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The Bronx

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2011

    Hip-Hop's Four Elements: The Old Ones Suck. Here's Our Suggestions for New Ones

    We've long thought hip-hop's "four elements" were bogus. Sure, back in the early days of the genre, rapping, DJing, graffiti writing and b-boying were interwoven into the culture. But c'mon. Even back then, it was pretty arbitrary. I mean, it's not like guys in the Bronx invented tagging. Cavemen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2011

    Frank McCourt's Money Man, Kevin Griffin, Stands To Cash In On Dodger Bankruptcy

    Frank McCourt​The Dodger bankruptcy is a tragedy for all involved. All except for Highbridge Principal Strategies, the Wall Street hedge fund that stands to earn $10 million in fees from the deal.Highbridge's managing director, Kevin Griffin, agreed last month to pony up $150 million in bankruptcy ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    George Herms, Beat Artist, on His New MOCA Show 'Xenophilia'

    Sophie DuvernoyGeorge Herms: Xenophilia, 2011​ George Herms: beat legend, assemblage artist, free jazz enthusiast, Mexican marijuana fan. At a sprightly 75, he's still producing vast amounts of work in his Topanga Canyon studio. He's also the focus of a new show that opened last Friday at the ... More >>

  • Music

    February 10, 2011

    Brick's Picks: Give the Drummer Some

    Sophie DuvernoyGeorge Herms: Xenophilia, 2011​ George Herms: beat legend, assemblage artist, free jazz enthusiast, Mexican marijuana fan. At a sprightly 75, he's still producing vast amounts of work in his Topanga Canyon studio. He's also the focus of a new show that opened last Friday at the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    Live in L.A.: Merle Haggard, X, Playboy Jazz Festival, Henry Rollins, Murs, the Glitch Mob, Dr. John, Tortoise

    ​Even if the only ink you sweat is your printer cartridge and your idea of iron comes in your vitamin supplements, there's a lot to recommend at this weekend's Ink-N-Iron Festival: the tunes. Among the the tatted masses, meticulously coiffed pompadours, corseted pin-up girls and acres of machi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    SXSW Announces First Batch of Bands, Including a Dozen-Odd LA Entries

    South by Southwest already? Yes, it's a little under four months away, and earlier this week the annual Austin festival announced the first round of showcase participants. It's a small list, this first batch, and mostly comprises international bands who need to start making visa arrangements, etc. i ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2008

    Weiss' 50 Best Albums of the Year (#50-41)

    Not to be confused with the epic, Eric Roberts, Tae Kwon thriller. 50. Benoit Pioulard-Temper (Kranky) Have you ever been in one of those nutty meditation classes, where the crackpot instructor tells you to close your eyes and imagine that you're in the middle of a forest? Don't be surprised ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Celebuspeak: My Neighborhood is a Hybrid, Driving the Westside and Beyond!

    BY HAL SPARKS When I'm not on a stand-up tour of the country, thrilling people in the Bible Belt with my razor sharp wit and polysyllabic dissections of pop culture and socio-political shenanigans, I live in Los Angeles. I have loved here, I have lost here... I shot Dude, Where's My Car?, Spider- ... More >>

  • Stage

    September 18, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Red Scare on Sunset, Miracle in Rwanda

    Also, Going to Meet the Man, The House of Blue Leaves and more

  • Blogs

    June 4, 2008

    MBW All Over LA

    Mr Brainwash is on fire. His solo art show opens in just two weeks, and he's been pasting and painting his icons all over LA. So which gallery is he showing at? None. Try the recently abandoned CBS TV studio in Hollywood on Sunset Blvd. MBW has been holed up there for weeks preparing for the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2008

    Beauty Mark(et)

    They put Cahuenga on the clubber map, made manicures and martinis a classic combo (wish we could always sip a cocktail while getting clipped and dipped!) and continue to offer some of our favorite, off-beat DJ nights (Still Fucking Awesome on Mondays, Trans-Am on Fridays), and now, The Beauty Bar is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2008

    CBS Yard Behind Melrose

    I was still posting some shots taken in the alleys south of Melrose where CBS crew puts up a lot of new work when I made a return trip and found a few new pieces, like the punks above and below. There's also some work that I didn't get pictures of last time around. Enjoy! More pictu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 18, 2007

    Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#45-41))

    45. Joe Buhdha Presents Klashnekoff: Lionheart: Tussle With the Beast [Low Life Records/Riddim Killa] Exactly three British rappers have managed to "break" the American market in this decade, and by "break" I mean getting the American music press to hype them as the best thing since Earl Grey a ... More >>

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Meet You at the Cemetery Gates

    Best places to hang your hat — forever

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    Flock of Segals

    Fred Segal

  • LA Life

    March 17, 2005

    High Fashion

    Fred Segal

  • Stage

    March 3, 2005

    High Baroque

    Fred Segal

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    Endorsements

    Fred Segal

  • News

    September 11, 2003

    Fashionation

    Gloria Ohland on the dog days of fashion

  • News

    June 5, 2003

    Belmont Eternal

    School project brings out the best — and worst — in board members

  • News

    May 22, 2003

    Breaking the Belmont Jinx

    Councilman Reyes has a plan to salvage ill-fated school BY

  • News

    May 8, 2003

    Reclaiming Beauty

    An interview with Blue Car’s Karen Moncrieff and Agnes Bruckner

  • News

    December 19, 2002

    Quaking Over Belmont

    News of fatal fault revealed only after school bond passed

  • News

    March 21, 2002

    Belmont Reincarnated

    Abandoned school project gets unlikely new life

  • News

    February 28, 2002

    Return to Neverland

    L.A. schools superintendent Roy Romer is poised to bring Belmont back from the dead

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    Letters

    L.A. schools superintendent Roy Romer is poised to bring Belmont back from the dead

  • News

    May 10, 2001

    In the Hot Spot

    Where school-board members stand on Belmont

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    In a Lonely Place

    Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, plus Cast Away,The House of Mirth and The Family Man

  • News

    September 14, 2000

    Barry Groveman’s Secret

    Or, what they don’t know can’t hurt you

  • News

    June 15, 2000

    No Vacancy

    The school district's space crunch is much worse than you know. And no one has a plan that will fix it.

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Letters

    The school district's space crunch is much worse than you know. And no one has a plan that will fix it.

  • News

    May 4, 2000

    Conflicts 101

    L.A. schools’ environmental czar dogged by complaints of too many interests

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Gas Attack

    The district’s Belmont strategy heads for a blowup

  • News

    April 6, 2000

    Belmont Bucks

    State might pay for safety study of L.A.’s most troubled school site

  • News

    February 24, 2000

    Spacing Schools

    Uh-oh! L.A.’s grand plan for creating classrooms won’t work

  • News

    February 10, 2000

    Wanted: Backbone

    School board let the public down on Belmont

  • News

    February 3, 2000

    Bell Tolls for Belmont

    L.A.’s bungled high school project finally done in by politics and money woes

  • News

    December 30, 1999

    Sucker Among the Sharks

    The Mullinax Report chronicles incompetence in high places. And retells an old story.

  • News

    September 23, 1999

    Deny, Defend and Deflect

    L.A. Unified blasted by its own inspector for Belmont boondoggle

  • News

    May 27, 1999

    Reform in Reverse

    L.A. district accused of backing off clean sites mandate

  • News

    April 1, 1999

    Belmont’s Beleaguered Bureaucrat

    Shambra has his say

  • News

    March 4, 1999

    Letters

    Shambra has his say

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Offbeat

    Shambra has his say

  • News

    February 18, 1999

    Who Poisoned the Well?

    Toxic truth haunts LAUSD at Belmont

  • News

    January 21, 1999

    Land Deal Yields
    No Land, No Deal

    Planning czar Shambra’s biggest deal never happened

  • News

    October 1, 1998

    The Man With Two Brown Shoes Goes Shopping

    dedicated to you, but you weren’t listening

  • News

    June 11, 1998

    ?Que Paso, Gloria?

    dedicated to you, but you weren’t listening

  • News

    March 26, 1998

    Hollywood Row

    Larchmont rallies to block studio parking plans

  • Stage

    March 19, 1998

    Confession of a Bruckner Dodger

    Larchmont rallies to block studio parking plans

  • News

    March 12, 1998

    Feeding Frenzy

    Meet the team behind the Belmont Learning Complex, California's most expensive high school

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