AltWeeklies Wire
Let's Not Get Everyone Killednew
The Unit, David Mamet's new military series on CBS, is not your typical swinging-dick soldier hour.
L.A. Weekly |
Robert Abele |
03-02-2006 |
TV
Tags: TV
Trumped-Up Terroristsnew
There are doubts about the feds' claim that a father and son recruited U.S. citizens for training at radical religious schools and raised money for "international jihadist groups."
L.A. Weekly |
John Ryan |
03-02-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: WAR
Octavia Butler, 1947-2006new
Butler's work was grounded in the reality of a grim, racist Pasadena that Jackie Robinson, another native son, hated and never wanted to return to.
L.A. Weekly |
Jervey Tervalon |
03-02-2006 |
Books
Diebold's Revengenew
Los Angeles County's District Attorney goes after the man who leaked key documents outlining problems with voting machines to the secretary of state and a reporter.
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
03-02-2006 |
Politics
Border Politicsnew
Republicans are fighting among themselves over immigration -- will Democrats have a voice?
L.A. Weekly |
Marc Cooper |
02-23-2006 |
Immigration
Tags: 2006elect
Misty Mountain Stompnew
Citay takes inspiration from an era when rock's ambition toward the large-scale and epic was regarded as a good and righteous thing.
L.A. Weekly |
John Payne |
02-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Citay
Family Viewingnew
At the movies and on TV, American domestic life is changing.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
02-23-2006 |
Culture
Tags: lifestyles
Heavy-Duty Rock 'n' Rollnew
Pearls and Brass play very heavy and exceptionally musical jams that rock with harmonized guitar leads and a rolling-thunder rhythm section that propels the mass forward like it's all one body.
L.A. Weekly |
John Payne |
02-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pearls and Brass
Dirty Deedsnew
Bad cops and brass-knuckle politics play out in two new tales of urban dystopia, Dirty and Street Fight.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-23-2006 |
Reviews
Green and Bare Itnew
A new crop of environmentalists prove biodiesel can be sexy.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
02-23-2006 |
Environment
Tags: environment
The Knockout Shotnew
How did former boxer Michael Hunter end up shot dead on a rooftop by LAPD undercover cops?
L.A. Weekly |
Christine Pelisek |
02-23-2006 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: crime & justice
The Lonesome Deathnew
The notion persists that when a black person dies in a scuffle with a white person or authority, he or she must somehow be to blame.
L.A. Weekly |
Judith Lewis |
02-23-2006 |
Race & Class
Tags: race relations
Dreaming of Picket Fencesnew
UNITE HERE's Hotel Workers Rising campaign seeks to lift working and living standards in one of the few American industries whose work force cannot be offshored.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
02-23-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
In Search of Genghis Hanknew
Jorge Hank Rhon has been called him a criminal, a murderer and the worst mayor in Tijuana history.
L.A. Weekly |
Josh Kun |
02-16-2006 |
International
Tags: international
The Distributor Who Wasn't Therenew
Los Angeles filmmaker Brian Flemming would rather do it himself.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Leigh Morris |
02-16-2006 |
Movies
