May 27, 2010
Lieutenant Governor of Paper Clips
On a recent afternoon in West Hollywood, at a candidates' forum in a half-filled conference room at the Pacific Design Center, Janice Hahn, a Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor and one of the most ...
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May 27, 2010
Sticky Situation at the Tar Pits
With apologies to Raymond Chandler, L.A.'s most compelling murder mystery might be the Page Museum's 9,000-year-old remains known as "La Brea Woman." Pulled out of the gooey tar almost a century ago, the oldest ...
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May 27, 2010
Proposition 14, the Open Primary
State Democratic and Republican leaders were undoubtedly disturbed and annoyed last week, but it had nothing to do with California's $20 billion budget deficit. Instead, the politicians faced a different kind of bad news: ...
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May 27, 2010
Regard From Cannes
Midway through the 63rd Cannes Film Festival it was clear that the action this year (even more than in the past) was to be found in the main event's less prestigious shadow, the section ...
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May 27, 2010
Breathless: The Dying Animal
While critics at Cannes break their heads trying to parse Jean-Luc Godard's latest enigma, Film socialisme (not to mention the 80-year-old filmmaker's ostentatious no-show for a press conference on the Croisette), Godard's first feature ...
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May 19, 2010
Paul Abramson: The Sexpert
Maybe you are a Catholic priest who strung young boys up on a cross, naked except for a loincloth. Or maybe you are Michael Jackson, accused of molesting a 13-year-old. Or maybe you are ...
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May 19, 2010
Hadrian Belove: Pathologically Idiosyncratic Programming
In the lobby of the Silent Movie Theatre on Fairfax, a set of stairs leads to the hidden headquarters of Cinefamily, the outfit that has programmed and managed the theater for the past three ...
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May 19, 2010
Ivy Bottini: The Beauty of Seeking Justice
Ivy Bottini, the 83-year-old gay-rights activist who's been fighting social injustice for five decades, has lately found herself in a "floral phase." Dressed in blue jeans, sneakers and a white "I [heart] WeHo Dykes" ...
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May 19, 2010
Mark Bradford: Hometown Hero
An artist commonly regarded in the contemporary-art circuit as being as smart, pleasant and talented as he is tall, Mark Bradford got a late start given the art world's preoccupation with youth. Born in ...
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May 19, 2010
Mark Casanova: The Rescuer
Mark Casanova, parent, tells a harrowing story about one of his sons. In late 2001, 23-year-old Daniel Casanova traveled to Bangladesh, where he and two friends built a traditional sailboat, then set a course ...
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