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Battered But Not Broken, Jean-Jacques Beineix Returnsnew
The embattled Parisian director brings a reissue, a retrospective and a project in progress.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-10-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jean-Jacques Beineix, drama films
Envirowimps: L.A.'s Big Green Groups Get Comfynew
Big-time environmental activists in Los Angeles have left the street-fighting to the little guys.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
07-10-2009 |
Environment
Rebecca Yeldham Fights the Good Fight at Helm of the L.A. Film Festivalnew
The 41-year-old Yeldham came onboard as festival director this past March during a tense moment for LAFF and its parent organization, Film Independent. She had to hit the ground running, with barely three months left to plan for the festival's 2009 edition.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-19-2009 |
Movies
Woody Allen on Life, Actors, Younger Women and His 40th Filmnew
Allen's Whatever Works marks the realization of a project he first conceived in the 1970s as a vehicle for Zero Mostel, then set aside following the actor's untimely death. The result is a light comic burlesque -- a minor key but eminently pleasurable Allen confection
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-12-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Steeping at the World Tea Exponew
Thousands of tea manufacturers and mom-and-pop shop owners have converged on Las Vegas to have their best teas judged and to attend seminars like "Romancing the Leaf: Myths & Legends" and "Tastefully Small Finger Sandwiches" and "The Many Tastes of Chai."
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: World Tea Championships, tea
Phil Spector Is Sentenced to Life and the Victim's Family Speaksnew
Unlike his second trial's verdict reading, Phil Spector's sentencing hearing was the definition of "anticlimax."
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
06-05-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Is San Diego a Restaurant-Impaired City?new
Mr. Gold answers your restaurant questions.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
06-05-2009 |
Food+Drink
Tags: San Diego, restaurants
'Away We Go' Is an Unaffecting Work of Staggering Vacuitynew
Not surprisingly, in Dave Eggers' first original screenplay, Away We Go, the characters never shut up.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
06-05-2009 |
Reviews
Wiser Gay-Rights Groups Craft a 2010 Ballot Measure for Californianew
The recent coordinated efforts showcased the kind of campaign structure many gay-marriage advocates want to see built for a new ballot measure, in which cash-rich, mainstream gay-rights organizations work closely with their less wealthy grassroots counterparts.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
06-05-2009 |
LGBT
Dreaming in Film: At Cannes and Its Renegade Festivalsnew
A look at the scene in Cannes, where the best movies aren't necessarily the ones in the competition.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-22-2009 |
Movies
Tags: Cannes Film Festival
Freaks and Freaks: 'Frownland'new
Like a signal flare rising above the streets of L.A.'s Fairfax District, Frownland announces that underground cinema is alive and well.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-01-2009 |
Reviews
Boxing, Sex and Madness: 'Tyson'new
In a new Tyson documentary, the boxer tells it in his own words.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
05-01-2009 |
Reviews
Is L.A. As Safe As Bratton Says It Is?new
The Los Angeles Police Chief says the city is as safe as it was in 1956. But Bill Bratton is manipulating numbers and acting like a politician.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
05-01-2009 |
Crime & Justice
He Survived the Pickup-Artist Scene, Now He Wants to Survive the Apocalypsenew
Neil Strauss' own press materials call him "the world's most legendary pickup artist," but his new game is all about learning to survive not dating disasters but actual life-threatening, end-days disasters, an obsession that brings plenty of its own worries.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
03-20-2009 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Coachella: Indio Times 10new
Goldenvoice's Paul Tollett on the decade-old music festival.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
03-20-2009 |
Concerts
