Nine
Lives and Counting: When does an animal rescuer need
to be saved? BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS
The
American Character, a new series: BEN EHRENREICH on
L.A.’s Glenn Spencer, self-appointed minder of the border.
Exclusive
Katrina Coverage:
A
New Orleans Journal:
Scenes of destruction. By BEN EHRENREICH
Battered
in Baton Rouge by GREG LANGLEY
JERVEY TERVALON mourns for his hometown
of New Orleans. Also, what YOU can do to help.
New Orleans
is an ancestral home for many here . . . what
happens when there’s nothing to go back to? By ERIN
AUBRY KAPLAN
Water
Torture: Flooding and the future of the world. By MARGARET
WERTHEIM
Gulf Coast
Unedited
Hurricane
Katrina letters
CELESTE FREMON
finds herself in the middle of a tense meeting after the LAPD’s
run-in with Nation of Islam minister Tony Muhammad.
ROBERT
GREENE sees meaning in Mayor
Antonio Villaraigosa’s day with the Police Commission.
MARC
COOPER frets
about Iraq.
JEFFREY
ANDERSON recounts the tale of a DWP
whistleblower who is fighting back.
CHRISTOPHER
LISOTTA hears about
a strategy to confront anti-gay America.
DOUG
IRELAND wonders why the U.S.
is silent about Iran’s killing of gays.
Plus,
CHRISTINE PELISEK on
LAPD’s order to Sunset Junction.
And
IMAGE
CONTROL by MR. FISH.
A
CONSIDERABLE TOWN
LEWIS
MacADAMS watches Hunter
S. Thompson go up in smoke.
NIKKI
FINKE asks what took so long for the Times to hire
a theater critic in DEADLINE
HOLLYWOOD.
The
curse of Tut.
Saying
farewell
to Madame Wong
Finding
the heart of burlesque
queen Dixie Evans.
Plus,
NATIVE’S
NOTEBOOK by J.T. STEINY
and
a cartoon by BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN.
LA
VIDA
Jersey
Girl: KATERI BUTLER on Rachel Pally’s rag-trade-to-riches
rise.
Plus,
LIBBY MOLYNEAUX’s HOOPLA.
Letters
We write, you write...
ROCKIE
HOROSCOPE
FILM
Foreign
Affairs: 2005’s box-office slump is a reality, regardless
of what language you speak; by DAVID EHRENSTEIN.
Hustle
& Toboggan: SCOTT FOUNDAS explains how plucky penguins
won the hearts and minds of summer moviegoers, then interviews
Transporter
2
director Louis Leterrier.
Also,
this
week's new film reviews, including Reel Paradise
and more.
SCREEN
In PASS
THE PADDLES, JOSHUAH BEARMAN takes on Hillary Clinton,
the Tipper Gore of the game biz.
Also,
ROBERT ABELE's SURF
REPORT
And
CONFESSIONS
FROM A VIDEO STORE BURNOUT.
BOOKS
Angel
of Olvera Street: MATTHEW DUERSTEN on the loving politics
of Leo Politi.
THEATER
In
his comedy, Oklahomo!, Justin Tanner writes a
little about L.A. small theater and a lot about himself.
STEVEN MIKULAN reviews.
STEVEN
LEIGH MORRIS gets inside an Actors’
Equity town-hall meeting.
Also,
this
week's new theater reviews.
ART
POST-Mortem,
Popping Corn: DOUG HARVEY on death and rebirth in downtown
L.A.
MUSIC
JOHN
PAYNE communes with ArthurFest
headliner Yoko Ono on the Beatles, baseball, sex and peace.
Plus,
other highlights
from the first annual festival.
In ALEC
HANLEY BEMIS’
PSYCHIC HIPSTER, Foghat does quaaludes, Willie does
reggae.
Also,
LIVE IN L.A. captures scenes from Sunset Junction,
SNAKEBITES,
NIGHTRANGER,
ALAN
RICH’s A
LOT OF NIGHT MUSIC.
RESTAURANTS
In COUNTER
INTELLIGENCE, JONATHAN GOLD on the new Palms Thai, home
to Hollywood’s own Thai Elvis and fiery curries.
Plus,
ASK
MR. GOLD about chocolate pizza
WHERE
TO EAT NOW: Ice Cream.
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