Ku Klux Klan

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Murdered Paintings

Shunk-Kender, © Lichtenstein FoundationNiki de Saint Phalle shooting with a .22 rifle in the Impasse Ronsin, Paris, 1961. ​ Everything on this week's list is either radical or rebellious, or hopelessly nostalgic about being radical and rebellious. 5. Revolutionizing the Sunset Strip The or ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Grim Reaper's Bike Seat

Great video is slated to screen Valentine's Day at the Hammer, and the inspired My Barbarian collective is moving into Human Resources' Chinatown space for a monthlong residency, which can only bring good things. 5. Art or lawn furniture? Diana Molzan's painting Untitled, shaped like a table and pa ... More >>

Scarface Is Out Of Jail, Performs At Key Club Tomorrow: Excerpts From His Last Interview

​Scarface plays the Key Club tomorrow night. This is big news, considering most folks didn't even know that the greatest of all southern rappers was out of the pen. In October 2010 he began a term at Montgomery County Jail in Alabama over numerous unresolved child support cases. (There is also ... More >>

Remember Our Top 20 L.A. Rap Albums? Here Are The Worst Records By Those Artists

​[Editor's note: Haterade Monday continues! Earlier in the day we told brought you the five dopiest Beach Boys songs (including one where Brian Wilson raps). And now, on the heels of our top 20 greatest L.A. rap albums of all time here's some more drivel from classic artists.] Hip-hop doesn' ... More >>

Marvin Norwood, Arrested for Bryan Stow Beating, Is a 250-Pound White Guy -- So Why Was Dodger Violence Blamed on L.A. Latinos?

Marvin Norwood, 30​Up until last Thursday, everyone -- including witnesses to the Bryan Stow beating, LAPD officials and California's conservative peanut gallery -- thought March's territorial Dodger Stadium assault was orchestrated by two tattooed Latino men. "This is a latino problem," wrot ... More >>

Twist: An American Musical

Ice T Reunites Body Count At E3: "I Finally Get to Kill Some Shit and Not Go to Jail"

Andrew Courtien​E3 is known for its surprises, but nothing surprised the mass amount of gamers, nerds, and industry folk as much as Body Count last night at The Edison for the Gears Of War 3 party. In case you don't remember, Body Count is Ice T's metal band from the '90s, responsible for th ... More >>

The 10 Most Embarrassingly Named L.A. Bandits

Just don't call her Snowflake Bandit​It's got to be rough, naming a bandit. In one short, catchy phrase, you've got to embody a criminal's entire countenance and M.O., so that he (or she -- can't forget the Bonnies of the world) will be instantly recognizable to all who come in contact. Of t ... More >>

Movie Review: NESHOBA: THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Asylum Denied

Unlike refugees from other troubled countries, only a fraction of Mexicans seeking U.S. asylum are accepted – no matter how horrible their wounds or their stories

L.A. City Council Adopts Tough Gag Rules

In a move bound to anger gadflies across Los Angeles, the L.A. City Council has approved tough gagging rules to keep members of an apparently disorderly public from speaking too much of what's on their minds.mitchglaser.comL.A. City Council President Eric Garcetti​The unanimously approved action c ... More >>

Today in Photographs: March 16, 1980

Klansmen attack demonstrator during Oceanside riot. Thirty armed KKK members had marched through town and battled with hecklers.Photo: Dean Musgrove, L.A. Herald-ExaminerLAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

Today in Photographs: March 3, 1981

Michael Lyons of the Ku Klux Klan addresses the Paramount City Council as a friend watches.L.A. Herald-Examiner/LAPL CollectionClick image to englarge

The Perfect Storm Trooper: A Report Card on So-Cal Hate Groups

The new Intelligence Report, the Southern Poverty Law Center's annual survey of American extremist organizations, finds no fewer than 84 hate groups that call California home, sweet homeland. Locally, we can count on the National Socialist Movement, headquartered in Glendale (or is it Riverside?), w ... More >>

Warner Brothers to Release 50th Anniversary Book, 320-Song (copy-protected, of course) USB Flash Drive

The main thing that the major labels have going for them, and why even the most battle-scarred of them has more "value" than budding minor labels, is due to their combined back catalog. During the fat times of the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the labels weren't just selling records but buying other labels ... More >>

Up in Smoke: Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay

Best friends get shipped to Gitmo in this forced Act 2

Film Reviews: Diggers, Next and Banished

Also Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace and more

Rolling With Big Boy

The voice of Power 106 What’s a few hundred pounds between friends?

¡Ask a Mexican! Pancho's Purloined Pate

"What do Mexicans think about President Bush’s grandfather having a hand in getting the guy that robbed Pancho Villa’s head out of jail?"

The Way We Wore

Our unofficial guide to vintage rock T-shirts

Theater Reviews

Including Dvorak in America, Grace, The Grey Zone and more

Reverb and Renown

Philip Guston and Giorgio de Chirico in Santa Monica

Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

John Powers on summer's slithering freaks and creeps

15 Writers Share Their Must-Reads

Border Town

How Gay Will Oscar Go?

Handicapping who’ll win, who’ll lose, and who’ll just jerk off

Some Very Excellent Books

15 writers share their must-reads

Spooky Rebirth

In Line

Reclaiming the “N Word”

P.C. police bar a discussion on race

Partying Out of Bounds?

Outrage over border-themed frat party puts USC’s Greeks on defensive

The Meta-Media Madness Top 10

Workingman’s Metal

Don’t Mess With Texas

Gay governors, oil money, KKK fish camps and Karl Rove

Bunny Love

Something That’s Aggressive, That’s Refreshing, That’s Energetic

Excerpts from the L.A. Weekly’s interview with Martin Ludlow, candidate for the 10th Los Angeles City Council District

Merging Artists

75 years of California highways and byways

The Devil and Mr. Hicks

How one of L.A.’s leading lefties joined forces with David Horowitz and Southern California’s conservative elite

Paper Trail

Posters from the L.A. uprising

Sesame Osama

Death Watcher

Political scientist David C. Rapoport on the history of terrorism

Springboard for Hitler

Anaheim's Shack has become Nuremberg- Rally Central for O.C. Racists

Frittering Away

What the City Council does instead of governing

New Holidays

Letters

Then This Priest Says. . .

Rat Patrol

Inglewood’s Magisterial Mayor

Roosevelt Dorn was bombastic on the bench — and he still is

Let the Sunshine In

Wachs pushes to end city secrecy

Sympathy for the Devil

The Crucible reinterpreted