Haji in Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! Haji, the Quebec-born actress who most famously starred in iconic cult film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! passed away last night, according to longtime friend Kitten Natividad's Facebook page. She was 67. ...
In preparation for Sunday's continuation of the final season, we recall some of the best musical moments in the show's incredible history. The Cover Up. Having long ago abandoned any sense of shame, Walter White needs to cover up his grave misdeed...
Are you a Wazer? I'm now a Wazer. Last week I Wazed my way around Los Angeles, my first time experiencing the Israeli-made navigation app just purchased by Google for $1 billion. With its crowd-sourced data that alerts drivers to construction, accid...
In the middle of the Norton Simon Museum's 20th century gallery stands a six-foot-tall sculpture from 1931 called Bird in Space (above). It's by Romanian artist Constantin Brancusi, who lived and worked in Paris, where he redefined the meaning of scu...
Courtesy CalArts RedCat and the artist This week, a collector prays for more art and a composer explores negative YouTube energy. 5. God willing Art collector Danny First has been making benches -- they're black and would be nondescript if not ...
By now we should all be familiar with the basic components of Real Housewives style: orange tan, big hair, shiny lips, Botoxed brow, skimpy Barbie-doll dress, hooker heels and the occasional fur. But while the housewives of the hit TV franchise may a...
Dream jobs don't come along very often, and certainly not on Craigslist. Yet there it was, a listing for a casino games player: no experience necessary, starting salary $16 an hour. Which is not in itself dreamy, perhaps -- but for nights in a casino...
Dancers with Complexions Contemporary Ballet This week's dance events include contemporary dance from Tijuana and Heidi Duckler in East L.A., both free! See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar...
Odalys Nanin and Angela Nicholas in Garbo's Cuban Lover at Macha Theatre Odalys Nanin's speculative drama Garbo's Cuban Lover concerns a certain coziness between Greta Garbo and 1930s poet, playwright and novelist Mercede...
These days, a lot of people want to get in on the game of exhibiting contemporary art in Los Angeles. Talk of soon-to-open venues is proliferating, from Eli Broad's museum downtown and the Hauser Wirth & Schimmel gallery co-headed by former MOCA cur...
Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day was first presented as a workshop in 1985 at New York's Theatre 22, before receiving its premiere at San Francisco's Eureka Theatre in 1987, directed by Oskar Eustis -- who runs New York's Public Theater. It's...
See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Aug. 9 Watch the Marx Brothers cause a chaotically hilarious ruckus as they play stowaways on a ship to America in the 1931 film Monkey Business. This classic also features the famous scene in which...
Kevin West (left) and Scott Sternberg chat on-stage as part of the Hammer Museum's Conversation series. In the courtyard of UCLA's Hammer Museum, patrons are gathered during a dwindling happy hour. They're waiting to be seated in the Billy Wilde...
The Magic Castle -- somewhat of a change from the altars where Fr. Jim Blantz normally plies his trade. Fr. Jim Blantz was busy this past Sunday. At 8:30 a.m., Blantz presided over Mass, wrapping up a three-week stint filling in at Church of the G...
Tweeting while hosting, you guys! #yolo Meghan McCain, like most Millennials, only watches TV on the Internet. Was it ironic or just awkward, then, when she declared this preference while guesting on a new L.A.-based late-night talk show that sp...
A view of the inside of the tunnel On an otherwise normal Saturday night in Cypress Park, a man with a microwave over his head pointed at a skateboard deck and nodded with gusto. He stood in an underground tunnel with many other art enthusiast...
Works in Progress for Chet Zar's forthcoming show, "Ego Death" Fifteen new pieces are making the rounds inside Chet Zar's Monrovia studio right now. He'll work on one until he no longer can, then move to another. "It's easy to get hung up on a p...
April Flores and Carlos Batts at the Coagula Curatorial for their gallery opening Fat Girl is a new photography book with a single subject -- the flame-haired April Flores, who, through her work as a plus-size model and porn star, has managed to ...
Jeryl Brunner's My City, My Los Angeles In Jeryl Brunner's My City, My Los Angeles, released in April, famous people in L.A. share their favorite L.A. places. Below are a few excerpts, from the likes of Kim Kardashian, Dustin Hoffman and former ...
Marius Listhrop and Sam Pepper pose for selfies with fans on Friday at VidCon. That evening, at 7:26 pm, Pepper, a former Big Brother UK contestant with over a million YouTube subscribers, tweeted "done maybe over 2,000 selfies with viewers over toda...
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 >>
