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Half of the word "typecast" is "cast." Versatility may be prized at Juilliard, but selling your brand is the real key to Hollywood success. Case in point: Fast-talking, tanned and toned Staten Island natives Jeremy Luke and Joey Russo began filming s...
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Abbott Kinney Festival returns this week
L.A. may be known for its luxe cultural events, but not everybody can afford to go to the Hollywood Bowl every week. Look around and you'll find dozens of places offering fun at a discount -- or, better yet...
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James Franco and Joseph Gordon-Levitt: actors, directors, renaissance men
Until two days ago, the James Franco-directed adaptation of Faulkner's As I Lay Dying was set to go head to head with the release of Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon this wee...
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Lucy Guerin Dance in Weather
This week's dance events also include two Radar/LA events, a new dance/performance mix and Pony Box in a vacant lot.
5. Australia dancers debut Weather
Six bodies dance beneath an enormous puffy, snow-white, suspe...
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Tim Cummings and Bill Brochtrup in The Normal Heart at the Fountain Theatre
A ten-year anniversary revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart snagged this week's Pick by Neal Weaver, thanks in large part to the power of Simon Levy's stagi...
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Playwright Carole Eglash-Kosoff
When she became a widow in her seventies, losing her mother, her brother and her husband in a single month, Carole Eglash-Kosoff could have been forgiven for retreating to a darkened room, for needing down time or "...
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Shark Wheel
Like most parking lots, the one outside downtown's Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator is flat and fairly vast -- a skateboarder's dream of a canvas. David Patrick, 48, looks at ease as he glides along the smooth concrete, drifting his lo...
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Marion Lane's studio was a blur of activity this summer.
The year before, one of her friends had gotten too drunk.
She remembers that now, standing at the same corner of La Brea Avenue and Second Street at pretty much the same time, doing prett...
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LED pendants for the GLOW festival
First thing to know about soldering irons: they're hot.
If that doesn't frighten you away, you might have what it takes to wire up the circuit board that will take you on an electronic treasure hunt through S...
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Wunderbaum/LAPD perform Hospital as part of Radar L.A.
In the new theater production Hospital, Wunderbaum, the irreverently incisive Rotterdam theater collective, whose work has wittily examined the abrasive interstices between culture and the l...
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Friday, Sept. 27
Named after the famous American sci-fi and horror writer, the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival showcases shorts and features of the macabre, fantastical and bizarre. After a dinner at the nearby, Victorian-themed Whale & Ale at 5 p.m., ...
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Still from ABACUS
This week, an experimental opera mimics a TED Talk and a sculptor who's been at it since the 1950s debuts impressively hip work.
5. Letting things get weird
Kitchen Steve, performance artist Geo Wyeth's creation, wears goggle-...
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Wait, the library will let me stream this random Lindsay Lohan movie for free? Shouldn't they be paying me to do that?
Broke L.A. twenty-somethings, rejoice! No longer must you feel a tinge of guilt for praising Emersonian self-reliance in your ...
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Last year, producer Jason Blum (Paranormal Activity) and his crew took over downtown's Variety Arts Center for a spectacular, multi-level haunted house event that lasted through the Halloween season. This year, Blumhouse of Horrors is back, but the s...
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The Tower Theater
In 2011, much of the inaugural edition of Radar L.A. -- the biennial festival of new works by renowned international and L.A.-based theater companies and artists -- was centered around downtown's LATC on Spring St. and REDCAT in...
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Sammy Obeid
Stand-up comedy is testing in many ways: a test of wit, of confidence, of adaptability and of timing. But three years ago, comic Sammy Obeid decided to add a fifth element to that test: endurance.
"I was in this place in my life where...
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Marlo Meekins is not afraid to gross you out.
Give Marlo Meekins six seconds and she'll make you laugh. Give her another and she'll do it again, for you, for your friends and for her nearly four hundred thousand followers on Vine, the Twitter-o...
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This post is our live report from backstage at the Emmys press room, where the winners answer questions after they walk off stage. Please also follow our Tweets at @laweeklyarts.
8:47 PM Bryan Cranston: "I wore a Walter White mask and walked the flo...
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Scroll through What Would Beyonce Do?, one of many Tumblr sites dedicated to Beyonce, and you'll find Queen Bey being Queen Bey -- on a yacht, in front of a Rolls Royce, holding her Grammys. Luisa Omielan's stand-up show is also called What Would Bey...
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B.J. Novak backstage at UCB after his show. More philosophical than Woody Allen
Eight years ago at a comedy show in Los Feliz, B.J. Novak took the mike and regaled the crowd with a jaw dropping story: As a tween, he had a personal encounter wit...
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