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Space Oddity

Catherine Wagley
Do the Mexican revolutionary Zapatistas have a space program? A new exhibit imagines one More >>

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Public Spectacle

3:15 pm
May. 15, 2012
Dance Showdown on YouTube: A Reality Dance Competition That's Better Than What You See on TV
By Laura Bleiberg
Take a look at Dance Showdown, the first original show created for the YouTube channel DanceOn. This is reality-style, competition dance crossing easily onto an online format -- and doing it be... More >>

Public Spectacle

1:50 pm
May. 15, 2012
Liz Magic Laser's Performance Art Includes Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin on a Date and an Obama-Bush Mime Faceoff
By Carol Cheh
Shakespeare famously wrote, "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players." He was speaking metaphorically of course, but in this age of total media saturation and dominan... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:21 am
May. 15, 2012
Mona Golabek, in The Pianist of Willesden Lane, The Kennedy Center's Follies, and the Latest New Theater Reviews
By Steven Leigh Morris
Rapturous reviews this week for pianist Mona Golabek in The Pianist of Willesden Lane at the Geffen, and the Kennedy Center's Follies, now at the Ahmanson after a Broadway transfer. Click here ... More >>

Public Spectacle

8:00 am
May. 15, 2012
Don't Call Them Hooligans: Meet Ultras, L.A.'s Major League Soccer Superfans
By Ivan Fernandez
There are two groups of soccer "types" everyone is familiar with. There's the "soccer mom," scooting across town in her minivan with her 2.5 children, and the "hooligan," a soccer fan whose sol... More >>

Public Spectacle

4:05 pm
May. 14, 2012
Craig Ferguson on Revisiting Scotland: 'The Longer I'm on the Air, the More Cocky I Get'
By Lisa Horowitz
The Late, Late Show With Craig Ferguson heads to Scotland this week, with episodes that see the host returning to his hometown and confronting some of the ghosts that have haunted him since his ... More >>

Public Spectacle

1:54 pm
May. 14, 2012
Arcana Books Moves From Santa Monica to Helms Bakery. But How Can It Afford a Bigger Space?
By Lenika Cruz
If you're one of those shoppers who struts into bookstores, clutching a latte in one hand and wrangling a book off the shelf with the other, Lee Kaplan thinks you should be a little ashamed of... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:15 pm
May. 14, 2012
James Franco's MOCA Show Opening Night: 'There's Just a Lot of Dicks in There'
By Amanda Lewis
"There's just a lot of dicks in there. A lot of porno," painter Ty Williams says, shaking his head. "But I get it, though. I understand the prevalence of penises." We're standing in the all... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:28 am
May. 14, 2012
Why Self-Publish? Artists and Writers Explain at Long Beach Comic Expo
By Liz Ohanesian
See our coverage of Long Beach Comic Expo 2011: "Long Beach Comic Expo: Five Things We Love About Small Conventions." Sheika Lugtu is 24 and a student at Long Beach City College. A couple of ye... More >>

Public Spectacle

4:35 pm
May. 11, 2012
Stevie Mack Smoked Crack So You Don't Have to
By Libby Molyneaux
Crackheads have the best diaries. Well, if you can read their handwriting, that is. Stevie Mack is a comic who's lived to tell about it in his popular one-man show about addiction and recovery, ... More >>

Public Spectacle

1:20 pm
May. 11, 2012
UCLA Game Art Festival Features Caine's Arcade Made by a 9-Year-Old, and More
By Lenika Cruz
A homeless seven-year-old in Russia named Pjotr is addicted to cigarettes. He must navigate the streets of St. Petersburg, doing whatever he can for a smoke -- steal liquor to give to his prost... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:36 am
May. 11, 2012
Institute For Figuring's New Space: An Art Gallery For Math and Science Nerds
By Carol Cheh
A new space has opened its doors in Chinatown, and this time it's not your usual funky alternative art gallery. The Institute For Figuring is a center for hands-on discovery of cool scientific ... More >>

Public Spectacle

5:10 pm
May. 10, 2012
Jean-Claude Van Damme, Dolph Lundgren and Christian Slater in After Dark Films
By LA Weekly
By Chuck Wilson Guaranteed to make most men feel woefully unprepared for a fistfight to the death, these five action flicks from After Dark Films -- each of which will play once a day as part of... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:30 am
May. 10, 2012
Storage Wars' Dan and Laura Dotson on the Secrets to Auctioning Off Trash
By Whitney Friedlander
Creatives is a new recurring column about creative people in L.A. following their passions. If one man's trash is another man's treasure, then Dan and Laura Dotson are the guides who bring it a... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:02 am
May. 10, 2012
14 Essential Items to Bring to Every Fan Convention
By Liz Ohanesian
It's that time of year where it seems like there's at least one big fan convention going on every weekend somewhere in the country. Whether you're planning to head to New Jersey for the Steampun... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:00 am
May. 10, 2012
Why the San Fernando Valley Hate Needs to End Once and For All
By Adam Gropman
Midafternoon at the Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf on Santa Monica's Main Street, an impromptu conversation sparks between two strangers just feet from me -- he a cheerful, swarthy, well-fed, balding ... More >>

Public Spectacle

9:00 am
May. 10, 2012
How Best Fish Taco in Ensenada Became One of the Hottest Comedy Clubs in L.A.
By Paul T. Bradley
It's just after 10 p.m. and already five comedians have done their thing when comic Eddie Pepitone strides up to start his set. Short, bald and decidedly unhinged, Pepitone gives the air of a ... More >>

Public Spectacle

8:00 am
May. 10, 2012
Top 10 Gyms in Los Angeles
By Whitney Friedlander
If there's anything we are not lacking in Los Angeles, it's places to work out. But finding the perfect gym to tone, slim down or -- dare we even say it -- find a date is a highly subjective deci... More >>

Theater

12:00 am
May. 10, 2012
Cornerstone Theater Company's Hunger Cycle Kicks Off With Cafe Vida by Lisa Loomer
By Steven Leigh Morris
Continuing its mission of interlinking theater with social justice, Cornerstone Theater Company launches its "hunger cycle" series of plays with... More >>

Public Spectacle

5:01 pm
May. 9, 2012
American Idol Meets Arts Journalism, in KCET's Artbound
By Lenika Cruz
Ever been inside a disco ball-esque "steam egg" with a bunch of sweaty, half-naked strangers? Talked to Filipino inmates who wrote, directed and starred in their own musical, filmed within pris... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:26 pm
May. 9, 2012
Roll Up! L.A.'s Magical, BYOB, Pants-Dropping, Pole-Dancing Mystery Trip Is Waiting to Take You Away
By Amanda Lewis
You're standing on the corner of Third and San Vicente in a silly hat on a Sunday morning, sipping a Bloody Mary from a blue Solo cup, ready for anything. You were told to bring a beach towel,... More >>

Public Spectacle

9:09 am
May. 9, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Malibu in 3-D
By Catherine Wagley
This week's list includes an awkward, bearded voyeur in West Hollywood, a picture of a white horse in a Chinatown basement and stereoscopic images of made-up archeology in Crenshaw. 5. Underg... More >>

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Cornerstone Theater Company's Hunger Cycle Kicks Off With <I>Cafe Vida</I> by Lisa Loomer Cornerstone Theater Company's Hunger Cycle Kicks Off With Cafe Vida by Lisa Loomer
By Steven Leigh Morris

Continuing its mission of interlinking theater with social justice, Cornerstone Theater Company launches its "hunger cycle" series of plays with Lisa Loomer's Café Vida, directed by the Cornerstone's artistic director,… More >>

<i>The Heiress</i> and <i>Cyrano</i> The Heiress and Cyrano
By Steven Leigh Morris

In Henry James' short novel Washington Square, set in 1850 New York, when a homely, awkward and guileless young heiress named Catherine Sloper comes to believe, like her sophisticated father,… More >>

<i>The Convert</i> and <i>The Magic Bullet Theory</i>, Plays About Accidental Killings The Convert and The Magic Bullet Theory, Plays About Accidental Killings
By Steven Leigh Morris

Terry Tocantins and Alex Zola's The Magic Bullet Theory, closing this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company in Hollywood, is the second play to be produced locally this year focusing… More >>

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