Rebecca Haithcoat

Slim the Mobster

Slim the Mobster Has an Amazing House

Rebecca Haithcoat
Slim the Mobster and I are scheduled to do an interview at a Northridge gun range, set up by his publicist. But as the rapper pulls up and peers out from under his black Dodgers baseball hat, he looks hesitant. "I don't want my picture taken with a gun, you......
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Rebecca Haithcoat
Like the pages on which they're written, Christmastime stories tend to crumble with age. Yet this play, adapted from Barbara Robinson's book 10 years after its 1972 publication, feels remarkably fresh. The Herdman clan fights, talks about "sexy things" and smokes. When they're told church is a place to get......
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Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man

Rebecca Haithcoat
"You can find her in the Lunatic Choir," says the gray-haired, almost skeletal-faced Jon (Josh Patton), directing Hosea Nova (Sebastian Munoz) to the object of his desire, Theresa Ann (Vanessa Cate). Sure, Jon unintentionally raised her from the dead, and she's blind, but the snarling, lizard-tongued, half-blind Hosea has bigger......
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Iman Omari Isn't Ashamed To Be Emo

Rebecca Haithcoat
Iman Omari's uncle Josef Leimberg is scuttling around his Eagle Rock studio, working on improving its feng shui. He pauses by a door that's become unhinged. "A 400-pound dude busted through this, trying to get his rappers in to record." That wasn't going to fly, however, because Bootsy Collins was......
Kent and Creamie of OverDoz; Credit: Rebecca Haithcoat

OverDoz – The Roxy – 11/22/11

Rebecca Haithcoat
See also: Meet OverDoz: L.A.'s Freakiest, Cheekiest Collective OverDoz The Roxy 11/22/11 A beat before the curtain dropped on their show last night, OverDoz's de facto leader, Kent, addressed the audience soberly, "We did this shit all by ourselves." He could have been referring to any number of things: building......