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11:00 am
May. 25, 2012
Skid Row Puts on a Memorial Day Parade Extravaganza -- With the Help of Mr. Brainwash
By Lenika Cruz
At first glance, L.A.'s Skid Row doesn't seem like it would have a flourishing performance-art scene. But Skid Row's Los Angeles Poverty Department -- abbreviated as, yes, LAPD -- was founded ... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:00 am
May. 25, 2012
Laugh All You Want: 6 of L.A.'s Most Fascinating Comedians
By LA Weekly
Yes, Los Angeles is wading in a profusion of comedic talent and is home to countless excellent comedy clubs (some housed in fish taco joints.) For our People 2012 issue, we zeroed in on six L... More >>

Public Spectacle

9:00 am
May. 25, 2012
Laura Dave, L.A. Novelist, on Nora Ephron, Chick Lit and Whether Facebook Makes Us Happy
By Sarah LaBrie
Laura Dave made a career of writing the kind of fun, unabashedly frothy fiction we all tend to impulse-buy at the airport before long flights, but that doesn't mean she hasn't earned her liter... More >>

Public Spectacle

3:02 pm
May. 24, 2012
Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger: The Wunderkinds
By Tessa Stuart
Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The first time Isaac Aptaker and his partner, Elizabeth Berger, were on... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:00 am
May. 24, 2012
Want Dodgers Tickets for Cheap? Check Out ScoreBig.com
By Katharine Gammon
After working in ticketing and marketing for the National Basketball Association, Adam Kanner recognized that the league had a problem: too few butts. Butts in the seats, that is. "The challenge... More >>

Public Spectacle

9:00 am
May. 24, 2012
Invasion of the Beauty Bloggers
By Gendy Alimurung
Erika Brechtel's kid is only 3 years old, but she knows the perils of being raised by a fashion blogger. "Mom, put your iPad down," she'll say. Or rather, scream: "Mom! Put! Your! iPad! Down!" ... More >>

Public Spectacle

8:00 am
May. 24, 2012
What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Object? Three Artists' Proposals
By Catherine Wagley
In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald ... More >>

Public Spectacle

7:00 am
May. 24, 2012
Linda Didn't Know Her Dad Was a Serial Rapist. Then She Discovered Joel Engel's New Book
By Amanda Lewis
When you investigate the life of a rapist based on a decades-old case file, you don't expect to be confronted by the rapist's family member. Yet that is exactly what happened April 11, when aut... More >>

Theater

12:00 am
May. 24, 2012
Disney on Ice: Frank Gehry and Rodarte Design Don Giovanni
By Steven Leigh Morris
In preshow publicity, director Christopher Alden has said that his staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni is focused on the score. This is like theater... More >>

Public Spectacle

4:22 pm
May. 23, 2012
Bert Chan: These Shoes Were Made for Tapping
By Erica Zora Wrightson
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Eight is considered a particularly lucky number in Chinese culture, so ... More >>

Public Spectacle

2:24 pm
May. 23, 2012
RJ Mitte: The Good in Breaking Bad
By Erica Zora Wrightson
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When RJ Mitte first moved to Los Angeles at 13, he never imagined he'd ... More >>

Public Spectacle

1:53 pm
May. 23, 2012
Lena Dunham's Girls and Her Dad Carroll's Drawings: Two Approaches to Making Us Uncomfortable
By Catherine Wagley
Before the New York Studio Program moved from Lower Manhattan to DUMBO, art students there used to gaze from their studios into the apartment painter Carroll Dunham shared with his wife, photo a... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:55 pm
May. 23, 2012
Kit Quinn and Tallest Silver: The Great Pretenders
By Liz Ohanesian
Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Kit Quinn and Tallest Silver keep their legal names off the record. The... More >>

Public Spectacle

12:15 pm
May. 23, 2012
Seven Sins: A True Crime Anthology: Village Voice Media's First eBook
By LA Weekly
Every week writers for L.A. Weekly and our parent company, Village Voice Media, produce elegant, magazine-style feature writing -- a gritty portion of which comes in the form of true-crime stories... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:50 am
May. 23, 2012
Cannes Film Festival: Brad Pitt in Killing Them Softly and Gael Garcia Bernal in No
By Karina Longworth
The opening credits of the Brad Pitt-starring Killing Them Softly are set to snatches of Barack Obama's 2008 Democratic Convention speech, focused on the notion of "the American promise," jarring... More >>

Public Spectacle

10:30 am
May. 23, 2012
Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital
By LA Weekly
Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entert... More >>

Public Spectacle

9:56 am
May. 23, 2012
Jessica St. Clair: Sitcomely
By Ben Westhoff
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. There's never dead air when you're with Jessica St. Clair, who has a gi... More >>

Public Spectacle

8:00 am
May. 23, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sculptures of Fax Machines
By Catherine Wagley
This week, snarky performance artist Eleanor Antin remembers Stalin, Paul McCarthy pulls a chair out from under a fictional Natalie Wood and sculptor Emily Counts turns a fax machine mystical.... More >>

Public Spectacle

11:19 pm
May. 22, 2012
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in Bitchslap!; Patty Duke and Patty Hearst in Patty: The Revival and All the Latest New Theater Reviews
By Steven Leigh Morris
Moliere's The Learned Ladies is this week's Pick. Nods also for Patrick Kennelly's musical mash up of Patty Hearst and Patty Duke: Patty, The Revival, at Highways Performance Space; Padua Pr... More >>

Public Spectacle

4:39 pm
May. 22, 2012
Andreas Mitisek: Where Opera Dares to Go
By Sarah Bennett
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Andreas Mitisek is sitting in the Long Beach Opera's modest church-rent... More >>

Public Spectacle

3:25 pm
May. 22, 2012
David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim: The Doll Makers
By Gendy Alimurung
Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. The first conversation Uglydoll creators David Horvath and Sun-Min Kim ... More >>

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Disney on Ice: Frank Gehry and Rodarte Design <i>Don Giovanni</i> Disney on Ice: Frank Gehry and Rodarte Design Don Giovanni
By Steven Leigh Morris

In preshow publicity, director Christopher Alden has said that his staging of Mozart's Don Giovanni is focused on the score. This is like theater companies saying that their staging of… More >>

What Fantasy Production Would L.A. Artistic Directors Put On If They Had Unlimited Money? What Fantasy Production Would L.A. Artistic Directors Put On If They Had Unlimited Money?
By Steven Leigh Morris

How would L.A. stages change if the theater gods were able to wave their magic wands and transform the local scene into a utopia? We asked a number of artistic… More >>

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 >>

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