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...
This past June witnessed the week that was, with the nationwide theater organization Theatre Communications Group celebrating its 50th anniversary by holding its annual conference in Los Angeles -- the first time it had ever convened the powwow here...
It was raining men in West Hollywood Saturday night as the city organized its first Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day. Leave it to WeHo to declare a Go-Go Dancer Appreciation Day and Motley Crue Day in the same year. And only in WeHo will you find a scan...
The LACMA Muse Costume Ball is one of Los Angeles's hottest Halloween tickets, and with the wildly popular Tim Burton exhibit in its final days and KROQ jumping on board, Saturday's sold out Dead Man's Ball came with an especially large amount of hyp...
Clint and Dawn Wolf of Zombie Ranch Two years ago, Clint and Dawn Wolf launched their comic, Zombie Ranch, at Long Beach Comic Con. The couple returned to the convention -- now called Long Beach Comic and Horror Con -- last weekend, where they sat...
Everyone remembers the infamous scene from 1995 cult classic Showgirls in which Cristal Connors (actress Gina Gershon) gazes into the eyes of Nomi Malone (actress Elizabeth Berkley) and says, "You see, darlin', you are a whore." Though the notorious...
OMFG! Halloween starts this weekend! Even though CVS put out the candy and the knickknacks right after Labor Day, you still waited 'til the last minute to get a costume, didn't you? Only recent temperate climate transplants that have been waiting for...
NASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lif...
Lucha Libre is a peculiarly Mexican phenomenon, but titties speak a language anyone can understand. So the Lucha VaVoom show, which had its Halloween event last night at The Mayan in downtown, has cleverly placed itself at the intersection of colorfu...
Ed Moses Ed Moses is sitting in the middle of Montana Avenue's latest home-furnishings boutique, Living by Lynne Leventen, a menagerie of candles, chandeliers and wall art. He's observing his recently installed painting, which he calls The Po...
Tim DeZarn Filming was well under way when news of the ghost began to circulate. They were shooting the final scenes of the movie K-11, a prison thriller, at the abandoned Sybil Brand Institute women's correctional facility in City Terrace east ...
San Diego Comic-Con 2011 For the past three years that I've been covering conventions for LA Weekly, people have been telling me to go to Atlanta for Dragon*Con. I've heard it from commenters, friends and professional contacts. There are many who ...
Angelenos are crazy about their astrology. We're dying to know what's in the stars for future loves, riches and life's whopping changes (positive or otherwise). But what about the city itself? LA Weekly sat down with local celebrity astrologer Dr. C...
No plans for Halloween? Not looking forward to trying to park in WeHo for the parade Monday night? Check out these seven other weekend events. We won't say they're spook-tacular. If we did you'd have to shoot us. 7. Dark Harbor 2011 Maybe you...
William Daniels' "Untitled" oil painting, on view at Marc Foxx Gallery through November 12 My agenda includes a couple risks -- eight hours of United Nations-style debating and a visit to a temporary hotel room. Then there are the sure bets -- a ...
Susan Mogul's Mogul Celebrates Mogul poster hanging alongside the official PST ads in Echo Park Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha both like words. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man and now-iconic L.A. artist drive around L.A. discussing this share...
The translator, Amy Hirschman, lives in Los Angeles. She hasn't made the cat hair crafts yet, but plans to get together with her friends to do so with the hair they collect. It will, no doubt, be a fun and highly allergenic time. "I think American au...
It's a party, it's theater, it's a "happening"...or wait, is it fancy art talk? According to Sneaky Nietzsche's creator, Sheila Vand, it's a little bit of all of those, and the runaround is part of the fun. Billed with the tagline "a theatrical musi...
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 >>
