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  • The Original Food Trucks

    LA Weekly | Complete Issue
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    See more of Anne Fishbein's food truck photography. It's not the kind of question you ask in public, but: Would you eat from a plain white catering truck? ...
  • The Isolated Fortress of USC

    LA Weekly | News
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To hear the wildly divergent reactions among neighbors to the University of Southern California's long-brewing and massive $900 million, 5 million-square-foot University Park redevelopment plan, an outsider might think there are two USCs. One USC is the generous provider of jobs and educat...
  • The Branding of Best Coast

    LA Weekly | Music
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Read more outtakes from our interview, "Best Coast on Designing Clothes for Urban Outfitters, and Other Subjects." Los Angeles indie-pop duo Best Coast has become a v...
  • Robert Bresson Retrospective at the Aero

    LA Weekly | Films
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    There is a moment at the end of Robert Bresson's penultimate film, The Devil, Probably (1977), when Charles (Antoine Monnier), a young man who has decided on suicide as an abstaining vote against the options offered by society, pauses in his death march to listen to a snatch of a Mozart ...
  • The Original Food Trucks

    LA Weekly | Dining
    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    See more of Anne Fishbein's food truck photography. It's not the kind of question you ask in public, but: Would you eat from a plain white catering truck? ...
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    LA Weekly | Complete Issue

  • The Original Food Trucks

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    See more of Anne Fishbein's food truck photography. It's not the kind of question you ask in public, but: Would you eat from a plain white catering truck? ...
  • Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Thursday, May 10 The UCLA Film and TV Archive has silent films about two hot-button issues in store for tonight, with Traffic in Souls (prostitution) and Where Are My Children (abortion). Over at the Egyptian, it's...
  • Murder on Montana Ave.

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    The living room of Sofia Merman's West Hollywood apartment is filled with photos of her only son. Sasha in cap and gown, Sasha sitting for his Navy portrait, Sasha and his mother standing in the Black Sea in Odessa. The images are tucked inside stacks of photo albums and sit in frames beside his ...
  • L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    There are a lot of solidly crafted films on the program of this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival — movies that are well shot, directed and acted. But only a few really push past expectations visually, thematically, or emotionally. One of those is Debbie Lum's engrossing...
  • L.A. Overspends by $27,378 an Hour

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    You'd be surprised at what goes on just below the surface of Los Angeles City Hall, which is mired in years of fiscal cutbacks that at various times have decimated the hours at 73 public libraries, cut maintenance at parks, forced early retirements and now are seriously slowing down fire departme...
 
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    LA Weekly | News

  • The Isolated Fortress of USC

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    To hear the wildly divergent reactions among neighbors to the University of Southern California's long-brewing and massive $900 million, 5 million-square-foot University Park redevelopment plan, an outsider might think there are two USCs. One USC is the generous provider of jobs and educat...
  • Murder on Montana Ave.

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    The living room of Sofia Merman's West Hollywood apartment is filled with photos of her only son. Sasha in cap and gown, Sasha sitting for his Navy portrait, Sasha and his mother standing in the Black Sea in Odessa. The images are tucked inside stacks of photo albums and sit in frames beside his ...
  • L.A. Overspends by $27,378 an Hour

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    You'd be surprised at what goes on just below the surface of Los Angeles City Hall, which is mired in years of fiscal cutbacks that at various times have decimated the hours at 73 public libraries, cut maintenance at parks, forced early retirements and now are seriously slowing down fire departme...
  • Comment: Darling Dita

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Who can resist a siren in a red dress? Not many of you, apparently: Last week's Dita Von Teese cover flew off the newsstands ("The Most Famous Stripper in America," by Gendy Alimurung). Writes Claudio von Fresin, "I must compliment you again for a great cover shot! It is a...
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    LA Weekly | Music

  • The Branding of Best Coast

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Read more outtakes from our interview, "Best Coast on Designing Clothes for Urban Outfitters, and Other Subjects." Los Angeles indie-pop duo Best Coast has become a v...
  • Music Picks: The Dickies, Rufus Wainwright, Jack DeJohnette

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    fri 5/11 The Dickies MALIBU INN After another beautiful day in Malibu, you'll take a long, romantic walk along the beach to watch the sun set ... followed by an evening with the Dickies' Leonard Graves Phillips serenading you...
 
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    LA Weekly | Films

  • Robert Bresson Retrospective at the Aero

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    There is a moment at the end of Robert Bresson's penultimate film, The Devil, Probably (1977), when Charles (Antoine Monnier), a young man who has decided on suicide as an abstaining vote against the options offered by society, pauses in his death march to listen to a snatch of a Mozart ...
  • Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    A significant portion of Tim Burton's output over the past decade has been concerned with slipping the "Burton treatment" to susceptible texts: Roald Dahl's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • I Wish Review

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Bullet Train Dreams: Koreeda's I Wish Japan's Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute observer of all human behavior, but his greatest gift as a filmmaker seems to be his capacity to work with children. Koreeda doesn't direct them so much as let them react to the universe he ha...
  • L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    There are a lot of solidly crafted films on the program of this year's Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival — movies that are well shot, directed and acted. But only a few really push past expectations visually, thematically, or emotionally. One of those is Debbie Lum's engrossing...
  • High and Low: Postwar Japan in Black and White at LACMA

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    Beginning this weekend and continuing June 8-9, LACMA will offer a series of postwar Japanese films rarely screened in L.A. While the museum's revamped film schema enforces brevity (compare this series to MoMA's upcoming "Tokyo 1955-1970" exhibition, which includes 40 films), it's still a bracing...
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    LA Weekly | Dining

  • The Original Food Trucks

    10 May 2012 | 2:00 am
    See more of Anne Fishbein's food truck photography. It's not the kind of question you ask in public, but: Would you eat from a plain white catering truck? ...
 
 
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