Edgar Wright with artist Joey Spiotto It's just after 6 p.m. and the line for "The Official Edgar Wright Art Show" at Gallery 1988: West is halfway down a side street south of Melrose Avenue. This isn't a mad rush to secure tickets to purchase one...
Sam Francis Foundation This week, four decades' worth of a prolific abstract expressionist's work appears in Pasadena and a vacant East L.A. lot becomes an exhibition space. 5. Nine-day habitat Byron Westbrook's brief exhibition "Interval/Hab...
Everything Is Vine Host Hadrian Belove, far left, with panelists James Urbaniak, Gillian Jacobs, Marlo Meekins, Adam Goldberg,Ian Padgham, and Steve Agee Andy Warhol overshot when he predicted everyone would be famous for fifteen minutes. Appare...
See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Aug. 23 A call to all aspiring film composers, orchestral musicians, mixing engineers or music editors: Tonight at the Aero, the team behind Elysium's score will lecture about how to bring movie mus...
Your bus ride just got more artsy, thanks to a new initiative. In Los Angeles, art resides on concrete walls, buildings, billboards and more. So it's no surprise that you can now see it around Downtown LA and Boyle Heights on another public surf...
Making up Volcanalis, a character on NBC's Grimm Volcanalis only appeared in one episode of NBC's fantasy show Grimm, but he certainly made an impact. A monstrous figure, he glowed lava-orange with a face that was cracked and charred at the edges....
Big Black Delta, pictured here in January while opening for M83 at L.A. Live, is one of the many acts performing at Echo Park Rising this week. It's a highly musical week here in L.A., with a live music and ballet fusion, an Echo Park music fest...
Yaelisa in Forever Flamenco This week's dance events include two neighboring flamenco shows and the latest from the innovative Rosanna Gamson. 5. Flamenco Duels Flamenco Andalusi continues the golden anniversary celebration at Silver Lake's El ...
Joe Clifford "This is the shelter," Joe Clifford says. He's standing outside the Los Angeles Mission on Fifth Street with his best friend and former running buddy, author Tom Pitts. A car backfires. Then a group of transsexuals struts by and wav...
The guys behind Freedom Artists, an independent surf wear company, man their booth at the Agenda trade show. At 5 p.m. on a Wednesday, Pascal Stansfield, who is as stand-up as they come, who always props the other guys instead of himself, who al...
Mike Rosenbaum and Jason Thomas in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer at Sierra Madre Playhouse Tom Sawyer coming of age, and all that represents about America, is depicted in an entertaining stage adaptation at Sierra Madre Playhouse -- The Ad...
There are dreams described within August Strindberg's 1888 play, Miss Julie -- such as the moneyed title character being stranded on a pillar, and the object of her scandalous lust, a footman named Jean, stuck on the ground while yearning to climb t...
See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Saturday, Aug. 17 Blue Exorcist the Movie is based on the popular manga written and illustrated by Kazue Kato (which became an anime television series in 2011). The story follows Rin Okumura, the teenage so...
As demonstrated by two documentaries screening in L.A. this week, obsolescence need not imply irrelevance. Monday night at Cinefamily, Josh Johnson's Rewind This! provided a people's history of VHS; tomorrow night at the Nerdist Showroom and then aga...
One of Richard Artschwager's blps This week, three summer group shows feature cleverly weird work, and black lozenge-shapes appear around the city. 5. Blue satin streamers The house Richard Neutra built in the 1930s across the street from the ...
The Gamble House kitchen Pasadena's wooden wonder, the Gamble House, is a clever abode. Instead of closing its doors this summer for a necessary flooring restoration, the National Historic Landmark has found a way to keep its tours running, whil...
Captain Johnnie Lee In the harbor of downtown Long Beach, in the shadow of P.F. Chang's and Gladstone's, is a boat parked in dock #5 that caters to a different sort of visitor. Appropriately named Great Faith, the 48-foot Sea Ray regularly sets ...
Author, model, burlesque dancer, and love, sex and relationship coach Sienna Sinclaire recently released her book Naughty Girl's Guide to Los Angeles, a guide to the less-innocent activities the city offers. The author shares her top picks for the ci...
The Pickup Line is West Hollywood's new free trolley service. Like any good hotspot in WeHo, it's full of beautiful people and blaring music. For more photos from Friday's unveiling, check out our slideshow. Partying in West Hollywood this week...
Rue-Aubriot-Paris, by Helmut Newton, at the Annenberg Space for Photography The notorious photographer Helmut Newton died almost ten years ago, crashing his car into a wall at Chateau Marmont while suffering a fatal heart attack in early 2004. T...
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 >>
