Los Angeles CityBeat

Featured Story: Vol 06 Issue 11 Cover Story

[ Frontlines ]

Bulldozers vs. Community

~ By Joanna Lin ~

The Los Angeles Eco-Village is talking up its shared streets project, a county-funded initiative to promote a more livable, communal neighborhood through widened sidewalks and slowed car traffic. ...read more

[ L.A. Sniper ]

An Academy-worthy Performance

~ By Alan Mittelstaedt ~

It’s annoying when young people are used as pawns or props or whatever political mischief the 50 uptight police recruits served on Tuesday morning. ...read more

[ Editorial ]

Snitching on Client 9

[ Left Coast ]

Cartoon by Ted Rall

[ Take My Picture ]

Photograph by Gary Leonard

[ Cover Story ]

Degree in Devastation

~ By Ashley Archibald ~

James Villanueva and his father reclined on their lawn chairs, taking in the view from the front porch of their Echo Park home. ...read more

[ Film ]

Paranoid Angels

~ By Andy Klein ~

Of the two films from Warner Independent Pictures opening this week, Snow Angels is the more upbeat, lighthearted offering … only because the other one is Funny Games ...read more

[ DVD Eye ]

Matt and Trey and Joel and Ethan

~ By Andy Klein ~

South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut was one of the highlights of 1999, the best movie year in living memory. ...read more

[ Sounds ]

Just a Band

~ By Dennis Romero ~

When Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip posted a MySpace video of an audition for X Factor, the U.K. version of American Idol, fans at shows begged them to reprise the hilarious, out-of-key rendition ...read more

[ Live ]

Edie Agonistes

~ By Ron Garmon ~

The ’60s are now like the vast and partially-looted tomb of a dead deity ...read more

‘Funny Games’ is the feel-bad movie of the year

[ LA&E; Feature ]

Watts No Riot

~ By Andy Klein ~

Have you ever been taunted by a bully? (I’ll assume you have, at least once in your life.) And, the angrier you got, the more it encouraged him ...read more

[ Stage ]

'Crime and Punishment'

~ By Don Shirley ~

This adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s novel, by Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus, strips the sprawling story down to its bare bones ...read more

[ Eat ]

Tasty Tradition

~ By Richard Foss ~

like exploring opposite ends of the cultural spectrum. I recently reviewed Woo Lae Oak, which offers modern Korean cuisine ...read more

[ Third Degree ]

Jacob Weisberg

The Bush presidency is nearly at an end. And George W. Bush sounds nearly as anxious as anyone else to see him with his feet up back home ...read more