Angelina Jolie

Ariel Pink Is the King of Whatever

Raised in Beverly Hills, he became the preeminent Eastside satirical musical madman

Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Pre-Fabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post-Ubuntu

The last place you'd probably expect to find a chef with a Michelin star under his belt would be West L.A.'s Paper or Plastik, a neighborhood café that has been a favorite of locals for years but was never known as a place to host nationally-acclaimed chefs. But that's exactly where former Ubuntu ... More >>

We're Going to Have to Hear About the LACMA Rock for Another 2 Weeks

It's only Day Two in the $10 million cross-county journey of the LACMA rock, and already we never want to hear the words "LACMA rock" ever again. What makes this particular boulder so special is that artist Michael Heizer chose it as the 340-ton centerpiece of his long-time-coming LACMA exhibit, "L ... More >>

Channing Tatum and Gina Carano in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire

Miranda July's New Film The Future and MOCA Exhibit "Eleven Heavy Things"

With her talking cat, T-shirt dance, interactive pink thought balloons and unicorn fans, the filmmaker-artist just wants us all to connect

Fashion Issue 2011: Does L.A. Have a Fashion Identity?

Starlets, surf bums, shagsters, scarecrows, rocker vampires, and more: Our fashion issue explores L.A. style from the streets up

L.A. County's Private Property War

Phillip Noyce Says 'Film is Dead,' Richard Kelly's Had 'Nothing But Failure' and Ruben Fleischer Bemoans 'Poo Poo Pee Pee Jokes' at LAFF

Timothy NorrisPhillip Noyce​ Phillip Noyce's velvety accent and snow-white mane made his aphorisms sound handed down from on high while Richard Kelly and Ruben Fleischer offered two examples of what it means to be a young filmmaker at a panel of directors at the L.A. Film Festival on Sunday.

Punk Singer Steve Ignorant (Finally) Brings Crass to America: Interview

photo by Damon Allen DavisonSteve Ignorant and band​ Crass, the commune-living, hippie anarchist punks whose DIY way of recording and promoting had as much an impact on the genre as their brand of boot-in-your face hardcore, disbanded more than 25 years ago, having never toured the U.S. beyond ... More >>

Top 5 Hip Hop Guest Appearances Of 2010 (All of Them Involving Gucci Mane)

Gucci Mane loves accessories​Gucci Mane has a knack for making memorable song appearances. Whenever he leaves the studio he gets arrested so it's best he keeps busy at work. See, Gucci Mane is genuine. His real name is Radric, which contains the word "rad" and sounds like an Elizabethan Romanc ... More >>

It's Salt in the Wound

Singapore's City Harvest Church Controversy Comes to the Hollywood Hills

Singaporean Pop Star Sun Ho​Unbeknown to many Hollywood Hills residents, a major, developing controversy involving a wealthy Singapore minister and his widely influential mega-church has come to their posh neighborhood. Over the past few weeks, City Harvest Church pastor Kong Hee, a Christia ... More >>

Hanky Banksy

Sparks Notes on Modern Romance

A guide to the mind-set behind the new model of cash-cow chick flick

Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

GO LA: The Man Who Sold the Brangelina Air

Plus lots more to do, see and inhale in L.A., May 15-21

PETA's Lady in a Cage: Protesting Animal Treatment by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Hold that tiger! Foot traffic pauses on Hollywood Boulevard as reporters, tourists and photographers catch a glimpse of near-naked activist in painted stripes

Joe Wilson

Standup guy

Don Bachardy on Christopher Isherwood, the Man He Loved

L.A. portrait artist remembers the author, 30 years his senior, with whom he shared a life

Cobbler to the Stars: Pasquale Fabrizio

Heeling ailing soles

Rock Picks: Seun Kuti, Thievery Corporation, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss

Also, Death Cab for Cutie, Ingrid Michaelson and more

Controversy at Cannes: The Headless Woman

And a lot of big heads too

Movie Reviews: Boarding Gate, Run Fat Boy Run, Priceless

Also Superhero Movie, Flawless and more

Restaurants for Wine Lovers

Breaking Free: L.A. Wine Culture

Shattering the stereotypes

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

Grey the Transformer

Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

99 Essential - List Only

The Blockbusters Cometh

It could be a Promised Movieland this summer, unless...

Cool Katt Williams

It’s not so hard out there for this pimp

’Tis the Season for Tinseltown’s Stupid Human Tricks

Mel’s persecution complex, Russell’s bloody bling and Hollywood’s overpaid divas

War of the Words

Cruise And Redstone do battle – prepare for a true epic.

The Erik Cheeseburger Menace

Still a Working Stiff

Never mind the buzz: To Woody Allen, Match Point is just a job well done

Cash, Grass and Ass

Dead End Kids, Celebrity Air and Scandinavians — Especially Norwegians

L-u-v- Vs. L-o-v-e

Trailer of Tears

It’s gonna be a long, not-so-hot summer movie season

Acting the Fool

Method and madness in HBO's Unscripted

Alexander the Not-So-Hot

Oliver Stone aims for respectability

Becky, We Hardly Knew Ye

Mira Nair’s colorful travesty of Vanity Fair

Hollywood at the Edges: And You Are?

She Shtups To Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

Page Girls

Eydie Faye and how her new comedy came to be

Cracking DVD Code

MPAA’s dragooning of Norwegian teen raises hackers’ hackles

Jousting Park

Into the quantum foam with Michael Crichton

All in the Work-Family

Tavernier's act of grace, Newell's comedy of manners