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It’s Not Too Late: Summer’s Best Free Shows

  • Liz Wood
  • July 22, 2015
The Village Voice has compiled a list of the season’s best free shows, ranging from small to large, miscellaneous bar to Central Park’s summer stage. The artist list is pretty…
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The Rumpus Interview with Gina Nahai

  • Andrea Arnold
  • January 1, 2015
Gina Nahai talks about her fifth novel, The Luminous Heart of Jonah S., Iran and Los Angeles, and the possibility of a long-sought-after peace in the Middle East.
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Notable Los Angeles 1/13–1/19

  • Xach Fromson
  • January 13, 2014
Monday 1/13: Write Club Los Angeles presents Chapter 21: Shit Ain’t Real? 3 rounds, 2 opposing writers, and this one features a special SF vs. LA rivalry as the producers…
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Notable Los Angeles: 11/4–11/10

  • Xach Fromson
  • November 4, 2013
Monday 11/4: Heather Terrell presents and signs Relic (The Books Of Eva I). 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Tuesday 11/5: David & Joe Henry present and signs Furious Cool: Richard…
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Albums of Our Lives: The Soundtrack to The Decline of Western Civilization, Part I

  • Eric Nelson
  • October 11, 2013
The Decline introduced me to bands like the Germs and X that I would come to love later in college when I needed a break from playing indie rock on campus radio.
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LA Lit Crawl: “Show Me How”

  • Rumpus Events
  • October 9, 2013
The Rumpus and Dirty Laundry Lit Proudly Presents: Show Me How LA Lit Crawl Round 2: Wednesday October 23rd 7:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. The Federal Bar 5303 Lankershim Boulevard North Hollywood…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interview With Matthew Specktor

  • The Rumpus Book Club
  • September 12, 2013
The Rumpus Book Club chats with Matthew Specktor about American Dream Machine, embracing disbelief, and the impossibility of saying no to Robert DeNiro.
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The Juvenilia + Rookie: Exhibition and Pop-Up Shop in LA (8/9-8/11)

  • Paolo Yumol
  • August 3, 2013
Six years ago, the photography website Flickr allowed a community of young photographers around the world to discover one another’s work. One such friendship developed between Nolan Boomer, editor of…
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LA Libraries are Back

  • Sam Riley
  • July 21, 2011
The entirety of LA’s 73 public libraries will be running in full force—the first time this kind of operational simultaneity has happened since August 2010, when budget cuts enforced some…
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Traffic Reads

  • Sam Riley
  • July 14, 2011
What more appropriate list could possibly come out of LA than books to read during gridlock? Especially an LA impending traffic crisis? This Friday marks Carmaggedon, which is the kind…
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The Rumpus Interview With Neal Pollack

  • Zoë Ruiz
  • August 17, 2010
A year and a half ago, I started practicing yoga because I wasn’t feeling well. I could barely touch my toes and felt very self-conscious in yoga classes, but kept…
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Politics Sunday

  • Seth Fischer
  • January 17, 2010
Gangland tours of LA, with one helluva waiver. In New Orleans, what happens when sex workers are prosecuted as sex offenders. A brilliantly written profile of a sniper. “(M)y grandmother’s…
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