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Angry Asian Man: Asian Gangsters, Thugs and Hookers in Crank 2: High Voltage(0)
Oh man. We knew it was coming. I don’t know how they’ve done it, considering the event at the end of the first movie, but they have gone ahead and made a sequel to Crank. You know, the ridiculous movie where Jason Statham plays a guy who is injected with a toxic [...]
Secret Series: A Guide to LA’s Obscure Bookshops
“I noticed I had developed a fantasy about myself as a writer as opposed to actually doing it, [so] I finally summoned up the bad taste to move to Los Angeles.”
—Leslie Dixon
Perhaps there really is something inherently tacky about Los Angeles.
Whether it’s the mismatched houses, the nouveau riche displays of wealth, or the combination of [...]
Q&A: Jason Bentley, KCRW’s New Music Director
Image Courtesy of DelScorchoSauce/Flickr
For the past month, an Aussie accent has been conspicuously missing from the morning airwaves of Los Angeles’s radio station 89.9 FM.
As of December 1, Nic Harcourt vacated his post as the host of Santa Monica-based independent radio station KCRW’s pivotal daytime show, “Morning Becomes Eclectic,” and left his position as the [...]
Election 08: Sekou “tha Misfit” and Steve Connell on Obama
On Election Night, I caught up with spoken word artists, Sekou Andrews (aka tha misfit) and Steve Connell, to get their poetic thoughts on the Obama’s win. Andrews and Connell were featured performers at Obama’s California Headquarters celebration. The two artists created a special poem called “Obama Takes America Back” about Obama’s historic win.
Andrews and [...]
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