[ Frontlines ]


May Day !

May Day !

~ By Ron Garmon ~

To Angelenos cherishing any corkscrew kink of anarchy, the news that local cops are breathing easier after this May Day ...read more


[ L.A. Sniper ]

Steve Cooley Is Not a Taco Truck

~ By Alan Mittelstaedt ~

The D.A. man needs your help bringing to justice the “gangsters in suits,” as one prosecutor describes some of the people who run the corrupt cities southeast of downtown L.A. ...read more


[ Editorial ]

Rhymes with 'Rich'


[ Left Coast ]

Cartoon by Ted Rall


[ Take My Picture ]

Photograph by Gary Leonard


Letters






 

[ Cover Story ]


The Old Ball Game

~ By Neal Pollack ~

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[ Film ]

Fantastic Landscapes

Fantastic Landscapes

~ By Andy Klein ~

The summer I was eight years old, I was driven to camp every day – along with five or six other kids ...read more


The Empire Strikes Out

The Empire Strikes Out

~ By Andy Klein ~

From the country that brought you Godard and Resnais! ... Children of Paradise and The Grand Illusion! ... Sartre and Genet! ... comes OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies! – which may just be the silliest movie I’ve ever seen ...read more


[ Sounds ]

Nightbeat: The Duke Spirit

Nightbeat: The Duke Spirit

~ By Joshua Sindell ~

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Jazz Critic's Choice: Brothers and Other Mothers

Jazz Critic's Choice: Brothers and Other Mothers

~ By Kirk Silsbee ~

Trombonist Curtis Fuller, one of the last practitioners from the golden age of Blue Note Records ...read more



Two days of Stagecoach, one day with Gram Parsons’s ghost

[ LA&E Feature ]


Little Bit Country

~ By Chris Morris ~

As I tooled into Indio on Thursday for the second Stagecoach Festival, a jock on Riverside’s contemporary country station K-FROG (“Ribbit!”) croaked from the car radio ...read more


[ Stage ]

Not on the List

Not on the List

~ By Don Shirley ~

Make way, Coachella and Stagecoach. Look out, L.A. Times Festival of Books ...read more

[ Gallery ]

There Be Monsters

There Be Monsters

~ By Rebecca Schoenkopf ~

It was the Dr. Jekyll side of Don Bachardy who came out to hang his portraits at Craig Krull Gallery last month ...read more