Michael Kass Michael Kass' one-man show, Ceremony, about his journey to spiritual enlightenment via Peru, is this week's pick of the week. For all the latest new theater reviews, and this weekend's theater listings, see below. This...
I plucked the balls from damp grass one April morning when walking my dogs in Altadena's Farnsworth Park. At the time, I didn't bother to read the scribbling on their sides. Most of the balls I pick up have some kind of initials on them. Occasionally...
The rabbi used to come to the bar almost every day. When he wasn't teaching Hebrew words to fellow barflies or delivering impromptu lectures, he would sit quietly on his stool and copy out sacred Jewish texts into marble composition notebooks. The ...
Samantha Goodman's Depth of Surface at REDCAT's New Original Works (NOW) Festival See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's danc...
Trevis (left) snaps a photo of Connor (right, skating) and Zaq on the half-pipe at Brooklyn Projects, a skate shop in L.A. Trevis is sweating. It's in the 90s at Brooklyn Projects, a skate shop on Melrose with a half pipe behind the store. Thoug...
See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, July 19 We're loving Michael Cera right now. (Check out our review of his latest film, Crystal Fairy.) But if you want to take a short walk down memory lane, the New Beverly Cinema is screening Scot...
A still from Vishal Jugdeo's The Thing That Precedes the You (2013) This week, a group of performers in bright red tights play music while posing as body parts and an artist films his family singing in a language they don't know. 5. The gory ki...
The problem with Romeo and Juliet is that we never get to see how it really went down, the fallout from all that sexy forbidden union of opposing clans. Had they lived even five years beyond their wedding day, would Juliet be laughing mockingly or j...
Grant Morrison at Meltdown Comics, 2011 See also: * Grant Morrison and Gerard Way Cure our San Diego Comic-Con Withdrawals at Meltdown Comics * Grant Morrison and Gerard Way @ Meltdown Comics * Grant Morrison's Supergods: Comic Book Writer Chats...
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Ps. Dean Sweetman worships with parishioners The audience at C3 North Hollywood church's evening services is always comprised of a swath of young, beautiful people with edgy haircuts who exude a distinct industry musk. Behind the church's main g...
We've narrowed down the finalists, and now we want to know who you think should take home the big prizes. Who really takes the most delectable food photos on Instagram? Whose parody Twitter account is the most hilarious? Which podcast or blog or onli...
Tig Notaro The last year and a half has literally been the best of times and the worst of times for comedienne Tig Notaro. Last summer, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, lost her mother and broke up with her girlfriend all within the span of...
Jeff Ho takes his favorite board into a hollow Venice wave. For Angelenos, summer is a siren's call to the beach, with sun-splashed visions of long days on the sand, the scent of sunscreen in the air, and the sound of the sea. For Angeleno surf...
Ron Athey's Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains Unless you were one of the very first to enter Ron Athey's performance, Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains, when the doors at Human Resources opened Wednesday night, you probably didn't see ...
New York Observer film critic Rex Reed is such a reliable source of outraged blog posts he's probably just a neck lipo away from getting his own E! reality show. His review of V/H/S/2, written after he skipped out on the latter three-quarters of the ...
Skylight Books will play host to author Chuck Klosterman as he discusses his new book, I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling With Villains (Real and Imagined), a meditation on the modern hero. See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things...
By Chuck Wilson See also: *Outfest 2013 Preview: 10 Films to See *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage She called herself Divine, and for a generation of appalled but delighted cult film fans, the foul-mouthed, dog-poop snacking, gleefully plus-sized dra...
Kennedy Kabasares and Jon Jon Briones in Sweet Karma Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is ...
American Ballet Theatre in Le Corsaire See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance events include two tenth anniversary performan...
Kirk Douglas Theatre's Three Solo Shows Are Respectable But Don't Push the Envelope
In his absorbing solo show, St. Jude, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, gay-Latino writer-performer Luis Alfaro talks sincerely about himself, about growing up in California's Central Valley, and about his… More >>
On a blazing Sunday afternoon, the interior of downtown's Union Station provides a cool refuge from an early-September heat wave. But on this particular day, cool takes on its other… More >>
Theater @ Boston Court's program to its production of R II — what might otherwise be called William Shakespeare's Richard II — makes a point of not referring to the dramatist's work as a… More >>
GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach
A gas-fueled fire ring, held up by specially built scaffolding that rises over Santa Monica sand, will light up on Sept. 28 at sunset, as if capturing and keeping sunlight… More >>
Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound
In his program note to his elegant and fervent staging of the 5th-century Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound director Travis Preston writes, "The dramaturgy of Prometheus Bound asks us to question… More >>
