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Deadmau5 in the Housenew
If the world's core dance floors belonged to Kaskade, Trentemøller, and Claude VonStroke in 2006, this year, Deadmau5 was the name on every super-club DJ's tongue.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
12-07-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Deadmau5
Guy Ritchie Steps Backwardnew
Revolver turns out to be a touchy-feely ultraviolent gangster flick. Come over here and give Scarface a hug, you big gruff pussycat.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
12-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Guy Ritchie, revolver
Horror Loansnew
Terrified homeowners tell their pain to U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Hanna Ingber Win |
12-07-2007 |
Economy
Tags: Economic Issues
The Mystery at 330 North Brand Blvd.new
A family searches for answers in the strange death of a DEA agent known as "Rubberneck" and "Buckles."
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Jeffrey Anderson |
12-07-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
A Farewell to Evelnew
They say only the good die young, so it makes a weird kind of sense that a man named Evel Knievel would live to age 69.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
12-07-2007 |
Performance
Tags: performance
Royal Soulnew
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings deliver a new album rich with classic sounds.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Morris |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
My Left Lidnew
It’s hard to imagine anything more daunting than the task faced by director Julian Schnabel and screenwriter Ronald Harwood in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – bringing to the screen the memoirs of former Elle editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who suffered a stroke that left him entirely paralyzed, save for his left eyelid.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Wade Major |
11-30-2007 |
Reviews
Bill Rosendahl: The Lone Voice of Reasonnew
For nearly two years he’d been the only government ally for the tenants of Lincoln Place, a Venice affordable housing project that invading corporate giant AIMCO planned to bulldoze.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
11-30-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
L.A.'s Homeless are Targeted for Harassmentnew
Ask anyone familiar with Skid Row, and they will tell you that Safer Cities Initiative is essentially a tool for making the streets of Central City East -- the official name for Skid Row's 50 square blocks -- safer for the developers and art gallery owners and loft dwellers who have either moved in or want to.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Guempel |
11-30-2007 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
Stephen Yagman Can Only Blame Himselfnew
Maybe, just maybe, the flawed, pitbull lawyer should have skated.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Alan Mittelstaedt |
11-30-2007 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
Creation of Consciousnessnew
With Diving Bell, ever-indulgent Julian Schnabel paints a moving picture of a castaway on the edge of life
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Rebecca Epstein |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reviving the Revival Housenew
With the continually improving the home viewing experience, it might seem like sheer folly to be opening up a revival theater in Los Angeles (or anywhere). But to Hadrian Belove – manager of the Silent Movie Theatre, recently reconceived as Cinefamily – it’s a challenge.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-30-2007 |
Movies
John Sayles Mines the Rural Blues for 'Honeydripper'new
Back before Sex, Lies, and Videotape … before Reservoir Dogs … before there was much of anything that could be called an American independent film movement, John Sayles was the quintessential indie filmmaker.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Honeydripper, John Sayles
Jeff Bridges: Iron Dudenew
Bridges is a would-be pornographer in The Amateurs, the latest in a series of idiosyncratic roles for the consistently daring actor
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Erik Himmelsbach |
11-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Michael Traeger, The Amateurs
The D.A.'s Mixed Recordnew
Steve Cooley's pals may hinder his drive to clean up troubled cities.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Jeffrey Anderson |
11-26-2007 |
Politics
