AltWeeklies Wire
Renegades of Funknew
Rhino digs deep into the vaults for What It Is! and the righteous funk that time forgot.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Don Waller |
01-02-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, What It Is!
Putting the 'Ho in Ho Ho Honew
TV advertising and the rise of the schmuck husband.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
01-02-2007 |
Media
Tags: media
The Introspection Afterwardsnew
Former Sunny Day Real Estate frontman Jeremy Enigk finds a quiet way forward at L.A.'s Troubadour.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
01-02-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: Jeremy Enigk, concerts
Hunter S. Thompson Was Wrongnew
Strange rumblings from the Gonzo afterlife ... Ralph Steadman ink stains and battle scars ... the suicide solution ... an outlaw's farewell, a son's revenge.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Steve Appleford |
01-02-2007 |
Books
Foster's Bluesnew
A nearly forgotten tap dancer's influence is still felt by L.A.'s modern troupes.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Kirk Silsbee |
12-22-2006 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Are Friends Electric?new
L.A.'s first Alternative Car and Transportation Expo revives the electric car.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Frank Kosa |
12-22-2006 |
Transportation
Tags: transportation
Pressure Playnew
Workers fired in the LAX living wage fight are reinstated after the city, state legislators, and the union push back.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dean Kuipers |
12-22-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Men Don't Sucknew
... and other truths I learned in dance class.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Samantha Dun |
12-22-2006 |
Performance
Tags: dance
A Tale of a Few Strippersnew
Social climbing at Jumbo's Clown Room.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Cole Coonce |
12-22-2006 |
Performance
Tags: dance
Third Degree: Ken Burnsnew
The documentary filmmaker discusses the FCC, creeping fundamentalism, The War, and why soldiers should curse on TV.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
David Davin |
12-15-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Starving for Justicenew
LAX hotel workers on hunger strike to protect living wage law are fired.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mindy Farabee |
12-15-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Check Yourselfnew
SxCheck.com is a new route to fast and confidential testing for HIV -- and a new model for online medicine.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dean Kuipers |
12-15-2006 |
Science
Tags: Health & Science
Into the Light of 'Day'new
At the start of one century, Pynchon's latest novel illuminates the dawn of the last.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Anthony Miller |
12-15-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon
The Cycle of 'Changes'new
This new Fahey set captures the guitarist revisiting his roots near the end of his life.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Morris |
12-15-2006 |
Reviews
Getting Centerednew
The midterm elections made it clear that voters want solutions over partisanship, and politicians, remarkably, are responding.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
12-15-2006 |
Politics
Tags: 2006elect
