The parties are probably more fun anyway, right?
Tour L.A.’s noir history
LA historians, fans of public transportation, and fans of John Buntin’s book L.A. Noir
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Other cities have histories. Los Angeles has legends. For more than sixty years, writers and directors from Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder to Roman Polanski and James Ellroy have explored L.A.’s origins, its underbelly, and (yes) its blondes in fiction and films like “The Big Sleep,” “Double Indemnity,” “Chinatown,” and “L.A. Confidential.” Yet this preoccupation with a mythic past has obscured something important — the true history of noir Los Angeles.
Beware the Giggles N’ Hugs stalker
Giggles N’ Hugs is “The Only Children’s Restaurant.” It’s located in West LA and I have never been there. I have never been there because I don’t have kids and going there alone would be pretty creepy. Possibly creepier would be standing outside and looking in the window. That’s only cool outside Hooters.
Zach Galifianakis on SNL this Saturday
I can’t wait. Here’s why:
OK Go wins the embeddable video battle
It wasn’t too long ago that OK Go was speaking out about how EMI wouldn’t let the people of the internet embed OK Go videos anymore, but it looks like that’s all changed. Here it is, your embeddable OK Go video for “This Too Shall Pass.”
