On the set of Quick Draw "We're whores, and we love to fornicate!" John Lehr shouts, once again. He's yelled some version of that same phrase about half a dozen times in the last hour or so. Lehr is dressed in drag, as are his fellow cast mates in...
At Crave, Alex Hooper's comedy/party hybrid event, an almost-naked man doing aerial stunts with a hula-hoop is hardly out of place. The lights are out onstage. Comedian Alex Hooper is powering through the technical glitch. He's dressed in nothing...
Peter Clines Peter Clines writes about scary, terrifying Ex-es. Not the kind of exes who can't accept that the romance is over but the kind of Exes who can't accept that their mortal lives are over. Clines also writes about superheroes. Not t...
This week, let L.A. entertain you. From a comic reflection on summer camp to the bizarre entertainment of a movie starring Lindsay Lohan and a porn star, there are plenty of ways to stay amused this week. Here are just five options to tickle your fun...
Now 90, Elliott and his longtime comedy partner, the late Ray Goulding, starred in an SNL special in 1979. In one bit, the plain-looking, middle-aged guys sat wearing business attire, singing Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" while SNL ladies dan...
Owiso Odera, Brian Slaten and Amielynn Abellera in Lady Windermere's Fan Chalk Repertory -- known for its site-specific works -- brings Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan from the drawing room to the out of doors in this week's Pick. Ou...
The Montague family in Blue 13's new take on Romeo and Juliet This week's dance events include a performance to send dancers out of town and another week of REDCAT's NOW festival. 5. How 'bout some Bollywood street dance? Forbidden passions, b...
He shouldn't have looked in the truck. The IED had blown it up and sent its occupants to Kingdom Come. "What I saw in there was the worst thing I will ever see in my life," U.S. Army Specialist Andrew O'Brien says. It was so bad that he later tried...
The mountain fire as seen from the Shell Station on Highway 243, looking east towards Tahquitz Peak. We had two cars in which to stow three dogs and a lifetime's worth of possessions. The emergency broadcast service at 1610 AM, or WINKI, kept rep...
See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Aug. 2 Head to downtown Long Beach for the inaugural Wilmore 9 festival, with a lineup of films and music, taking over different venues around North Pine Street over the course of three days. Films ...
Here's how you play the "Which does MOCA own?" game: You go into any room of a contemporary artist's retrospective and scan everything there. Then you guess which art someone with expertise would consider seminal. This works best, of course, when it...
"I don't have time for men," a female colleague recently told me -- and she's not a lesbian. She's hard-working, ambitious, very smart, attractive, in her early 30s and professionally successful. She's also been dating a stream of men for at least a...
Photo by R. Asselberghs, Courtesy RMCA Tervuren This week, a proponent of the "new jam movement" talks about fashion and food, and a series of short films explores numbers -- is one really the loneliest, and can two be as bad? 5. The new jam S...
Even the homepage seems to understand who this site is really for... I have nothing against Asian guys. In fact, when my roommate told me the other night that he sometimes sees John Cho (Harold, of Harold and Kumar) at his gym, I squealed. I bri...
You know you're a polarizing figure when Courtney Love takes a liking to you. For anyone who regularly watched MTV from 1992 to 1997 during the height of grunge and gangster rap there was no presence on the network more memorable (or more irritating...
Sasha Palacio, Zero and JSalvador outside of Agit Gallery in Koreatown When Agit Gallery curator Zero organized "Anime Explode!! (Let's Fighting Art)," which opened Friday night in Koreatown, he had one mission. Zero didn't want the art show to lo...
Grace Helbig If I hadn't had been scanning the entrance to Silver Lake's La Mill Coffee, searching for YouTube star Grace Helbig for our scheduled meeting, I never would have recognized her. Even though I'd been watching her award winning vlog D...
Volleyball in Manhattan Beach August is the sign that the sunny summer months are coming to an end -- or it would be if this wasn't L.A., where the sun shines 300 days a year. Yet there's something special about being outdoors in the summer months...
Cast of Undateable It's been said there's someone out there for everyone. Undateable, a new comedy show from Second City Hollywood, tests this adage to the extreme. Running every Friday at 8 p.m. through Aug. 16, the sketch-improv hybrid utilizes...
The cast of Fridays Whether you love it or hate it these days, it's still tough to compete against Saturday Night Live. Although the show certainly has seen much better and much funnier days, you still can't knock it off its perch after all these...
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 >>
