The Scene visited Los Angeles with writer James Ellroy and returned with rapper Ice Cube. Do you have a favorite hangout in the west coast city? What's your favorite Ice Cube track or movie, or James Ellroy novel? Send us your suggestions and ideas and we'll post your comments here.
• From: Mark Kapfer, Kansas City, MO • Posted: Dec. 21, 2006 • Comment: The coastal cities are not America anymore, they have, for the most part become parodies of themselves, which is evident in the music, and other art from these cities. I would suggest more "Scene" articles on Mid-West and Southern cities. These cities have a new life and new cultures that have been lacking in the major coastal cities since the late 90's. Do your research, Mid-West and the South still have a real underground.
• From: Julie Hart, Orlando, USA • Posted: Dec. 21, 2006 • Comment: Ice Cube is so right, even when we do pull ourselves out of the gheto and poverty they still try to hold us down in corporate America. I am from Harlem, NY and I grew up dirt poor I earned and worled my way out. I now live in one of the best parts of Orlando, Fl. The company that I previously worked for refused to pay me for my worth with my ten years of experience in the financial industry but yet they offered a white person whom I trained and her only work experience was working for a supermarket, in turn they offered us the same job, offered her a rise but refused one for me while we both make the same amount of money. I see this as their way of keeping us down. I also noticed that we as black people must be overqualified to get a position or even an interview where as corporations are willing to train unqualified white applicants or hire each other simply because they know each other or have some sort of outside relationship.
• From: mary bjoraker, lakehills, TX • Posted: Dec. 16, 2006 • Comment: Great City -used to live there. Ellroy- I just love the man! Happened onto Black Dahlia, La Confidential- hooked. Therefore I needed to know more about WHO this writer was. Very interesting person. I was shocked recently to see his childhood picture as I recognized him from my childhood! At the beach- I was 2. I'm goingthrough my old movies and see if Ellroy's in one of them. Thank goodness for long term memory. Same wonderful eyes. My second fav. pic is Ellroy walking- love that stride. First is a pic I have of him smooching a dog. I have a 6 word ditty I came up w/ in his honor but it's not publishable. Thanks, it's been a nice ride. Miss LA.
• From: Marie Legrand, Marseille • Posted: Dec. 15, 2006 • Comment: Beautiful city! Beautiful people! LA I love you!
• From: Senait Gessese; Addis Ababa • Posted: Apr. 5, 2006 • Comment: I LOVE THE U.S CITY LOSANGELESE.
• From: Jason; Florida • Posted: Mar. 20, 2006 • Comment: I grew up in Los Angeles and it can be all things to all people at some point. Almost every niche is present somewhere in the Southland sourrounding L.A.
• From: Bertil Persson; Helsingborg, Sweden • Posted: Mar. 20, 2006 • Comment: I love San Juan Capistrano because my Son, wife and 4 grandchildren lives there
• From: Godsave; Nigeria • Posted: Mar. 7, 2006 • Comment: I LOVE THE CITY
• From: Simon; London • Posted: Feb. 13, 2006 • Comment: The Cold Six Thousand... it picks up where American Tabloid leaves off with JFK's assasination and takes the story forward to 1968, taking in Cuba, the klan, the mob, civil rights, Vietnam, Las Vegas and the deaths of Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King along the way. Ellroy gives free reign to every conspirary theorist's wildest fantasies about American history. The only thing missing is UFOs. This is supposed to be the second book in a trilogy - God knows what Ellroy will make of Nixon's America...
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