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Every so often I still flash on the moment in the driveway of Doug Korthof's Seal Beach home three years ago when he turned the key on the dash of his most precious automobile and . . . nothing happened. “When are you going to start it?” I asked, fearful that what we had here …
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Ah, the Starbucks at UCI. There are few better places to score (or, in my case, just scope) erudite chicks. Right now there's a blonde sitting nearby who could pass for Galadriel: tall, willowy, with eyes like emerald searchlights. Or maybe they're hazel – to find out would require exceedingly creepy staring. But as lovely …
Not that we're grovelers or anything, but we do want to point out that the big-ass LA Times story today on polygamous breakaway Mormons in Utah and Arizona is something our new daddies over at the Phoenix New Times have been covering for years, specifically by John Dougherty. In fact, here's the New Times special …
THURSDAY, MAY 11 The OC High School of the Arts presents its funk/fusion/jazzshowcase, part of a grade-A tradition of funky classroom calisthenics. DJ Shadow's Schoolhouse Funk comps put a cute name to a long discography, but with-it high school band teachers from Cincinnati to West Texas figured out early on that J.P. Sousa's tenure as …
Editor's note—Down in the Valley is reviewed here. So it's no real surprise that, as it moves towards its surrealistic climax—an old West horseback pursuit through a decidedly new West suburban community—Down in the Valley evolves from Western homage into a troubled consideration of the gunslinger as nonconformist archetype and of the dangerous pull of …
we recommend KEEPING UP WITH THE STEINS The Steins of Brentwood held their son's bar mitzvah celebration on an ocean liner at sea, with party sets modeled after the movie Titanic—how do you top that? Such is the dilemma facing Hollywood agent Adam Fiedler (Jeremy Piven), whose son Benjamin (Daryl Sabara) isn't sure that …
Mewling and puking aside, babies are usually good news, but a new report from Save the Children makes for grim reading. Tom Tomorrow, the great cartoonist (whose work can be found weekly in the Weekly), gets to the straight to heart of the matter on his blog, This Modern World: “… this is fucking obscene”: …
Hats off to the Times' Christine Hanley for scooping the world on the latest controversy involving (pick one):a) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona giving deputy badges to someone with no police experience who goes on to make an ass of himself; b) Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and a campaign donor who goes on to …
Worried that “Nuestro Himino,” the new Spanish translation of “The Star Spangled Banner,” will bring down the government, causing anarchy in the streets? Or prevent your children from getting that lettuce picking job you've always dreamed they'd have? Or irreversibly pollute the precious bodily fluids of real Americans? Fair enough. Here's what you do: go …
THURSDAY, MAY 4 The thrilling returning bands of my youth: beyond-longtime LA Weeklywriter and LA rocker Falling James is apparently back for a little reunion ride with his Leaving Trains, the revolving-door rock band who floated up with teenage iconoclasts like the Last in the early '80s and who had a song—maybe a country song, …
Rock N roll may never die, but Fall singer Mark E. Smith will still bury us all. When Iggy Pop drops in 2008—an onstage embolism during an ill-advised “We Will Fall” that sluices torso-vein blood over the first six rows—Smith will be healthy if drunken beyond consonants before a squirrelly capacity crowd somewhere on the …
Editor's note—Dave Shulman interviews Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes here. A curmudgeon with an active dose of social (and, perhaps, self-) disgust, Terry Zwigoff has somehow planted his distinctively dubious sensibility on the American film scene. He may have turned R. Crumb into a character in his hit 1994 doc, yet Zwigoff himself seems a …