Osama bin Laden

Innocence of Muslims: Gadfly John Walsh Warned Us of June 30 Hollywood Screening

City Hall gadfly John Walsh, no stranger to controversy, warned the L.A. City Council about the possibility the local film that would become Innocence of Muslims was "alarming." The locally produced, anti-Muslim film, or rather a YouTube trailer for it, is being blamed for a rash of anti-American v ... More >>

Obamacare Was a Republican Idea! 5 Obama Issues The GOP Once Owned

Republicans are acting like the blue-haired lady at a four-star restaurant who spies what's on the table of a minority couple nearby: "I'll definitely not have what they're having." What Republicans once ate up like Charlie Sheen at a Peruvian farmer's market they now reject as wholly un-American ... More >>

'Post 9/11' Exhibit at OHWOW Gallery: What 21st Century Art of Rebellion Looks Like

Courtesy of Team GalleryRyan McGinley: Taylor (Rushing River), 2011​ When Osama bin Laden was killed in May and young people, "the Millennials," gathered at the White House, Lafayette Park and Ground Zero in a surprising burst of euphoria, their optimism was unnerving. Did they really imagine ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden's Soggy Remains to Be Hunted by SoCal Shipwreck Diver

ABC7Bill Warren, 69-year old American hero​Before his May 2011 takedown, Osama bin Laden was one of the most hunted men alive: Many a bounty hunter and U.S. soldier gone freelance vied for his $25 million head. And in death, turns out, the Al Qaeda mastermind is still relatively popular: Bi ... More >>

Michelle Obama Charges $10K for Photo Op, 'Private Time' at L.A. Campaign Fundraiser (Unless You're J.J. Abrams)

This could be you, for 10,000 dolla!​The first lady landed quietly in Los Angeles this morning, avoiding another #ObamaTraffic nightmare with an early arrival at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills. There to greet her were director J.J. Abrams -- basking in "Super 8's" critically acclai ... More >>

Porn Star Karaoke at Sardo's: A Valley Industry Tradition, Also Featuring Fake Bono

Paul T. BradleyNicki Hunter and her superfan: a night's expectations achieved.​ We'll get to (Fake) Bono in a minute. Ok, you know that one where the librarian loses the glasses and becomes the master of all things sexual? All it takes is a change in music and a little lighting...and voila! ... More >>

Street Artist Free Humanity Plants Apple Grenades Along Light Rail; Bomb Squad Halts Service, Removes 'Forbidden Fruit' With Robot

Free Humanity​If only every art installation would set off a chain of events this awesome [Curbed LA]. Last week, street-art blog Melrose & Fairfax reported that Free Humanity, otherwise known for his dark, political Star Wars stencils -- read the Weekly's exclusive interview here -- left a r ... More >>

Osama Bin Laden: Donald Trump Sucks it Up, Gives Props to President Obama

Trump and Dennis Rodman.​Props to Donald Trump for being man enough to congratulate President Obama following his administration's takedown of Osama Bin Laden. The man who repeatedly suggested our president wasn't born in the United States (until Obama produced a "long-form" birth certificate ... More >>

Grass Reindeer Figures Seized At LAX (No, They're Not Made Of That Kind Of Grass)

CPBDo these belong under a tree, or maybe in a bong?​You know it wouldn't be the holidaze without some seriously grinchy stories coming at ya. Yesterday we told you how L.A. city officials and police cracked down on fake designer crap (and DVDs) your mom buys. Now comes word that the crack, h ... More >>

City of Lights, City of Angels: 27 French films in L.A.

Bienvenue chez les cinephiles

Sunday at the Troubadour: Rasputina Tangles Cellos, Tales of Mary Todd Lincoln, "Barracuda"

Melora Creager created a bewitchingly strange alternate universe on Rasputina's 2007 album, Oh Perilous World, blending real-life events and references to Osama bin Laden and the battle for Fallujah with a fantastic cast of literary and historical figures including Fletcher Christian and poor, demen ... More >>

Guantánamo’s Final Days

America prepares to shutter the infamous prison camp, and jihad looms

Mexicans: Crack-Crazy S.O.B.s and Drunks?

Sundance Highs and Lows

Moving mountains, growing wings

Queen Week

What to do in Los Angeles this week

The Raging Bull

Al-Jazeera reporter who interviewed bin Laden runs into trouble in Spain

The Military Games People Play

And the artists who play right back

Give PEACE^® a Chance

Something Wicked

Who's Unpatriotic?

Bush’s Biggest Mistake

The pre-9/11 blunder you’ve probably never heard of

No Gloating, Please

Bush’s lies aside, the fiends are still out there trying to do us in

George Bush and the Treacherous Country

Apocalypse Tuesday

Covering the new world disorder

The 9/11 Cover-up

What did Bush know about the al Qaeda threat?

The Red Delicious Menace

The Big Buh-Bye

A Baghdad Diary

Journey into the abyss

A Blasphemer Dies

Lessons from a Lahore prison

War Games

Letters

Cycle of Death

A letter from Pakistan

2001 In Review

Where to Now?

Coming battles in the War on Terror

Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General

Assault on America II

Of secret military tribunals and other mischief to civil liberties

Off

Panic in the Year Zero

Al-Jazeera All the Time

The World’s Worst

How the international justice system works

Letters

The Other War

Letters

W Transformed!

Bush, new and improved, except where he’s old and rotten

Stranger Than Fiction

A reality check on the rumors . . . and reality itself

An Afghanistan Picture Show

The Next Cold War

On the need to create a diplomatic, economic, political, cultural — and military — approach

What a Wonderful World

Futile Force

Better ways to fight terrorism than killing people

The Death Count

In people, freedoms and decency lost, it’s still too early to know