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How 'Gaysian' Filmmaker Quentin Lee Defies Hollywood Stereotypes

Quentin Lee has been called a "Gaysian" filmmaker, representing two significant minorities in the industry. He both exemplifies and defies Asian stereotypes, impressively obtaining degrees from three top universities but then dedicating himself to the arts instead of the sciences. And through a seri ... More >>

Q & A With David Miscimarra: The Hollywood Pies Owner Talks Deep Pizza What to Expect at Their New Dine-in Location, Now Open

If you drive by the new Hollywood Pies dine-in location, which officially soft opened this past weekend in West Los Angeles, you just might miss it. Taking up a humble 26-seat residence that fittingly used to house former pizza dive Pizza Mania, the location now sports a modest square sign of their ... More >>

This Bestselling Author Writes About Sex, Dead Bodies and the Esophagus

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament When organizers of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum's First Fridays series asked the public what sorts of programming it wanted to see, people overwhelmingly said that they wanted (a) sex, and (b) science author Mary Roach. Oddly enough, o ... More >>

12 Best Gifts for People Who Love L.A.

See also: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app What do you get someone who has everything: a beautiful home, great food and legal marijuana? From endless gift certificates to countless books and DVDs, there's ... More >>

UCLA's International Theater Program Is Back With a French Production of Rhinoceros

Cinco de Mayo Myths Debunked, in UCLA Professor's New Book

When Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista says the phrase "Drinko de Mayo," he is far from bitter. He doesn't rant about how Cinco de Mayo has been subjected to brutal commercialization and stripped of its authenticity. It is, after all, difficult to really critique the Mexican beer companies for divesting t ... More >>

For Marketplace Radio Journalists, Midnight Is When the Workday Begins

"Stephen, how's your eye?" Ethan Lindsey asks. It's 3:30 a.m. Outside in downtown Los Angeles, it's the dead of night, but inside the Frank Stanton Studios on Figueroa Boulevard, it's the heart of the work "day" for the Marketplace Morning Report overnight shift. And things are bustling. While mos ... More >>

Ron Paul Mania at UCLA: Stadium Reaches Capacity, Students Climb Trees to Get a Glimpse

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul has the libertarian college kids going ga-ga for his firm anti-big government stance. Whereas the clean, hopeful, Shepard-Fairey vetted Obama campaign in 2008 was all the rage with Gen Y, Paul's more skeptical (even paranoid) approach is winning over young v ... More >>

V-Nasty on Jail, Being Pregnant At 15, and Why Oakland Is Not Where It's At

Fred Harper​See also: *As Nasty As She Wants to Be: Kreayshawn's Controversial Associate Finally Tells Her Side of the Story *Free V-Nasty; Why I'm Fascinated by Kreayshawn's Controversial Crewmate *Our review of Kreayshawn's show at The Roxy Our music feature story this week is on V-Nasty, t ... More >>

Good Riddance, Ray Irani

Chief of Occidental Oil, stepping down, seen by many as greediest of all

MUSIC PICKS: Ruben Guevara, Buika, Bill Frisell's Beautiful Dreamers

Also, Combichrist, Papercranes, Simone White and others

[Updated] Bon Appétit Names Adam Rapoport New Editor-in-Chief

Update: Over at The New York Times yesterday, Julia Moskin caught up with newly named Bon Appétit editor-in-chief Adam Rapoport, hours after he was officially named to the post on Monday. Rapoport, who is 40 and likes to cook and play golf with Justin Timberlake, spent the night grilling lamb and m ... More >>

Chef Samir Mohajer: From Cabbage Patch to Sausage Stand

Photo credit: Cabbage PatchChef Samir Mohajer​Last week Samir Mohajer, the former Rustic Canyon chef and now chef-owner of The Cabbage Patch in Beverly Hills, opened Spoc's Sausage Stand a few blocks from the UCLA campus. The 100-square-foot space is the former home of Roll Inn, a.k.a. "Buck ... More >>

Stage Raw: Phil Newby Remembered

CLASS CLOWN: PHIL NEWBY (1971-2009) The following article appears in print tomorrow (Thursday) The day after actor Phil Newby, 37, was found dead in his apartment last month, the victim of an apparent suicide, 200 company members and friends of Sacred Fools Theatre Company, where Newby perfo ... More >>

The Year That Anticon Became a Label

After nearly a decade of innovation, an influential hip-hop cooperative goes legit, relocates to L.A.

The Last Egg Man

Defending his poultry farm, Ken Arno faces off against the Valley’s king of rezoning

New Orleans Jazzfest: Scenes From a Recovery

UCLA's Black Shadow

Timothy Liar

A biography

The Abolitionist and the Whig

Will June be Jane Harman’s cruelest month?

Eye of the Storm

Mike Andrews: Making sad and beautiful music for grown-ups

I Am Not a Housewife

Caitlin Flanagan fights the mommy wars

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

Has very big eyes and is a lot smarter than you think

Props to You, Warren

Beatty gets up off his rocker in time to KO Terminator takeover

Air Angels

Bulworth? B.S.

The problem with Warren’s posturing

Letters

The Day-Glo Effect

Exhuming Ken Kesey and Further 40 years after the Acid Tests

The Yes Men Are Coming! The Yes Men Are Coming!

In the midst of their 'Yes, Bush Can!' campaign, the busy pranksters spread faux Republican cheer on their way to L.A. for the opening of their new movie

The Bettor’s Bible

Sweating out Sundays with the Gold Sheet Guys

A Bad Hand

Gray Davis deals for casino support

Death Mansion

What’s really behind Gray Davis’ push for a 1,000-bed death row?

Baby Greens

Politics may be a drag, but kids today are turning Green instead of tuning out

Sweet Smell of Secession

A Class Operation

New Academy takes LAUSD to School

Enron’s Revenge

Fallen energy giant may be out to tarnish other big firms in the great rip-off of California

Power to the Peer

you can lead consumers to music, but can you make them pay?

Gray in His Groove

Primary matters: The false spring of the Republican right, the real spring of the Democratic left

Stud on the Tracks

The freewheeling Steve Malkmus, when hard, is about 8 inches

Letters

Yuck!

Tongue and blood at ACE Gallery. Plus, Adrian Piper at MOCA.

Amnesty!

Labor leads the battle to grant legal status to millions of America’s — and L.A.’s — undocumented immigrants

After Seattle

Free-trade protests coming soon to a city near you

Spinning Beds, Giant Table, Brancusi's beard

Robert Therrien's big art

Juvenile Injustice

Proposition 21 aims to send thousands of California teenagers to adult prisons

Return of the Native

David Robertson's excellent new-music adventure

Charles Brown, 1922–1999

Friendly Fire

Conservative state justices targeted by far right

Last Rights

Convicted murderer Horace Kelly is scheduled to be put to death in less than two weeks despite a Supreme Court ban on executing the insane. Why? His lawyers failed to file his federal appeal.

Soap Box Derby

Must we cry in all the right places?