AltWeeklies Wire
What I Ate on My Summer Vacationnew

From Bobcat Bites to Morning Glory.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
09-05-2008 |
Food+Drink
Writer-director Azazel Jacobs' Indie Angeleno Tries to Go Home Againnew
Momma's Man taps into those moments when all of us long to flee adulthood and sink back into being our parents' beloved baby birds, whether or not we ever were in the first place.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Azazel Jacobs, Momma's Man
The DNC Delegate From Sadr Citynew
Majid Al-Bahadli more than hopes Obama can change the world.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshua Bearman |
09-05-2008 |
Politics
Hurricane Sarah Blows McCain on the Bridge to Nowherenew
A rather shameless media swoon set in immediately after Sarah Palin's surprise appointment to the Republican VP spot last Friday. Reporters and anchors jostled each other aside in a race to celebrate the perky Governor What's-Her-Name's predilection for caribou stew, moose pie and children with screwball names. But the honeymoon was short-lived.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
Rocking the Rhetoric at the DNC: Coachella for C-Span Junkiesnew

With notes on Harry Reid -- the unknown poet of the political speechwriting?
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
The Grim Sleeper is Murdering Angelenos as Cops Hunt His DNAnew

The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he's back.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
08-29-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Manny Farber, 1917-2008new
As a critic, Farber advocated more modest, elemental "termite art" — throwaway B movies, Westerns and, later on, important works of European and experimental cinema that he found sui generis, teeming with life, and more invested in individual moments than grandiose objectives
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-29-2008 |
Movies
Serena Brooke's Surf Stronger Fitness Video Gets to the Corenew

In the universe defined by Roxy board shorts and Dakine flip-flops, surfers are the ultimate paradigm of fitness.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
08-29-2008 |
Shopping
Biden as VP Pick Exposes the Dems' Shallow Talent Poolnew
Well, I suppose he's better than Evan Bayh or Kathleen Sebelius, or that Texas congressman whose name I forget, the one who briefly showed up on the last-minute media shortlist. One more point in Biden's favor: He's not Hillary Clinton.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
08-29-2008 |
Commentary
Visions of Radioheadnew

Celebrating the 21st century's most interactive band.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
08-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
If Only 'Tropic Thunder' Were as Naughty as the P.C. Protesters Complainnew
Tropic Thunder arrives in theaters hyped, virally marketed and decreed by no less an authority than The New York Times as the naughtiest little studio release of the summer-movie season.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-18-2008 |
Reviews
Javier Makes Whoopee With Scarlett, Rebecca and Penelopenew
Leave it to Woody Allen to make a romantic comedy in which all the major players end up either single, homicidal or trapped in safe, boring marriages, and where the closest thing to a blissful relationship is a short-lived ménage à trois.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-18-2008 |
Reviews
Woody Allen's European Vacation: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona'new
He lived the young man's dream in Spain; next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Searching for the Ghosts of Bunker Hill's Native American Pastnew

Resuscitated 1961 documentary recalls stark lives of L.A.'s urban Indians.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
08-18-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Retired Russian Army Colonel Criticizes U.S. Actions in Iraq Even as Tanks Roll in Georgianew
Yuri Yuryevich, also a former journalist, says the idea of Russian censorship was concocted by the West -- investigative journalism no problem as long as president isn't criticized.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Leigh Morris |
08-18-2008 |
International