Albert Einstein

A Tour of L.A. Puppet Fest

The art of puppetry has morphed over the years: from marionettes, to Muppets, to the dancing of shadows on far-away walls to Simon Morley's renowned stage show Puppetry of the Penis. But at the core, puppetry is the art of playing with and manipulating objects as extensions of oneself. Many events ... More >>

The Love Mob Is Saving the World With Group Singalongs

Albert Einstein said, "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." The Beatles said, "All you need is love." The Love Mob, in essence, combines these two concepts. The Los Angeles-based group performs a capella covers of classics. Their goal? Nothing s ... More >>

S.S. Coachella Fashion: Do's and Don'ts

By Liz Tracy Most of the people we met on the S.S. Coachella had never been on a cruise before. Like us, they weren't so sure what to pack or how to dress for three days of awkwardly saying hi to their favorite bands on a floating building at sea. But, like the festival, the fans also brought their ... More >>

Pink's "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Pink's "Blow Me (One Last Kiss)" History: "Blow Me" is the first single from Pink's latest album, The Truth About Love. Or, I guess it is. I'm not 100 per ... More >>

Graham Nash Is Now a Mixed Media Artist, With His Second Gallery Show in Santa Monica

"I'm just a fucking hippie trying to get on with his life and to have a good time, trying to make sure other people have a good time and trying to speak my mind," says musician Graham Nash sitting in the Santa Monica office of Gallery 169, host to Nash's new photography exhibit "This Could Be You," ... More >>

Ed Moses On New Work The Poet and the Jabberwocky, Painting in Four Dimensions, Alice in Wonderland and Marilyn Monroe's Butt

David Hume KennerlyEd Moses​ Ed Moses is sitting in the middle of Montana Avenue's latest home-furnishings boutique, Living by Lynne Leventen, a menagerie of candles, chandeliers and wall art. He's observing his recently installed painting, which he calls The Poet and the Jabberwocky.The " ... More >>

Tiesto - Home Depot Center - October 8, 2011

See also: Our Q&A With Tiesto Tiesto's Home Depot Center Show in October Billed as Largest One-DJ Gig in U.S. History Tiesto The Home Depot Center October 8, 2011 Better than...shows that aren't the biggest of their kind ever. The last time I saw Tiesto was February 2002 at Exit in New York City, ... More >>

Drive: Albert Brooks Launches His Third Career Act

Q & A With Red Medicine's Jordan Kahn: Food as Art, Abstract Oddities Why Vietnamese Food

A. FrougChef Jordan Kahn plating a dessert at Red Medicine​ To the outside observer, Jordan Kahn's career doesn't make a lot of sense. He worked at some of the most prestigious restaurants in the country (The French Laundry, Alinea, XIV), the kind of places that become pilgrimage sites for the ... More >>

Ween at the Wiltern: Over the Weekend

Timothy NorrisGene Ween: best David Bowie karaoke performer, ever​ [For more images of Ween's show see Timothy Norris' slideshow "Ween @ The Wiltern".] WHAT: Ween WHERE: The Wiltern WHEN: 1/29/11 1. Wow--Ween is huge in 2011: By 9:00 pm the line at the Wiltern went around and around (the ven ... More >>

Michael Jackson Glove Goes For $330,000 At Beverly Hills Auction; Johnny Cash Middle-Finger Jumpsuit Reaps $50,000

Julien's AuctionsNow on display at the Ponte 16 resort in Hong Kong​It was a charged weekend at Julien's Auctions in Beverly Hills -- most of all, during the paddle war over one of Michael Jackson's most crowd-pleasing staples: the Swarovski-studded glove he wore throughout the "Bad" tour. Th ... More >>

Music for Serious Midgets

The wonderfully obsessive world of Timothy Sellers' Artichoke

The Top Secret Science Papers of YACHT's Claire Evans

The Top Secret Science Papers of Yacht's Claire Evans

Stage Raw: Land of the Tigers

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAND OF THE TIGERS IS THIS WEEK'S PICKLand of the Tigers Photo by Jon Beauregard Noises OnCool Cats and Hot ActorsAct 1 of the Burglars of Hamm's hilarious and thought provoking comedy, Land of the Tigers, outlandishly crosses Cats with Planet of the Ape ... More >>

Stage Raw: Photograph 51

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS.BRODER AND SMITH ... More >>

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

At the Body Art Expo: Ink-Stained Wretches and Tattooed Babes With Prickly Piercings

The pain and the beauty, from tattoo coverups to dermal anchors and subdermal corsets

Godlike Geniuses! Jane's Addiction to reunite, solve the mystery of "dark matter"

Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Hildegard von Bingen, Albert Einstein, Susan Sontag, Manic Street Preachers: the smartest of our breed, humans whose brains teamed with their obsessions to create order where there was chaos, to make sense of this crazy world we live in. Add yet another notch to the totem o ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Jesus Christ Superstar, Don Juan

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The Smartest Man in the World

Theater Listings

For the week of March 28-April 3

Cruising

Unlocking L.A.'s hidden treasures

Hanukkah Punks and Christmas Queens

What to do in Los Angeles this week

castle

Castle on a Hill

David Ehrenstein, Meet David Ehrenstein

Eyes Opened Eyes Closed

Two CalArts-sponsored mash-ups celebrated MOCA's "Visual Music" exhibit

Einstein’s Sky

Of saints and scientists

The Alficionado

A man and his (other) car

Want To Get Away?

The airline horror show

This American Life

Los Angeles: June, 2002

A semi-comic fantasy about an aspect of the future that may prove pertinent to L.A.

Big Science, Little People

Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen

The World Senator

Alan Cranston’s take on things

Blue Like Me

On race and depression

True Quest

Looking for self in the Grand Canyon

The Real World Organization

Why being against the WTO isn’t enough

As Time Goes Bye-Bye

Circle X Theater Company and Pacific Resident Theater get metaphysical

Out on the Web

GeoCities founder David Bohnett just wanted to make the WWW a community. Now he's worth $350 million.

Music at the Turn

A Memoranda List

Time Space Energy

Rosanna Gamson's Grand Hope Flower; plus, Donald Byrd, Heidi Duckler