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Prometheus Bound at Getty Villa
For theater-habituated Angelenos with an appetite for the cutting edge, the Radar L.A. Festival is more than the mere gathering of "the world's most influential performing ensembles" and "innovative Los Angeles art...
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When the moon hits your eye like a sweet red bean-stuffed moon cake, that's a good date.
Are you tired of meeting your sweetie for dinner and a movie -- much less the same old dinner-and-drinks combo? Do not despair. All sorts of awesome things a...
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Hidetada Yamagishi at Gold's Gym in Venice
Japan is famous for its big athletes, high-ranked sumo wrestlers who weigh a minimum 300 pounds. But Japan didn't know what to make of Hidetada "The Dragon" Yamagishi when, at 19 years old, he quit playi...
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State Street Ballet dancers Jack Stewart and Leila Drake as Roland and Yoland Veloz, with Joseph Fuqua
This week's dance events include melodramatic ballroom dancers and a young man searching for stardust via e-mail.
5. Ballroom's power couple...
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Eric Curtis Johnson in Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? at Sacred Fools Theatre
This was a week marked by enthusiasm by our various critics: Bill Raden praised Sacred Fools' production of Edward Einhorn's 2010 adaptation of Philip K....
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Inge Reist, director, The Frick Collection's Center for the History of Collecting, in conversation with philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad and founding director of the Broad museum, Joanne Heyler, at Central Library
Thursday night at Central Lib...
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View of Neil Beloufa's "Speaking About Best"
This week, an artist revisits a fashion designer's flirtation with pop and a radio station will broadcast in a museum whisper.
5. Keeping your voice down
KCHUNG, the radio station mostly run by art-...
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Friday, Sept. 20
This weekend, Laemmle's Monica 4 screens three short films by Brock Mullins, which have made the festival rounds and garnered a few awards along the way. Each one features a classical piano soundtrack performed by Mullins. In The Hi...
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Whatever your favorite things in L.A., it's time to share your wealth of knowledge and make sure the coolest places and things are honored. How, you ask? Easy. Vote in the Best of L.A. Readers Poll! Time is running out to make your voice heard, so vo...
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Dick Figures: The Movie
It took a year for Zack Keller and Ed Skudder to make a 75-minute movie. For animation, ordinarily an arduously slow and complex process, they made good time.
Keller and Skudder did this with a little more than a dozen p...
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This Sunday, at 11:30 p.m., China, IL returns for its second season on Adult Swim. The animated series centers around UCI, touted as "The Worst School in America," in the opening credits. The teachers are incompetent. The students are misguided. The ...
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Dream It! Do It!
Love him or hate him, there's no escaping the impact that Walt Disney had on the film industry and, with Disneyland, Southern California lifestyle.
The lord of the Mouse House died from lung cancer in 1966, but that hasn't stopp...
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Hector Echavarria, left, takes a break from filming with Steven Bauer, who plays his on-screen brother.
Hector Echavarria is a former world-champion kickboxer who as a teen cut his teeth on street fights, sent opponents to the hospital and dodg...
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Dina from 72U's Lolita documentary, Sugar Coated
There's a new documentary about Lolita, the fashion subculture that started out in Japan, but found a home in Los Angeles, and it's great. Sugar Coated is a brief look into the lives of Southern Cal...
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Chickens in an alley behind 8701 Pico Blvd.
The chickens will pay for your sins. Mary Smith stumbled onto this gambit while walking to the Starbucks in her Pico-Robertson neighborhood on Sunday, when she noticed "many, many cages" crammed with chi...
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Appetite for Diverted Destruction
Now in its sixth edition, the annual Diverted Destruction group show at the Loft at Liz's has become a highlight of the summer season. The upper floor (i.e., the loft space) of the Liz's Antique Hardware building on ...
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You're at a bar, a barbecue or a bar mitzvah, and you and your new friend are getting along swimmingly. That is, until he drops a bomb.
"Oh...," you say, trying not to let your face betray your disgust. "You live in the Valley?"
Annie Choi knows ...
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Actress Azie Mira Dungey's brilliantly biting web series, Ask a Slave, brings to life the uneducated assumptions and racist questions Dungey faced during her time portraying George Washington's housemaid, Caroline Branham, at Mount Vernon. Each episo...
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That thing where you quit something for like twenty years and then all of a sudden are like JK GUYS I WANT TO DO THIS AGAIN.
From Rip Van Winkle to Arsenio Hall, there's something fascinating about people who attempt a comeback after a two-deca...
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Cameron Meyer and James Marsters in Elin Hampton's The Bells of West 87th
No Pick this week, but a nod from Neal Weaver for the family comedy-drama The Bells of West 87th at Greenway Arts Alliance. See below for all the latest new theate...
Kirk Douglas Theatre's Three Solo Shows Are Respectable But Don't Push the Envelope
GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach
Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound
