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Worst of Coachella 2013: Weekend Two

Here's everything that bothered us about Coachella's second weekend. Hey, at least there was no dust storm! Native American Headdresses These have still not gone away. In fact, one particularly irritating woman (not pictured) wore a towering feather mohawk weave, a sartorial statement that combined ... More >>

A Theater Festival Examines the Thorny Issues of Native Americans in Sports

It's not easy being a Native American athlete. Just ask Dennis Tibbetts. He'd been running track most of his life when he was drafted into the Marines in 1966 before heading to Vietnam. But if Tibbetts, a member of the White Earth Ojibwe tribe of Minnesota, proved his prowess -- say, by winning an i ... More >>

George Diller, Marine Vet at 'Occupy Long Beach,' Claims Police Brutality During Smoking Citation

Greggory Moore/Long Beach PostOfficer Dinsdale puts a Long Beach smoker in his place.​A brave few campers remain at Occupy Long Beach headquarters in Lincoln Park. Christopher Perkins, an organizer, counts maybe a dozen, tops. Every night at 10 p.m., when the park closes, they drag their tents ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Farrell's (Day 24)

Sentimental Southern Californians who remember celebrating birthdays, soccer tournaments and the like at Farrell's have watched the decline of this faux fin de siècle ice cream "parlour" (complete with a superfluous British "U") with dismay and resignation. After years on the wane -- flagging con ... More >>

Calling Afghanistan: L.A. Schoolkids Try to Bridge a Gulf

Jim HakeThe linkup at Windward School​Teenagers spend a lot of time talking on the phone. But not too many of them get to call their peers in a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan. A handful of teens from Windward School, a charter school in West L.A., recently became the first to do so. The n ... More >>

Obama in L.A: Hope is High That Presidential Visit Won't Repeat Traffic Nightmare of August

We hope traffic is not so bad.​Updated after the jump: Obama jams up L.A. streets, inspires the Twitter hashtag #obamatraffic. Obama's in L.A. today. And authorities are being pretty mum about exactly where his traffic-clogging entourage will be. Security reasons. Really, we just want to kno ... More >>

Sex, Cars, Fried Chicken

LACMA's Road Movies Series

LA People 2009: Spin Artist — Tommy Hollenstein

Election '08: Raging Against The Scene

in a bottlenecked and barricaded stretch of street, 50 members of Iraq Veterans Against the War, dressed in full uniform, many displaying an impressive array of service medals, stared down an overwhelming deployment of police on foot, horseback and perched atop the raised platforms of massive SWAT ... More >>

Queer Town: Day into Night at Outfest

On Saturday afternoon, inside theater number two at the Directors Guild of America building on Sunset Boulevard, California State Senator Sheila Kuehl sat on a panel with other gays and lesbians for a "special event" at Outfest called "Queer State of the Nation." Kuehl was feeling feisty. "Tell th ... More >>

LAFF 2008: Centered and Finished

Even though HELLBOY II was called the “closing night” gala, with a huge after party to match, one more day remained of LAFF. But it didn’t seem like it would have much to offer me: family festivities provided pony rides for the kids, while the sparse remaining screenings were mostly things I h ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Color Purple, High School Musical, Bob's Holiday Office Party

Also A Doll House, Paging Dr. Chutzpah, Seven Santas and more

Coming Back From Iraq

And all they want are normal jobs

Millard Kaufman�s Life and His Bowl of Cherries

The nonagenarian novel

Welcome Back, OJ! All Is Forgiven

Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

Also reviews of Bamako, The Devil Came on Horseback, Golden Door and more

Film Reviews: Chalk, The Ex, 28 Weeks Later and Delta Farce

The Storyteller

Ed Meese on the Gipper and Gitmo

Flag Raiser

Adam Beach enters the spotlight

Print the Legend

But flag the truth

Marching Orders

The president speaks, and the immigration fight is far from over

What Would Madonna Do?

THE STYLE COUNCIL at Coachella

Hollywood�s Newest Age of Liberal Cinema

Guess Who�s Coming to Iftar

A meal to remember with Hezbollah

Bringing Over There Closer to Home

The politics in FX�s new series may be polite, but the war is still hell

What�s Killing Joshua Tree National Park?

Fire, smog, golf courses . . . and maybe even coffee-loving, rock-climbing hipsters like you

The Body Politic

Cockles and missiles, alive, alive oh!

Pardon Me

George Bush come to the aid of his rich, dying, convicted pal

United They Sit

Why don’t Hollywood Democrats run for public office?

Beat Bush

But don�t lose your sanity

Letters

Gay Guys Who Dig Bush

Log Cabin Republicans try to get in tune with reality

The Television War

Letters

Fighting Words

Independent voices at the L.A. Times and real independent filmmaking

Our Peace Movement � Not Theirs

Strange Bedfellows: Winona and the Chicago 7

Personal Wars

Shrieking in Cyberspace

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

Letters

Indecent Executions

Considering death row's mentally retarded inmates

Pure War

America's Most Unwanted

Radiating Fear

In dire need of a plan to protect nuclear power plants

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

Get Brown and Get Down!

Holier Than Thou

Bringing sainthood down to earth

The Last Roll Call

The cop funeral as civic pageant

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

The Disquieting

DUIs, denial and turkey