Annie Hall

Before Midnight Review: Richard Linklater's Fateful Lovers Are Back

Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy Return to Finish the Trilogy

A Brief History of the Lens Flares Technique -- and the End of Film

Hollywood's Famous Source Family Cult Returns, in a New Documentary

The Big Wedding is Vile, Racist, and Embarrassing

Where to Eat in L.A. According to L.A. Residents vs. The Wall Street Journal Other Publications

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a story about our city's culinary scene titled "Finding a Food Mecca in the West," pointing its readers to Sprinkles Ice Cream, Fonuts, Umamicatessen, 800 Degrees and ink.sack. And though we have little quibble with the amazing efficiency of 800 Degrees or a cup ... More >>

Telluride Film Festival: Noah Baumbach, Sarah Polley Bring New Films

2 Days in New York Review: Julie Delpy Directs Herself and Chris Rock

Julie Delpy brings the Paris gang to the city, along with Chris Rock

Cooper Black: The Story Behind Louie's Typeface

An overweight balding man exits a subway station and, as he walks, up pops his name in bold, cartoonish, drop-shadowed white letters: Louie. He stands alone in the doorway of a pizza parlor inhaling a slice, his eyes searching and expressionless, watching people pass by as people watch him, an urban ... More >>

Woody Allen on His New Film To Rome With Love and Some Very Old Themes

The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride, 20 Years Later: 
An Appreciation

See also: *J-Swift Made Big Hits 
With the Pharcyde 
Before Tragedy and Drugs 
Nearly Took Him Down *Top 20 Greatest L.A. Rap Albums Of All Time: The Complete List To fully appreciate the impact of The Pharcyde's "Ya Mama," you had to be in a junior high lunchroom in the spring of 1993. It w ... More >>

Mah Jonng is Your Jongg

That's a Scary Collection of Ellen Portraits

Living the Vida La De Da

Stage Raw: Loveland

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on La Razon Blindada and A Wolf Inside the Fence and NEW REVIEW GO LOVELAND ​Photo by Leland Auslender What a rare experience it is, when a character that's as maniacal, sexually overheated and as transparently off the rails as a ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Chico's Angels: Chicas in Chains, Hello, Merrily We Roll Along

Also, Valentino Valentina, Sultan's Battery and more

Stage Raw: Hello

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater Feature on Polish punk and Glendale's classicistsNEW REVIEW GO HELLO ​ Photo by Mark Bennington You may not find logic in this quirky tale about love, marriage and the enigma of sexual attraction but you'll recognize a lot of human truth. ... More >>

Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

JON HAMM DIGS MEN IN DRAG

Please Give: It's Complicated

The star-studded class-crisis comedy reveals writer-director Nicole Holofcener's own contradictions

John Mayernaise and Celine Dijon: Creating Food for Grammys No Easy Task

N. GalutenEdibles in the Grammy luxury suites​As Woody Allen's character in Annie Hall once said, upon arriving in Los Angeles, "What's with all these awards? They're always giving out awards. Best Fascist Dictator: Adolf Hitler." This city does love to give out awards, and when we do, there a ... More >>

Cooking Lobsters With Water Grill's David LeFevre How To Boil One Alive, Properly

Lobsters come with their own iconography. Think Woody Allen chasing one around a kitchen in Annie Hall. Or, more recently, a squeamish Amy Adams in Julie & Julia. Sure, you boil them alive, but that's the way it's done, and they don't have any feelings anyway. Didn't Cobain write a song about that? ... More >>

Whatever Works for Woody

Allen on life, actors, younger women and his 40th film

The Dov Boat: Woody Allen & American Apparel Settle for $5M

David Shankbone/WikepediaLos Angeles-based garment manufacturer American Apparel has made an out-of-court settlement with Woody Allen, the Associated Press reports. Allen, the idiosyncratic film maker of Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had sued the company, owned b ... More >>

Woody Allen's Ticking Bomb Scenario

Just when you thought the war of legal words between filmmaker Woody Allen and American Apparel's Dov Charney couldn't get any more bitter, it appears that AA plans to add even more vitriolic verbiage to the mix. Specifically, from Mia Farrow, whom the company's attorneys plan to call to the witness ... More >>

Leave Him to Heaven: R.I.P. Steven Bach, 1940-2009

Houston Press' Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionall ... More >>

The Year in Reading Food

Bittersweet on the page

I Love My Wife

Theater Reviews: My Trip Down the Pink Carpet, Scrooge Must Die!

Plus, A Grand Guignol Children's Show, A Chicago Christmas Carol and more

Stage Raw: Your Source for Free and Discount Theater Tickets

FREE AND DISCOUNT THEATER TICKETS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Plays411 is offering FREE & Discount Tickets: You only pay $3.50 Service Fee, or Half-off where indicated. Advance Reservations only: Go to: plays411.com, then select the show, use Promo Code: "LETMEIN" (unless otherwise instructed ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leslie Jordan's Trip Down the Pink Carpet

This Week's Theater Pick Leslie Jordan's Autobiographical Trip Down the Pink Carpet If a zest for life is infectious, there's probably no more delightful a carrier than Leslie Jordan. A diminutive stage, film, Emmy Award-winning TV actor, and fugitive from the Bible Belt, Jordan regales us ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Jumper, Step Up 2 the Streets

Also, The Killing of John Lennon and Les Claypool's directorial debut

Chick Flick, Two Ways: Mad Money and 27 Dresses

Girl power trumps bridesmaid fashion

¡Ask a Mexican! the Dating Gain

Dear Mexican: Why do so many of my peers assume I must have low self-esteem just because I’m dating a Mexican guy?

Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

Also I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Ira & Abby, December Boys and more

Tapping the Source

The way they lived: Excerpts from Isis Aquarian's cult chronicle

The Priciest Corner in L.A.

A ban on turning right — on the green, no less — baffles and enrages motorists

The Fuhrman Factor

Thirteen years later former LAPD detective is still haunted by one that got away. Was justice in the Dawn Gamez murder case another casualty of the O.J. Simpson debacle?

Can't We All Not Get Along?

Sarah Silverman finally gets her own Comedy Central show. Plus, some of our favorite Silverman clips.

Rock Picks

For the week of December 28 - January 4

Still a Working Stiff

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

Double Fault

Match Point’s moral melodrama

Memory and Manipulation

The trials of Elizabeth Loftus, defender of the wrongly accused

Two Against One

Teenage love and murder in Redlands, California

Liberté, Égalité, Infidélité

Fuel Crisis

Three new low-octane, star-driven vehicles

She Shtups To Conquer

Why is Hollywood so full of whores?

Dark Stars