much to my chagrin, the L.A. WEEKLY stopped printing a crossword puzzle (almost exactly that the time when the movie "Word Play" came out!) I'm much less interested in picking it up than I used to be. Marc Cooper is sometimes interesting, but the rag is mostly plastic surgery and phone sex ads.
On 10/19/06, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
For many years this NYC "alternative" weekly newspaper was a place where bright young reporters and arts critics got their start. Now that it has been gobbled up by a national syndicate of such papers, they evidently plan to cut heads through consolidation. I usually look in on the Los Angeles Weekly for a minute or two every Thursday when it comes out, since it is a fairly important left-liberal venue. When I read a review of Clint Eastwood's new film on Iwo Jima, it sounded quite familiar. It turns out that the review ran in the Village Voice yesterday as well: http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0642,foundas,74758,20.html http://www.laweekly.com/film+tv/film/print-the-legend/14815/ This looks like the "USA Today" model applied to the counter-culture, such as it is. -- www.marxmail.org
-- Jim Devine / "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
