AltWeeklies Wire
California's Healthcare Reform is on a Gurneynew
Despite renewed budget problems, massive reform to cover uninsured Californians is on the table yet again with Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez's new plan.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
11-26-2007 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
The Face It Is A-Changin'new
It takes six actors to portray Bob Dylan in I'm Not There.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: I'm Not There, Todd Haynes
Margot is Wretched, but 'Margot' is Involvingnew
I'm not a big fan of films that force us to spend an hour and a half with awful and/or hopelessly fucked-up people, but Margot at the Wedding is written with enough wit and performed with enough skill that I found it impossible to turn away from the Zellers and their collective emotional train wreck.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-26-2007 |
Reviews
John Edwards on the Picket Linenew
Fishing for the union vote in Burbank.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Hanna Ingber Win |
11-26-2007 |
Politics
Judith Freeman Channels Chandlernew
Freeman's nonbiography uses real estate as a Ouija board.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-19-2007 |
Fiction
A Rapper's Paradisenew
Hip-hop's early days return in vivid words and pictures in Born in the Bronx.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Donnell Alexander |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Typing in Neonnew
One author's determination to publish and be damned (maybe for eternity).
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-19-2007 |
Books
Writer and Game Show Winner Takes on Ken Jennings’s 'Brainiac'new
Jennings's writing is clever, self-effacing, even hip, and the book is rich with pop cultural, academic, and historical trivia.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
11-19-2007 |
Nonfiction
Long and 'Short'new
In his first book-length story, Adrian Tomine explores identity, truthfulness, and maturity.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Adrian Tomine, Shortcomings
The Satirical Intellectualnew
Alexander Theroux on the paradoxes of love and the importance of plenitude and redemption.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
11-16-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Alexander Theroux
Angeleno Apocalyptonew
Two new films -- the sprawling Southland Tales and the focused Smiley Face -- roam our home turf.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-16-2007 |
Reviews
The Dilemma of the Literate Picketnew
While I won't lower the red flag or hang-up my IWW T-shirt, I confess to mixed emotions about the strike by the Writers Guild of America.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
11-16-2007 |
Movies
Lowering the Stakesnew
As networks try to recreate cult-followed fantasy and sci-fi shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the new shows are derivative and, worse, dreadful to mediocre.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
11-09-2007 |
TV
Tags: TV
Tonal Gravitynew
Coen Brothers return to darkness with No Country for Old Men while Lions for Lambs offers an anything-but-subtle attack.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
11-09-2007 |
Reviews
Steve Aoki's Big Spinnew
He's usually hailed as the hottest DJ in Hollywood, a spinner-to-the-stars who's been spotted helping Lindsay Lohan throw down a track or two. With all that under his belt, you would think the guy could play a turntable like a-ringin'-a-bell.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
11-09-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Steve Aoki
