There's little doubt that Macklemore's hit song "Thrift Shop" was the best thing to happen to Goodwill in a while. (Ever? Yeah we're just going to go ahead and say ever.) See also: Critics Need to Lay Off Macklemore Part of the video was filmed at their store in Seattle, where the rapper is from, ... More >>
One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "Doesn't she look like Audrey Hepburn?" asks Elayne Boosler of Jazzy, a visiting pit bull–Weimaraner mix. Boosler does an impression of Jazzy as Hepburn, playing off the w ... More >>
Friday, Feb. 8 Barbra Streisand's award-winning directorial debut, Yentl, returns to the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 p.m. The musical that originated "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" by composer Michel Legrand and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman follows one ... More >>
Friday, January 11 Carolyn Edwards, Adam Marsland TAIX As leader of both Spindle and 3D Picnic and a longtime member of The Negro Problem, Carolyn Edwards is one of the best and brightest musicians in Silver Lake's indie-pop underground, but she reveals the full breadth of her talent through her so ... More >>
See also: *Stanley Kubrick at LACMA: Our Review *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Not long after the 1968 release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick set out to create what he expected to be "the best movie ever made." A historical epic about Napoleon that aimed to be as intimate as it ... More >>
Our picks for the must-sees
Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett and Barry Lyndon
[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Beyonce's "Party" featuring J. Cole History: "Party" is the fourth single from Beyonce's fourth studio album, 4. That's three fours in a row, bro. Three ... More >>
Not a portrait of Michael Govan, but a still from Edward Scissorhands, from LACMA's upcoming Tim Burton series. BY RICHARD NATALE Two years ago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan proposed suspending the then-41-year-old weekend film program because it was losing money ... More >>
Timothy Norris Don't sacrifice your Monday night music excursions into our fair city of Los Angeles, just to be a slave to the grueling whip of commercialized love. You can have your cake and eat it too, especially if that cake comes with a plethora of "ingredients" that help you get your ro ... More >>
The Tourist gawks at its stars, visits Venice, has twist
Sam Wasson's book throws back covers on Breakfast at Tiffany's
Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more
Funny Face (and Teeth and Neck)
Good marks for 1960s period piece and its star, Carey Mulligan
Also, Extreme Animals, Andrew Bird, Peach Fuzz, and others
I never wanted to be called an artist. I wanted to be called a photographer
How filmmaker Alex Holdridge finally found his footing in Angel City
Marta Teegen is turning L.A.'s front lawns into kitchen larders
What to do in Los Angeles this week
Including Freedom Writers
Best windows to soothe your inner Holly Golightly
An opus to sore lungs
Shona Auerbach’s Dear Frankie
Catholic damage in Almodóvars Bad Education, plus Conspiracy of Silence
The bands that are saving L.A.s music scene
America’s Next Top Model, Take 2
Revelations from a plus-size life
Billy Wilder, 1906–2002
Why is Hollywood so full of whores?
Loyandford
Natalie Portman is Where the Heart Is
The zine scene
