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Barry Minkow 2.0new
L.A.'s fraud king is back -- and taking the media for another ride
L.A. Weekly |
Beth Barrett |
10-18-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Patch, the WalMart of News?new
AOL takes on longtime local bloggers with its hyperlocal news sites in Los Angeles.
L.A. Weekly |
Tibby Rothman |
09-30-2010 |
Media
Dennis Hopper: Remembering an American dreamernew
Hopper's brief friendship with James Dean, his co-star and mentor on the sets of Rebel Without a Cause and Giant marked him for life; they shared a passion, which Dean was the first person in Hopper's world to fully articulate.
L.A. Weekly |
F.x. Feeney |
06-07-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dennis Hopper
Bruce Willis, Tracy Morgan and Movie Mockery in Kevin Smith's New Featurenew
The film's opening shot, set to the Beastie Boys' No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn, is a slow-motion, toe-to-head tilt-up of white cop-black cop buddies Jimmy (Bruce Willis) and Paul (Tracy Morgan) swaggering stone-faced toward the camera.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-26-2010 |
Reviews
99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Die: Fugu to Foie Gras, Pizza to Panuchosnew
The theme of this is somewhat morbid. We were going to call it "99 Things to Eat in L.A. Before You Move to San Diego," but it didn’t have the same ring of finality. You could drive up if you were really in the mood for a maple-bacon biscuit, but from beyond the grave?
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
02-26-2010 |
Food+Drink
Damian Lazarus Talks Techno and the Changing Face of Electronic Labelsnew
Damian Lazarus is sitting at the dining-room table of his Echo Park home trying to recover from a five-day touring blitz that he and his label mates at Crosstown Rebels have just finished. He's a bit worn down, but that's part of the deal.
L.A. Weekly |
Randall Roberts |
02-26-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Rodney Alcala's Final Revenge: Alleged Serial Killer Ratchets Up the Sufferingnew
In letters to him, Bruce Barcomb compared Rodney Alcala to notorious serial killers Jeffrey Dahmer and Ted Bundy, and begged him to spare the victims' relatives from a painful trial — including Barcomb's own elderly mother, who was undergoing chemotherapy.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
02-26-2010 |
Crime & Justice
Fines Jacked Up by L.A. City Council Send Strapped Residents to Community Servicenew
What to do when, as Professor Thomas Griffith puts it, "we're running out of tricks"? Raise fines and fees: parking tickets coupled with meters that now must be fed well after 6 p.m.; "Denver" boots on cars; tow-away surcharges; littering fines. None of it has to go before L.A. voters.
L.A. Weekly |
Michael Goldstein |
02-26-2010 |
Transportation
Martin Scorsese's Throwback Head Trip is the Good Kind of Insanenew
Martin Scorsese's Shutter Island, a florid art shocker that Paramount welcomed into the world with the strained enthusiasm of a mutant baby's parents, begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet.
L.A. Weekly |
Nick Pinkerton |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
L.A. Street Food Fest: Was it Worth All the Waiting?new
Along with several thousand others last weekend, I attended the L.A. Street Food Fest, which featured 30 or so food trucks, oceans of frothing Singha, and a DJ. One's experience of the event depended — like an evening with Kogi — on how much time one was willing to spend waiting in line for a sandwich.
L.A. Weekly |
Jonathan Gold |
02-19-2010 |
Food+Drink
Portrait of an American Family, Stuck, From One Halloween to the Nextnew
October Country follows four generations of the Mosher family from one October 31 to the next, and, in between days of the dead, the spooks linger. Halloween itself is a Mosher obsession, a leveler across generations.
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-19-2010 |
Reviews
Dreams of Life and Death: Looking Back with Patti Smithnew
Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe were barely 20 when they met, a couple of androgynous hippies newly arrived in New York City to live among the bohos and Beats, the Factory divas and "extravagant bums" swirling around the boroughs, the Bowery and the Chelsea.
L.A. Weekly |
Steve Appleford |
02-19-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Employers Skim $26.2 Million Per Week from Lower-Income Workers Paychecksnew
Ruth Milkman should have moved this statistic from the 53rd page of her study to the front, where it might have been read by local media: Every week, employers in Los Angeles County pilfer $26.2 million from the paychecks of the poorest 17 percent of workers.
L.A. Weekly |
Max Taves |
02-19-2010 |
Business & Labor
'Daddy Long Legs': The Pleasures of Being Kidnappednew
Filmmaker brothers Benny and Josh Safdie have invited me to meet them here and afterwards discuss their second feature, Daddy Long Legs, which had its U.S. premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. (It appeared simultaneously on nationwide cable VOD.)
L.A. Weekly |
Karina Longworth |
02-05-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
When Life Takes You Out of Your House and Into Your Carnew
Maybe one has even parked on your street: a conversion van, curtains drawn, or a camper with signs of everyday life. They are so ubiquitous in Venice, Calif. that some have been trying to turn the onetime hippie enclave into a parking-permit-only town as a way to ward off "undesirables."
L.A. Weekly |
Linda Immediato |
02-05-2010 |
Economy
