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Porn actor Stephen Clancy Hill had reason to be tense as he sat inside a Van Nuys production house late on the evening of June 1. He was about to lose his crash pad. Hill had...
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Do you like Scrabble? Do you like drinking? Do you wonder why that breath mint you were sucking on after last night's round of drunken Scrabble tasted so horrible? Now you can...
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If Los Angeles had its own talk show, it should have the downtown Central Library as its set. And there would be such fascinating local guests as comic Patton Oswalt,...
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And here you thought all those French Resistance guys spent all their time smashing Nazis, smoking cigarettes and looking stoic. German surrealist Hans Bellmer did that as...
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Just in time for the Oscars, check out who wore what, not on the red carpet but in the nominated films at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's 19th annual Art of...
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Holden Caulfield, in The Catcher in the Rye, offers, "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a...
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Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett's popular Found Footage Festival is on a big 75-city tour, and it pulls into town this week for what is promised to be the biggest and best...
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"We're living in a world where only one Oprah matters. Bad news for me. I'm Oprah Goldstein." So claims the first of four Oprahs in Michael Gelbart's book The Other Oprahs....
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Did your invitation to Vanity Fair's Oscar party get lost in the mail? Mine, too. And if you'd rather not watch the awards like a sloth on your couch or in some bar, you can...
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A hurlyburly is a real-world Tumblr of sensory and dimensional elements, but it denotes a vision or experience that's more captivating and even funhouse than actual chaos or...
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Funny thing happened on the way to the formation of the Christian church. Emperor Constantine, seeking to unify his Roman Empire, legalized Christianity in 313 A.D. Until...
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Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite's dance works have been gobbled up by major national and international companies including Frankfurt Ballet, National Ballet of Canada,...
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KCRW's Tom Schnabel, Amoeba Records' Viola Galloway, KPFK's Nnamdi Moweta, and music producer Ade James discuss the influence and power of Nigerian pop music, its roots and...
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Like the eccentric at the beach scouring the sand for quarters with a metal detector, many of us are looking for inspiration anywhere we can find it these dismal days. Phil...
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Hear Supertramp vocalist and composer Roger Hodgson discuss his passion for music and what keeps him inspired. Hodgson will also perform a collection of his classic songs.
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Hear the Def Jam Recordings creator and hip-hop pioneer discuss his career as well as his new book, Super Rich: A Guide to Having it All.
Fri., Feb. 25, 8 p.m., 2011
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Do not be alarmed by the words "experimental music." Ad Hoc #2: David Watson & David Grubbs: A Sonic Exploration of the Beacon Arts Building is not that kind of experimental,...
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Naked Angels and Furious Theatre Company present monthly readings of new plays, screenplays, or TV pilots. This month: Shatter Street, a screenplay by Matt Pelfrey.
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Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation...
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Ever hear the joke about the two guys with terminal brain tumors who decide to beat death to the punch? A Jew and a WASP dress up in tuxes, rent a presidential suite stocked...
