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The Life and Death of Jesse James

An internet love mystery

By Josh Olson

I met Audrey back in the nascent days of the Internet, when we were both on AOL, regular contributors to a message board devoted to screenwriting. I was just starting out as a writer, and might have optioned one or two things for a few hundred bucks (if that), and Audrey was… Keep Reading »

The Life and Death of Jesse James

An internet love mystery

By Josh Olson

Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

Tony Kaye returns with a new feature and an epic survey of the abortion debate

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

By night, the approach to downtown from the Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport has a ghostly, disembodied tenor. Two years on from Katrina, there remain many hollowed-out buildings in various states of rehabilitation, and my taxicab driver tells me that in the aftermath of the storm, he had to relocate his… Keep Reading »

will.i.am Solves Your Girl Trouble

The Black Eyed Pea doles out some Fergielicious advice on his new CD ? and online?

By JEFF WEISS

Late last month, will.i.am, the capitalization-eschewing mastermind behind the Black Eyed Peas, released his debut solo album, Songs About Girls. Made to show the “artist” side of him, the former Palisades High student born Will Adams claims Songs is an autobiographical concept album with tracks that tell the story of “falling in… Keep Reading »

Taking the Downtown Detour

Scenes from L.A. Weekly's second annual music festival

By RANDALL ROBERTS

WALKING TOWARD THE City Hall East stage at Saturday’s L.A. Weekly Detour Festival, a grumpy girl in red Chuck Taylors angrily snapped at her boyfriend, “I can’t believe I missed Kinky.” At any event with four stages, participants must choose a festival philosophy: to float carelessly from stage to stage, or to… Keep Reading »

Hitting It Off With Orny Adams

By Libby Molyneaux

The Massachusetts-born comic has loads of great quotes, like this one: “If I don’t eat, I don’t have enough energy to suck in my stomach.” He’s at the Ice House this weekend.They say comedy comes from pain ? is that the case with you?Yes, mostly others’… Keep Reading »

LA Daily

Tenpercenter David Styne Axed By CAA

Deadline Hollywood Daily

Wed, Oct 10, 8:03 pm

Radiohead's "In Rainbows," a Prehistory

Play

Tue, Oct 9, 5:49 pm

They Shoot, They Score

Foundas & Taylor on Film

Sun, Oct 7, 10:02 pm

Meeting of Styles, 3rd Batch

Lurker

Sat, Oct 6, 9:24 am

Best of L.A. '07

Best of L.A. 2007 Armageddon it!

The last things we'd ever do

News

MTA's $1 Billion Development Scheme

By Patrick Range McDonald

Eleven transit honchos were barred from voting due to money conflicts. So they drew straws.

Will Teach for Food

By David Ferrell

A payroll disaster at LAUSD ruins educators’ finances, with no fix in sight

Brownout Is the New Black

By Sophia Kercher

L.A.’s bid to copy Sydney feels like a humiliating replay of Millennium Eve

Rush to Your Phones!

By Marc Cooper

KPFK needs to raise some hush money

See No Point in Caring...

By Mr. Fish

Hear no urging for pacifism, speak no dissenting opinion for fear of disappearing

More News »

Columns

HOOPLA

Filthy Waters Run Black

By Libby Molyneaux

What to do in Los Angeles this week

24/Seven

The Art of Textual Relations

By SEVEN MCDONALD

Looking for romance in the age of “Get Wit U” courtship

Nightranger

Licensed to Ill

By Lina Lecaro

Ask A Mexican

¡Ask a Mexican! Three-Pregunta Especial

By Gustavo Arellano

Why do Mexicans REFRY their beans?

Surf Report

Who Cares Whodunit?

By ROBERT ABELE

Five Days asks why

Theater

Evel Knievel's Leaps of Faith

By STEVEN MIKULAN

Collision course

Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

Also Jim Morrison's Swimming to the Moon and this week's pick, Innocent When You Dream .

More Theater »

Art / Books

David Leavitt’s The Indian Clerk

By MARGARET WERTHEIM

A mathematician's apology

Marla vs. Pollock: Who’s the Fraudiest?

By DOUG HARVEY

The art of the con of the art

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TV / Games

Christina Applegate Erases Bundy Past

By ROBERT ABELE

Samantha Who?

More TV / Games »

A Considerable Town

Mr. Wilson's War

By STEVEN MIKULAN

Former ambassador Joseph Wilson warns the country-club crowd about the “theo-con” threat

Taking the Downtown Detour

By RANDALL ROBERTS

Scenes from L.A. Weekly's second annual music festival

Phil Noir: Phil Spector’s Dark Victory

By STEVEN MIKULAN

Trial wrap-up: A juror’s Lana Clarkson fantasies and failed casserole strategy as the Wall of Sound architect gets away with ? what?

More A Considerable Town »

Savage Love

By DAN SAVAGE

I’ve been going out with my boyfriend for four years. He wants me to masturbate for him, but I don’t feel comfortable doing it.

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Now Read This!

Counter Intelligence: Larkin's Soul Revival

By Jonathan Gold

The juke joint lives again

Will Teach for Food

By David Ferrell

A payroll disaster at LAUSD ruins educators’ finances, with no fix in sight

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Shiek, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

By L.A. Weekly Music Staff

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Live in L.A.: Bat for Lashes, The Shins and More

By Timothy Norris

Photos of concerts around town, including Detour '07

Music

will.i.am Solves Your Girl Trouble

By JEFF WEISS

The Black Eyed Pea doles out some Fergielicious advice on his new CD ? and online?

Renaissance Man Val Kilmer May Have Met his Match.

By BEN WESTHOFF

The Iceman cometh

Radio Daze

By JOHN PAYNE

Hrishikesh Hirway channeled his existential crisis into the gentle, brooding This Too Will Pass

Licensed to Ill

By Lina Lecaro

Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Shiek, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

By L.A. Weekly Music Staff

For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

Rock Picks: Ruins, Beirut, Turbonegro, Metric

By L.A. Weekly Music Staff

Also, Bill Callahan, Emmylou Harris and more picks for the week of October 4 ?11

More Music »

Food

Larkin's Soul Revival

By JONATHAN GOLD

The juke joint lives again

On a Roll

By Jonathan Gold

Breaking the Ma Maison curse

Happy Meals

By Jonathan Gold

Culver City on $10 a day

More Food »

Movies

Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

By SCOTT FOUNDAS

Tony Kaye returns with a new feature and an epic survey of the abortion debate

Lake of Fire: Pro-Debate

By J. HOBERMAN

17 years in the making, Tony Kaye’s epic abortion doc gives a lot ? but no answer

Paul Schneider's Redneck Revelation

By CHUCK WILSON

With breakout roles in Lars and the Real Girl and The Assassination of Jesse James , Schneider braces for the Hollywood big time

7th Hungarian Film Festival of Los Angeles

By Adam Nayman

Varied slate of titles slants toward mainstream

Schindler's Houses

By Scott Foundas

It's good to be home

Screamfest 2007

By Luke Y. Thompson

Terror in the aisles

Movie Reviews: Berkeley, The Heartbreak Kid, Lust, Caution

By L.A. Weekly Movie Critics

Also this week's pick, Colma: The Musical

More Movies »

LA Vida

Happy Trails

By LINDA IMMEDIATO

Getting back in the saddle

Shoot to Thrill

By LINA LECARO

The ever-evolving photo booth

More LA Vida »

Nikki Finke...Now

Tenpercenter David Styne Axed By CAA

Wed, Oct 10, 9:03 pm

The veteran CAA motion picture lit agent (there over 20 years) won't be expected to show up for work at the Mausoleum from now on. He was on the team of agents for?clients?Oliver Stone, Michael Mann, Taylor Hackford, John Logan, Brian Koppelman and David Levien. Some people tell me he was a prick. Others liked [...]

Another Hollywood-Made Film For Hillary

Wed, Oct 10, 8:45 pm

Rob Reiner, a new convert to the Hillary Clinton campaign as of late September, wrote, directed and stars in this volunteer-for-Hillary online film?now showing on her campaign website. Unfortunately, it's the same quality as Rob's?full-length motion pictures?bombing at the box office these days. In other words, unwatchable. But you be the judge.

More Nikki Finke...Now »

Features

The Life and Death of Jesse James

By Josh Olson

An internet love mystery

Best of L.A. 2007 Armageddon it!

The last things we'd ever do

The God of Sperm

By Steven Kotler

In an industry veiled in secrecy, a powerful L.A. sperm peddler shapes the nation’s rules on disease, genetics ? and accidental incest

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The Internet-buzzed new Beirut album, The Flying Club Cup, finds 21-year-old band mastermi...

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Andras Schiff

Whenever you get the chance to hear the dazzlingly perfect Andras Schiff, whose delicate t...

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

Landscaping America: Beyond the Japanese Garden

The history of Japanese Americans reinterpreting Japanese garden traditions on the West Co

JAPANESE AMERICAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

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Wahib's Middle East Restaurant

Unlike most Lebanese restaurants, the Middle East Restaurant makes a specialty of breakfas...

Carousel Restaurant.

There are two Carousels, and the Glendale branch may well be the best, most interesting Le...

Vincenti Ristorante

Valentino may be grander than Vincenti, La Terza flashier and Giorgio Baldi may draw a mor...

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Whenever you get the chance to hear the dazzlingly perfect Andras Schiff, whose delicate t...

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

BEIRUT

The Internet-buzzed new Beirut album, The Flying Club Cup, finds 21-year-old band mastermi...

AVALON

EMMYLOU HARRIS

The queen of countrified harmony singing makes a South Bay stop before taking a year off p

CERRITOS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

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Jazz Tap Ensemble: The Hollywood Journey

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, the Nicholas Brothers, Ann Miller, Bill “Bojangles&#...

Pepperdine University, Smothers Theatre

Andras Schiff

Whenever you get the chance to hear the dazzlingly perfect Andras Schiff, whose delicate t...

WALT DISNEY CONCERT HALL

Latino Night , hosted by Benny Mena , 8 p.m.; $20; Laugh Factoria: La Casa de Risa , Spanish-language comedy with Paul Rodriguez , 10 p.m., $20.

LAUGH FACTORY

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“Western Lands”: group show, paintings

THE BALMORAL

“Earth, Wind & Solar: International Ecology”: political posters

USC ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION

Jamestown at 400: Natives and Newcomers in Early Virginia

Illustrated books, including a hand-colored version of John Smith's map of Virginia, highl...

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Bat for Lashes, Troubadour, 10/9

Playing every instrument under the sun, Natasha Khan and her all-girl band hit West Hollywood

The Shins, Greek Theatre, 10/8

With the indie king's third album out for almost a year, the Shins keep the tour bus rolling through L.A.

Cobrasnake Detour Photos

Shots of the people on the streets at LA Weekly's Detour festival

Detour '07: Justice, Turbonegro, Bloc Party

Also Teddybears, Moving Units, Celebrity Skin and more

Phil Noir: Phil Spector’s Dark Victory

By STEVEN MIKULAN

Trial wrap-up: A juror’s Lana Clarkson fantasies and failed casserole strategy as the Wall of Sound architect gets away with ? what?

The Life and Death of Jesse James

By Josh Olson

An internet love mystery

Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

Also Jim Morrison's Swimming to the Moon and this week's pick, Innocent When You Dream .

Larkin's Soul Revival

By JONATHAN GOLD

The juke joint lives again

On a Roll

By Jonathan Gold

Breaking the Ma Maison curse

Was the Sheriff MIA? (7)

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Wed, Sep 26, 5:00 pm

It took nearly a month for deputies to break into the home. The two women were long dead

Brooklyn Bagel's Hole Foods (5)

By Jonathan Gold

Wed, Sep 26, 12:00 pm

Filling the void left by the H&H syndrome

Jack Weiss Recall Stumbles (4)

By PATRICK RANGE MCDONALD

Wed, Sep 26, 5:00 pm

Westsiders turn an effort to oust a councilman into amateur hour

Blue Whale Requiem (4)

By JUDITH LEWIS

Wed, Sep 26, 5:00 pm

Mystery reigns as sonar tests pit military training against beloved Southland pods

¡Ask a Mexican! Playing the Numbers (3)

By GUSTAVO ARELLANO

Wed, Sep 26, 1:00 pm

Get Shucked

By JONATHAN GOLD AND MICHELLE HUNEVEN

By STEVEN MIKULAN

Trial wrap-up: A juror’s Lana Clarkson fantasies and failed casserole strategy as the Wall of Sound architect gets away with ? what?

The Life and Death of Jesse James

By Josh Olson

An internet love mystery

Theater Reviews: The Drawer Boy, Hollywood Hellhouse, Max Maven

By L.A. Weekly Theater Critics

Also Jim Morrison's Swimming to the Moon and this week's pick, Innocent When You Dream .

Larkin's Soul Revival

By JONATHAN GOLD

The juke joint lives again

On a Roll

By Jonathan Gold

Breaking the Ma Maison curse

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