Pearl Harbor

Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Revolt of the Cockroach People, Round 2

L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament Brackets *Best L.A. Novel Ever: More Matchups Every 25 years or so, L ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>

Hollywood's Favorite Haunted Hospital Is Being Flipped Into $40M Old Folks' Home

Even the handiest of set designers would be hard-pressed to recreate the years of organic decay that have made Linda Vista Community Hospital into the ultimate film set -- streaks on the walls, peeling paint, broken pipes, the occasional stray syringe. (Mixed in with some Hollywood props, left behin ... More >>

How Aloha Can You Go?

Sarah Vowell's Unfamiliar Fishes: New Book Explains Hawaii and How the U.S. Became an Empire

Writer/radio commentator Sarah Vowell comes to town to sit down with Jeff Garlin and talk about her latest book, a funny and lively history of America's acquisition of Hawaii. Here's our Q&A:

Captain America Review

Puro Instinct (with So Many Wizards) at the Echoplex: Live Review

Leslie KalohiSkylar Kaplan of Puro Instinct​ What: Puro Instinct (formerly Pearl Harbor) with So Many Wizards Where: Echoplex When: April 4th, 2011 "Should we do two more or should we just fuck off?" Piper Kaplan asked the crowd at the Echoplex last night. No sooner had the words left her lip ... More >>

Remembering the Battle of Los Angeles: UFOs or Enemy Attack?

ColumbiaBattle: Los Angeles.​Sixty-nine years ago tonight the air raid sirens wailed across Los Angeles as frightened residents looked to the western skies. It was nearly three months after Pearl Harbor and the start of World War II for the United States so, needless to say, people on the lef ... More >>

Top 5 Hottest Girls from the Hottest Indie Bands in L.A. in 2010

​ [For the Top 5 Hottest Guys from the Hottest Indie Bands in L.A. in 2010, click here.] You may not have noticed, but there is a new and interesting trend wherein women actually play music! In bands! With instruments and everything! Pretty crazy right? I know. I have no idea where they got t ... More >>

This Weekend: El Guincho, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Harlem, Dawes, Peter Case

El Guincho​Yes, that's the voice of Julieta Venegas on the re-imagined "Mientes," one of the five tracks on El Guincho's new EP Piratas de Sudamérica. El Guincho, the nom de tune of Barcelona experimentalist Pablo Díaz-Reixa, fueled some underground buzz with his 2007 album Alegranza. A pri ... More >>

Rock Picks: Van Dyke Parks, Chicago Underground Duo, Rickie Lee Jones

Also, Clipse, Imaad Wasif, Josh Charles and others

INCHES reviews Best Coast, Omar Rodriguez Lopez Group, Lustmord, Bipolar Bear (MP3s)

In the strange wake of music's digital rebirth, vinyl has experienced a modest boom in popularity, seen by many as a replacement for the awkward middleman that is the compact disc. INCHES reviews the output of L.A.'s healthy vinyl community (artists and labels, indie or other), believing that good m ... More >>

The Moscow Mule: A Cocktail That's Still Kicking

FlickrGreer Garson drank hers in a "glass of alarmingly huge proportions."​The Moscow Mule is a delightfully refreshing cocktail with a Hollywood pedigree. In 1941, shortly before Pearl Harbor, John G. Martin of Heublein, an East Coast spirits distributor, and Jack Morgan, owner of the Cock N ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 6, 1941

Et in Arcadia ego  Grooms and stablehands vote to strike Santa Anita Park, shutting down turf events for a day. The racetrack in Arcadia would become a relocation center for Japanese Americans in the months following Pearl Harbor.Photo: LA Times/UCLA Collection

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Arrest in Homeless Slay Case Benjamin Mathew Martin, 30, was apprehended in Rancho Mirage for the gruesome death of John Robert McGraham, a homeless man who was set on fire last fall in an alley off of Third Street near Berendo Street. Meet the Bark Beetles The news about climate change's effects on ... More >>

Today in Photographs: December 22, 1941 & More

Not JapaneseHelen Chan pins Sun Lum with lapel badge identifying him as "Chinese," to avoid being rounded up with Japanese Americans who were being interred following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. (L.A. Times photo from UCLA Digital Collection)Turn page to see a well-attired Steve Allen picketting ... More >>

Day of Infamy -- And Prosperity

Last Sunday, stuck in traffic by Echo Park Lake, I listened to the radio as voices marked the 67th anniversary of Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor. The very words "Pearl Harbor" have come to symbolize many negative things -- unpreparedness, wartime disaster, surprise attack, sneak attack, etc. But I t ... More >>

The Mating of Millie: From “Dogfucker Blues,” Extracted From “Meeting the Elephant,”

Originally published August 28, 1992

Rocking the Rhetoric at the DNC: Coachella for C-Span Junkies

With notes on Harry Reid — the unknown poet of the political speechwriting?

Roar of the Tiger: The Legend of Tokyo Rose

Die Hardest

Bruce is back — bad guys beware

Spy vs. Spy

Britain’s attempt to crack American isolationism in William Boyd’s Restless

Dear Colleen

Letters from a sucker new in Hollywood, 1974–1976

The Dirty Old Men Meet the Critics

The Army You Have . . .

. . . Under Bush and Rumsfeld couldn’t care less if your humvee is armored with cardboard

Pass the Paddles

Our guide to the games

Hot Wheels

The History of America: Abridged

John Henry Redwood plays the butler to four presidents

The Rise of Anthony Lane

Andy and Pauline get laid

Shrieking in Cyberspace

Relax. Your computer’s fine. We’re only blowing billions on an overhyped terror threat

Grand Delusion

A Scary Abundance of Water

Growing up with the San Fernando Valley

Where to Now?

Coming battles in the War on Terror

Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General

Rolling Back the Years, or Blame It on Brokaw

Futile Force

Better ways to fight terrorism than killing people

Start of History

The hour of the furnaces

The War at Home

The Day the Sky Fell

This time, it was impersonal

Remains of the Day

A Bad Day for Democracy

Deadlyland

Hanks and Spielberg’s bloody theme park

Sympathy for the Pig

Letters

The New Math

Indie film goes prime time

Bombs Away

Revising history in Pearl Harbor

Men of the Old School

A thin gray line regroups

Lights Out for SoCal Edison

Our pseudonymous insider says corporate culture was comatose

Jersey West

Why create a Garden State in the Golden State?