AltWeeklies Wire
"Real Hot Property," "Where the Bodies are Buried," "Digging Up the Dirt," "Nuclear Reactions"new
AltWeeklies Award - Investigative Reporting
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Michael Collins |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
"American Babylon": 1, 2, 3new
AltWeeklies Award - Column-Political
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andrew Gumbel |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
Jackie Chan and Jet Li Bring the Monkey King to Hollywoodnew
The most obvious selling point of The Forbidden Kingdom is the first-ever onscreen teaming of Jackie Chan and Jet Li, the world's two best-known martial arts stars. But it also represents another first: It's the first big Hollywood production in two decades to really absorb the kinds of Chinese stories that have formed the basis for much of Hong Kong action cinema.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
04-21-2008 |
Reviews
'Expelled': Another Expression of the Right Wing's Victim Complexnew
The film claims not to be about atheism vs. religion or Darwinism vs. Intelligent Design, but rather about academic freedom. I'll agree with the first half of that: Among the reasons this film was made, religion is second and science (at best) third. But the No. 1 agenda has much less to do with academic freedom than with political ideology.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
04-21-2008 |
Reviews
Musicial Treasure Chris Gaffney Needs Your Help to Livenew
Two months ago, friends and fans were alarmed to learn that Gaff had become desperately ill. After he was originally diagnosed with hepatitis C, further tests uncovered cirrhosis of the liver; about a month ago, a large tumor was discovered on his liver. He will eventually need an organ transplant.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Chris Morris |
04-04-2008 |
Music
Tags: Chris Gaffney
The Quick and the Deadnew
Shine a Light and Chapter 27 prove again how '60s culture continues to haunt us.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
04-04-2008 |
Reviews
Ailene is 11 and Homelessnew
Where will she and 13,000 others go to school today?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Matthew Mundy |
04-04-2008 |
Children & Families
DJ Kazell Helped Put L.A. on House International Mapnew
That DJ Kazell has become one of America's great spinners is no joke: True DJ fans appreciate the extra work and skill that goes into opening and sustaining a big night, including setting the mood, modulating energy, and handing off the baton off to the next spinner with aplomb.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Dennis Romero |
03-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Kazell
Cadence Weapon Raps With Breakneck Flownew
Ordinary rappers rarely try to distance themselves from party funk, and even more rarely try to align themselves with cerebral electronica. But 22-year-old Cadence Weapon is no ordinary rapper.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Greg Katz |
03-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cadence Weapon
Success Remains the Best Revengenew

Junkie XL remains a music-industry iconoclast, having pushed beyond accepted practices of marketing and distribution well before Internet downloads hobbled the major-label machine.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Matt Diehl |
03-28-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Booming Back At You, Junkie XL
'21' is Full of Plot Implausibilitiesnew
For most of its length, 21 seems like a cautionary tale ... at least, until the whole point is negated by a tacked-on happy ending.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Andy Klein |
03-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: 21, Robert Luketic
Good Guy or Bad Guy?new
The big Kahuna of bad guys on Lost, megalomaniacal Others leader Benjamin Linus (Michael Emerson), has made a habit of insisting he's one of the good guys. How can a guy who once killed a bunch of his own people with nerve gas be good?
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Natalie Nichols |
03-28-2008 |
TV
McCain's Baghdad Spring Breaknew
Several U.S. senators also made a "fact-finding" trip to Iraq this week, but it was McCain who got all the attention, as the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and as a longtime supporter of the invasion, occupation, and surge.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Editorial |
03-21-2008 |
Commentary
Simple as Brown vs. Blacknew
LAPD chief denies what others see as clear cases of racial violence.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Annette Stark |
03-21-2008 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Adulterer's Perp Walknew
As with Spitzer's self-destruction in New York, sex scandals are spectacular but brief.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Mick Farren |
03-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media