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LACMA's Reinstallation of Its Latin American Art Galleries, Explained

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Born in Mexico City, Ilona Katzew came to L.A. 13 years ago to assume a role at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as an associate curator of Latin American art. At the time, Latin American art was a component of a larger museum department that al ... More >>

Dirty Girls: How a Bizarre 1996 Film About Santa Monica Punk-Feminist Eighth Graders Became a YouTube Sensation

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild In high school, Michael Lucid was an artsy, friendly kid who floated around from one campus clique to the next. "I was more approachable and kids felt comfortable talking to me," he says of his time at S ... More >>

Fun Size Review: Gossip Girl Creator Josh Schwartz's First Film

Best New Food Studies Books: Coffee Life in Japan And Curried Cultures

Looking to up your dinner table conversation? Coffee Life in Japan and Curried Cultures, both published by the University of California Press under their California Studies in Food and Culture branch (and edited by Darra Goldstein), supply plenty of digestif fodder. Curried Cultures is co-edited b ... More >>

Pressed Juicery Opening in Westwood More Locations to Come

Juicing is nothing new. The Beverly Hills Juice Club has been turning out wheatgrass shots since 1975. Today it shows no signs of slowing. There's 4-6 pounds of juice in every bottle, says Pressed Juicery co-owner Hayden Slater who, along with partners Carly Brien and Hedi Gores, are working on a fi ... More >>

Mondo Kim's Video Was Shipped from New York to Sicily. Then Things Got Really Strange.

Awesome Craigslist Ad For Crappy Apartment Written So Well it Makes Us Want to Move In

When LA Weekly music writer Drew Tewksbury posted this Craigslist ad on Facebook, we just had to check it out. It's the best ad ever for what amounts to an East Hollywood apartment that appears quite dumpy by this Westsider's stuck-up standards. But it was written so persuasively that we're ready t ... More >>

Spike Lee on Shooting in His Favorite Borough for Red Hook Summer

Lee talks making the very indie Red Hook Summer

Get a Life!

Dee Rees, Director of Pariah, Interviewed

Her identity struggles as a black lesbian, funneled into her first feature

The Worst Day Of K-Fed's Life

It's hard to believe, but five years have passed since the release of Kevin Federline's debut Playing With Fire, which came out on Halloween, 2006. It was a scary night for some, but K-Fed was on top of the world. Married to Britney Spears, he was psyched to finally bring his brand of hip-hop to the ... More >>

John Waters: Interviews: Top Five Favorite Quotes From the Cult Film Director's New Interview Collection

Hide your kids. Hide your wife. John Waters has escaped from Baltimore. On Friday, Waters will appear at the University of Southern California for a discussion and screening of his classic Pink Flamingos. If you scored tickets you're in for a treat: by this point, Waters is almost as well known fo ... More >>

White Arrows Singer Mickey Schiff Was Blind, But Now He Sees (Literally)

Matthew Wardenaar​Born legally blind, Mickey Schiff experienced his surroundings as though they were a Monet landscape -- all colors and shapes and softness. When he was 11 his vision was corrected, turning the word into edges, hard angles and lines so sharp that he was startled into nausea. N ... More >>

James Franco to Direct a Documentary About L.A.'s Favorite Industry: Porn

Franco file.​After writing books, teaching at NYU, taking classes at Columbia, hosting Saturday Night Live and, oh yeah, acting in movies, James Franco might have found his true calling: Making a documentary about smut. Because those who can't do teach (or make documentaries), apparently. He ... More >>

In Backward Attempt to Remedy 'Billboards Gone Wild,' L.A. Considers Opening 9 More Sign Districts

City of Billboards​NYC isn't the only one who thinks L.A. wants to be Manhattanized -- our own city leaders seem to be under the same supergraphic spell. But don't get too excited, NYU film-school rejects who settled for USC: We're not talking Manhattanized in a cute, compact "these lights wi ... More >>

Are Young People Acting Out Hardcore Porn Scenes? One Prof Thinks So

Merrick MonroePorn and you.​Does watching porn make young people want to act it out -- in a bad way? After all, modern adult video isn't exactly a romance novel. It can border on violence and it's certainly often degrading toward women. Role playing? Sure, but the role is almost always the sa ... More >>

Nine Degrees of Food & Wine: 9 Academic Food Programs

UW Digital Collections​Does your "I'm-running-away-from-home" daydream involve the countryside and small batch goat cheese or building a giant copper still in an industrial warehouse space? Maybe it's time to take the first step towards making that dream a reality, and maybe the way to go is t ... More >>

UCLA The Most Vegan-Friendly College in America

Yet another reason to attend UCLA. There's the education, the Bruins, and now an imprimatur from peta2, which just crowned the school the Most Vegan-Friendly College in America. UCLA defeated 31 other schools from across the country in the large-school category in what peta2, the youth version of ... More >>

Shock the Junkie

A hallucinogen called ibogaine has helped addicts kick heroin, meth and everything in between. Is it the trip that does the trick?

UK Turns to McDonald's, Pepsi, to Help Write Health Policy

Pleasure PalateMcDonald's: your healthcare specialist​ And you thought our healthcare system was screwed up? The Guardian's Felicity Lawrence reported last week that the United Kingdom is getting a little assistance with their newest healthcare policy -- by bringing in McDonald's, PepsiCo, and ... More >>

(Video) Dangerbox, NYU Student Improv Troupe, Says Marijuana Legalization Could Solve Some Of Hollywood's Financial Woes

​Dangerbox, a student improv troupe based at New York University, recently came to Los Angeles to solve Hollywood's creative logjam (the one in which good movies aren't being made anymore). The crew made a video spoof (embedded after the jump) of Hollywood's impenetrable movie-making machiner ... More >>

Catch a Risen Star

Good Tweets: The Top 25 Who's Who of Food Safety on Twitter

​Thanks to a tweet from @marionnestle (that would be Marion Nestle, Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University, author of What to Eat and other books, and of the Food Politics blog, to those who d ... More >>

An Immigrant's Heart

To survive the ordeal of escaping Guatemala, Julia needed a big Heart. But not this big

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 >>

Movie Reviews: Children of Invention, Mother, The Art of the Steal

Also, Green Zone, Remember Me, She’s Out of My League and more

But How's the Food? Talking Hospitality Design with Ricki Kline, 213

Photo credit: David WaldorfRicki Kline imbibes interior design.​As the designer behind the distinct venues owned and operated by Cedd Moses's 213 group, Ricki Kline is one of the key people involved in a string of nightlife venues that have transformed Angelenos' expectations of what bars Down ... More >>

LA People 2009: Re-Mix Master — Lucian Piane, a.k.a. RevoLucian

He turns celebrity rants into rhythms

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Film is British director’s first feature-length

Movie Reviews: Jonas Brothers: The 3-D Concert Experience, Must Read After My Death, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li

Also, Dog Eat Dog, Echelon Conspiracy and more

Seeking the Rage: Among the Protesters at the Democratic National Convention

The group Recreate '68 tries to ignite the passion of another generation

Election '08: Not Quite Recreating '68

I made my way to Civic Center Park, near the state capitol building in Denver, around midday on Tuesday, hoping to find signs of dissident life to add a bit of hot blood to what had been so far a rather anemic Democratic National Convention. It was the morning after a confrontation between police an ... More >>

World of Wonder Gallery, Where Camp Meets Vamp

Wonder walls

Pucker Up: Best and Worst of Sex 2007

Tristan's annual roundup of toothbrush vibrators, anti-porn ribbons, and a kinky kingdom

The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

Who’ll suffer the children?

Fatherless Manhattan

Yannick Murphy on Here They Come, her new novel of family love

Mary-Kate and Ashley’s, Temporarily

Don’t Say I Didn’t Warn You

Using the past to perfect the future

Funny Young Things

Remembering Susan Sontag

Grace Notes

Joshua Marston on bringing Maria to life

Strange Pilgrim

Meeting Al-Jazeera

The new documentary Control Room shows the way Arabs and Americans look at the same events and see two entirely different things

Luna Vista

Deliverance

Director Marc Forster breaks out

Letters

American Families

La Boda and Resurrection Boulevard

The Science Wars

Alan Sokal’s dissection of idiocy in academia

From VH1 to DIY

Whatever's Susan Skoog