Academy Awards

Michael Moore Caught Exaggerating LAX Oscars Detainment -- What Else Is New?

First Michael Moore came out swinging on Twitter. Clueless customs officials at LAX had detained an Academy Award-nominated Palestinian filmmaker, he claimed. They "couldn't understand how a Palestinian could be an Oscar nominee." Even producing an "Oscar invite" wasn't good enough. The filmmaker, E ... More >>

Lord of the Rings Fans Hold Their Own Oscar Party, With Elves, Hobbits and Middle Earth Drinking Songs

If you're going to go to an Oscar party, make sure it's one involving J.R.R. Tolkien fans. On Sunday afternoon, the One Expected Party took over American Legion Post 43 for a Hobbit-centric event that lasted late into the night. We were only a couple blocks away from the Dolby Theater, but the vibe ... More >>

Oscar-Nominated Shorts 2013: From a Simpsons Segment to a Woman Who Lives on the Ceiling

Plate: LA Weekly's 5th Annual Food and Wine Event on March 3

For all of you who drive by the Petersen Automotive Museum, not to check out the cars but to reminisce about all the gluttony that has gone on there in previous years, it's time to mark your calendars. Once again, the car palace will be the site of LA Weekly's annual food and wine event, formerly kn ... More >>

Why Oslo, August 31st Should Be Nominated for the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar

Perceived reality has a habit of becoming actual reality when it comes to the Academy Awards. Once enough people started talking about how much Oscar momentum Silver Linings Playbook gained after winning the Audience Award at the Toronto Film Festival two months ago, for instance, their prognosticat ... More >>

Be Dead or Be Square

L.A. Vendy Awards Roll Into Town This Weekend

The second annual L.A. Vendy Awards, an event and fundraiser that's been called the "Street Food Oscars," is coming to Pan Pacific Park this weekend, on June 24, from 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eight finalists, which include local vendors such as the India Jones Chow Truck, Tacos El Gallito, Buttermilk Tr ... More >>

The Botanist: A New Oscar-Worthy Gin

The Botanist has all the buzzwords of box office gin success. In addition to the typical gin aromatics (juniper berries, cassia bark, orange peel and such), it is distilled with "22 wild native Islay botanicals" (white clover, bog myrtle leaves, creeping thistle). They've been hand-picked by an "exp ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Dorsky and Tarr, Iran and Wonderland

Adam Sandler's Jack and Jill Sweeps The Razzies

If the Academy Awards are a back-slapping bore, the Razzies are a bitch-slapping fun fest. Traditionally held on the eve of the Oscars, the annual awards show for the first time took place Sunday night on April Fool's Day at Magicopolis in Santa Monica, the perfect opportunity to lay into the movie ... More >>

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Much Bergman, much of the time

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Strangeloop -- Gus Harper Studios -- 7/23/11

Theo JemisonStrangeloop​ Brainfeeder audio-visual artist Strangeloop opened his new gallery show at Gus Harper Studios on Saturday night. The exhibit featured limited-edition prints of stills from his latest A/V release Fields, drawings, sketches, paintings, video installations, and performanc ... More >>

Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

Elizabeth Taylor Dies at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles at 79: Her Children Were at Her Side

Elizabeth Taylor in 'Father of the Bride.'​Updated at the end with church wackos planning to protest her funeral because Taylor was a friend of the gay community. Check out our slide show of 12 of Taylor's most iconic roles here. Check out our piece about reaction from the HIV/AIDS activism ... More >>

Theater Reviews; The Comedy of Errors, The Birthday Boys, The Woodpecker

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#Banksy and the #Oscars: Our Fave Tweets About the Artist and the Big Show Are More Entertaining Than James Franco

OK MagazineBanksy?​Banksy seemed to get more positive buzz from the Oscars on Sunday than James Franco. And the artist wasn't even there. After a few weeks in L.A. in which the British wall painter saw his work taken down, stolen and vandalized, it was only fitting that he would then be dis ... More >>

Oscar Mild

'90s mavericks may have bum-rushed the establishment, but the more the Oscars change, the more they stay the same

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Oscar Edition

LA Weekly Flickr pool/averagebettyLee Hefter's Oscar tuna tartare​ This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo comes to you from photographer averagebetty. In honor of the Oscars this Sunday: a lovely photo of Lee Hefter's (Spago, Cut) spicy tuna cones. If you go to averagebetty's blog, you can find the ... More >>

THE JOEL STORY

Top 10 Food Fights of 2010: Jonathan Gold, Rick Bayless, Whales More

Finger Food/L.A. Weekly Flickr Pool​Whether it involved whales vs. sushi chefs, critics vs. chefs or Jonathan Gold vs. "fill in the blank", 2010 was huge for food fights in Los Angeles. Here are the 10 most memorable tiffs of the year, the ones that set the Twitterverse afire. 1) The Cove Tea ... More >>

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Oscar's Rules of Order

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LAPD Chief Beck Says He'll Pay For Oscar Tickets Out Of Own Pocket

​In an apparent bid to sidestep the kind of controversy that has dogged Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's acceptance of tens of thousands of dollars worth of sports and entertainment tickets, Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck says he's going to pay for tickets to the Academy Awards ... More >>

Q & A With Rustic Canyon Chef Evan Funke: Quitting Massage Therapy & Firefighting for Cooking Learning the Ropes at Spago

A. ScattergoodRustic Canyon executive chef Evan Funke​ Evan Funke, executive chef at Rustic Canyon, is as locally sourced as much of the food he puts on his plates. The chef is third generation California, went to culinary school in Pasadena, and came up through the ranks of Wolfgang Puck's k ... More >>

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Top Chef Heads to D.C. With Kate Winslet Possible Judge: Why Not Rahm Emanuel??

Greg KadelPadma Lakshmi​ Top Chef is on the move again, trading in the red chips of Vegas for the red tape of Washington, D.C. And in typical political fashion, the show's shooting schedule has been held up - this time due to Emmy-nominated host Padma Lakshmi's pregnancy. "We were supposed to ... More >>

Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land

"I'm misperceived as a dark person: I'm not dark"

Hollywood Businessman Agrees to Take Down Giant Supergraphic across from Kodak Theatre

Kayvan Setareh, the businessman arrested February 26 for allegedly draping a gargantuan supergraphic on a historic 1927 Hollywood bank building near the site of the upcoming Oscars, has agreed to take it down. Ban Billboard Blight​ In exchange, he had his $1 million bail reduced to $100,000 d ... More >>

Oscar, Mr. Gold

Where to go after the Academy Awards

Filmmakers of the Decade: Steven Soderbergh

At the end of the '00s, the chameleonic filmmaker once again shed his skin and captured the zeitgeist

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

THE FANG'LL COME OUT GOMORRAH

Which One's Monty?

Worst Oscar Ideas Ever

That’s what happens when the studios pressure the “Acadummy”

Fashion Week Diary, Supplemental: A Note on The Fancy Bathrooms, and Other Random Miscellanea, Etc.

1. A Word on Bathrooms: If you ever get a chance to pee in the Los Angeles Theater in historic downtown LA, I urge you to visit the Ladies' restroom. There, you will see this. It's way more impressive than I've managed to capture in the photo. 2. The Guests: Can you imagine these guys at Paris ... More >>

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Sensuous Woman, Mean Men, Dancing Swans

"And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

Bearing the Scars of Oscars

For chrissake, somebody free the frigging show . . . and the Benjamin Franklins too

The Scars of Oscars

Envy and spite will determine Academy Award winners

I Just Shit My Pants

Well, no. Not really. But I just heard that Golden Voice is adding a first ever COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL (it hasn't been given an official name yet) to their Coachella festivities! They are also adding another day to the Indie rock fest, that's right 3 days (Friday, April 27, Saturday, April 28 and ... More >>

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