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Boring but useful: Asus eeePC car charger

I'm an eeePC convert, but even I would appreciate a little more battery power. And in a shock move, Brando have come up with something entirely non-novelty and really quite useful to satisfy this...

Your Weekend Of So Bad It's Good [To Do]

Friday · Friday night music: Mirah with The Blow at the Henry Fonda, Au Revoir Simone at the Troubadour, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Safari Sams. · The So Bad It's Good Film Fest...

Death, fantasy and reality

I want to preface this by saying I don’t have a thing against Heath Ledger. In fact, until yesterday, I didn’t even know who he was. I’m not a movie buff and don’t spend...

Stars in Rewind: Before the Humpty Dance & Moonwalk Came Raquel Welch's Space Dance!

Filed under: Trailers and Clips, Stars in RewindYou know what? I think that it's about time we recognize Raquel Welch as the mistress, the grand goddess of dance. Forget Britney pre-trauma, Michael...

Trained Judgment and the Scientific Audience

I wrote earlier (here, to be precise) that there are numerous ways a picture can manipulate its viewers, but most break down into two: a modification of an image after it's taken or staging an image...

Elvis' Birthday, Concrete Frequency, Andy Summers [To Do]

· Celebrate the 1935 arrival of the King at Elvis' Birthday Bash at the Henry Fonda Theatre, where acts like I See Hawks in LA, Mike Stinson, Carlos Guitarlos, Jimmy Angel, and the Surfaris...

Your Weekend Of National Bird Day [To Do]

Friday · Music round-up: Seawolf play at the Natural History Museum (where you can pet actual seawolves in their underwater petting zoo!), Circle Jerks are at the Henry Fonda, and You, Me &...

Jane Fonda @ 70.

On Jane Fonda's 70th, Ronald Bergan looks back to a recent tribute in Vienna and on a remarkable life and career. A few notes follow. In Hal Ashby's Coming Home (1978), Jane Fonda plays a politically...

Not so fond of Fonda fawning

"Why is it that Fonda, who betrayed her country by going far beyond legitimate protest, is a media darling?"

Your Weekend Of Early Christmas Stories [To Do]

Friday · Music round-up: Deborah Harry at the Henry Fonda; Andrew Bird at the Orpheum; the reunited Spice Girl at the Staples Center; Radars to the Sky at Spaceland. · Comedy troupe...