AltWeeklies Wire
A Sneaky Move Aims to Stop Calif. Charter Schoolsnew
The proposed law would prohibit the California State Board of Education from allowing statewide charter schools to operate longer than three years -- a limitation that would discourage schools from opening.
L.A. Weekly |
Patrick Range McDonald |
08-17-2007 |
Education
GOP Straw Mennew
Republican presidential candidates pander to baseless base in Iowa.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
08-17-2007 |
Politics
'Superbad': It Happened One Nightnew
What earns the film a place alongside American Graffiti, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Dazed and Confused in the pantheon of evergreen high school movies is its sweet, soulful vulnerability.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Greg Mottola, Superbad
'The 11th Hour': Countdown to Extinctionnew
Despite its shortcomings, the film is ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that Leonardo DiCaprio -- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
'The Invasion': Live Pod Castingnew
Is there a Razzie Award for worst casting? If so, it's one of several that can be reserved early for this fourth, spectacularly lousy screen version of Jack Finney's 1954 novella The Body Snatchers.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
08-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: The Invasion, Oliver Hirschbieger
Ask Mr. Gold: Pig Lovenew
Where to go for the whole hog in L.A.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
08-17-2007 |
Food+Drink
A Heavy Load for Truckersnew
The ports say they have a plan for cleaner, safer trucks -- but do they have a plan for the truckers?
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
07-27-2007 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
D'oh! 'Simpsons' Limited-Edition Vansnew
Is that a Bart on your shoe?
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
07-27-2007 |
Fashion
Tags: fashion
Edward Yang, 1947-2007new
Like most great filmmakers, Yang was timeless, and transcendent of linguistic or geographic barriers.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-27-2007 |
Movies
Counter Intelligence: Slab Citynew
On the meat trail, a lardo dream.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
07-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
'The Simpsons Movie': Longer, Wider, Deepernew
What the film does -- and does well -- is revisit the series' most enduring situations and themes while upping the ante just enough to lend everything a new level of suspense.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
07-27-2007 |
Reviews
Ask Mr. Gold: The Best Cuban Sandwich in L.A.?new
The venerable Cafe Tropical in Silver Lake, which has become a little more upscale in the last few years, still serves a formidable Cuban, juicy and garlicky and lacquered with pickles.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
07-27-2007 |
Food+Drink
Prez Debates Need More People & Fewer Videosnew
This week's CNN/YouTube Democratic debate was a fraud -- billed as first-of-its-kind, it was the worst-of-its-kind.
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
07-27-2007 |
Commentary
'Chuck & Larry' Pretend to be Gay & Turn Out to be Humanistsnew
I wanted to hate I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry, truly I did.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
07-20-2007 |
Reviews
Lost in Tijuana: A Mother's Search for a Deported Sonnew
After serving about 20 days of a 120-day jail sentence for vandalism and car theft, Pedro Guzman was transferred to the ICE detention center, where he signed a "voluntary deportation order," claiming Mexican citizenship -- but Guzman is an American citizen, born in L.A.
L.A. Weekly |
Daniel Hernandez |
07-20-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: Immigration
