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Guantanamo Detainee Mysteriously Contracts AIDS

Matthew Fleischer
Fresh air for prisoners at Guantanamo Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan meteorologist currently designated an "enemy combatant" and imprisoned by the U.S. government at Guantanamo Bay, has mysteriously contracted AIDS inside the notorious compound. According to his lawyer Candace Gorman, Al-Ghizzawi had already previously contracted Tuberculosis inside the facility, and......

Arroyo Seco Mural Feud

Matthew Fleischer
STANDING ON A BRIDGE overlooking the confluence of the Arroyo Seco and Los Angeles rivers, Friends of the Los Angeles River founder Lewis MacAdams stares at the...
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ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

Matthew Fleischer
It's BCS Championship Game time and, two years after Katrina, New Orleanians are no doubt ecstatic to have the Sugar Bowl back in their fair city. They might not be so thrilled, however, to discover that their city is once again under a deluge. Maybe I'm being a little sensitive,......
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Matt Taibbi on How the U.S. Is Like Ike Turner

Matthew Fleischer
Matt Taibbi has a singular approach to media criticism. As a writer for the Moscow alternative weekly eXile, he once held a contest to find the worst foreign correspondent in Russia. For his Putin apologism and ignorance of Russian culture, the lucky winner, New York Times Moscow bureau chief Michael......
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Fishbone and Slightly Stoopid, Wiltern – 12/01

Matthew Fleischer
Fishbone, Slightly Stoopid Wiltern, Dec 1 Strange and depressing things were afoot in Los Angeles on Saturday night. Up until arriving at the Wiltern with my buddy Cedar and seeing the marquee, I was under the impression that Fishbone was headlining the show in their own hometown. To my surprise......
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Commission Rejects Bukowski Nazi Claim

Matthew Fleischer
Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe — at least for the time being. On Thursday morning, to the cheers of a half dozen Bukowski fans in attendance, the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted three to one in favor of making the writer’s former home on De Longpre Avenue a cultural......
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Bukowski's Bungalow Saved

Matthew Fleischer
Charles Bukowski’s bungalow is safe – at least for now. On Thursday morning the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted three-to-one in favor of making the writer’s former home on De Longpre Avenue a cultural landmark. Recent allegations by the bungalow’s owner, Victoria Gureyeva, that Bukowski was a Nazi sympathizer,......

Bukowski's Ruin?

Matthew Fleischer
It’s a miserable day in East Hollywood, and a cold rain is falling outside an abandoned, dilapidated bungalow on De Longpre Avenue. The bungalow’s doors and windows are boarded shut, and a tall chainlink fence surrounds the property. With the exception of a lone mailman sorting packages in the comfort......
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Bearded Insanity

Matthew Fleischer
A Whiskerino competitor in his natural habitiat. Sweet Jesus I've waited so long and now it's finally here. Whiskerino, the amateur beard growing competition that dares to suggest "We are alienated from our own facial hair," has finally awakened from its two-year slumber and stormed the Internet with waves of......