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The TCL Chinese Theatre has a new feather to add to its cap: Hollywood's first and only IMAX screen. After closing for renovations on May 1 of this year, the 86-year-old movie palace will host the 3D/IMAX premiere of The Wizard of Oz (which had its o...
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Dancer Angelita Macias
This week's dance events include the last J.A.M. at the Ford and two modern dancers strolling down memory lane.
5. Summer's last J.A.M.
The riveting, martial arts-infused capoeira may have started in Brazil but it has mi...
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Kiana Anvaripour
Like many fashion designers, Kiana Anvaripour spent her youth worshipping at the altar of classic Hollywood glamour.
"AMC was my favorite channel," she says. "I was obsessed with Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Some Like It Hot and M...
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What's not so well known is why Hollywood waited so long.
Ben Urwand has a complex, frequently fascinating story to tell in his first book, The Collaboration: Hollywood's Pact With Hitler. Since Hollywood was founded and run by Jews, the idea that ...
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A long line of officers stands at attention as Kelly Reynolds approaches the Temple.
Burning Man's reputation for bacchanalian revelry is well deserved. The festival is one of the planet's biggest parties, famously crescendoing in the immolation ...
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Friday, Sept. 13
The New Beverly Cinema is showing two of Sarah Polley's films back-to-back, beginning at 7:30 p.m. In the documentary Stories We Tell, Polley navigates her own family's secrets. Then, in Polley's first feature as director, Away from...
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Compiled by Alan Scherstuhl and Stephanie Zacharek of The Village Voice and Amy Nicholson of L.A. Weekly.
12. The Conjuring
Real-life ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren were teenagers when they wed in 1945. He loved scares, she talked to spi...
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5. Low-stakes Breathalyzers and eye charts for fun
DMV: After Dark is one event at alt art space Machine Project that I remember even though I wasn't there. I saw the video on Vimeo: the guy in ill-fitting glasses sitting behind a podium calling numb...
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Poesia Para La Gente
At Union Station on the Gold Line platform this past Saturday, the commuters and sojourners of the Los Angeles weekend are greeted by the unfamiliar sound of...poets. A group of men and women -- all ages and ethnicities -- a...
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Kozyndan outside of GR2 with Giant Robot's Eric Nakamura (center)
Giant Robot and kozyndan have a long history together, one that goes back to when Giant Robot opened shop on Sawtelle Boulevard in 2001. The two artists -- Kozy and Dan -- were stil...
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You can dance to Bollywood music too!
All it takes is one hour of a K-pop dance class, surrounded a room of high school students who must have already practiced the music video routine in their parents' living rooms, to confirm what your body al...
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Shaun of the Dead by Nicolas Rix
Head out to Gallery 1988 when either one of its Melrose Avenue outposts is hosting a pop culture-centric, group show opening and you'll see a line. The line will be long. Sometimes there will people who have been h...
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Plaster casts from Diana Nyad's face, along with early prototypes of the mask created by Stefan Knauss.
The secret to Diana Nyad's historic Cuba to Florida swim may have been the custom silicone mask protecting her face from jellyfish stings. And...
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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 dad. In the same theater, performing in repertor...
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Crystal Garrett and Jolie Oliver in The Old Settler at the Pico Playhouse
John Henry Redwood's throwback comedy-drama about a family in 1943 Harlem, The Old Settler at Pico Playhouse, is this week's Pick. Writes Lovell...
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Stars on the Hollywood Boulevard -- which have become John Peterson's calling.
It's not yet 9 a.m. as John Peterson cautiously steps off the westbound 780 bus near the intersection of Hollywood and Highland and crutches his way to a stretch of sid...
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When there's this many DeLoreans in town, it must be a screening of Back to the Future.
Hollywood loves a comeback, and few cars were ever more in need of one than the DeLorean DMC-12. The production line went dark all too soon, the manufacturer f...
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Dancers in Fanta-Stick
This week's dance events include Regina Klenjoski's troupe performing on its own and a Korean street dance hit arriving stateside.
See also:
*5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week
*Our Latest Theater Reviews
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It began as a simple duel: two line cooks pitted against each other for culinary bragging rights in the kitchen of downtown L.A.'s the Gorbals. It was after-hours, ringmastered by chef and owner Ilan Hall. Sometimes Hall would compete for old times' ...
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An actor's unique look can accentuate any comedy performance. On an August Sunday afternoon at a private home in Sherman Oaks, Tim Kalpakis, a member of sketch group the Birthday Boys, with a Dick Tracy-square jaw, is prepping a bit as a 60 Minutes-t...
Kirk Douglas Theatre's Three Solo Shows Are Respectable But Don't Push the Envelope
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