February 22, 2007

    Li'l Dickens

    Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Make Love to the Vice President

  • Music

    February 15, 2007

    Rock Picks

    For the week of Feb. 15 - 22

  • Columns

    May 4, 2006

    The Spy Trap

    For the week of Feb. 15 - 22

  • News

    June 9, 2005

    Deep Throat’s Crimes

    Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Rebel Rebel, Fix This Mess

    Mark Felt: Serial Constitution-shredder

  • News

    October 28, 2004

    The Incidental Candidate

    Kerrying doubts into the voting booth

  • Supplement

    December 11, 2003

    The Untouchables

    Lasting, sad lessons of Rampart

  • News

    December 4, 2003

    Mice Behaving Badly

    Front and center at the Disney-Eisner pissing contest

  • Art+Books

    September 4, 2003

    Invisible Man

    Bayard Rustin and the other civil rights struggle

  • Stage

    June 19, 2003

    Let Them Drink Beer

    The history of Dodger Stadium: A ghost story

  • News

    March 13, 2003

    The Ticking Stopwatch

    LAPD's new terrorism czar ponders al Qaeda

  • News

    January 10, 2002

    Daily Radical

    How to subvert the funny papers

  • Columns

    January 3, 2002

    The Crash of Civilizations

    12 highlights from 365 days

  • Columns

    December 20, 2001

    Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General

    12 highlights from 365 days

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    Home Grown?

    If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

  • News

    September 20, 2001

    The War at Home

    If anthrax is domestic, likely suspects abound

  • Stage

    June 7, 2001

    Death of a Nation

    Donald Freed’s newest play, American Iliad

  • Stage

    June 7, 2001

    Countermythologist

    Donald Freed on the greatest stories never told

  • Art+Books

    April 19, 2001

    Time, and Time Again

    Don DeLillo’s fairy tale

  • Film+TV

    February 15, 2001

    A Man of Big Affairs

    What Marcus Garvey meant

  • Stage

    November 16, 2000

    Trial by Theater

    Nick Zagone cross-examines William Kunstler

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Masters of Deceit

    Behind Santa Monica’s breathtakingly bogus living-wage initiative

  • News

    June 1, 2000

    Sin Season

    It’s Low Tide for Crime on the Beach

  • Calendar

    March 9, 2000

    The Short List

    It’s Low Tide for Crime on the Beach

  • News

    December 9, 1999

    The Dark Ages

    Sculpture garden honors the Hollywood 10

  • Art+Books

    October 28, 1999

    Masters of Deceit

    Oscar Wilde at the Hammer; J. Edgar Hoover at the ?

  • News

    February 19, 1998

    All Aboard: Off the Pig

    On the Black Panther legacy Tour, history sits in the back of the bus

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