Email Author Zachary Pincus-Roth

2011 Stories by Zachary Pincus-Roth

• Faile Launches Steve Lazarides' Venice Venture Post No Bills, Which Proves Print Isn't Dead

  published Jun 23, 2011

  This week's main art feature in LA Weekly's print edition comes from our resident street art expert Shelley Leopold, who looks into London dealer (and former Banksy gallerist) Steve Lazarides' new Ve... More >>

• Cirque du Soleil's Iris Preview at the Kodak Theater: Upcoming Show Will Be Porn for Tim Burton Fans

  published Jun 17, 2011

  The most striking aspect of the press preview of Cirque Du Soleil's upcoming film-themed L.A. show Iris yesterday was the timeliness show's aesthetic: the costumes and production design generally wer... More >>

• Everything is Street Art: Send us Your Photos and Art Criticism of Stuff Around L.A.

  published Jun 16, 2011

  Driving around L.A. and walking around our neighborhoods, we see all kinds of stuff that stirs our emotions: That billboard that almost made you crash. That perfectly-designed facade. That heinous-lo... More >>

• Anthony Lepore and Mark Hagen: Do You Have a Fondness for Drab National Park Visitor Centersr We Have the Exhibit for You

  published Jun 16, 2011

  Today Andrew Berardini returns to our print edition with a story that ties together two seemingly different shows -- Anthony Lepore's "New Wilderness" show at Francois Ghebaly and M+B and Mark Hagen'... More >>

• Five Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Super 8 and Steve Coogan

  published Jun 10, 2011

  This week in our print edition, LA Weekly critics review five movies coming out this weekend. Also check out Sam Wasson's confrontation of Terrence Malick, as he writes, "Perhaps it's time to reach f... More >>

• Tim Burton Sociology, in LA Weekly's New Cover Story

  published Jun 09, 2011

  In LA Weekly's new cover story on the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA, Liz Ohanesian takes a sociological approach to the director's work, showing how his aesthetic dovetails with various subcultures, fr... More >>

• L.A. Noire Gets a SoCal Historian's Perspective

  published Jun 09, 2011

  In the LA Weekly print edition that hits newsstands today, the video game L.A. Noire gets an examination from from Norman M. Klein, a professor at CalArts and an urban and media historian who wrote ... More >>

• Marco Brambilla's 3-D Installations Herald the Future of Video Art in "The Dark Lining" at Santa Monica Museum of Art

  published May 26, 2011

  This week in LA Weekly's print edition, Holly Willis explores Marco Brambilla's two 3-D video installations in his show "The Dark Lining" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and how 3-D will impact th... More >>

• Seven Ways You Can Celebrate People in L.A. This Week, From Bob Dylan to Steve Earle to Red Stodolsky

  published May 20, 2011

  In honor of LA Weekly's new People Issue, here are seven events you can attend to celebrate people in L.A. this week, from the writers in our Calendar section: 7. Ryan McGinness Work on display at C... More >>

• Five Nerd Heroes From LA Weekly's New People Issue

  published May 18, 2011

  LA Weekly's brand new People Issue, out on newsstands Thursday, has enough nerd heroes to fill a whole, err, nerds don't know sports. But they do like systems and categorization, and so we put them ... More >>

• 10 Geeky Hollywood Artifacts Sold at Auction Over the Weekend, from Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek, Willy Wonka, Walt Disney and Others

  published May 17, 2011

  An auction of big-name Hollywood geek porn organized by Profiles in History at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills this past weekend grossed more than $5.8 million. We bring you the highlights: 10. A... More >>

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  Hessians Motorcycle Club Biker Gang and Fryed Brothers Band Gather for Movie Premiere Last Night in West L.A.

  published May 13, 2011

  I was driving home last night in West Los Angeles and saw what appeared to be fifty members of the Hessians Motorcycle Club attending Lee Chang-dong's perfectly-paced character study of a 66-year-ol... More >>

• Seven Weird Things To Do This Week in L.A.

  published May 12, 2011

  L.A. is weird. You can fight it or go with it. What do you think folks in our Calendar section would sayr Here are seven hints: 7. The Underground Rebel Bingo Club Fri., May 13, 10:00pm, secret loca... More >>

• Tim Burton Screening Schedule at LACMA Announced, Burton to Introduce Ed Wood

  published May 10, 2011

  The schedule for the screening series tied to the upcoming Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA has been announced: Edward Scissorhands, May 27, 7:30 pm (70mm print) Ed Wood, May 28, 7 pm (introduction by Bu... More >>

• Ten Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Thor, The Beaver, Something Borrowed and Jumping the Broom

  published May 06, 2011

  Ten movies coming out this weekend, with reviews from our print edition: 10. The summer tentpoles are coming, and this week we have Kenneth Branagh's Thor, which Eric Hynes says is "an astonishingly... More >>

• Documentary for Dummies: Terry Fator, Miss Ohio, Sandy Twinkletoes and More at the Premiere of Ventriloquist Film Dumbstruck

  published May 06, 2011

  David Cotner delves into the world of ventriloquists at the premiere of Dumbstruck, Mark Goffman's documentary about five "vents," as they call each other, in the Considerable Town column in this wee... More >>

• Five Artsy Things To Do This Weekend, Including Pop Sequentialism, Facebook-Inspired Art and First Fridays at NHM

  published May 05, 2011

  Five picks for arts events and exhibits opening this weekend, from LA Weekly's Calendar section: 1. "Peter Shire: Hokkaido Story Revisited: Late Spring" and "POP-SEQUENTIALISM: Great Comic Book Art ... More >>

• 'Human Nature' at LACMA: Recasting the Story of Contemporary Art in L.A.

  published May 05, 2011

  In this week's print edition, Andrew Berardini, who has written for a slew of art publications and is making his LA Weekly debut, contributes an essay on how LACMA's exhibit "Human Nature: Contempora... More >>

• People Read Books! 80 Percent of Californians Have Read One in the Last Month

  published Apr 29, 2011

  This just in from the "humanity isn't as screwed as we think" department: people read books. A new USC Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times Poll says 80 percent of Californians surveyed have read at le... More >>

• Photography Accidents Gone Right: Turning a Negative Into a Positive

  published Apr 28, 2011

  Can photography accidents, like exposing your film to the sun, turn out to be...not so badr This week in LA Weekly's print edition, Catherine Wagley weaves together three current photography exhibi... More >>

• Richard Simmons' $12 Dance Class in Beverly Hills: From the Print Edition

  published Apr 28, 2011

  In this week's print edition, L.J. Williamson attends Richard Simmons' dance class at the Beverly Hills dance studio where he's been working for 37 years, which anyone can attend for only $12.Her dis... More >>

• Food Truck Graphic Design: Kogi Meets Googie

  published Apr 21, 2011

  In this week's LA Weekly print edition, Gary Baum takes a serious look at the graphic design of food trucks, examining not only how the designs are used to market the food, but how they've been infl... More >>

• Reality Rocks Expo Brings Out Black Leather, Bedazzler Studs, Marc Marcuse, American Idol Losers and More

  published Apr 21, 2011

  In the Considerable Town column in LA Weekly's print edition this week, L.J. Williamson covers the Reality Rocks Expo that took place in downtown L.A. at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel April 9 and 10.... More >>

• 'Art in the Streets' Press Preview: Deitch, Gastman, Rose, Fab 5 Freddy and More

  published Apr 15, 2011

  Journalists, artists, museum administrators and other members of the art community -- a few hundred, it seemed -- came out for the press preview of MOCA's "Art in the Streets" exhibit yesterday at t... More >>

• Got a Question for Our Film Criticr Announcing the Debut of 'Ask Karina'

  published Apr 13, 2011

  Following in the footsteps of LA Weekly's esteemed food critic Jonathan Gold, who writes the entertaining "Ask Mr. Gold" column, our film critic Karina Longworth (who wrote this week's great cover st... More >>