July 30, 2008
New contributor KP Mackie and her two most recent collaborators have turned up a great central image for our script -- the movie’s poster, if you will: Napolitano fumbling around in L.A.’s dark underbelly, searching for a way out of the hole he’s dug himself.
July 22, 2008
As Rachel wanders dazed down a menacing Walk of Fame in vague pursuit of her biological father, the mayor takes cover in yet another empty tunnel. Paging Dr. Freud...
July 15, 2008
In the dank, moral cesspool that is “Right of Way,” our newest contributor, Steve Chivers, may have found a ray of light.
July 14, 2008
No, you weren't dreaming if you thought you heard part of "Right of Way" being enacted on the radio this weekend. We were featured on KPCC's "Offramp" with John Rabe, and we now live in perpetuity on the web.
July 8, 2008
It's no more Mayor Nice Guy for Napolitano, who, in this week's pages from Chicago-based publisher David Klein, finds himself on the run from two different police agencies and a murderous cult.
July 2, 2008
Deep in his lair at The Order�s world headquarters in Los Angeles, Prefect Patrick Duvane devises a dastardly new plot: the takeover of the LA Observed Script Project.
BWAHAHAHAHAAAA!
| Here's another explanation for the improving fiscal outlook: Property is gaining in value. This is good news for local governments, as well as for homeowners who are seeing the value of their properties creep back up after several down years
| At LACMA on Thursday night, a packed and very excited audience, some dressed in 80's garb, watched a screening of "Valley Girl" as the the museum's Film Independent program celebrated the movie's 30th anniversary. "This film was well-researched and shot in Los Angeles. It is about our cultural history," director Martha Coolidge told the crowd.
| Ricky Jay could conjure a taxi in the rain in the middle of a cornfield. A documentary film about the renowned illusionist doesn't explain how, and, really, would you want it any other way?
| Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears every Thursday at LA Observed.
| Why would you stand on a corner with a picket sign if you don't want people to hear your message?
| He was greeting people good naturedly on Barrington Avenue just south of Sunset on Friday. The only name he wanted to give was Giant Robot.
| The first major museum retrospective of Jones' work comes later this month to the Hammer Museum. Jones was a seminal figure in late mid-century modern architecture and planning.
The latest poll, which finds Dennis Zine ahead in the controller’s race and Mike Feuer leading for city attorney, also shows that half the voters don’t think Los Angeles is heading in the right direction.
Dear Readers, it's true. Chicken Corner has decamped. Just a few months ago, I believed I might possibly never move from my house in Echo Park, and now here I am moved out of that house and on my way to Cincinnati, Ohio. (Via I-40.)
