AltWeeklies Wire
Need a Recipe for a Better '08?new
Hoppin' John is a one-dish combination of black-eyed peas and rice traditionally served throughout the Southern U.S. on New Year's Day to ensure good luck in the coming year.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Don Waller |
12-28-2007 |
Food+Drink
Bloodless 'Blood'new
Paul Thomas Anderson's new film is striking but dry as dust.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-28-2007 |
Reviews
Campaign Therapynew
What the crazy, fringe candidates of election 2008 say about the rest of us.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
12-28-2007 |
Commentary
Dr. Feelgoodnew
Tommy Lee teams up with DJ Aero to give electro house a rock-star edge.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Tommy Lee
Serious Song and Dance Mannew
Director John Turturro mingles drama and musical comedy in Romance & Cigarettes.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Dogs of Warnew
Blackwater's killing of a New York Times dog might be a small incident, but it also represents something larger. And it gets worse, with private U.S. firms now being accused or rape and murder, with few repercussions beyond some embarrassing media coverage.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Editorial |
12-21-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: war in iraq, Blackwater
Fear & Exhilaration at the SoCal Anarchist Conferencenew
This was not your father's left-wing protest gathering, not that ghosts from movements past didn't rattle a bone or two.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Ron Garmon |
12-21-2007 |
Politics
Mexican Court's Atrocities are a Warning for U.S. Justicenew
Anyone wondering what a truly rotten Supreme Court looks like could do worse than glance south of the border to Mexico, where the 10 most powerful justices in the land have just issued a travesty of a ruling in the case of a crusading journalist called Lydia Cacho.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
12-14-2007 |
International
Tags: international
God and the 2008 Electionsnew
It may be true that this country is indeed rooted in certain Judeo-Christian values that it can never escape -- but at times like these, and in a world shaken by secular warfare, what America needs most from its next president is someone with a clear head and faith in him (or her) self.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Editorial |
12-14-2007 |
Commentary
'Now I'll Be Famous'new
Big dreams and heinous acts at an Omaha mall.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
12-14-2007 |
Commentary
George Jones and Merle Haggard Box Sets Help Us Through Decembernew
Haggard's The Studio Recordings and Jones' She Thinks I Still Care duly honor the country greats.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Morris |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Wild 'Youth'new
Coppola's Romanian rhapsody is wacky but somehow absorbing.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Mr. Smith Goes to Zombietownnew
An old story gets a fresh prince in the latest adaptation of I Am Legend.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Francis Lawrence, I Am Legend
Deconstructing Antonio Villaraigosanew
L.A.'s mayor sets out on a new course, with 18 months to prove himself.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt |
12-14-2007 |
Politics
A Visit to the Big Housenew
In each episode of the documentary series Lockup, the viewer is given a guided tour of one of our nation's prisons. Some are modern high-tech hellholes, others are collapsing chipped-paint, broken-toilet hellholes, but all are hellholes.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
12-07-2007 |
TV