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A Modernist classic is revived
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Clifton’s Brookdale Cafeteria
A Modernist classic is revived
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October 29, 2009
American Dreaming: Charles Burchfield
Imagination; bridled and otherwise
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October 30, 2009
Homelessness Down, Eyebrows Up
We're not the only ones who did a double take when the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported this week that homelessness was down 38 percent in the county compared to 2007.Kevin ScanlonAdvocate for the homeless Alice Callaghan says the numbers don't add up. Let's get this straigh ... More >>
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November 9, 2009
Top 10 Happy Hours: Penny Pinching Drinking
High on the list of traditional activities during economic hard times has always been watching movies--and hitting the bars. This town is, happily, very good for both. But it's really no fun to toast the movements of the Dow with a $15 martini, so save a penny at one of Los Angeles' many watering ho ... More >>
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November 13, 2009
Hollywood's Catered Stimulus
Why $23 million creates just 21 jobs
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December 3, 2009
Tank Industrial Stomps Through the Streets and More Rivethead Dance Videos
Tank, the drummer who brilliantly motivated Anime Expo cosplayers to dance like they're at Das Bunker last summer, is back with a new video. In this installment of the musician/dancer's monthly series, he takes to some unnamed street that appears to be either a farmer's market or swamp meet (anyone ... More >>
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December 18, 2009
Another Bank Bites It: First Federal Of Santa Monica To Be Taken Over
The UCLA Anderson Forecast, the president and the stock market (on some days) say the recession is over, but banks keep going bust. The latest victim was Santa Monica-based First Federal Bank, which was closed Friday by the federal Office of Thrift Supervision. Pasadena-based OneWest Bank an ... More >>
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January 18, 2010
Redemption Songs: Mose Allison Live @ Largo at the Coronet (1/17)
Mose Allison has always been a misfit. Not a misfit in the sense of a James Dean or even a Chet Baker (I mean, if Bruce Weber does a documentary on your meaningful junkie wrinkles, you've found some kind of "fit"), but a true unclassifiable. After all, the blues are rumored to be something the devil ... More >>
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February 3, 2010
Pregnancy-Related Deaths Have Tripled In California
The number of women who have died from complications related to their pregnancies has tripled from 1996 to 2006, California Watch is reporting. Two possible reasons: An increase in cesarean sections and a growing number of overweight moms-to-be. Just as intriguing: The state Department of He ... More >>
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February 22, 2010
Stage Raw: The Subject Was Roses and Emmett Till
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSUnderstating the ObviousThe Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett TillBY STEVEN LEIGH MORRISNo bed of roses: Sheen and Conroy on a sterile promontory: ... More >>
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March 25, 2010
Awake and Sing
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSUnderstating the ObviousThe Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett TillBY STEVEN LEIGH MORRISNo bed of roses: Sheen and Conroy on a sterile promontory: ... More >>
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May 24, 2010
Over the Weekend: The National ( Ramona Falls) at the Wiltern
Photograph by Paul R. Giunta courtesy of Prefix MagazineThe NationalBefore seeing The National at The Wiltern, I already had cheap shots ready for this introduction, all centered on one cold, snarky question: Is Joy Division from Brooklyn? On Saturday night, as the sun dropped into the down ... More >>
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July 8, 2010
Ernst Lubitsch: Sweet Smell of Excess
Escape the New Depression doldrums with LACMA's tribute to the past master of classy Hollywood comedy
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September 23, 2010
Of Grapes and Nuts
Escape the New Depression doldrums with LACMA's tribute to the past master of classy Hollywood comedy
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September 23, 2010
Theater Reviews: Of Grapes and Nuts, Paradise Park, The Web
Escape the New Depression doldrums with LACMA's tribute to the past master of classy Hollywood comedy
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October 8, 2010
Los Angeles Police Union Says Less People Want To Join LAPD Because Of 20 Percent Salary Cuts
After we echoed La Opinion's report about how the LAPD is seeing 30 percent fewer applications despite the area's high unemployment, the Los Angeles police union weighed in with some of the reasons why, in its opinion. One of the more interesting points made by the Los Angeles Police Protect ... More >>
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October 14, 2010
Best Wartime Cookbook: M.F.K. Fisher's How to Cook a Wolf
AmazonThe late 1930s and early 1940s were kind of a grim time in Southern California. The Great Depression hit Los Angeles as hard as it hit practically anywhere in the country, and the vast influx of penniless retirees from cold states put an unusual burden on the state. Although the agricul ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
Andrew Meieran's New Clifton's Cafeteria: 4 Bars and an Appearance by Ray Bradbury
Caroline on CrackThe Edison's Andrew Meieran standing before Clifton's artifacts.Last year, science fiction author Ray Bradbury celebrated his 89th birthday at Clifton's Brookdale Cafeteria on 7th and Broadway, a place where he, along with sci-fi writer/memorabilia collector Forrest Ackerman, founde ... More >>
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October 21, 2010
A Stout to End Your Depression: Black Tuesday at The Bruery
On October 29th, 1929, stocks fell 13% in one day. This was generally considered the start of the Great Depression. This day was called "Black Tuesday." On October 29th, 2009, The Bruery, a relatively new brewery in Orange County released a beer of the same name. A 19.5% Imperial stout t ... More >>
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December 1, 2010
While We Were Thawing Our Toes This Morning, We Noticed That Unemployment Benefits Had Been Terminated For 2 Million Americans
ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to AntarcticaWhat a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
Adding Machine: A Musical
ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to AntarcticaWhat a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>
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January 27, 2011
PaDraic Duffy's Puzzler and Joshua Schmidt and Jason Loewith's Adding Machine: A Musical
The sum of life's parts
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February 23, 2011
No More Sexy Time Across the State Line? Nevada Sen. Harry Reid Wants To Ban Brothels
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLONHey square-y Harry: 20-year-old Clara begs to differNote to future politicians: When you become a droopy old Democrat with nothing left to get you hard but same-sex marriage and a $30 billion golf course, try not to rain on everyone else's parade by making some boner-kil ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
How Wall Street Kicks L.A. Pets Out of Their Homes
PHOTO BY KEVIN SCANLONHey square-y Harry: 20-year-old Clara begs to differNote to future politicians: When you become a droopy old Democrat with nothing left to get you hard but same-sex marriage and a $30 billion golf course, try not to rain on everyone else's parade by making some boner-kil ... More >>
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March 31, 2011
Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Norm Foster's The Motor Trade
Innocence and damnation
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April 19, 2011
Stage Raw: I Never Sang for My Father
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS (are back!)NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Escort and Fetish"If the aim of naturalism in theater is the pitch perfect rendering of reality, then Cameron Watson's urbane staging of Robert Anderson's 1968 drama scores, " writes Deborah Klugman in this week's r ... More >>
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April 21, 2011
Theater Reviews: I Never Sang for My Father, The Temperamentals
Also, The All Night Strut!, Veronika Decides to Die, Wait Until Dark and more
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June 1, 2011
Ask Mr. Gold: Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.
Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic Dear Mr. Gold: What's your favorite fake restaurant in Los Angeles? (However you feel like defining it.) --David Chow (via Facebook)
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June 2, 2011
Finding an Authentic Fake Restaurant in L.A.
Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic Dear Mr. Gold: What's your favorite fake restaurant in Los Angeles? (However you feel like defining it.) --David Chow (via Facebook)
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June 7, 2011
Movie Theater Concession Stand Food Fight: Arclight vs. The Landmark
There was a time, in the early days of movie theater history, when you would buy a ticket to, say, Battleship Potemkin and, sadly, would have to watch this ultimate popcorn movie without the popcorn. According to Slate's brief history of the movie theater concession stand, theater owners refraine ... More >>
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June 16, 2011
Hollywood Fringe Festival
There was a time, in the early days of movie theater history, when you would buy a ticket to, say, Battleship Potemkin and, sadly, would have to watch this ultimate popcorn movie without the popcorn. According to Slate's brief history of the movie theater concession stand, theater owners refraine ... More >>
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June 30, 2011
Stage Raw: LA Weekly Fringe Award Winner
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning OperaThe Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>
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July 7, 2011
LACMA Film: Remembering Ian Birnie
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning OperaThe Burning Opera: How to Survive the Apocalypse, created by Mark Nicols and Erik Davis, and being performed at Syrup Loft downtown, is among the productions being revie ... More >>
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July 12, 2011
Stage Raw: D is for Dog
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for DogThis week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... More >>
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July 26, 2011
Michele Bachmann, Tea Party Presidential Hopeful, Coming to Hostile Territory This Summer: Los Angeles
Bachmann is heading to L.A.Nutcase Congresswoman and right-wing Quixote presidential hopeful Michele Bachmann will come to the land of sunshine, sin and sexual liberation (that's here) Sept. 16 for the California Republican Party Fall Convention downtown (which is actually happening in summer ... More >>
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September 2, 2011
Steel City Sandwich Truck: Bringing Pittsburgh's Blue Collar Food Culture to L.A.
A. Trachta"The Yinzer" from Steel City SandwichMaybe you heard that Steel City Sandwich has joined up with the bajillion other food trucks that roll around Los Angeles everyday. And maybe you didn't care. Why should you? As Angelenos, is Pittsburgh food supposed to be exciting to us? Really, ... More >>
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September 13, 2011
Nearly Half of All Young Americans, 6 Million Californians, Officially Living in Poverty
So the Great Recession has been over for nearly two years, huh? The latest U.S. Census data indicates the United States has more people living in poverty than, oh, ever. Well, almost ever. The 46.2 million of Americans below the line are as many as have been recorded in the 52 years governme ... More >>
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October 5, 2011
The Wiltern Opened 80 Years Ago. Its Survival Story Is As Grand As Its Terra-Cotta Tile
Randall MichelsonLess than a year old and wearing red tennis shoes, I took the first steps of my life at the Wiltern. My mother had brought me to visit my father, an architect, in his office on the second floor of the Pellissier office tower, overlooking the art deco theater's neon marquee. T ... More >>
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November 2, 2011
Rashad Varma, Young Aspiring Comic, Jumps to Death off Historic Pasadena 'Suicide Bridge'
weirdca.comThe Colorado Street Suicide BridgeA bridge in Pasadena infamous for hosting over 100 suicides saw another jumper last Saturday. The L.A. County Coroner's Office identifies him today as 25-year-old Rashad Varma of Montrose, originally from India. Friends on his Facebook memorial pa ... More >>
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January 5, 2012
L.A.'s New Wave of Pie Shops
weirdca.comThe Colorado Street Suicide BridgeA bridge in Pasadena infamous for hosting over 100 suicides saw another jumper last Saturday. The L.A. County Coroner's Office identifies him today as 25-year-old Rashad Varma of Montrose, originally from India. Friends on his Facebook memorial pa ... More >>
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February 9, 2012
Kamala Harris' $12 Billion Deal With Big Banks: Cop Out or Solid Settlement For California Homeowners?
Kamala.So did she cave in to the Big Banks, or secure a good deal for the people of California? After holding out for a year, Attorney General Kamala Harris today announced that the Golden State is singing on to the nationwide settlement with the banks over their bungling of its loans to peo ... More >>
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