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Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscrapernew

A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed.

L.A. Weekly | Patrick Range McDonald | 05-02-2008 | Housing & Development

Tags: Hollywood, Los Angeles, density, skyscrapers, urban planning, land use, housing & development

'Jellyfish''s Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Idnew

Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life.

L.A. Weekly | Ella Taylor | 04-28-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Drama, Assi Dayan, Bruria Albek, Ilanit Ben-Yaakov, Jellyfish, Sarah Adler, Shira Geffen; Etgar Keret, Tsipor Aizen

Keep On (Taco) Truckingnew

I love entry-level capitalism at its most chaotic, where the barriers to doing business are on the wispy side of minimal, where two dozen oddball eating places can be launched for less money than it would take to open a single outlet of Burger King.

L.A. Weekly | Jonathan Gold | 04-28-2008 | Food+Drink

Tags: L.A., street vendors, taco trucks, tacos, taqueros

Have Movie Stereotypes Returned?new

Officially, stereotypes don't exist in Hollywood, only archetypes -- representative characters based on real people. To complain about movie stereotypes is to risk being labeled a humorless, P.C. crank.

L.A. Weekly | Steven Mikulan | 04-25-2008 | Movies

Tags: movies, Hollywood, racism, race, archetypes, stereotypes

4,000 Illegal Billboards Choke L.A.'s Neighborhoodsnew

The mayor and Los Angeles City Council have let the billboard industry flout the law -- in this case, a flat-out 2002 ban on new billboards -- so openly that activists in other big cities laugh out loud when they hear the latest tales.

L.A. Weekly | Christine Pelisek | 04-25-2008 | Media

Tags: media, Los Angeles, CBS, billboards, blight, Clear Channel

Hillary Lost the Race Weeks Ago, but the Clintons Keep Haunting Obamanew

With a comfortable 10-point margin, Hillary Clinton handily won the Pennsylvania primary. Equally true, Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination more than two months ago on Super Tuesday.

L.A. Weekly | Marc Cooper | 04-25-2008 | Commentary

Tags: 2008 presidential election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton