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Seven L.A. Comics Report From the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a festival unlike any other. The 65-year-old whirlwind event lasts the entire month of August and is essentially a free-for-all: interested performers merely have to book their own venue, travel, and accommodation, then show up, self-promote like mad, and pray you ge ... More >>

Michelle Obama's White House Kitchen Garden Book Out Today

Michelle Obama's first book, American Grown: The Story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America, hits the bookstores today. Just in time for summertime gardening, for your kids' summer vacation projects (Cook your own dinner! Build your own compost bin!), and even for a season of ... More >>

The Album Pitchfork Gave a 0.0 To Is Actually Really Good

[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] In 2004, Dismemberment Plan frontman Travis Morrison released his somewhat-anticipated solo debut, Travistan to a few pol ... More >>

Stage Raw: LA Weekly Fringe Award Winner

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Salome and J.M. Barrie at PRTCuriousjosh.comThe Burning Opera​The 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 >>

Stage Raw: Bash'd

NEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Radar L.A.Sean LambertBash'd, A Gay Rap Opera​A string of recommends comes with this week's theater reviews: Bash'd, A Gay Rap Opera at Celebration Theatre, Blackbird at Rogue Machine, Blood Wedding at the Odyssey, Broadsword at the Back Dahlia, Closet Land at ... More >>

Tom Jacobson's The Chinese Massacre (Annotated) and House of the Rising Son

How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

Give Sodomy a Chance

Sexual rights are protected by the Constitution, if only the U.S. Supreme Court would open its eyes

Proposition 19 Dreams of Legal Weed

Bruce Margolin has defended 25,000 pot cases and Timothy Leary. Now he's primed for ganja tourists and sensimilla spas

Rock Picks: Black Lips, Maria Taylor, Audacity, Irina Bjorklund

Also, Gangi, Chris Cornell, Joe Lally, Useless Keys and others

Theater Listings

For the week of March 14-20

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

Take You Higher!

Featuring Prince as Joni, Emo as jock-jam

Trial by Bush

Constitution-shredding in the Jose Padilla case

“Lowest Grade of Ignorance”

George Bush and his influence on the Republic

The Day of the Jackals

Mythmaking at the Republican Convention and getting punk’d on Kudlow and Cramer

Bush’s Purgatorio

The list of grievances against our president

Liar Liar, House on Fire

The beauty and perils of making stuff up

George and the Guard

The real question is how did the young man with marginal test scores get the plum wartime assignment

Letters

Celebrity Justice: Winnobega Driver, Estrella

The Handsome American

Walter Russell Mead makes a case for U.S. foreign-policy effectiveness

They Came From the Sea

Call of the Wild

Director Anthony J. Haney on trying to get past the dogs

Speed Sells

A tale of methamphetamine, drug cartels and an amateur chemist named Fester.

Hot Nice Lunch Forever

Council Ousts Ostrich

A farewell to Valley farm life

The Only Message Saddam Understands Is Getting Hit With a Two-by-Four