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  • News

    November 30, 2011

    The Boy Scouts' Police Problem

    Dozens of teenage Explorers have been sexually abused by cops. Should Scouts share the blame?

  • Movies

    March 2, 2011

    Topher Grace in Take Me Home Tonight

    Reagan-era comedy succumbs to soggy nostalgia

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2011

    Everson Griffen, Vikings DE, allegedly grabbed L.A. cop in the crotch

    Everson Griffen: Damage to the cop isn't permanent.​While the Minnesota Vikings' owners are shopping around for a new taxpayer-funded stadium, another member of the team who is not Brett Favre is making life hard for its P.R. department. Everson Griffen was subdued by a Los Angeles cop with T ... More >>

  • Music

    January 12, 2011

    5ingles

    Everson Griffen: Damage to the cop isn't permanent.​While the Minnesota Vikings' owners are shopping around for a new taxpayer-funded stadium, another member of the team who is not Brett Favre is making life hard for its P.R. department. Everson Griffen was subdued by a Los Angeles cop with T ... More >>

  • News

    June 16, 2010

    The Killer of His Daughter's Mother

    A Cunning American Boy Becomes a Mexican Cartel Soldier and East L.A. Executioner

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2010

    Cheech and Chong: 5 surprising facts

    The Sultans of Smoke still hold a few secrets.

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2009

    Michael Jackson's memorial airs worldwide at noon

    The King of Pop's memorial has sold out the Staples Center, and hundreds more are expected to gather on the streets.

  • Blogs

    June 25, 2009

    Michael Jackson dead at 50

    Michael Jackson has died after suffering from cardiac arrest.

  • Blogs

    March 18, 2009

    Guard your children: Sara Jane Olson is en route to Minn.

    Sara Jane Olson, who at the time of capture received a lot of sympathy as a terrorist reformed as a housewife, is coming back to serve her parole in Minnesota. Apparently now after her time in jail she isn't safe to have around.

  • Movies

    September 17, 2008

    Lakeview Terrace: A Black-and-White Film

    Racial tension lurks above and beneath the surface of Neil LaBute's movie

  • Movies

    August 8, 2007

    Bad Traffic, Good Movie

    'Rush Hour 3' is a guilty pleasure

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2007

    CD Review: Super Cool California Soul 2

    'Rush Hour 3' is a guilty pleasure

  • Movies

    September 13, 2006
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    September 6, 2006

    Detective Comics

    Showbiz noir investigates TV Superman's real-life tragedy

  • News

    March 15, 2006

    Texas Two-Step

    How did Minneapolis's police chief become belle of the ball in San Antonio?

  • Columns

    July 20, 2005

    Savage Love

    How did Minneapolis's police chief become belle of the ball in San Antonio?

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2005

    Mistrial declared in civil case over Biggie Smalls murder

    How did Minneapolis's police chief become belle of the ball in San Antonio?

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2005

    Johnnie Cochran's still on High Court docket

    How did Minneapolis's police chief become belle of the ball in San Antonio?

  • News

    January 26, 2005

    Everything You Know About Taxes is Wrong

    Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston talks about the retooling of the tax code to serve the very rich at the expense of the middle

  • News

    October 13, 2004

    How's He Doing?

    In just eight months, chief Bill McManus has alienated the media, the pols, and the MPD rank and file. He must be doing something right.

  • Movies

    March 24, 2004

    Life During Wartime

    'The Battle of Algiers' is joined by our own current campaign

  • Arts

    January 28, 2004

    Eat My Killographic

    Wilding with the Simpsons and bashing heads with the LAPD

  • Music

    July 23, 2003

    Rock Bottom

    After grieving over a friend's suicide, Toys That Kill kick some life back into punk

  • Movies

    January 15, 2003

    Signifying Rappers

    'Biggie and Tupac' charts the hits on a notorious heavy and an urban guerrilla

  • Books

    November 20, 2002

    Road To Baghdad

    Polemicist Christopher Hitchens follows George Orwell into a political minefield

  • Books

    March 20, 2002

    Shocking Failure

    Why didn't tasers save Abu Jeilani?

  • Arts

    September 5, 2001

    This is Hardcore

    It made less history than '77 punk. It sold fewer records than Nirvana. But the suburban rebellion of Eighties America found its own potent way to say no.

  • News

    December 13, 2000

    Trial & Era

    When Sara Jane Olson goes to court in coming weeks, a Los Angeles jury will be asked to pass judgment on the most divisive time in recent American history.

  • Sports

    February 16, 2000

    NYPD Blues

    A cop-drama staple hits the skids

  • Movies

    September 15, 1999

    When Comedy Boils Over

    Two weeks before falling into a coma, Martin Lawrence was hardly talking a Blue Streak

  • Movies

    March 31, 1999

    Fashion Police

    Two weeks before falling into a coma, Martin Lawrence was hardly talking a Blue Streak

  • Feature

    October 14, 1998

    The Song Remains the Same

    Two weeks before falling into a coma, Martin Lawrence was hardly talking a Blue Streak

  • News

    September 17, 1997

    Friendly Fire

    When 12 COPS arrived at Andre Madison's house for a routine drug bust, they wandered into a ferocious gunfight with themselves.

  • Movies

    September 17, 1997

    Out of the Past

    Book 'Em!: Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce in L.A. Confidential.

  • News

    October 23, 1996

    Drugs, Contras, and the CIA:

    Press Covers for the Agency's Honor

  • Art

    July 31, 1996

    Tongue Untied

    Poet Paul Beatty makes polyglot Americana with his debut novel, The White Boy Shuffle.

  • Feature

    October 18, 1995

    Farrakhan's Moment

    Where do we go from October 16?

  • Feature

    October 4, 1995

    The Verdict

    The acquittal of OJ was the least of it.

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