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10 Ways to Get Past a Bouncer
Waiting for days at Drais? Not anymore... Summer time sees an increase in club hopping for obvious reasons, but there's something about Fall and Winter nights that beckon as well. Sultry months may bring out skimpier clothing, but cold ones are ...
@ Public Spectacle by Lina Lecaro on November 11, 2011 @ 6:30 am
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Four Things to Love About Patrick Warburton
Certainly, if you have a television set, you're familiar with Warburton. But what's he like when he isn't slaughtering Henchmen on The Venture Bros. or cracking jokes with the neighbors on Family Guy? Find out after the jump. 4. He has an "inner n...
@ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on November 10, 2011 @ 11:42 am
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La Luz De Jesus Gallery's 25-Year Retrospective Exhibit (Part 2)
Two heads (and exhibits) are always better than one. Wayne Martin Belger and his skull camera know it... So expansive was the exhibit celebrating Billy Shire's legendary -- don't call it lowbrow! -- L.A. art gallery's 25th anniversary, it had to ...
@ Public Spectacle by Lina Lecaro on November 10, 2011 @ 9:00 am
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A Drinking Game at Molly Malone's: Actors Perform Live Readings of Classic Movies. While Drinking. Chaos Ensues.
Brett Schlank, left, Natalie Lynch and & Tara Jayn, producers of A Drinking Game Never let it be said that the actors in A Drinking Game refused to suffer for their craft. A live reading of classic movies turned interactive drinking game, the m...
@ Public Spectacle by Gendy Alimurung on November 10, 2011 @ 8:00 am
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Janet Reitman's Inside Scientology: Author's Packed L.A. Talks Reveal Why Angelenos Still Want Answers About the Controversial Religion
Janet Reitman Every folding chair at Skylight Books in Los Feliz is taken, and standing-room folks jam into any available spot offering a sight line to the front. The questions pop out. "What is the political agenda of the church?" asks an au...
@ Public Spectacle by Adam Gropman on November 10, 2011 @ 7:00 am
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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Chuck Close, Aaron Curry, Richard Hawkins and a Guide to Suburban Survival
A view of Aaron Curry and Richard Hawkins' collaboration The November/December gallery scene looks like it might be pretty exciting this year, starting with a surprising collaboration and crowd-pleasing paintings in Culver City. 5. Surviving th...
@ Public Spectacle by Catherine Wagley on November 9, 2011 @ 11:38 am
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Mie Olise's Shipsearching at Honor Fraser is as Cool as a Treehouse
Totally doesn't doesn't do its awesomeness justice. But cool... Shipsearching, Mie Olise's awesome treehouse of an artwork at Honor Fraser gallery, stole the opening-night-in-Culver-City scene for me. You may be wondering, what's a treehouse of a...
@ Public Spectacle by Megan Sallabedra on November 9, 2011 @ 10:30 am
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Shepard Fairey Designs Wall for New District La Brea Shopping Complex
Fairey is the street artist who rose to fame in 2008 when his Obama "Hope" poster became the emblem of an era, and was a major player in the 2010 Banksy documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop, where you see him and other street artists hastily plaste...
@ Public Spectacle by Stephanie Carrie on November 9, 2011 @ 9:38 am
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Flappers Comedy Club: How Did a New Standup Venue Take Off Despite Down Economy?
"In a city that is mostly 'showcase' clubs, it's a nice change of pace to be able to do a full hour-long headline set in front of good, appreciative crowds." So says comedian and podcaster Jimmy Pardo. He was talking to us about Flappers, a nightclu...
@ Public Spectacle by Casey Burchby on November 9, 2011 @ 9:00 am
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Kim Richards' Rx Cocktail, and Messages from Beyond
A creamy Taylor Armstrong. There's nothing like planning a seance to remind you of how much you look like death, so naturally, before the Bev Hills housewives could gather at Kyle's to speak to their deceased loved ones, they attended Dr. Paul Nas...
@ Public Spectacle by Ali Trachta on November 8, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
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Fela! at the Ahmanson Reviewed - The life of a Nigerian Afrobeat legend
The band and the actors are already warming up as the audience trickles into the Ahmanson Theatre for Fela!, Jim Lewis and Bill T. Jones' rambunctious biographical cabaret, based on the life of Nigerian musician-superstar turned political activist F...
by Steven Leigh Morris on December 29, 2011
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L.A. Theater's Most Memorable Moments of 2011
Lighting Design by Mother Nature Playwright-director Sharon Yablon toured local stages in September with 24 Hours on Sunset, a collection of one-acts thematically tied to Sunset Boulevard. The free performances boasted a stellar ensemble (Michael ...
by L.A. Weekly Theater Critics on December 29, 2011
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Hotel Art in L.A.: A User's Guide
The days of gilt-framed faux-impressionism punctuating hotel walls are over. Or it certainly seems that way, as just about every trendy boutique hotel is making concerted efforts to bring the work of living artists into the fold, as lobbies and bars...
by Shana Nys Dambrot on December 29, 2011
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Steve Niles' 30 Days of Night Made It Big. But That Wasn't the End of the Story
How the vampires finally got to Alaska is the stuff of comic book legend. For a while, it looked like they weren't going to make it. It was the mid-'90s, and comic book writer Steve Niles was down and out in Los Angeles. In quick succession, Disne...
by Gendy Alimurung on December 29, 2011
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Comic Artists Riff on New Year's Eve
For 51 weeks, we've given you words. We gave you words about Occupy L.A. and trouble in the county jails and bad school lunches. Words about David Lynch and Kevin Smith and Miranda July and Elvis Mitchell. Words, too, about this city's 99 Essential ...
by Sarah Fenske on December 29, 2011
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Bruce Bellas' 'Bruce of Los Angeles: Beefcakes and Boundaries': Famed Erotic Photographer Rocks Pop tART Gallery in Koreatown
Pop tART Gallery Owner Phyllis Navidad Legendary photographer Bruce Bellas, better known as Bruce of Los Angeles, has been honored with a new, highly-anticipated show at Pop tART Gallery in Koreatown. In conjunction with Pacific Standard Time, "Br...
@ Public Spectacle by Reilly T Bates on November 8, 2011 @ 10:00 am
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Silver Lake Arts Collective's Open Studio Tour: Who Are All Those 'Silver Lake Artists' You Always Hear About?
Open studio tours leave you thinking, "Yes, the art is lovely, but what will the inside of this person's bathroom look like?" While out on an afternoon stroll this past Sunday, Colleen Crosby found herself drawn to the orange paper lantern and co...
@ Public Spectacle by Amanda Lewis on November 8, 2011 @ 9:36 am
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Jerker, Have You Seen Alice?, The Romance of Magno Rubio, and more new stage reviews . . .
? Michelle Hilyard and Darrett Sanders in Have You Seen Alice: Photo by Jonathan Klein ? Jacqueline Wright's play, Have You Seen Alice? at Theatre of NOTE is this week's Pick of the Week. Our critics also recommend Jerker at Sp...
@ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on November 8, 2011 @ 8:36 am
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DesignerCon: 9 Weirdest Scenes at Pasadena's Convention of Nerds in Toyland
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School Santa's workshop came early this year DesignerCon. On Saturday, Exhibit Hall A at the Pasadena Convention Center temporarily turned into a pop-up, pop-art fair and toy market filled with commercial designers and desig...
@ Public Spectacle by Tanja M. Laden on November 7, 2011 @ 2:58 pm
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Go The F**k To Sleep Author Adam Mansbach on the Horrors of Parenting
That's right, kid. Hold it. Remember when Go The F**k To Sleep, that children's bedtime story for adults, was released earlier this year? How it hit Amazon's #1 spot before it was even printed? If you don't remember it's probably because you're lo...
@ Public Spectacle by Megan Sallabedra on November 7, 2011 @ 2:37 pm
From the Print Edition
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 >>
