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The evidence surrounding the unsolved murder of Hollywood hopeful Beth Short skillfully examined by a journalist who lived in LA when it happened.

The obsession and mystery of the Black Dahlia is as strong today as it was in January 1947. The article will review the current body of inormation known about this case.

Based on a real-life unsolved 1947 murder, "The Black Dahlia" is worth watching if only for its gorgeous period sets. It's not as good as the book, but few films are.

Best-selling American crime writer James Ellroy, author of LA Confidential and The Black Dahlia, leads a unique bus tour down the mean streets of his own Los Angeles.

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Offbeat Los Angeles tour company Esotouric adds rock music, architecture and literary tours to tours like Raymond Chandler's LA, the Black Dahlia and Halloween Horrors

Who killed the Black Dahlia? Where is Jimmy Hoffa's body? Who was the Zodiac Killer? These questions are to this day without any definitive answers.

La Plante's second thriller featuring Detective Inspector Anna Travis tells the gruesome story of a copycat killer, re-enacting a series of murders from the 1940s.

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A brief guide to Europe's best hard rock and metal festivals, from Wacken Open Air and Hellfest to Tuska Open Air, Italy's Gods Of Metal and the new Sonisphere Festival.

Christopher Reeve's last film takes only $6 million in the box office, while Barnyard finally drops out of the Top Ten.

A noir-infused view of the contemporary L.A.P.D., Kings is L.A. Confidential with Keanu Reeves and an artillery of brutality.

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Welles' 1958 noir masterpiece Touch of Evil, starring Charlton Heston and Janet Leigh, could well be the supreme representation of the genre.

James Ellroy (LA Confidential, The Black Dahlia) churns the JFK assassination into page-turning, high-grade pulp.

Street Kings is a bland and generic James Elroy written crime thriller, which is directed by L.A. corrupt cop maestro David Ayers and stars a miscast Keanu Reeves

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Laszlo Kovacs and Vilmos Zsigmond made their mark on movies and their story is remarkable.

Although first published in 1994, Philip Sugden's historical investigation of the gruesome Whitechapel murders still stands out as a fact-based classic on Saucy Jack.

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