Arrested Development

Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand in Culver City Today Free Frozen Bananas

If you've been eagerly awaiting the new season of Arrested Development, no doubt you've already made plans today to go to downtown Culver City sometime between noon and 7 p.m. today to check out the frozen banana stand. For the uninitiated, that would be Bluth's Original Frozen Banana Stand, or on ... More >>

An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development

The dishy media blitz for the new, fourth season of Arrested Development has begun, kicking off with Bateman's recent interview on Jimmy Kimmel. He said the timing will be unconventional, playing out in divided unison. Each episode will follow a different character through the same segment of time, ... More >>

KDAY Is Closing? A Eulogy to the Best Station in L.A.

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," normally appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "Remember KDAY?" Tupac asked that question on "To Live & Die in LA," but the answer was obvious. Makaveli never even lived in Southern Califor ... More >>

Eight Great Shows You Haven't Binge-Watched on Netflix Yet

Jason Reitman Directed an All-Female Glengarry Glen Ross Reading at LACMA Last Night

When former New York Times (and ex-LA Weekly) movie critic Elvis Mitchell took over LACMA's film curatorship two years ago -- with Film Independent, which runs the L.A. Film Festival and the Spirit Awards -- he announced his intention to raise the profile of LACMA's Bing Theater and fill it with tha ... More >>

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute's ongoing filmmaker development labs as "our core," noting that the festival itself was conceived "to create an audience for the filmmakers in our lab program."

10 Best Judd Apatow-Inspired Artworks at Gallery 1988

See also: *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Pee Wee Herman Artworks at Gallery 1988 *10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Real-life freaks and geeks gathered at Gallery 1988 Tuesday night for the opening of the A Tribute to Judd Apatow ... More >>

Maria Bamford on DIY Comedy Specials and the Times She Acts Like a Jerk

Maria Bamford's star is rising (again). After elevating a string of Target commercials to comic fine art, she's now all over the place with a recent primo guest spot on Louie, an upcoming role on Arrested Development, a new CD Ask Me About My New God coming out in January, plus a direct-to-fans spec ... More >>

MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY GIRL" MARIA BAMFORD

Our Bluth Period

5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988

What's nice about the Arrested Development-themed art exhibit at Gallery 1988 Melrose is that you only need to have watched the first two episodes of the series to get the exhibit's title, "There's Always Money In The Banana Stand." The highly acclaimed but short-lived sitcom about the dysfunctiona ... More >>

Hollywood's Favorite Haunted Hospital Is Being Flipped Into $40M Old Folks' Home

Even the handiest of set designers would be hard-pressed to recreate the years of organic decay that have made Linda Vista Community Hospital into the ultimate film set -- streaks on the walls, peeling paint, broken pipes, the occasional stray syringe. (Mixed in with some Hollywood props, left behin ... More >>

Music Picks: Roberta Flack, Summer Twins, John Cage Centenary Festival

Also, Spindrift, Lenny Kravitz, Dorian Wood, Howlin Rain and others

William Hung Speaks, Fresh Off Being Crowned The Greatest Musician Of All Time, In Any Genre

​See also: Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: The Complete List Last week we crowned former American Idol contestant William Hung the greatest musician of all time, in any genre, beating out luminaries including Beethoven, the Beatles, Michael Jackson and Guido D'Arezzo, the guy who ... More >>

Are You Kiddie Me?

Amanda Palmer talks David Lynch and Neil Gaiman

Exclusive: Amanda Palmer's New Track, "In My Mind" and Interview

​Interview by Roselle Chen "It's a beautiful fucking day in Boston," says punk-cabaret performer Amanda Palmer from her home. She is best known as one half of The Dresden Dolls, and has a wildly-popular solo career, but she's on the phone mainly to talk about her work with the David Lynch Fo ... More >>

10 Comedy Truths Revealed by Kate Walsh, Adam Scott, Jeffrey Tambor and Others at iO West's Improv Festival

Katie Harker/iO WestKate Walsh reveals at IO West's Improv Comedy Festival that she had back surgery so she can run on the beach naked in slo-mo.​ Over the last nine years, iO West's Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival has become a love-in; a time when neophyte and master improvisers commemo ... More >>

Paul: Planet of the Aping

Too many sci-fi references, not enough Kristen Wiig

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Precious Little Life

Scott Pilgrim and Michael Cera get soul

Listen: Scarlett Johansson Covers 'Bullet' By Jersey Folk-Rockers Steel Train

ScarJo meets SteeTray​We suppose the shock value's faded, since ScarJo has already proved she's a rocker. Or at least, that she aims to be one. Within a year of her unexpected debut album, a collection of Tom Waits covers called Anywhere I Lay My Head, she teamed up with singer-songwriter Pet ... More >>

Top 10 Fictional T.V. Food and Drink

Previously, we gave you our Top 10 Fictional Movie Food and Drink list. Now we're taking on the T.V. version. Not surprisingly, there were a lot of options to choose from and some of you, we're sure, will feel that a few of your favorites are missing (feel free to let us know). So with apologies in ... More >>

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Sunset Junction: Corner of Mellow and Sparse

Life of the Party: Sunset Junction Street Fair Hits Dead End

The fate of the yearly Silver Lake music fete is far from assured. But that’s nothing new

Super Fun Happy Slide: Reflections on an Acting Career

I spent the first two thirds of my life working as a full-time actor, but about five years ago, my primary focus shifted from acting to writing. A funny thing happened on my way to being a full-time writer, though: I started working a lot as an actor, both on camera (CSI, Criminal Minds) and with my ... More >>

Hollywood Comings, Goings & Just Plain Bad Parking

The latest on the NYT, CAA, HBO and Oprah

Eloise Gets a Manicure

At 12, betwixt and between

Wu-Tang Clan Still Sting

Sentencing Diagrams: A swarm turns in on itself

Social Suicide

In Wristcutters, the afterlife is just a lousier version of real life. Oh, and Tom Waits is there

Film Reviews: 3:10 to Yuma, Exiled, Hatchet

Also, In the Shadow of the Moon, The Hunting Party and more

Geek Love

Superbad director Greg Mottola puts his own spin on the Judd Apatow school of emo-raunch filmmaking

Superbad's Boys To Men

Teetotaling with Jonah Hill and Michael Cera

Andy Richter Controls the Spreadsheet

But can his number-crunching P.I. conquer TV ratings’ top 10?

Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

Also this week's pick, Encounter Point

Phyllis Diller, Snails and Fake Snow

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Hunger

Moment of Truce

After a five-year war, Snoop and Tha Dogg Pound reunite for love, profits and West Coast pride. Ben Quiñones catches the buzz.

Get Lit

L.A.'s literary salons: club-hopping for bookworms

Who's Your Daddy, America?

Big Love and Sons & Daughters — dysfunction in two new models

The Replacements

Abele’s reasons why not (and why) to watch the new midseason

Karma Chameleon

My Name Is Earl, the caring and sharing side of Seinfeld’s sitcom offspring

Project Grizzly

Developed Arrestment

Arrested Development

The Queens of Hollywood

Behind the Times’ new bylines

Dr. Kool's Pop Quiz

Keith Thornton, Ph.d., an old professor from the new school, knows rap is here to test you

Good Friday