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Less than a day after news broke that the secretive general manager of L.A.’s Department of Building and Safety was under investigation for an alleged rape, someone...
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Why It’s an Alien NationPeter Jackson’s low-budget indie prod District 9 opened big — a $37M weekend, yet the sci-fi pic, about alien apartheid, had a...
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Chris Isaak hasn't really thrilled anybody since his 1989 smash, "Wicked Game" (or perhaps since the Herb Ritts–directed video for his 1989 smash, "Wicked Game"), but...
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Ever wonder what all the swirling, sniffing, spitting and general snootiness have to do with drinking a glass of wine? Take the intimidation out of tastings at WAM, which...
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Is your kid obsessed with heavy-metal rock lyrics? Or is he constantly making sketches of roadkill? Mere child's play. Proper satanic abuse begins at home. If you want to see...
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As MJ tributes continue to pour in, the Downtown Film Festival has dug up a real gem of Jacksonian history for its closing-night gala, which proved early on just how far the...
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Here's the pitch: It's not even October — the month dedicated to breast cancer awareness — yet umpteen fund-raising events are taking over the city. To make it easy...
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You kids with your '80s nostalgia may think the MTV of 25 years ago was all Day-Glo and Duran Duran, but the truth is the cool years were tragically brief. MTV did debut with...
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Sex and art meet via film, TV and video in Nudes Descending a Staircase, the third and final chapter of the Hammer Museum's "Larry Johnson Film Series." On the menu: Video...
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How many times have you attended an animal-rights function where they served guests meat, fish or poultry? Or visited a zoo or an aquarium venue (we're not naming names) that...
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Are you in the throes of dating hell? Then take a load off, and sit in on comic Chris Valenti's one-man show at Cinespace. Here's a sample: "When I was in my 20s, dating was...
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You know the feeling: You're in your car, and a pack of those beer logo-emblazoned, black-spandexed, Lance Armstrong wannabes are dead ahead, hogging the streets and hoping to...
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Creative Minds of Auto Design is the topic of this panel discussion with three automotive designers: Chuck Jordan (General Motors), Ron Hill (General Motors) and Syd Mead...
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Screenings of videos, shorts and features in the museum's Sculpture Garden.
Fri., Aug. 21, 8-10 p.m., 2009
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The Origin of Beaded Crowns of the Caddo Tribe is the topic of this lecture by scholar Gina Worthington who discusses the folk art of the Native American Caddo tribe.
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Trout Fishing in America's acoustic guitar duo of Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet entertain in this family concert.
Sat., Aug. 22, 4-6 p.m.; Sun., Aug. 23, 4-6 p.m., 2009
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Museum executive director Robert Santelli in conversation with the Grammy-winning trumpeter and film composer, followed by a performance.
Thu., Aug. 27, 8 p.m., 2009
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Time flies when you're having fun. That's an understatement for the now-69-year-old Smokey Robinson, and, by coincidence, is also the title of his latest album, to be released...
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Reading by novelist Benjamin Kunkel (Indecision), who's contributed to Dissent, The New Yorker, London Review of Books and GQ.
Wed., Aug. 26, 7 p.m., 2009
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Choreographer Alyson Boell is fascinated by the unconscious side of human nature, what Carl Jung called "the shadow half." Tonight, she explores the subject in her latest...
