Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. You've heard it a million times. But when Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra music director Jeffrey Kahane takes you on a "musical tour" of one of the top 10 most-familiar classical works, you just might feel like you're hearing it for the first time. At least, that's... More >>
Death-sportos, motorheads, geeks, ethical sluts, half-blood princes, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads -- they all adore Machine Project, the blissfully multisubjectival arts organization that holds classes on how to make Paleolithic knives. They've also taken over LACMA to further their nefarious... More >>
From this week's Doing-My-Job-For-Me-While-I-Keep-the-$40-Dept., here's Kate Flannery of The Lampshades (and, of course, The Office), who, with partner Scot Robinson, will drag you down to the sleaziest lounge in town: "The Lampshades, the best fake lounge act in town. Who else would have a gal... More >>
Taking a page from director/choreographer Michael Bennett, who compressed hours of dancer conversation into A Chorus Line, DV8 choreographer/artistic director Lloyd Newson distilled 85 interviews into To Be Straight With You . The piece percolated for almost two decades after Newson was... More >>
Performance art isn't just for lofty intellectuals anymore -- just go to any 9-year-old's birthday party to see how much shit gets thrown around. Rachel Rosenthal's 83rd Birthday Bash at Track 16 Gallery promises something slightly more evolved but no less viscerally spectacular: The... More >>
Haven't heard from Hanson since the days of "MMMBop"? You've got some catching up to do. (Start with Snowed In, their excellent Christmas cash-in from 1997, which includes a version of "What Christmas Means to Me" more spirited than Stevie Wonder's.) Like their successors the Jonas Brothers,... More >>
Provided that CBS isn't planning a Two and a Half Men marathon, you won't find a dumber way to spend your Saturday night this weekend than at the hometown stop of LMFAO's six-week Party Rock Tour. But you might not find a more enjoyable way, either: On their recent major-label debut, these... More >>
"I'm proud to be a Jew on the stage," Hershey Felder says. The Canadian-born pianist/composer/actor/producer, who comes from a family of rabbis -- also performers -- achieved worldwide fame for his one-man show, George Gershwin Alone, in which, as Gershwin, he re-creates the Jewish-American... More >>
Kappy Kilburn's nicely acted production of Lucy Thurber's domestic drama (making its West Coast premiere) gets to the unspoken truths of a family in rural Massachussetts that's ensnared by poverty, though there's plenty on that theme that's spoken as well. Unemployed and alcoholic Herb (Randy... More >>
Catwoman herself introduces a screening of the A&E Biography Julie Newmar: The Cat's Meow, in addition to a preview of her photographs currently on exhibit at the David W. Streets Fine Art and Photography Gallery in Beverly Hills. More >>