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LUDO BITES VS. BASTIDEI don’t mean to take issue with Jonathan Gold’s review of Ludo Bites, since I am the number-one admirer of Ludo’s cooking and find it...
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Last week, the California governor, speaker of the State Assembly and the president pro tem of the State Senate announced a budget deal that slashes many state-government...
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Along a pretty tree-lined street in the Mid-Wilshire area, a small group of students and a law professor lit candles and wrote passages on a makeshift memorial sign near the...
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Here’s the e-mail that Ben Silverman sent to Hollywood pals announcing his exit from NBC Universal and landing at Barry Diller’s IAC: “Its [sic] go time...
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Seven days after his court hearing for trespassing on railroad property, Naser Nasralla, a Palestinian immigrant from Jordan known as “Jimmy” by his friends, is...
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(1989, Joe Dante). Tom Hanks, Carrie Fisher and Bruce Dern star in this dark comedy about life in suburbia. Joe Dante and Bruce Dern in person, Aug. 5.
Aug. 5-6, 2009
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It's the Little Tramp versus the industrial age in Charlie Chaplin's 1936 comedy classic. Followed by Buster Keaton on a locomotive gone loco in The General (1926, Clyde...
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You know how hot dogs somehow taste better when you're outdoors? Sometimes so does music. So, the classics just might acquire a little extra flavor at this week's Marina del...
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Forget that old Native American weeping over garbage -- Yogi and Boo Boo are absolutely inconsolable now that budget cuts threaten our California parks. In lieu of not knowing...
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Join well-heeled influentials in the L.A. entertainment and new media community as they discuss the future of Web-isodes in high style at the Phillippe Starck–designed...
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Join director Paul Rowley for a screening of his film Seaview. Rowley and his crew spent three years living in the Irish seaside town of Mosney, which was best known as the...
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If you missed the screening of Visioneers at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, here's another chance to see director Jared Drake's offbeat vision of corporate dystopia. The...
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Meryl Streep may have played an inspired version of her in The Devil Wears Prada , but in the documentary The September Issue (out September 11), director R.J. Cutler had the...
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Things to do in line while you wait to buy Thomas Pynchon's new novel, Inherent Vice, while Skylight books stays open late:
1. See how many words you can make from the...
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Another year, another write-up of the "Festival of the Chariots," which celebrates 32 years of three stages of jangling entertainment by overeager Hare Krishnas (is that...
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A little tip if you're planning on attending Patti Smith's appearance at Book Soup: Do not ask her to sign your Patty Smythe head shot. She will not find that amusing. Smith...
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Twiistup 6 is under new ownership and returns with a fresh new format combining top-notch conference speakers and networking party mixers. The local startup showcase has been...
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What's so punk about Zak Smith? Let's start with his illustrations of every single page (760!) of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow. Who would even think to do that? Then how...
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If you're wondering where The Sweet — purveyors of madcap glam in the '70s — have been, here's the scoop. This particular incarnation, not to be confused with Andy...
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Kids can take part in this workshop inspired by Stephen T. Johnson's book, A Is For Art: An Abstract Alphabet, which explores "art and language through painting, collage, and...
