When I saw the news advisory, I couldn't resist. I had to go:
Fitting, in a way, for a meta-postmodern-pop-meltdown of the North Hollywood shootout. It happened right after the release of the Michael Mann film Heat, with its breathtaking and legendary bank-robbery shootout sequence in the downtown financial district, and everyone at the time noted the similarities. The shooting later inspired a film, 44 Minutes, made for TV and starring Mario Van Peebles. Just writing this paragraph caused my head to make a complete 360-degree revolution on my neck.
LAist was there, too. Elsewhere in the Weekly, Richard Alarcon pays his women. And a former Cal-Tech scholar sits in ecoterrorism hell.