AltWeeklies Wire
Eddie Izzard Takes off His Dressnew
Scheduled for five nights at the Kodak, comedian talks Bible Belt, Napoleon, spelunking and the future of The Riches.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
08-01-2008 |
Performance
E3 Summit: The Business of Beautiful Killing Gamesnew
Faster, Dracula! Kill! Kill! Bloodthirsty peeks at the latest versions of Flock, BioShock, Borderlands, WolfQuest and Castlevania, plus Konami designer Koji Igarashi.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-25-2008 |
Video Games
The Plush Life of Food: A Collector's Storynew
Collecting is a disease. After you own something, you have to take care of it. In a way, Sarah Jo Marks believes, it owns you. Like her plush food collection.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-25-2008 |
Culture
Zen and the Art of Cougar Huntingnew
They practice picking up young men at the grocery store, these older women who have never been married, or whose husbands have left them for younger stock, or whose soul mates have died of heart attacks or in car accidents. On a balmy Thursday at a hotel in Pasadena, life coach Zen Kern, simply Zen to his clients, instructs the ladies in his Cougar Class to pretend they've just spotted a cute guy contemplating the cereal at Ralphs.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
07-07-2008 |
Culture
Tags: Los Angeles, dating, Sex, cougars, relationships, older women, cougar class, life coaches, Zen Kern
It's Not Easy Trying to be Cougar Baitnew
If I'm to achieve a life of leisurely Parisian mornings and afternoon massages, without working for it, of course, I'll have to become someone's pretty piece of meat. Someone rich, middle-aged and a little desperate. In other words, I need a cougar. But where to find such a woman?
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
07-07-2008 |
Culture
Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizionew
Bozo the Clown's shoes, big as canoe paddles, sit on a shelf in Fabrizio's shop on San Vicente Boulevard. He's making copies of the floppy soles for a movie. Afterward, the originals will go to a museum for safekeeping.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-27-2008 |
Fashion
The Death of Raven, a Hollywood Beautynew
LA's noir streets made her the star of her own tragedy, then took it all away.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
06-20-2008 |
Culture
Perez Hilton Unveils His New Fashion Linenew
Hilton, rumormonger, blogger and creative force behind PerezHilton.com, a.k.a. "Hollywood's most-hated website," debuted his own fashion line for Hot Topic this weekend.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
06-13-2008 |
Fashion
Is Pasadena's Art Center Gehry-Rigged?new
Arts Center president Richard Koshalek says no, but students and fearful faculty beg to differ.
L.A. Weekly |
Matthew Fleischer |
06-13-2008 |
Art
Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Meccanew
Sure, this bastard love child of real golf and Chutes and Ladders is what Satan would make Tiger Woods play if he wound up in Hell. And yeah, it's just about the tackiest sport ever invented. But minigolf is also supremely relaxing.
L.A. Weekly |
Gendy Alimurung |
05-27-2008 |
Recreation
Paranoid Transit Agency Tries to Censor Bloggersnew
Southern California commuter-rail line Metrolink spends public money threatening critical websites.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
05-27-2008 |
Tech
Manson Clan Body Dig Underwaynew
Law enforcement agencies and scientists, shadowed at a distance by a small army of local and international reporters, descended on Barker Ranch this month in hopes of getting to the bottom of a persistent rumor that Manson Family murder victims are buried there.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
05-27-2008 |
History
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
An L.A. Playwright's Struggle to Go Eastnew
Can Michael Elias make it there?
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
04-04-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
'Passing Strange': The L.A. Problemnew
His play is a Broadway hit, but don't ask Stew to come home again.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
04-04-2008 |
Theater
Tags: theater
