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    LA Weekly | Complete Issue
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Thurs., Jan. 26 Six films that are not to be missed are playing on three separate double bills across the city tonight. The Aero is having a night of Stacy Keach with Fat City, John Huston's pain-pulsating boxing drama of...
  • Stopping 2,000 Barking Dogs

    LA Weekly | News
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Los Angeles residents who live within hearing distance of an estimated 2,000 chronically barking dogs go through a private hell, with City Hall policies allowing the barking to continue for months. But things might change with a new law, now in effect, to fine dog owners $250 to $1,000 — th...
  • Ethan Gold's Art and Tragedy

    LA Weekly | Music
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Last January saw the release of singer-songwriter Ethan Gold's debut, Songs From a Toxic Apartment. The title wasn't a metaphor. His Fairfax abode was a literal cesspool, festering with flaking asbestos, decaying carpets, chronic gas leaks and mattress-occupying larvae. Gold originally w...
  • Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

    LA Weekly | Films
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Click here for Brian Miller's review of The Grey Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (...
  • Breakfast in Los Angeles: Top 10 Spots

    LA Weekly | Dining
    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Most days, it's just a cup of coffee. Other days, cereal and milk. And at Pee-wee Herman's playhouse, it's pancakes, eggs, bacon and Mr. T's cereal via a Rube Goldberg breakfast machine that involves whirling fans, a life-size model of Abraham Lincoln doubling as flapjack flipper, and a toy skele...
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    LA Weekly | Complete Issue

  • Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Thurs., Jan. 26 Six films that are not to be missed are playing on three separate double bills across the city tonight. The Aero is having a night of Stacy Keach with Fat City, John Huston's pain-pulsating boxing drama of...
  • Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Click here for Brian Miller's review of The Grey Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (...
  • We Open in Venice

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    No more jewelry and trinkets for sale on the east side of the Venice Boardwalk? As Hillel Aron reported last week, the Los Angeles City Council is attempting to force just that, with new rules banning the sale of all art not created by the vendor, among other things ("Venice Boardwalk Trinket Sal...
  • Declaration of War Review

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director/co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm) — yes, the improbability is noted — move from dive-bar love at first sight to proud parents of a newborn boy in the first few minutes of Decl...
  • Stopping 2,000 Barking Dogs

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Los Angeles residents who live within hearing distance of an estimated 2,000 chronically barking dogs go through a private hell, with City Hall policies allowing the barking to continue for months. But things might change with a new law, now in effect, to fine dog owners $250 to $1,000 — th...
 
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    LA Weekly | News

  • Stopping 2,000 Barking Dogs

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Los Angeles residents who live within hearing distance of an estimated 2,000 chronically barking dogs go through a private hell, with City Hall policies allowing the barking to continue for months. But things might change with a new law, now in effect, to fine dog owners $250 to $1,000 — th...
  • We Open in Venice

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    No more jewelry and trinkets for sale on the east side of the Venice Boardwalk? As Hillel Aron reported last week, the Los Angeles City Council is attempting to force just that, with new rules banning the sale of all art not created by the vendor, among other things ("Venice Boardwalk Trinket Sal...
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    LA Weekly | Music

  • Ethan Gold's Art and Tragedy

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Last January saw the release of singer-songwriter Ethan Gold's debut, Songs From a Toxic Apartment. The title wasn't a metaphor. His Fairfax abode was a literal cesspool, festering with flaking asbestos, decaying carpets, chronic gas leaks and mattress-occupying larvae. Gold originally w...
  • Music Picks: X, Lucinda Williams, Jackie DeShannon, Fujiya & Miyagi

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    fri 1/27 Dengue Fever, Secret Chiefs 3 EL REY THEATRE First, the bad news: Last time I saw L.A.'s Dengue Fever at El Rey, in 2008, these Cambodian-American popsters seemed overwhelmed by the space — they were a deeply l...
 
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    LA Weekly | Films

  • Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Click here for Brian Miller's review of The Grey Halfway through last year's rough-and-tumble thriller Unknown, assassins come calling for a man who's suffering from amnesia (...
  • The Grey Review

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Click here for "Liam Neeson: Evolution of a Badass," by Eric Hynes. I was told there would be more wolf-punching in The Grey. If you crash Liam Neeson and six disposable buddies in the f...
  • Declaration of War Review

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The gorgeously scruffy Juliette (director/co-writer Valérie Donzelli) and Roméo (co-writer Jérémie Elkaïm) — yes, the improbability is noted — move from dive-bar love at first sight to proud parents of a newborn boy in the first few minutes of Decl...
  • Margaret Review

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    A coming-of-age tale infused with post-9/11 anxiety, Margaret features Anna Paquin as Lisa, a 17-year-old whose role in a fatal Upper West Side bus accident leads her to act out sexually, antagonize her self-absorbed single mom and obsessively pursue retribution on behalf of the accident...
  • Man on a Ledge Review

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    The hero of the red-herring heist flick Man on a Ledge draws two reactions from the Manhattan throng beneath his 21st-floor perch on a midtown hotel. The first, of course, is the predictable "just get it over with" impatience of New Yorkers impeded by police barricades. The second is unl...
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    LA Weekly | Dining

  • Breakfast in Los Angeles: Top 10 Spots

    26 Jan 2012 | 2:00 am
    Most days, it's just a cup of coffee. Other days, cereal and milk. And at Pee-wee Herman's playhouse, it's pancakes, eggs, bacon and Mr. T's cereal via a Rube Goldberg breakfast machine that involves whirling fans, a life-size model of Abraham Lincoln doubling as flapjack flipper, and a toy skele...
 
 
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