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Lincoln Made Into Just Another Action Heronew
Over the weekend, a twelve year old named Charlie saw Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter.
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Danny Simon |
06-26-2012 |
Reviews
Something from Nothing Belongs in Hip Hip Canonnew
This documentary eschews the expected celebrity egomania and gets at the process of how complex wordplay is inspired and constructed to fit the beat. And along the way, the film exposes a central truth often obscured by posturing and media noise. The artists that create rap are the biggest fans of all.
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Danny Simon |
06-22-2012 |
Reviews
Building On the Public's Dimenew
It seems like every time certain private investors come up short on their grand development ideas, they want to beg, borrow or steal, money from the public purse with the best of intentions.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
06-18-2012 |
Housing & Development
Affordable Housing Out Of Reach For Most Rentersnew
If you’re working a minimum wage job in America, where can you afford to live? Other than your parents’ basement, the answer is simple: Nowhere. That’s according to “Out of Reach 2012,” the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent version of its annual report.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
06-18-2012 |
Homelessness
Prometheus: In space, no one can hear you scream, or scratch your headnew
It’s always hard to understand why any director would choose to tarnish the memory of the project that made their career. Lucas. Spielberg. And now, Ridley Scott. These guys have vaults like Scrooge McDuck, so what makes them so careless with their legacy?
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Danny Simon |
06-13-2012 |
Reviews
ALEC Normalizes Corruption In Statehouses Across the Landnew
For almost four decades, the American Legislative Exchange Council, known by its acronym, “ALEC,” has worked hard on behalf of corporate America and right wing causes, helping to draft, build support for and pass laws through state legislatures across the nation—and doing so in relative anonymity, even as it skirts numerous state laws limiting corporate gift-giving and other forms of influence-peddling. It was never really clear why ALEC’s existence stayed such a secret, particularly since it wasn’t a secret. It’s just that, somehow, people seemed to ignore it, even though it wielded staggering amounts of power in legally questionable ways.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
06-01-2012 |
Commentary
In Theaters Now #1: The Five-Year Engagementnew
I got lucky the other night, well kinda. Romantic comedies generally follow a predictable course; there is the meeting of an unlikely couple, the “getting-to-know-you” montage, the cumming together, the falling apart, and the big happy double reach around ending. Like crack cocaine or chocolate, rom-coms are designed to momentarily distract us from our comparably imperfect lives in which we don’t look, talk or fuck like the movie stars on the screen. Ironically, the distraction offered by rom-coms fuels a sense of dissatisfaction so we need more distraction and then poof, we’re stuck in a rom-com downward death spin cycle which retards the audience just a bit more with every incarnation.
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Danny Simon |
05-13-2012 |
Reviews
Deep In Echo Park, A Bohemian Nexusnew
Long time Echo Park residents Anne Stein and Gary Leonard are planning to showcase the paintings of Anne's father, Philip Stein, at their Take My Picture Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. They are doing so as the restored Siqueiros mural "American Tropical" is about to be unveiled in Olvera Street.
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Lionel Rolfe |
05-13-2012 |
Commentary
Why I Could Care Less About The L.A. Dodgersnew
The connection between fascism and sports.
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Lionel Rolfe |
05-07-2012 |
Commentary
Review of The Universe of Matt Jenningsnew
Review of The Universe of Matt Jennings at the Long Beach Playhouse. It's stage production that takes Star Trek where it never has been before.
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John Farrell |
04-10-2012 |
Theater
LES & ANNIE CLAYPOOL: Echo Park’s Last And Truest Bohemiansnew
Little more than 50 years ago, a guy named Les Claypool lived with his lovely wife Annie at the top of Echo Park Avenue in what may be the most Bohemian section of Los Angeles. They lived in a home built on the steep hillside out of giant redwood lumber and lots of glass and sunshine. It was a lovely place to wake up in after a great night of partying.
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Lionel Rolfe |
04-06-2012 |
Commentary
Culture Clash's American Night: The Ballad of Juan Josenew
Culture Clash is back with a new production, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose.
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John Farrell |
03-26-2012 |
Theater
Why I Like My Old Friend Gerald Nicosia So Muchnew
Lionel Rolfe's recollections of his time with Gerald Nicosia and the making of On the Road.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-23-2012 |
Commentary
Saving Shakespeare From a Thousand Cutsnew
In these lean times of budget cuts and reduced services, Shakespeare by the Sea's Lisa Coffi has had to work much harder to continue the Shakespearian showcase.
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John Farrell |
03-23-2012 |
Theater
Remembering Tiberiusnew
The tragedy of forgetting history.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
03-21-2012 |
Commentary
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