Aunt Jemima Foodstuffs

The Big Bang Theory of Product Advertising: In the Cereal Aisle, Dudes Rule

Last week the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory offered a spot-on observation about something funky in the world of cereal. As the brainiac crew of scientists settled into breakfast, astrophysicist Raj (played by Kunal Nayyar) began to rattle off the names of cereal mascots like Tony the Tiger, Toucan ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to See This Week, Including Avatar in a Single Pixel

Courtesy Cardwell JimmersonA tiny cast resin pill Terry O'Shea made in 1968​ This week's selection feels refreshingly down-to-earth, even practical in its approach to both nitty-gritty issues, like holiday decor, and theoretical ones, like how to think about passing time. 5. Tree Library It's ... More >>

Outdone by the Pro

Betye Saar: Assemblage of Anger

Stage Raw: D is for Dog

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for Dog​This week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... More >>

Locked and Loaded

Theater Reviews: The Hyacinth Macaw, Locked and Loaded, Gigi

Also The Sonneteer, Wrinkles and more

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Sonneteer

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ANNOUNCING THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO THE SONNETEER ​Photo by Katie Pomerantz Nick Salamone's play examines the ways in which homophobia, guilt, self-delusion and hypocrisy cause the gradual disintegration of the Cardamones, a first-generation Italian-A ... More >>

Q & A With Chris Kimball of Cook's Illustrated: Jello, Calf Brain Appetizers His New Book

J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

When Mammy and Sambo Move Next Door

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' Neighbors

Cooking (and Eating) Dangerously: Where to Go for Vegan Gluten-free Pancakes

Unless you're Elisabeth Hasselbeck--The View's resident Republican published a gluten-free "survival guide" in May--the gluten-free vegan pancake is not something you will want to try at home. Amateurs are less likely to wind up with pancakes than very unappetizing pan-bricks. But because Los Angele ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Bohemian Cowboy, Tartuffe, Black Women — State of the Union

Also, American Guilt, The Taming of the Shrew and more

Stage Raw: Bohemian Cowboy

BOHEMIAN COWBOY is this week's Pick of the Week Crossing the Center Line A father heads into the desert, never to return By Steven Leigh MorrisThe original title of Raymond King Shurtz's one-man show was The Gospel of Irony ― which would have been a particularly ironic title, had it stuck, s ... More >>

Thoroughly Modern Mammy

Of coons, pickaninnies and the gold dust twins: Why do black curios stay chic?