East vs. West, from 2010 Gajin Fujita has email now. The Japanese American, Boyle heights resident and retired K2S graffiti crew member has finally come into the computer age, albeit rather reluctantly. Until now, the only way to reach the reclusi...
Beau Sia performing at a previous installment of The Drums Inside Your Chest Poetry shouldn't cause flashbacks to snooze-inducing high school English class, a point well-noted by Amber Tamblyn, the poet and actress behind the poetry series The Dr...
Tony Dominguez, maker of giant Dia de los Muertos puppets Tony Dominguez is a 3-D kind of guy. Most people look at a photo and see it only in two dimensions. Dominguez looks at a flat image and sees its geometry in three. He can spin it around...
The Heart, She Holler is a TV dream for fans of bizarre comedies. The six-episode miniseries, set to debut on Adult Swim this Sunday night, was created by Vernon Chatman, John Lee and Alyson Levy. Chatman and Lee are best known as co-creators of the ...
Ryan Smith in Chekhov Unscripted ? In 1999, after 11 years of wringing laughs from willing audiences through competitive comedy and newfangled styles of longform improvisation, Impro Theater devised an upstart project called Shakespeare Unscripted...
Pasadena Museum of Art's Project Room is covered in a layer of fog to make it look like Jupiter At the Pasadena Museum of California Art, art lovers can gain a sense of what it might be like searching on the surface of Jupiter -- by using a cellp...
"Here are our rock stars!" shouts a grinning Jacques Heim, artistic director of Diavolo Dance Theater Heim is like that, full of jolly bluster and French bonhomie. It's part of his charm, his public signature. His greeting was directed at the boys p...
Glenn Ligon's neon sculpture "negro sunshine," hanging in the window at LACMA When the Whitney Museum opened its Glenn Ligon retrospective, "America," in March, they put one of Bronx-born Ligon's signature neon pieces in their Madison Avenue wind...
LA Weekly kicked serious butt in the list of L.A. Press Club's National Entertainment Journalism Awards finalists, which were announced yesterday, racking up 14 nominations, more than any other publication. Our theater critic-reporter and editor-at-...
A shrine-like installation in Gustavo Herrera and Spencer Douglass's exhibition "Hollenbeck" If you need a break from all the nostalgic historicizing saturating the art world these days, dash over to see an ingenious artist-made, open-air storefr...
Unicorn Being a Jerk, published by It! Books, is being released on November 8. It's not so easy being a one-horned mythical beast. People freak out. Or they follow you around. Worst case scenario, they begin to worship you. That last one is the ...
Which roll to use? "Lady Wrestling, 'the video tape,'" anyone? How 'bout taking in some "John Sex and Co. Burlesque"? These were just some of the posters screaming at me during the opening of Royal/T Caf's "East Village West" recently. The place...
A Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena ? GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's founder and producing director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, havin...
Angelenos aren't strangers to the works of British street artist Banksy. His participation in MOCA's street art show was a (predictably secret) given, and the man plastered L.A. during the run-up to the Oscars, inspiring residents of Westwood Village...
A special screening was held recently at Paramount to give a sneak peak of some of the three-dimensionalized footage of the 1997 blockbuster, the entirety of which will be released in theaters in April 2012 as Titanic 3D. Whatever one's usual taste o...
Camille Grammer, who knows how to properly greet a camel at a party. Today's Tuesday. What will we be doing tonight? Hmm, probably laundry. But in the land of Beverly Hills Housewives, Tuesday is the perfect day for your filthy rich friend and his...
The Winning Costumes: Northcutt, left, with Hirsch Daniel Hirsch loves all things Halloween and last night he got one more reason to do so. At West Hollywood's world famous Halloween Carnaval, he and his partner, Amy Northcutt, won the best costu...
One of Doeringer's imitations, entitled Cowboy Photographs (After Richard Prince) Forget about original artwork. Even the Ancient Greeks complained that it was impossible to innovate anymore. That's the premise of Eric Doeringer's tongue-in-che...
This past year, Los Angeles has been haunted by dreams of itself. For years, I've passed the Olive Motel on Sunset in Silver Lake -- such a strange stray dog of a building, eminently adoptable. I've thought of trying to buy it with nonexistent mon...
This year had more than its share of so-so exhibitions, but it brought an exciting burst of populism. I'm still convinced that art doesn't have to be rarefied and that, framed right, even stark '70s conceptualism can be interesting to people who don...
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 >>
