Anna Wintour

How to Make It Work for a Living

West Hollywood's New Fur Ban Could Be a Model for the Nation. But Opponents Are Still Trying to Strike It Down

Mike Edison's Book Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!: Five Dirtiest Secrets of the Porn Mag Industry, From Hugh Hefner to Larry Flynt

​ At first, the idea of a three-hundred page cultural history of dirty magazines seems quaint, like somebody writing a book-length ode to the telegram. After all, it's been a long time since Playboy stood for anything other than bad reality TV, and you couldn't purchase a Penthouse right now i ... More >>

Fashion's Night Out Los Angeles: A Tacky Evening at the Mall?

Why is L.A.'s Fashion's Night Out event at the Beverly Center? ​Starting tomorrow, September 8, Fashion's Night Out is making a return to Los Angeles, where retailers will keep their doors open late and the fashion forward crowd will be out to party and shop. It's a big deal in New York City a ... More >>

Bill Cunningham New York

Spain's Rock Star Chefs Descend on L.A., Part 3

So what did Juan Mari Arzak, Ferran Adrià and José Andrés love eating while they were in Los Angeles? Umami Burger and Kogi. Maybe other things too, but we didn't have a chance to find out. Near the end of the talk, they took questions from the audience. After the mundane, the meaningless and ... More >>

Snooki Goes Kawaii: Jerrod Maruyama's Cute Interpretations of Pop Culture

Jerrod Maruyama is an illustrator from Northern California. He has worked on educational books, company logos, tattoo art and more. He designed Toy Story t-shirts that were sold at the Pixar Studio Store in Emeryville, CA and recently participated in the show "STRIPPED! Art Inspired By The Creativit ... More >>

The September Issue's Fashion Victim

Documentary captures Vogue lioness Anna Wintour at her peak

Last Night: Erykah Badu Gives Fashion Lesson at UCLA Jazz Fest

Erykah Badu left her audience hanging at the Jazz and Reggae Festival at UCLA this weekend. Maybe it's because she's gearing up for her upcoming gig at Club Nokia or something; despite a generous set of songs from New Amerykah Part One, as well as some old goodies, Badu was surprisingly serious. She ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ten to Life

Last week's NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; also, see this week's THEATER FEATURE on Kevin King's The Idea ManTEN TO LIFE"Hacienda Heights" (from Ten to Life) Photo by Nic Cha KimNEW REVIEW GO TEN TO LIFE Leave logic at the door  and you'll get ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Rehearsal

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's INTERVIEW with playwright Richard GreenbergTHE REHEARSAL is this week's Theater PickThe Rehearsal Photo by Craig SchwartzNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK In French dramatist Jean Anouilh's scintillating 1958 play, The Re ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Seafarer

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS, THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS  NEW REVIEW: THE SEAFARER at the Geffen PlayhouseJohn Mahoney and Andrew Connolly in The Seafarer Photo by Michael LamontNEW REVIEW GO THE SEAFARER If you're seeking innovation in the theater, look elsewhere. Conor McPherson's I ... More >>

LA People 2009: Vujachick — Sasha Watch Blogger Emily Ho

The mild-mannered librarian discovered her inner Laker through her obsession with Sasha Vujacic

Stage Raw: Stick Fly

AT YOUR FINGERTIPS: THE WEEKEND'S NEW THEATER REVIEWS EMBEDDED WITHIN THIS COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSand this week's THEATER FEATURE: an Off-Broadway roundupReviewed this week: the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's Our Mother's Brief Affair at South Coast Rep; the west coast ... More >>

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 >>

Theater Reviews: Photograph 51, Louis & Keely: Live at the Sahara, Ghosts

Also, The School for Wives, Tragedy: A Tragedy and more

Photograph 51

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 >>

Fashion Week Diary: Out of the Smashbox, More Rough Edges, Less Bitchiness

A smaller, friendlier show for recessionary times

Fashion Week Diary, Day 2: Boxeight, A Big Hot Fun Mess

Young model from the martinMARTIN show: She is 18 years old.Ah, Boxeight. It's messy in the best, most flattering sense of the word. As one reporter sitting next to me said, "Isn't it totally like the kids have taken over?" Yes, for sure. This fashion event is rough around the edges and has a sens ... More >>

Shalom Documentaries!

"The dirty little secret about Sundance is that the best films every year are the documentaries," says Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim in one of the trailers for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Actually, it's more of an openly acknowledged fact that Sundance's docum ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Shalom Documentaries!

"The dirty little secret about Sundance is that the best films every year are the documentaries," says Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth director David Guggenheim in one of the trailers for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Actually, it's more of an openly acknowledged fact that Sundance's docu ... More >>

Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: Crude Realities

One of Anna Wintour's most significant (and profitable) contributions to Vogue, we learn in The September Issue, has been her decision to put movie stars -- rather than fashion models -- on the magazine's cover. That gives The September Issue an unintended but hardly insignificant point of connectio ... More >>

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

The Year’s Best Characters

Support group

The Nanny Diaries: Child-care Crisis

Who’ll suffer the children?

Local Sensations

LACMA’s “Art and Music” series

Best Films of 2006 (In No Order That Makes Sense, With Liberal Cheating)

Go, Johnny, Go!

Depp gives Disney the pirate’s booty

En Vogue

Prada probes the Wintour of a former assistant’s discontent

Film Reviews

For the week of April 28 - May 4

And The Winner Is...

Well, they weren't exactly the Oscars, but the red carpet was rolled out for the first ever LA Fashion Awards Friday night just the same. (And I've just recovered enough from the after-parties to write about it.) First I'd like to say the Los Angeles Times got fashion week wrong (more on th ... More >>

Destiny’s Child

Trailer of Tears

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

Beauty and Madness

How I learned to love L.A.’s Fashion Week

L.A. Times and N.Y. Times investigating Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter

Get Carter?

L.A. Times, N.Y. Times, Wall Street Journal investigating Vanity Fair’s Graydon Carter; LAT probing whether Carter made deals with Hollywood moguls & companies

The Doctor of Shirts

Agent Provocateur

The Secret Agent

Joan Didion talks