‘The Hurt Locker’: Men at work

It took four years following the end of the Vietnam war for any filmmaker—specifically Francis Ford Coppola—to be able to make sense of the sheer madness of the conflict. It almost drove Coppola insane. The Iraq war doesn’t appear to be ending any time soon, and without much distance, the [...]

Contained completely in a single shoe-throwing incident:

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Sgt. Israel “Ira” Garcia killed in July 13th attack in Wanat, Afghanistan
On Tuesday, July 22nd a plane carrying the casket of Israel Garcia touched down at Daugherty Field; the memorial service took place on Friday. Garcia–the eleventh soldier to return to Long Beach in such a fashion–was killed when militants attacked his outpost with small [...]

At least, that’s what people who know him might call the man who wants to unseat Laura Richardson

They really do call him Mr. Dibs–at least, his students do, and somewhere more than 1,000 of his potential constituents. You, on the other hand, might say “Who are you?” and “Stop trying to touch my ballot!”

This Week: Don’t go outside
Tues | JUNE 24 A Long Beach man calls the cops to serve as witnesses to a local gas pump claiming to have dispensed seven gallons of gas—at a total of more than $30—to fill up his five-gallon gas can, shorting him by about $10. An investigation by the county Department [...]

The puppy-throwers.

We get what ‘War, Inc.’ is saying—but it’s still worth a listen

There’s a scene in this movie that is its heart. And to obtain the right understanding of War, Inc., the workings of this heart must be understood. If you miss it, the greatness of this film will be lost in the chaos of its [...]

What ever became of Juanito and Maria?

The cover of our first Memorial Day issue was unusual for us: no band photos, no jokes, just Bob Aul’s un-ironic portrait of a man in uniform, standing in front of an American flag. Inside was his story: 19-year-old Private Ernesto Guerra of Long Beach, killed in Baghdad almost [...]

Bush claims to have given up golf to show his solidarity with the troops, then goes golfing. And Keith Olbermann lets him have it.
This one is worth watching to the very end…

And big humiliation in ‘Standard Operating Procedure’
Errol Morris’s new documentary about the low-ranking “bad apples” who were charged with various forms of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib isn’t exactly revelatory. You’ve already read the facts, and the photographs that shocked the entire world (the hooded figure standing on a box, the dusty piles of naked [...]