John F. Kennedy

Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

The Magic Bullet Theory

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

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A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

LAX Could be America's Next Top Disease Magnet

Ah, beautiful L.A., home of beaches and billionaires and Playboy bunnies. And now we are a top American gateway ... for disease. Wonderful. New research from MIT says that LAX and New York's John F Kennedy would be ground zeroes for outbreaks, such as the next ...

The Convert and The Magic Bullet Theory, Plays About Accidental Killings

Ah, beautiful L.A., home of beaches and billionaires and Playboy bunnies. And now we are a top American gateway ... for disease. Wonderful. New research from MIT says that LAX and New York's John F Kennedy would be ground zeroes for outbreaks, such as the next ...

Oswald: The Actual Interrogation, a Play About the Kennedy Assassination

Ah, beautiful L.A., home of beaches and billionaires and Playboy bunnies. And now we are a top American gateway ... for disease. Wonderful. New research from MIT says that LAX and New York's John F Kennedy would be ground zeroes for outbreaks, such as the next ...

Bushmeat Smuggled Into U.S. Poses Virus Threat

Flickr/freedom-studiosLeave the wildlife eating to the wildlife.​Eating monkey meat is a really bad idea -- that's the bottom line. According to BBC News, scientists have documented potentially dangerous viruses entering the U.S. through illegally imported "bushmeat" (African wild animal meat) ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe: Killed in Brentwood by those "big time" jerks, the Kennedys, over UFOs

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe Author:Donald R. Burleson, PhD Date: 2003 Publisher: Black Mesa Pres ... More >>

Brentwood's second weirdest celeb murder case: Was Marilyn Monroe killed by the Kennedys to cover up Roswell?

​ Of course not. That's batshit. Why would anybody ask such a thing? But ask they do, as you can see in this week's Studies in Crap post over on our artsy/awesome Style Council blog. There we take a loving look at Donald R. Burleson's 2003 treatise UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, whic ... More >>

Top 10 Songs About Presidents (in Honor of Presidents Day)

Remember Clinton and the sax?​ Monarchs, political authority figures, and presidents have been inspiring pissed-off punk rock anthems or passionate, pleased glorification--whether subtle or direct--since human beings could pick up an instrument and pluck or pound out a feeling. And given our ... More >>

L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Makes Dubious Claim About Crime Rate

​On Friday morning, through his Twitter account, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa made the dubious claim that L.A. is "still safer than it's been in 50 years." Which means we're back to 1960, when John F. Kennedy successfully ran for president, Elvis Presley was promoted to sergeant, an ... More >>

Alice Cooper Gets All Funny When He Thinks About Erykah Badu's Tight Naked Body

This morning, Alice Cooper went on CBS's The Early Show where he talked about that video where Erykah Badu gets nekkid in the Dallas square where the Freemasons, the CIA, disgruntled Cubans, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Illuminati shot JFK. The CBS lady interviewing him really thinks Erykah has been a ... More >>

Animals! Camelot and Baal

Civilization falls on its face

Queer Town: Ted Kennedy, Champion of Gay Rights, Has Died

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, a longtime champion of gay rights, died Tuesday in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He had been battling a malignant brain tumor for the past year. U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy​Kennedy was the brother of President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Attorney General and Senator Rober ... More >>

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of Special Olympics, Dies

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, died early this morning at the Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She was 88 years old. Shriver was the sister of former president John F. Kennedy, former U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, and U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. She was a ... More >>

Walter Cronkite Dead at 92: What do you remember most?

The news from Politico of the passing of longtime broadcaster Walter Cronkite is bound to bring forth a lot of memories from people who watched him as children, back when the network nightly news shows played a major role in shaping American culture and politics, unlike their far more diminished rol ... More >>

Stage Raw: The List Keeps Growing

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ON MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP (310) ... More >>

Stage Raw: Don Shirley and City Beat

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe news that L.A.'s City Beat is folding leaves the prospect of the former L.A. Times arts reporter and City Beat theater columnist/critic Don Shirley without gainful employment -- temporarily I hope. It also mutes the opinions of one of L.A. theater's m ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The Great Buck Howard, Perestroika, Knowing, Sin Nombre

Also, Explicit Ills, Virtual JFK and more

In-Flight Husband

Marriage takes off on a plane — then crash-lands

Great Beginnings: An Obama Camelot?

Historical allusions cling to Barack Obama and they usually compare the president-elect with Lincoln or FDR. Not a few writers have drawn parallels between Obama and John F. Kennedy, which, together with this pre-inaugural season, have reminded me of how the late David Halberstam had opened his Vie ... More >>

Witness From the Prosecution

Historical allusions cling to Barack Obama and they usually compare the president-elect with Lincoln or FDR. Not a few writers have drawn parallels between Obama and John F. Kennedy, which, together with this pre-inaugural season, have reminded me of how the late David Halberstam had opened his Vie ... More >>

Assassins

Historical allusions cling to Barack Obama and they usually compare the president-elect with Lincoln or FDR. Not a few writers have drawn parallels between Obama and John F. Kennedy, which, together with this pre-inaugural season, have reminded me of how the late David Halberstam had opened his Vie ... More >>

Getty Curator Glenn Phillips on the "California Video" Show

Playing with the camera

Maria Shriver for Obama

Maria Shriver, the first lady of the state of California and cousin of Caroline Kennedy, has endorsed Senator Barack Obama. Shriver made an impromptu appearance at an Obama rally at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion Sunday, where Michelle Obama, wife of the presidential candidate, Oprah Winfrey, and Carolin ... More >>

Between Barack and a Hard Place: Obama's Call to Action

Looking beyond hope in Election 2008

Movie Reviews: Secret Sunshine, Awake, The Amateurs

Also Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Timber Falls, Oswald's Ghost and more

N.W.A: Compton's Most Vaunted a Hard Act to Follow

Two decades later, Straight Outta Compton is as vital — and brutal — as ever

N.W.A: A Hard Act to Follow

Hip-hop and hype from the streets of Compton (reprint of May 5, 1989, Weekly cover story)

Phil Noir: Spattered

Doctor Death’s trigger-nometry lesson, plus reluctant witness Sara Caplan speaks to L.A. Weekly

Carnaby Street Carnage

Spoofing a spoof, in The Defenders

The Big Stuff

Talking art, acting and life with L.A.’s grande dame of theater

Immortal Mayhem

It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

Music and Readings From Jefferson's Library

It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

Rossmore Glamour

It's a mad, mad Marilyn world as cannibals, collectors and defenders battle over Monroe's platinum legacy

The Great American Spy Novel

Charles McCarry and The Tears of Autumn 30 years later

What’s Not the Matter With Colorado?

Tracking a blue uprising in a red state

Storming Fort Brag

Military fakes and the people who bust them

Firing Arnold

Military fakes and the people who bust them

All That Jazz

Talking about my generation

We Happy Few

Dennis Kucinich’s true believers

What If . . .

the Ambassador Hotel could be saved as a school

Music, Race and Junk

the Ambassador Hotel could be saved as a school

That Twilight Season

the Ambassador Hotel could be saved as a school

Paranoia Runs Deep

the Ambassador Hotel could be saved as a school

Countermythologist

Donald Freed on the greatest stories never told

King Jack?

Michael Shannon’s one-man show about Camelot

What the Democrats Need To Know About Los Angeles

A guide to a city that has everything but a middle class

The Last Roll Call

The cop funeral as civic pageant