By Hunter Walker 6/04/12 2:10pm

L.A. Noir

Luka Magnotta posing as James Dean in Los Angeles. (Photo: Luka-Magnotta.Deviantart.com)

Is Luka Magnotta The Hollywood Sign Killer? [Update]

Could Canadian killer and infamous internet villain Luka Magnotta be behind a Hollywood murder mystery? After an international manhunt, German police say they have arrested Luka Magnotta in Berlin over ten days after he allegedly killed and dismembered a man named Lin Jun, posted a gruesome video of the crime online and mailed the body parts to the headquarters of Canadian political parties. However, The Observer has uncovered information that could potentially link Mr. Magnotta to an infamous case from earlier this year where the severed head and hands of a man were found on a wooded trail near the Hollywood Sign.

Update (6/8/12 8:37 A.M.): The LAPD has confirmed they are investigating the possibility Mr. Magnotta was involved in the Hollywood Sign killing. Read More

By Rex Reed 2/23/11 1:23am

movies

Movie Review: Heartbeats Is an Affair to Remember

With Heartbeats, French-Canadian writer-director Xavier Dolan, at the tender age of 21, follows the rocky slopes of a romantic love triangle between Montreal hipsters–a mundane theme illuminated by images and ideas that are consistently arresting. Two friends and sometime lovers–Francis (played by the director) and Marie (Monia Chokri)–meet a sexually ambiguous country boy named Nico Read More

By Jonathan Liu 3/12/07 12:00am

Neon Bible: Topical Fairy Tales

And so this week comes the release of Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible (Merge).

There are certain things, in certain circles, that one had better talk around—things to gesture at, perhaps, or drop in archly at the non-business end of a knowing simile, but never, for fear of embarrassing all involved, address directly. This became clear Read More

By Andrew Sarris 7/23/01 12:00am

Somebody’s Got to Give Blondes a Good Name

Robert Luketic’s Legally

Blonde , from a screenplay by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, based

on the book by Amanda Brown, lacks the satiric bite of Alexander Payne’s Election (1999) and the neo-classical

grace of Amy Heckerling’s Clueless

(1995), but it also lacks the grossness and calculated idiocy of so many

current school-age farces-which Read More

By Moira Hodgson 6/29/98 12:00am

La Lunchonette: Friendly, But No Counter Service

When Paul Bocuse visited New York several years ago, he went to breakfast at Bigelow Pharmacy in the Village. The kid who manned the store’s luncheonette slid a mug of coffee across the counter and asked Mr. Bocuse how he wanted his eggs.

“As the chef desires,” replied Mr. Bocuse.

Mr. Bocuse would perhaps Read More

By Moira Hodgson 11/03/97 12:00am

Like a Trip to Greece (And Almost as Costly)

There seems to be something of a Greek revival going on in midtown. I am referring not to architecture, but food. Hot on the heels of Molyvos, a rustic taverna that opened down the block a few months ago, comes Milos, all white, marble and high-tech, with ceilings 26 feet high.

“Very Beverly Hills,” remarked Read More