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Time Warped:  RIP, Rialto Theatre

Time Warped: RIP, Rialto Theatre

Somewhere inside the archives of my storage closet resides one of those relics of yesteryear--a recordable audiocassette that, on one Saturday night about fifteen years ago, I stuck in my "boom box" and pressed down the play and record buttons together to capture the KROQ DJ giving his shout-outs to all the folks who'd just called in, including me and one of my partners-in-crime. "And Lindsay and Laurie in La Crescenta are going to Rocky... more ›

Weekly Movie Picks: Indian Film Fest, COL.COA, Wild Party, Cry of the City

Weekly Movie Picks: Indian Film Fest, COL.COA, Wild Party, Cry of the City

Grindhouse Monday and Tuesday it's The Muthers, a combination blaxploitation and women-in-prison flick that stars Janine Bell and Rosanne Katon as a pirate duo who must rescue Bells sister from the private jail of an evil coffee plantation owner, followed by Fight for Your Life, a revenge thriller about a pacifist black minister whose family is taken hostage and tortured by a trio of convicts, until he finally snaps and wreaks his vengeance. Wednesday and... more ›

Now LA Can Return to Improving For the Good of It

Now LA Can Return to Improving For the Good of It

The United States Olympic Committee just announced that Chicago has won the honor of representing America as possible host city for the 2016 Olympics. Before you go kick the dog or jump off the Hollywood sign, you should be sighing a breath of relief. Today's vote in Washington doesn't mean that Chicago will get the Summer Olympic games, it just means that they can spend more money over the next two years to compete... more ›

Ask the MACist

Ask the MACist

Welcome to the latest edition of Ask the MACist, the column where I answer your Mac and Mac-related questions with hopefully more clarity and insight than you could ever need. As always, I want to thank those of you who sent in questions this week. They are much appreciated. Keep it up! And remember, if you have a question about anything Macintosh, Macintosh-related, or even something about another technology like TiVo, Blackberry, XBox 360,... more ›

"The Hollow Trees" rhymes with Music For Families

"The Hollow Trees" rhymes with Music For Families

There are people in LA who have children. As LAist gets older we have noticed that even some of our friends are finding themselves with babies who then turn into little people. It's quite fascinating. Because the people with the children want to entertain these creatures who sorta look like them they have to choose between the commonplace tales produced by Disney or the commonplace tales produced by a purple Dinosaur. Lately there have... more ›

President: Nice Shades, Blindy

President: Nice Shades, Blindy

Remember last month when President Bush was in Florida and he spoke at an event and afterwards told a man in a wheelchair "You look mighty comfortable"? more ›

Do We Know It's Christmas...the Sequel

Do We Know It's Christmas...the Sequel

As LAist posted earlier this week, ready or not, Christmas is just around the corner. (See your local Starbucks baristas in their spiffy new red shirts hawking who knows what.) And so what if it's not even Thanksgiving? Does anyone really care? more ›

2004 Weblog Awards

As LAist is a big fan of the art that is called "weblogging" or "blogging" or "meandering prose", we'd like to take a moment today to point out that the 2004 Weblog Awards are now officially open for voting. more ›

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