AltWeeklies Wire
All Hail Kennedy's Cheesenew
The songs on Kennedy for President are Velveeta smooth and just as cheesy, but hooky and fun enough for cruising and, after a few drinks, maybe even for dancing.
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kennedy, Kennedy for President
Sean Penn, With His Own Two Eyesnew
Penn on anger, humility and the power of seeing things for yourself and his new movie, Into the Wild.
L.A. Weekly |
Joe Donnelly |
09-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Into the Wild, Sean Penn
Former L.A. County Sheriff’s Sergeant Gets Life in Prisonnew
John Racz insists his missing wife was on a 16-year vacation.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
09-24-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Unexpected Burning Man Soundtracknew
To civilians, trance = Burning Man, but this is merely the most obvious take. For one week a year the desert floor, a naturally occurring woofer pumping 100 million watts, becomes the world's greatest iPod shuffle.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
09-17-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: concerts
Jodie Foster Dishes Up Rough Justicenew
Yes, The Brave One is that movie: the one with the posters of America's once-upon-a-time sweetheart posed artistically against a yellow background, her hand pressed contemplatively against her salon-styled hair, and the tag line "How Many Wrongs to Make It Right?"
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
09-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One
Paul Haggis' Latest is Worth Seeing Despite His Heavy Handnew
What makes In the Valley of Elah -- a wildly uneven but brave foray into the dark side of posttraumatic stress disorder -- unusual is its focus on parental grief, which Haggis seeks to complicate by asking, What's the one thing that could be worse than the bottomless sorrow of losing a child who’s a war hero?
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paul Haggis, In the Valley of Elah
What's Behind Janet Clayton's Departure from the L.A. Times?new
Was it Jim O'Shea's job offer, or is former top editor John Carroll to blame?
L.A. Weekly |
Daniel Hernandez |
09-17-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
Petrae-ifiednew
Iraq report reveals a failed state.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
09-17-2007 |
Commentary
Tel Aviv Hipsters Have Sex, Befriend the Enemy in 'The Bubble'new
Director Eytan Fox is the voice of the new Israel — hedonistic, narcissistic, yet also more innovative and accepting than the generation of ideologues who founded the state.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
09-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Eytan Fox, The Bubble
Jodie Foster Discusses 'The Brave One'new
Jodie Foster isn't one of those people who stumbles through life unconscious of who she is and where she's going, nor is she one of those actors who have no idea how or why they work their magic, and who can sound endearingly insecure in interviews.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
09-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Neil Jordan, The Brave One
The Black Rock Diaries: Reports from Burning Mannew
On the end of ecstasy and the Temple of Forgiveness.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis and Randall Roberts |
09-07-2007 |
Culture
Children of the Revolutionarynew
Former black revolutionary Watani Stiner turned himself in to San Quentin so his children could come to America -- was it worth it?
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleishcher |
08-24-2007 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisisnew
Like the book, the movie never finds a dramatic center, hopscotching between Nanny-Grayer bonding sessions, Nanny's flirtations with the upstairs neighbor known as Harvard Hottie, and the Xes' gradual progression toward becoming the Exes.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-24-2007 |
Reviews
Campaign 2008: Time to Draw Bloodnew
This campaign started so early that we've gotten used to saying "it's still early" -- actually, it's already getting late, and we're past due on starting to draw some real blood in these exchanges.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
08-24-2007 |
Commentary
Greg Mottola's Geek Lovenew
The Superbad director puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking.
L.A. Weekly |
Joshuah Bearman |
08-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
