Bethlehem

Top Five Metal Christmas Songs (Now With More Manowar!) \m/

So you're looking for a way to celebrate Christmas without having to sacrifice your metalhead cred in the process? If the guys from Immortal caught you tapping your foot to Mannheim Steamroller, you'd lose all corpse paint privileges with no questions asked. So to help you save (painted) face, we've ... More >>

Hair We Come a Caroling

10 Best Pop Culture Shout-Outs to the Santa Ana Winds

Southern California's dry winds in fall and winter can rise up to speeds of 90 mph. Commonly known as the Santa Ana winds, they're now making their first attack on the area. Panic has arisen on social media. That can't change the winds' mind, but you can find Twitter accounts personifying the winds ... More >>

Seth Grahame-Smith's New Book Unholy Night Asks: What the Hell Were the Three Wise Doing There?

After mixing the Victorian era with the world of the undead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith has become the highly profitable king of literature's mash-up genre. Lionsgate is developing P&P&Z into a movie, while the film version of ALVH, prod ... More >>

Top 5 Metal Christmas Songs (Now With More Manowar!) \m/

TK Top 5 Metal Christmas Songs Ever (Now With More Manowar!)

The First Jo-el

Theater Reviews: Groundlings Holiday Show, The First Jo-el, Diva on the Verge

Also, Bob Baker's Nutcracker, Broadway Holiday and more

Teens Worship in a Parking Lot After Venice Pastor Shuns the Skateboard Set

New pastor bars youth group at United Methodist Church

Stage Raw: Holiday Listings

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedHOLIDAY LISTINGS:To be honest, the quantity of theater playing this week in Los Angeles is about as thin as it gets. Still, our comprehensive LISTINGS are back up. Things do pick up in January, so ... More >>

Star Wars Nativity Scenes: In A Manger Far, Far Away

A long time ago, in a manger far far away...people were revising their Christian iconography to fit a Lucasfilm agenda. Check out these Star Wars themed nativity sets. Sacrilegious, but crafty. 1. What Rebel Child Is This? Are these Stormtroopers Mary and Joseph? Or are they inspecting the newborn ... More >>

The First Jo-el

Stage Raw: Diva on the Verge

The COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS feature will return next weekNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Helen Hunt and Tom Irwin in Much Ado NEW REVIEW GO DIVA ON THE VERGE ​ Photo courtesy of the Odyssey TheatreIn her compelling one-woman show, soprano Julia Migenes, who has sung more leading roles ... More >>

INTIMATE AMAHL

All the World's a Cage

Aristides Vargas' La Razon Blindada and Joseph Fisher's A Wolf Inside the Fence

Stage Raw: Circle X and Bootleg Hook Up to Read Plays

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on John StepplingCIRCLE X AND BOOTLEG HOOK UP TO READ PLAYS Circle X Theatre Company and Bootleg are joining forces to present a series of Monday night readings of new works, starting September 13, at the Bootleg venue. Playwrights s ... More >>

Theater Reviews: La Posada Magica, Women Behind Bars, Peep This

Also, Palestine, New Mexico, A Very Merry Happy Kosher Christmas and more

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

Stage Raw: Palestine, New Mexico

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Accomplice: Hollywood and Molly SweeneyNEW REVIEW PALESTINE, NEW MEXICO ​Photo by Craig Schwartz When U.S. Army Captain Catherine Siler (Kirsten Potter) stumbles into "Bumfuck" -- a New Mexico Indian reservation -- she ... More >>

The John Birch Society Is Back!

Scrolling down a list of things to possibly do today, I came across an announcement for an appearance by John Birch Society president John McManus, who'll be in North Hollywood tonight talking about "America's Economic Meltdown." The John Friggin' Birch Society! A wave of heady nostalgia swept over ... More >>

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

Heavenly and Historical

Anonymous 4 turns its vocal chops on "The Cherry Tree"

Anonymous 4 Rings in the Holidays

Sands of Time

Jazz picks around L.A.

Escape from Allentown

Beardo’s long journey into teenage wasteland

Banksy in Bethlehem

BBC has a video report posted on Youtube about Banksy pieces showing up in Bethlehem. There's even a brief phone interview with the artist and a couple of decent images of his works on the walls that divide the city. However, BBC won't let the video be embedded, so you'll have to visit the site ... More >>

Lumière’s Descendent: Thierry Frémaux

Cannes’ artistic director

Swoosh!

Comets (and reactions to them) through the ages

Heaven's Gate: The Sequel

Ten years after the 39 suicides, the sole survivor is back – and he has something urgent to tell us.

Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

Also this week's pick, Encounter Point

Hanukkah Punks and Christmas Queens

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Theater Listings

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Theater Listings

Theater Listings

For January 27 - February 2, 2006

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

A Perfect Accident

'One Day a Palestinian Child . . . '

The lost promise of Yasir Arafat

Hitting the Wall

The West Bank barrier — and the Palestinian Authority’s inaction

Freedom’s Rage

On the scene of Israel’s latest release of Palestinian prisoners

Monumental Theater

How you say — “horns of dilemma”?

A Tale of Two T-Shirts

Present and Future Shock

Border Calls

In the Mexican desert, a sanctuary for worried migrants

Piercing the Gloom

Out of the Past

Arabs and Jews revive their blood hatreds

Immigrant Workers

The law that keeps them chained