Germany’s Love Parade, an annual dance music festival, was the scene of a terrible tragedy this weekend [via the L.A. Times]: At least 19 people reportedly died at the Love Parade, a well-known dance event in the German city of Duisburg, and more than 340 were said to be injured as the apparen[...]
Posts Tagged ‘L.A. Times’
July 26th, 2010 - 1:51 am § in True/Slant
The Love Parade tragedy: 19 deaths and live music in limbo
August 2nd, 2009 - 12:17 am § in Perfect Lines
Dear LA Times
It’s times like these when I feel like Grandpa Simpson writing to practically anyone about the most insignificant things. In any case, I wrote a little email to Christopher Hawthorne, the LA Times architecture critic who named dropped emo a little incorrectly in his review of (500) Days of Su[...]
July 31st, 2009 - 12:02 am § in Perfect Lines
Make It Stop…
Tsk Tsk LA Times. I’d already done away with (500) Days of Summer a handful of weeks ago, and this is merely another exaggerated interpretation of “emo culture.” So on the one hand, I’d like to dissect it. But, I think the words clearly speak for themselves: “500 Day[...]