WEEKLY EXCLUSIVE!
OPEN
CITY
An interview with accused SUV bomber from his jail cell.
BY STEVEN MIKULAN
Pullout: The Now Garde
Ten
L.A. designers who transform cloth into art; photographed by DEAN
CHAMBERLAIN. Edited by KATERI BUTLER
Invasion of
the Elegant Trogons
The roots of the most recent brawl over control of the
Sierra Club go back at least 30 years, when white Protestant elites
ran the country’s premier environmental organization and three idealistic
men worked at Paul Ehrlich’s Zero Population Growth. BY SUSAN ZAKIN
University
of Fear
Homeland
Security is now the big man on campus, doling out scholarships
and creating a stampede for research dollars not seen since the dawn
of the space program. Even Tommy Trojan’s alma mater has a chunk of
the action. BY STEVEN MIKULAN
An American
Family: Chapter 2
What a tense, unpredictable month it has been for Luis
and Frances Aguilar. Turns out that Luis’ drug rap may not be
what it seems. Meanwhile, Frances delivers a beautiful girl named
Gennisis. The lives of the Aguilars are part of a continuing series
by CELESTE FREMON.
BEK’s Life
in Cartoons
An excerpt from This
is a Bad Time, a new collection by cartoonist BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN.
The
Well-Oiled Deal: OK, so who cares that the state Energy Commission
wants to take away local control on all matters dealing with oil refineries?
For starters, it involves a high-placed husband-wife team. BY WILLIAM
J. KELLY
Deluged
at City Hall: Sparks this week over a proposed DWP increase speak
to the larger issue of who is running the show. BY ROBERT GREENE
Duped
by Wal-Mart: How the poster girl for Wal-Mart’s ballot measure
in Inglewood got fooled. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
LETTERS
We write, you write...
A
CONSIDERABLE TOWN
Zooey Deschanel and Samantha Shelton’s Tangier nights. By
DEBORAH VANKIN and JOSHUAH BEARMAN
Steve Zee’s ghosts of tappers past. By HOWARD BLUME.
CONSIDERABLE
PEOPLE
Fashion sloganeer Reny Monk. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN
24/SEVEN
An afterschool moment with eighth graders Liz and Max. By SEVEN
McDONALD
OPEN
CITY
An exclusive interview with accused SUV bomber from his jail cell.
BY STEVEN MIKULAN
DEADLINE
HOLLYWOOD
While Trump prances around like a peacock for NBC’s The Apprentice,
the truth is his empire is crumbling again. BY NIKKI FINKE
DISSONANCE
Karl Rove, move over, MARC COOPER serves up advice on how the
White House could have dispatched with Richard Clarke in one news
cycle.
COLUMN
DAVE
The column formerly known as Sitegeist: In Service to the Patron
Saint of Cirrhosis. BY DAVE SHULMAN
ROCKIE
HOROSCOPE
FILM
I
was a teenage Hellboy: Plus, the kick-ass monks of Shaolin
Soccer. BY JOHN PATTERSON
Why
dharma and dames don’t mix: SCOTT FOUNDAS on the serene iconoclasm
of Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter . . . and Spring.
BOOKS
X marks
the spot: Surfing, sundry subcultures and Super X Media Combine.
BY JOE DONNELLY
The
sound of one hand painting: The big books of Ed Ruscha. BY DOUG
HARVEY
ART
Lie of
the land: Some of DOUG HARVEY’s favorite art hoaxes.
THEATER
Daisy
in the Dreamtime, Lynne Kaufman’s drama of a Celt in the Outback,
reviewed by STEVEN MIKULAN; plus, STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS remembers theater
critic T.H.
McCulloh.
STYLE
Chair
dare: MICHAEL HOINSKI sits in judgment at the design competition
“Seating of Some Sort.”
MUSIC
Voices
in the night: Charles Lloyd and Billy Higgins, alone together.
BY GREG BURK
Triple
Echo: Eagles of Death Metal, 15.60.75, Thermals, Christian Vander,
Joanna Newsom, Bohren & Der Club of Gore. BY JOHN PAYNE
Young People
burn the Great
American Songbook. BY FRANKLIN BRUNO
Forever young:
Kurt Cobain,
Adán
Sánchez. BY JONATHAN GOLD, BEN QUIÑONES
Live
in L.A.: Stills, Ambulance Ltd., Stellastarr, Greenhornes, Ponys
and more at SXSW; Franz Ferdinand
A
Lot of Night Music: Gloria Cheng in Santa Monica, LACO at Royce,
Xtet at LACMA. BY ALAN RICH
PULPit
MICHAEL DOUGAN on “The
Day We Shot My Car.”
COMICS
"BEK,"
BY BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN
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