January 2010
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Life and Nightlife
Michael Musto’s queer club critique we’ve been reading since high school and his recap of the decade in today’s Village VOICE is comprehensive. We’re only surprised to see him so generous to Rudy, likening America’s mayor to a blood sucking vampire, a big dis to Dracula. “In the zombieland of New York, Mayor Giuliani projected a stoicism that helped guide us...
December 2009
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Don't Wait for LA's Morning News
when you can now keep up to speed with all the city’s mayhem on this live LAPD scanner. We once dropped a chunk of change on a scanner and code book to stay on top of the men in blue back in the Boogie Down so this free site is an absolute thrill to stumble across. Ought to be a blast tuning in on New Years, even if LA residents heed the mayor and refrain from firing celebratory salvos.
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Palestinians To The Moon
The plan is to hit the gym then immediately begin drinking and thus hasten the end of this shit year. Not as ambitious as the new year plans of a Brooklyn gallery looking to fly the Palestinians to the moon. Jack the Pelican Presents-one of the 100 most influential galleries in the world-opens 2010 showing Larissa Sansour’s video A Space Exodus with her installation of Lego Storm Trooper...
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Confluence of LA, NYC and Grub
LA’s Dirty Noodle Eater got a nod from Anthony Bourdain in today’s New York Times, where in an overview of the decade we’re leaving the traveling tv chef writes “The brilliant, pioneering work of LA Weekly’s Jonathan Gold was honored with a Pulitzer Prize, the first time for a food writer — and this, surely, was a Very Important Moment…” Being ever critical...
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Don't Stare Too Long
at the hands down most grim, unnerving storefront in LA. An abandoned surgical supply shop on Western, this dusted over anachronism treats passersby to an array of crude paraplegic aids, braces and club footed shoes that seem to have jumped off the pages of a brilliant Ben Katchor cartoon strip.
Voice of Reason? Not in LA Bars
Holiday season packs the bars with complete idiots. LA being short on the brain thing from the get-go, going out for a cocktail this time of year is not unlike going for a drive in Baghdad, only your fate is more certain. You will encounter some spectacularly awful aspects of humanity. Seated on the patio last night at Hollywood’s swinging La Poubelle, discussing cigars, tequila and Joseph...
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Cheap Drunken Christmas at the King Eddy
Our barfly correspondent Adena Connolly has been readmitted to the shittiest bar in Los Angeles. “King Eddy’s wants me back! Renewing my food stamps at Social Security by MacArthur Park, I ran into a friend who got the message my debt has been cleared” Adena tells us, elated that this Christmas is shaping up to be better than last (her worst ever). “I can get drunk with...
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Rudy's Will To Power Dashed to the Pavement
just like this Quality of Life offender under America’s Mayor’s constitution-flouting regime. We are crushed Rudy Giuliani ain’t running, driving us on this palm-rattling breezy day in LA to Los Feliz’ Drawing Room to ponder lost opportunity over well bourbon. With the equivalent of four army divisions of journalists now freed from corporate media restraint, we hoped...
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RIP Brittany Murphy
Legman captured this shifty pic of Brittany Murphy a couple years back at some Hollywood affair, after talking to her about our school buddy directing her in Uptown Girls and bringing up that thing about her husband getting deported. She was clever and flirty and there was a slight menace in her raspy voice. Now we are shocked at rumors over why her heart gave out.
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On Occasion One Must Throw Down
“Paul Gauguin never sold a painting in his life. Van Gogh struggled. Now there are many talented artists around, better than 80% of what’s in galleries….” This most banal argument of creative suffering under capitalism we endured from the perpetually unshaven, cupcake eating blogger Newscorpse. Not via the web but where the Legman was out tasting the Zeitgeist the other...
WatchStars-and EaHo-don’t Sleep Pimping his music project Stars Don’t Sleep, our way-talented drinking buddy Adam Haggar, originally from some exit in Jersey, speaks poetically of Hollywood(East) on Newsraw. Sincere interview you don’t come across on network news too often.
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We Own the Night: Our Barfly Columnist
Seeking to bolster our reporting from the streets-its a lot of territory for The Legman to cover- we scoured the back alleys of Hollywood Boulevard to find a new contributor to this thing of ours. Not to be outdone by the New York Post and their high-paid columnist, we present Adena Connolly, 24, a barfly blogger living a pathological lifestyle of LA style glam poverty. Direct queries on life,...
WatchSean Conroy can cram almost as much vitriol about LA into a sentence as the Legman. The comic’s public radio satire performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade is dead on; anytime we’re listening to NPR his war zone reporter routine is evoked.”Ech nab blag Ahsharek. I am upset. They destroyed my house. I want the soldiers to leave, to let me build my musical instruments.”...
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If Not Bad, We'd Have No Luck At All
We ain’t smiling today. Rather we’re inclined to borrow that Doughboy helmet from the Legion Hall, keep it on until the shit storm of bad luck abates. So far the Taurus died, the HDTV crapped out, we spit out a filling and the other night somewhere along the Downtown art walk, our never-leave-home-without-it, credit card sized Sony T9 digital camera was lost, and we ain’t to...
East vs. West
We’ve got the Downtown art walk happening tonight, but fun as it is likely nothing there will be of as much interest as a show opening tonight in Manhattan. BNE, that’s not Cali’s Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement , but rather the world class vandal has his first-ever gallery show at 595 11th Avenue, 7pm. And that’s just above the Deuce for Angelino’s that might...
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In Case You Have Too Few Worries
Photo Genaro Molina/Los Angeles Times, December 9, 2009
be alarmed that California’s animal shelters are filled to the brim with discarded Chihuahhuas. We adore animal rights types but simply blaming Hollywood for the glut is purposeless. Rather, Legman calls for action: airlift these nervous barking machines to where they are appreciated. We’re thinking the South Bronx and...
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When Cops are Locking Guys up with Ray Guns
might be when America sees the health policy other Western democracies provide their citizens. “The public health insurance option died on Thursday, December 10, 2009, after a months-long battle with Senate parliamentary procedure. The time of death was recorded as 11:12 a.m. Eastern Standard Time. “ Huffington Post’s Ryan Grim has crafted the hands down best lede we’ve...
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Bukowski Stamp? Don't Try
An LA tour guide has proposed the United States Postal Service honor Charles Bukowski with a stamp on March 9, 2014, the 20th anniversary of the author’s death. His petition makes the point that Bukowski is “… the most famous American postal worker after Benjamin Franklin, and his landmark first novel “Post Office” is a wry portrait of the inner workings of the...
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Print's Hope Beneath the Wiperblade
By Chris Namon, Special to Legmanla.com
Pastor Tony Alamo of “New Jerusalem,” Texas has exploited the evangelical potential of automotive windshields across the United States the past fourty years; some of our earliest, fondest memories are of reading his free literature’s conspiracy theories and general wackiness. So when Alamo (Bernie Lazar Hoffman) was sentenced last...
Legman in the News →
Another talented visionary journo documents our struggle to make culture in this spiraling into hell economy.
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Legman Finds Jesus In the Hills
Julie Harding, 81, wields the silver prohibition era speakeasy cup of her first of seven husbands, Bob, founder of Possum Kingdom, Texas.
The other night we attended that most incongrous of American cultural happenings, a party in the Hollywood Hills, the closest earthly experience to going down the rabbit hole.
When Nathan West was hammering out Day of the Locust in his managers office at...
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Les Don't
A few shootings and an alleged rape hasn’t kept secret-sex-room-boasting Hollywood club Les Deux from drawing crowds, but recently The LA County Department of Public Health managed to shut it down, if only for a few days. Last month the place was cited for “vermin harborage and infestation.” We thought it was only the two legged kind that frequented the joint.
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Al Gore Getting Played Again
We’re feeling Al Gore. After getting vic’d for the presidency you’d think there’s no greater dissapointment life’s shit storm would hurl at him. Well now they’re moving to yank his statues. We spoke with Al at the LA premiere of his Oscar winning flick when he assured us he would never, ever run for president again. We chatted about his White House comedy...
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Seen One Swastika with Legs, You've Seen 'em All
After enduring a decade of chunky chicks in contrived shows back in Gotham, we regarded burlesque a trend that lingered too long, like the flu. So we flinched when the mezzo soprano invited the Legman to catch her act in Downtown LA. But the lure of bourbon and brunettes was strong and now we’re elated, finding the Rag Dolls a thoroughly enjoyable entertainment for our hard boiled eyes.
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