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Open City

Open City

  • Postscript: Call of the Wild
    Open City columnist Anne Taylor Fleming on learning about coyotes and the local wildlife experts who help make Los Angeles a safe place for us and them
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  • Call of The Wild
    Coyotes are neither friend nor foe. They’re cohabitants, pure and simple
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  • Light Years
    Sometimes the person you dread letting in can bring unexpected joy
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Business

Business

  • Rich People
    Like it or not, the 1 percenters who’ve been getting so much attention keep this city afloat
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  • Keeping Score
    Bobby Kotick leads Activision, the Los Angeles video game giant, into the era of social media
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  • Enter the Big Top
    The decision by Cirque du Soleil to install its permanent show Iris at the little-used Kodak Theatre could seal the deal on Hollywood Boulevard’s second act
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Speak Easy

Speak Easy

  • That Other Election
    The race for mayor is on. Three-term city councilperson Jan Perry makes her case for taking charge of City Hall
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  • The Loud Mouth
    Few know L.A. sports like talk radio’s Petros Papadakis, who explains it all in his trademark roar. Earplugs, anyone?
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  • Looking In
    What’s it like for an author so closely associated with Brooklyn to teach writing on the West Coast? A bibliocentric chat with Jonathan Lethem
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City Thinkers

CityThink

  • Could Barack Obama Lose California in 2012?
    Local political analysts weigh in on the President's standing with voters in the Golden State
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  • Street Fight
    As gallery interest in street art grows (MOCA’s major exhibition, Art in the Streets, is on now), the debate continues over what street art is and how it affects communities
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  • The Unpolitician
    For the past year retired Wall Street tycoon Austin Beutner has practically run the City of Los Angeles. Now, about that mayor’s race in 2013…
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Cut!

Cut!

  • Status, Updated
    Think of the Soho House as a country club for the cultured, a haven for the Hollywood elite. Gawkers need not apply
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  • Parents, Trapped
    The stars of NBC’s new comedy Up All Night have tiny tots at home—and act with tiny tots at work. Are they out of their minds?
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  • Buzz Killer No More
    When early spoiler Web sites first revealed plotlines of America’s favorite TV shows, Hollywood balked. Now some producers see the sites as more friend than foe
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Film & TV

Film & TV

  • Alternate Oscars
    The academy? What academy? Steve Erickson names the real winners
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  • The Dark Age
    Handicapping the Oscar race in a year that’s been filled with doom-and-gloom story lines
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  • The News Hound
    In our wobbly times, the antipunditry of Jon Stewart is, tragically, more relevant now than when he took over the Daily Show in 1999
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Dine

Restaurant Reviews By Patric Kuh

  • Patina
    At Disney Hall's house restaurant, chef Tony Esnault rocks the classics
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  • Tropic Thunder
    At Red Medicine Jordan Kahn pays his respects to the subtle complexities of Vietnamese cooking while keeping to a vision that’s all his own
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  • Fresh Catch
    Son of a Gun, the seacentric spot from Animal’s Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo, is equal parts smart and sentimental
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