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INTERPOL POST IT ON LIVEJOURNAL There are people who answer the question “Do you like Interpol?” with a tart little “Actually, I'd rather listen to Joy Division.” And these people can blow it out their bunghole because if every other band hadn't been trying so hard to be the Rolling Stones at the time Interpol …
Ninety-nine games into his big-league baseball career, David Newhan is a phenomenon. He's got a batting average of .295 with eight home runs, 35 runs batted in, 48 runs scored—and what seems like a nightly highlight on SportsCenter. It's the kind of start that fresh-faced rookies dream about. But Newhan is no rookie, and his …
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Alan Jackson will never go to hell, unless he's got a sick little locked room somewhere, which he does not—that moustache bespeaks only the clearest, purest, most honorable, predictable soul, a country singer at home in an era when the open range is just what you gotta drive through to get a good parking spot …
These are dark days for hand-drawn animation, that grand old medium that entertained America for decades and brought us everything from the gracefully dancing hippos of the original Fantasia to the furiously humping felines of Fritz the Cat. Disney has virtually abandoned hand-drawn animation in the wake of one massive, humiliating box-office flop after another, …
Photo courtesy Michael Goulding/ The Orange County RegisterWhen, just 16 hours into their deliberations, jurors announced on June 28 they were “hopelessly deadlocked” in Orange County's infamous Haidl rape case, observers may have recalled Mark Twain's criticism that juries are often filled with easily prejudiced “fools and miscreants.” It's unlikely the eight men and four …
After a few hours, my eyes glazed over, but Henry T. Nicholas III had only begun to talk. The glaze dried into a crust that baked my eyeballs into jelly-filled cookies, which eventually fell out of my head, dropped to the floor, and disintegrated into two little piles of crumbs and goo. We left the …
James Hart, singer of flashy local hard-rock/metalcore band Eighteen Visions, is either under the weather, which wouldn't be that surprising given his band's busy touring schedule, or developed something of a nervous tic, which also wouldn't be that surprising for the same reason. Regardless, there's something in his throat that he's trying to get out. …
Illustration by Bob AulIt's less than 24 hours before we go to press, and I have just gotten off the phone with yet another of Jesse James' “people.” This one, his publicist, told me, as the others have, that she cannot allow us to take—nor even to use—any of their pictures of their client because …
Last week, photographs of American guards torturing Iraqi prisoners hit television screens around the world. President George W. Bush expressed shock and amazement at the brutalities—sexual abuse, humiliation, beatings and sodomy—that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad. “What took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know,” said Bush, whose …
Illustration by Bob AulWEDNESDAY, April 21Every week, there's a lot of stuff that never gets into the paper, whether it's for reasons of space, content or that it was authored by Theo Douglas. It happens. And as you'd expect with any issue called “We Hate Mexicans,” there was a lot we couldn't get in. Today, …
Additional reporting by Chris Ziegler Everyone complains about the fluorescent lighting. Everyone has a problem with the sterility and the cold, ominous glow. But I don't suppose the Homeland Security agent really cared if I was comfortable. It was supposed to be my last job. I was going to take whatever money I could from …
Photo by Keith MayAs the flap/firestorm/”Ah, no one gives a fuck” involving Newsday columnist Jimmy Breslin—arguably the nation's best-known daily journalist—and Anaheim's own Reverend Lou Sheldon—certainly our foremost clerical authority on degenerate sex—entered its second week, it became clear that Sheldon, head of the right-wing spew tank Traditional Values Coalition (TVC), is either lying or …