I. Orange and Black • Enter parking queue. • Idle 20 minutes. • Park between matching Ford Expeditions. • Enter drugstore through metal detectors; proceed through turnstile and select shopping cart. • Open Marketing Response preferences and apply the following settings: Color Scheme > Orange and Black Background Image >......
“I was thinking of an oil tanker,” theological student Allen Corben proposed during last Sunday’s white-racial-awareness workshop at the community room in the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City. The all-white group, gathered to examine their own “ethnicity” on the way to enhancing their racism-fighting powers, had been assigned to......
With coffee, cookies and a sorrow appropriate to the removal of a brain-dead relative‘s life support, the city attorney, five City Council members, Police Commission president, chief deputy mayor, Assistant U.S. Attorney General Bill Lann Lee and two unnamed others celebrated the signoff of the federal LAPD consent decree. ”This......
Photo by Stephan Sovoia/AP On the theory that purgatory is, if nothing else, better than hell, I suppose I should be grateful the United States hasn’t gone to the devil just quite yet. At the end of one of the most astonishing, bewildering, intermittently exhilarating and nauseating evenings in American......
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Photo by Tony Cuhna Painting in L.A. has reached a sort of impasse. Recent shows of old work by Billy Al Bengston and new work by Joe Goode have taken much of the wind out of the sails of their contemporary inferiors. The most convincing painting on view in the......
In Suzhou River, a waterlogged little jewel of a Chinese movie that you must rush out and see at once or else, a young videographer obsessively combs the crime-infested Shanghai waterfront, ostensibly to drum up work shooting the odd wedding or birthday party. In fact, he’s trying to find the......
Orphaned as children, siblings Sammy and Terry (Laura Linney and Mark Ruffalo) have gone their separate ways as adults: The younger, Terry, has drifted from state to state and job to job on a cloud of pot smoke, while Sammy, a former wild child, has remained in the family home,......
Punk rock began in Britain 25 years ago with the PR stunts of Malcolm McLaren and his Sex Pistols. Punk rock began in New York City 25 years ago with glue-sniffing simpletons the Ramones. Punk rock began 33 years ago when Iggy Pop, front man of Detroit’s Stooges, rolled around......
Illustration by Gina Triplett In the 25 years since it was first released, Metal Machine Music has manifested itself more frequently as a form of critical epithet than it has as a musical work. Lou Reed’s two-LP, 64-minute noise suite in four movements has come to represent, in the view......
