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Theater to See in L.A. This Week

Adapter-performer Brian T. Finney has adapted Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in what Paul Birchall describes as "hypnotic." It's this week's pick of the week. Neal Weaver found charm and passion in Actors' Co-op's revival of The Miracle Worker. See below for all the latest new theater reviews. ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

Remembrance

Henry Rollins: Still Angry After All These Years

[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.] I turned 52 years of age on the 13th day of February. That morning, I found myself completely u ... More >>

Jerry Patterson Identified as Victim in the I-5 Beating

On June 12, two calls came in to the CHP, minutes apart from one another. The first, at 3:31pm, reported an incident of highway violence on I-5 north near 7th Street. The second, at 3:33pm, reported the suspects had fled the scene. "The whole incident took two minutes," CHP Officer Christian Baldo ... More >>

Alan Quigg On How Reddit Forced CHP Take Note of the I-5 Road Rage Video

Jerry Patterson says three men in a Volkswagon Jetta tailed him for two miles after he accidentally cut them off on the I-5. When both cars were stopped in traffic, things turned violent. The two-on-one brawl left Patterson limp, lying on the side of the freeway as his assailants sped away. Foota ... More >>

The Many Travels of Henry Rollins

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

Swimming to Catalina

Four athletes try consecutive crossings of Catalina Channel

Music Picks: The Chapin Sisters, Pink Martini, Freestyle Fellowship, Mark Kozelek

Also Shonen Knife, the Vibrators, Karnivool and others

List of the Worst Fad Diets To Avoid in 2010: No Elvis Sandwiches For You

If you're contemplating a fad diet to work off some of the excesses of the holiday season, you can forget about the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Maple Syrup Diet, and, yes, the Blood Group Diet (not making this up). The British Dietetic Association, the professional association for registered dietitians i ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

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Film is British director’s first feature-length

to Eat or Not to Eat

Hunger tests the audience’s tolerance for violence — and martyrdom

Movie Reviews: Hunger, One Day You'll Understand, A Good Day to Be Black and Sexy

Also, Frost/Nixon, The Black Balloon and more

LAFF 2008: Hell to the Yeah

I guess LAFF doesn’t want me to talk about how the premieres go, since my tickets for them have ended up being in overflow houses far away from the actual red carpet and celebrities, so if you want to know what Guillermo del Toro may or may not have said to introduce HELLBOY II, I can’t help ... More >>

Downtown's Always Open (Mostly) Open House

Photos and text by Luke Y. Thompson “On June 6, 7 & 8, we’ll swing the doors to Downtown LA wide open!” Thus spake the full-page ad in the recent Weekly, and who was I to doubt, or to need a better excuse? I always enjoy myself downtown, yet the last time I spent any time there was a year ago ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Indestructible, Reprise, Water Lillies

Also, Unsettled, Up the Yangtze and more

Theater 2007: Listing Toward the Valley

Here’s to the memories

Loyal Women and The Glory of Living: Double Negatives

Two bleak tales told in regional accents

Theater Reviews: En Un Sol Amarillo, The Glory of Living, Loyal Women

Also: Macbeth, Romeo and Julius and more

Theater

Tell No Tales

Rachel Seiffert�s Afterwards

The Police: Arrested Development

Dodger Stadium, June 23

General Petraeus From Cincinnati

Iraq policy is apparently in the hands of the supernatural

�Ask a Mexican!

Special Tres-Question Edition

The New Romantics

The Decemberists� Colin Meloy likes Under Milk Wood and a nice Zinfandel, thanks much

The Mouse Who Whored

Where was George Mitchell while Disney sold out 9/11?

In-Flight Movie

United 93 exalts the ordinary

Creation Myths

Theater in time of cell-phone cameras

The Malloy Brothers Conspiracy

They left behind the world of competitive surfing and big-money contracts to get back to the roots of classic surfing. They might just save the sport.

Way Beyond Monica

A few of the issues Bill Clinton needs to come clean on

Burning Blades

Riding high with the LAPD�s Air Support Division

Small Town, U.K.

Small Town, U.K.

White Elephant Sale

The 56th Cannes Film Festival goes hunting for America

Willful Perversity

Matthew Barney and �The Cremaster Cycle�

Baby Greens

Politics may be a drag, but kids today are turning Green instead of tuning out

Monster Rap

An ex-gangbanger�s take on stemming the violence

The Eyes of Perpetual War

James Nachtwey has spent a lifetime on the frontlines of the world�s worst calamities. Here, the photojournalist talks about the burden of documenting war, famine, poverty and human-rights abuses.

Quiet Americans

British writer J.G. Farrell and America's missing novels of Empire

Brakes of War

Signs are on that a full-scale invasion of Iraq is off

Not Necessarily the Usual Suspects

Labor Pains

Janitors triumph in Bread and Roses

The Deference Due to a Man of Pedigree

Director Mike Leigh

Invasion of Piracy

How to watch The Phantom Menace in the privacy of your own home

Consume Part I: Food

Forty-One Reasons to Live in LA

War Without Borders

Zedillo's Xenophobia

Outside agitators stirring up "our" Indians