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Is 'Run' the Strategy Against Firestorms in California?new
From the self-congratulations of big pols to finger pointing over a lack of air support, one of the most troubling aspects of the tragedy -- despite the claims of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger -- was how little government has changed in response to the lessons of 2003.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald, Christine Pelisek and Jill Stewart |
11-02-2007 |
Disasters
California Fires Fan the Flames of Hate and Stupiditynew
Long before the blazes were anywhere near contained, the rhetorical ash began raining down from the blogosphere and elsewhere, as both ends of the political spectrum saw in the fires grave portents for the republic.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
11-02-2007 |
Disasters
L.A. Fashion Week Returns to Formnew
What's a VIP to do without a VIP tent? Gone was the traditional celebrity secure zone from this year's Fashion Week at Smashbox Studios in Culver City.
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
11-02-2007 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
Lee Chang-Dong Lets the Sunshine Innew
South Korean filmmaker illuminates life's emotional twists and turns.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lee Chang-Dong, Secret Sunshine
Seeing the Light with Director Carlos Reygadasnew
Reygadas' third feature, Silent Light, is in some ways his most audacious undertaking yet: a drama of marital and spiritual crisis set in a modern-day Mennonite community on the outskirts of Chihuahua, filmed entirely in the German-derived Plautdeitsch language.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Carlos Reygadas, Silent Light
Bad Things Happen to Bad People in 'Before the Devil Knows You're Dead'new
That sly old elf Sidney Lumet opens his new movie with a sexual encounter you might associate with a man spending his frustration on a compliant hooker.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Reviews
Little Children in the Moviesnew
My 9-year-old daughter's interest in boys is largely confined to whether she can outrun them, and yet she has acquired a precise, if mercifully abstract, grasp of the contemporary arts of seduction.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Movies
Tilda Swinton: The Ice Queen Meltethnew
Though Swinton's career has taken a decided turn for the commercial these days, I still think of her as the intimidating eminence rouge in the elliptically stylized Jarman films that launched her career, or the ornately costumed androgyne in Potter's Orlando, or even the frigid witch in Andrew Adamson's The Chronicles of Narnia.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Vegoose Music Festival Pleases Some of the People Some of the Timenew
Vegoose, like all 21st-century music festivals, is for the short-attention-spanned, a good way to consume many live experiences briefly.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
11-02-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Vegoose Music Festival, concerts
Robert Redford and the Facade of a Nationnew
Redford is once again traversing the chasm between the American dream and the American reality in a new film that meets the War on Terror and a grab bag of other sociopolitical issues head-on.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
11-02-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lions for Lambs, Robert Redford
No Mulligan for Mukaseynew
Senate Dems caught in a water hazard over torture.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
11-02-2007 |
Commentary
CNN's Glenn Beck Gloats While L.A. Blazesnew
"I think there is a handful of people who hate America," he said on-air. "Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today."
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
10-26-2007 |
Commentary
Tags: California, fires
Artists Giving Away Their Music for Free: A Prehistorynew
Radiohead wasn't the first, folks.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
10-26-2007 |
Music
The World on Firenew
If you were to write down how many fires are raging in Southern California right now, you would be wrong, because every time you look, a new one springs up between the Mexican border and Ventura.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
10-26-2007 |
Disasters
Sidney Lumet's Long Journeynew
The venerable director returns with a devilish thriller.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
10-26-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
