U.S. Army

Behaving Badly: Bad Apples, Empanada for a Dream and Slice, Reviewed

Gambling: New Combat Vets Plagued by Troubling Addiction

L.A. Redistricting: Herb Wesson's District 10 Looks Like a Fat Turkey

Simone Wilson​This is the fifth chapter in a (badly Photoshopped) series on the L.A. Redistricting Commission's gerrymandered new voting districts. Previously: "Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil Squirrel" "Bernard Parks' District 8 Looks Like a U.S. Army Tank" "Tom LaBonge's Distr ... More >>

L.A. Redistricting: Ed Reyes' District 1 Looks Like a Ridiculous Poodle

Simone Wilson​This is the third chapter in a (badly Photoshopped) series on the L.A. Redistricting Commission's gerrymandered new voting districts. Previously: "Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil Squirrel" "Bernard Parks' District 8 Looks Like a U.S. Army Tank" "Tom LaBonge's Distr ... More >>

Video Games as Physical Therapy? USC Uses Motion-Capture Technology to Heal the Injured

Startups is a new column about new companies, big ideas and bold discoveries happening in the L.A. area. Belinda Lange knows how to have some serious fun. A physiotherapist by training, Lange leads a group at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), which d ... More >>

L.A. Redistricting: Tom LaBonge's District 4 Looks Like a Losing Matador

This is the third chapter in a (badly Photoshopped) series on the L.A. Redistricting Commission's gerrymandered new voting districts. Previously: "Eric Garcetti's District 13 Looks Like an Evil Squirrel" "Bernard Parks' District 8 Looks Like a U.S. Army Tank" This has to be a joke, right? City Coun ... More >>

Chinese Man Names Himself 'Supreme Commander' of Fake Army, Convinces 100 Others to Join in Exchange for Citizenship

Using Amurrica's name in vain​It's a tough race, but freak of the day decidedly goes to El Monte resident Yupeng Deng, who for the last three years has allegedly been convincing undocumented Chinese immigrants to join a fake U.S. Army unit (for a healthy fee) and report to his Temple City offi ... More >>

U.S. Recruiting Illegal Immigrants Along SoCal Border to Register For Selective Service

U.S. Army.Prospects row across the Rio Grande. (Joking).​Is the United States searching for military recruits ... along the border? That's the implication in a recent report by San Diego's public radio and TV broadcaster KPBS, which states the U.S. Selective Service has been conducting an "ou ... More >>

Gloria Allred Blasts Army For Losing Track of Palmdale's Daniel Brazelton, Accused of Raping 15-Year-Old in L.A. County

Daniel Brazelton.​The U.S. Army got the Gloria Allred treatment Monday after a suspect in its custody who was wanted for the L.A.-area rape of a 15-year-old Antelope Valley girl escaped before being captured over the weekend. The teenager, identified at a news conference as Jamie, was alleged ... More >>

God's Sabbatical

John Sinner's Happy Ending and Marios Stilianakis' Water

Arms Merchants of South Central

Did the rich and intrigue-filled Botach family get a pass from Henry Waxman?

Restrepo: Film Is a Battlefield

Journalist-filmmakers go to war

Holy Ghost

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

Squid Ink Food Fight: The Seafood Scallion Pancake, Your New Favorite Drinking Buddy

If you've done much eating in Koreatown, particularly after the sun has set and the shochu is flowing, you've probably had some version of the scallion pancake called pajeon. It's a great dish for sopping up booze, adding in a much needed egg-starch-and-grease component to your evening. When you add ... More >>

Bullets Not Bongs For U.S. Vets Denied Medical Marijuana

​Men and women who dodge (and sometimes take) bullets for their country as members of the U.S. armed forces cannot be prescribed medical marijuana by Veterans Affairs doctors, according to the Drug Policy Alliance. The V.A. states that the no-medical-marijuana policy, which applies to states ... More >>

Tripping on the Rez: Richard Montoya’s Palestine, New Mexico at the Taper

Stage Raw: Palestine, New Mexico

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyNEW REVIEW PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO ​Photo by Craig Schwartz When U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler (Kirsten Potter) stumbles into "Bumfuck" -- a New Mexico Indian reservation -- she ... More >>

Fit for Society

The Hurt Locker: There Will Be Blasts

Kathryn Bigelow’s Iraq War drama is an explosion waiting to happen — in your head

Third Suspect Arrested in Deputy Slaying

The Los Angeles Police Department has arrested a third suspect in the shooting death of an L.A. County Sheriff's Deputy. A fourth man remains at large. "We will bring all those responsible for the murders to justice," said Police Chief William Bratton at a 1 p.m. press conference at Parker Center, ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

L.A. Gets Water Boarded The DWP's board of directors has voted to impose penalties on consumers who don't cut their water use by 15 percent this summer. Associated PressStroke Fells Keach/Nixon A mild stroke has knocked actor Stacy Keach out of the Richard Nixon role he'd been playing in Frost/Nixon ... More >>

Alleged Avenues Gangsters Plead Not Guilty to Cop Killing

Two alleged Avenues gangsters pleaded not guilty in downtown Los Angeles today to capital murder charges stemming from the August 2 shooting of a 27-year-old Los Angeles County Sheriff Deputy as he was preparing to go to work at the Men's Central Jail. Juan Escalante was shot from behind about five ... More >>

Fit for Society

Theater Reviews: Tragedy: A Tragedy, Waiting in the Wings, Good Bobby

Also, Money Shot, Halo and more

Koreatown 1.0: A Food Diary

Sunday, bloody Sunday

Theater 2007: Listing Toward the Valley

Here’s to the memories

What's So Bad About Performance Enhancement?

The steroid debate rages on

Down the Rabbit Hole

Spy love and betrayal in The Company, painful Hiroshima memories in White Light/Black Rain

Palace of the End

Theater Reviews

The Boomerang Kid, It's Just Sex, and this week's pick, Palace of the End

Must See Art

Hirsch Perlman’s “ergo despero” and Vincent Johnson’s “Civil Air Defense Project #1”

We Are What Eats Us

In The Host, our fears come back to bite

Moguls Will Be Moguls at Camp Allen

Shareholders get burned around the Big Media campfire

Good Night and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

Good Night, and Good Luck

A baker’s dozen of highlights from a year of meta-media madness

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

Best of L.A. 2005: Encounters

What’s That Sound?

Leaves

Northeast of Kandahar

10 days in Afghanistan

Blue Canaries

A day at the LAPD’s counterterrorism camp

The Back Story

Do you feel safer now?

Harsh Holidays

Addressing the plight of laid-off workers

The Back Story

A week 11 reading list

Paranoia Runs Deep

Remembering Things Past

Korean filmmaker Im Kwon-Taek

Icelandic Blues

You're in the Army . . . Not!

Vicissitudes of the Victor

Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition