Web Exclusive:
DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD
Amy Wallace Leaves L.A. Mag to return to LAT
BY NIKKI FINKE

Pullout: Summer Restaurants
The Post-Puck Generation: Chefs who are changing the taste of Los Angeles. BY JONATHAN GOLD Plus, the reviews: Grading the new kids.
A few good eggs: L.A.’s freshest faces in the kitchen. BY DEBORAH VANKIN
Plus, Where To Eat Now: Dinner at Eight. BY MICHELLE HUNEVEN and JONATHAN GOLD

An American Family: Close to Breaking
In Chapter 4 of our yearlong series on the Aguilar family of East L.A., finances get tough and school problems, caused by too many absences, threaten Estephanie’s graduation. Luis remains in jail, and wishes he had a new lawyer. A funeral provides inspiration for
14-year-old Bola. BY CELESTE FREMON

Infamy and Fortune: Twenty-six-year-old Roy Andres Montes got a big break — and a $290,000 check — from the city of L.A. two years ago as part of a settlement with corrupt Rampart cops. Now, he’s been charged with the murder of a Palmdale man. BY CHRISTINE PELISEK

Hari Kerry: We asked Weekly political writers DAVID CORN and DOUG IRELAND to engage in e-mail banter about the prospects of the Democrats winning back the White House.

Dawn in L.A.: Some 12,000 gathered over the weekend at the L.A. Convention Center to launch a new political movement to give power to the voiceless. But will it really make any difference? BY ROBERT GREENE

Oh, Brothers: Crenshaw entrepreneurs Ron and Richard Harris were key to Leimert Park’s latest revival, but then business got personal — and everybody’s losing out. BY ERIN AUBRY KAPLAN

Sunday in the park: Photographer ANNE FISHBEIN runs across an unusual tableaux in Palisades Park — a group of immobile activists demonstrating various forms of torture enacted aginst the followers of the Falun Gong movement.

Plus, ROBERT GREENE examines a setback for prosecutors in a key Rampart case, and an appellate ruling in the case of a Guantánamo Bay detainee; and JUDITH LEWIS ponders the dumb federal indictment filed against Petri-dish artist Steven Kurtz.

LETTERS
We write, you write...

A CONSIDERABLE TOWN
Digital shutterbugs shake it like a camera-phone picture at America’s first phonecam art show. BY MICHAEL HOINSKI
Also, JAY BABCOCK witnesses the changing of the gardener at Amir’s, and BEN MARCUS gets Flea bitten at the Riding Giants premiere.

24/SEVEN
“Baking Back the White House” BY SEVEN MCDONALD

CONSIDERABLE PEOPLE
Broadway archivist Miles Krueger. BY ALIX LAMBERT

IMAGE CONTROL
Anti-war poster art by MICAH IAN WRIGHT. A few artifacts from the Kenny Boy files. Plus, 10 ways to say Dick.

JOHN POWERS ON...
July surprises: The Kerry-Edwards cute meet, plus Bush’s search for Osama.

DISSONANCE
Many American journalists are, well, wimps, writes MARC COOPER, just back from a weekend in Mexico.

COLUMN DAVE
Jump. BY DAVE SHULMAN

DEADLINE HOLLYWOOD
Giving conservatives Moore nightmares: Robert Greenwald talks about his journey from TV nice guy to nemesis of the right wing.
BY NIKKI FINKE

ROCKIE HOROSCOPE

FILM
Social reel-ism: ELLA TAYLOR talks to writer-director Joshua Marston about bringing Maria Full of Grace to the screen.

Last Tango at LACMA: Plus 12 other films in the museum’s monthlong Bertolucci retrospective. BY F.X. FEENEY

BOOKS
Life of a dodo: What 17th-century England and Hollywood have in common. BY BRENDAN BERNHARD

Plus, David Sedaris’ Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim. BY KATIE MILLBAUER

THEATER
War games: Sarah Kane’s drama about a deranged soldier in suburban England and Charles Duncombe’s satire about a patriotism-themed game show are reviewed by STEVEN MIKULAN.

MUSIC
Triple Echo: Guilty pleasures and golden eggs. BY JOHN PAYNE

The stars cover the stars: A tribute to Cardboard Vampyres. BY PAUL ROGERS

A Jim White chronicle foretold. BY STEVEN KOTLER

Live in L.A.: DKT/MC5; Skinny Puppy, Tweaker; Gram Parsons tribute.

A Lot of Night Music: The birth and rebirth of opera in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo and The Return of Ulysses. BY ALAN RICH

COMICS
"BEK," BY BRUCE ERIC KAPLAN

RESTAURANTS
See Cover Features.

Where To Eat Now: Dinner at Eight.

WHERE TO EAT NOW
Database of restaurant listings compiled by JONATHAN GOLD and MICHELLE HUNEVEN.

CALENDAR
Good Times

>Picks of the Week
>Scoring the Clubs

>Neighborhood Movie Guide

> Crossword