Bollywood

Podcast: Why Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is a Near-Perfect Movie

5 Dance Workouts for People Who Can't Dance

All it takes is one hour of a K-pop dance class, surrounded a room of high school students who must have already practiced the music video routine in their parents' living rooms, to confirm what your body already knew: If the music's right, you can bounce from side to side (or jump up and down like ... More >>

Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Ballet Celebrating the British Invasion

This week's dance events also include a festival that mixes things up and a celebration of the British musical invasion. 5. It's for arts presenters, but the public can come too. The Western Arts Alliance, an association of performing arts presenters, are meeting in L.A. this week and local dance c ... More >>

The Best Concerts to See In L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, August 19 Best Coast EL REY THEATRE Best Coast's songs are so giddy and sugary that it's easy to make fun of the increasingly popular local band. Bethany Cosentino doesn't just evoke the California lifestyle with her ... More >>

Planes Raises Intriguing Questions About the Implications of Airplane Sentience

Star-Crossed Hoofers

First Look: Badmaash Indian Gastropub

In the '80s and '90s there was fusion, often done by American chefs in high-end places, often for no discernible reason, often with suspect results. Then, partly as fusion backlash, partly as an honest curiosity about other cultures, came the obsession with authenticity. Now we've come full circle, ... More >>

Life of Pi Star Irrfan Khan on Crossing Over From Bollywood to American Film and TV

38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4) -- and probably beyond, at this rate -- we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 38: Papri Chaat at Jay Bharat. As sort of shameful as it is to admit, I drove to all the way Cerritos this weekend just ... More >>

Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

Grimes and Blood Diamonds - The Echo - June 19, 2012

Grimes & Blood DiamondsThe Echo6/19/12Better than: Bumping lines, in the back of an El Camino, at the edge of the universe. Last night's incarnation of the beast that is The Echo's monthly "Check Yo Ponytail" event popped off hard with performances by Blood Diamonds and Grimes that could only righ ... More >>

Lawrence of India: Lizardfish The Cuisine of Goa

With the exception the Kerala-style dishes at Mayura, most of the Indian restaurants clustered along Culver City's Venice Boulevard focus on the same vegetarian-centric vaguely Southern Indian style of cooking. This is far from a bad thing -- can one ever have too many choices for jackfruit curry, p ... More >>

Ashton Kutcher's Popchips Ad Pulled

A popchips ad featuring Ashton Kutcher in "brownface" was launched, skewered, and pulled in less than 24 hours. The new $1.5 million ad campaign showed Kutcher as four characters -- among which was a fictional 39-year-old Bollywood actor named Raj -- in a parody of an online dating service. Except K ... More >>

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Bela Tarr and Bollywood

Shane Sakhrani's A Widow of No Importance

Mumbai cougar at the Bollywood Zoo

Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Flying Lotus Plans To Direct A Feature Film

[See also "Eagle Rock Music Fest Preview: Feeding People On Their Debut LP And A Particularly Memorable Encounter with the Devil" "Thundercat Emerges With His Debut, Co-produced by Flying Lotus," "Top Five Reasons Why Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma is the Best L.A. Album of the Year," "Flying Lotus Ris ... More >>

A Widow of No Importance

Tantra in Silver Lake Becoming... Something Else

Chef Imran Ali of Tantra / 3705 Sunset Blvd.​If you've seen the big wooden signs boarding up the front of Tantra, the Silver Lake venue that couldn't really decide whether it wanted to be a credible Indian restaurant or a Bollywood-themed nightclub and so did both poorly for far too long, you ... More >>

Music Picks: Tinariwen, Colbie Caillat, A.R. Rahman, Best Coast

Also, Monopoly, David Bazan, Gravespawn and others

Jonathan Gold Reviews Eighth Street Soondae

Who Loves Ya, Monday?

Taschen's Big Penis Book in 3D Launches in Beverly Hills (NSFW)

Carri Faber​ This wasn't your mother's Beverly Hills. First, this writer felt compelled to visit the Beverly Hills Cheese Store, where she discussed Bollywood music production, politics and mutants with Marky Ramone, protopunk percussionist and purveyor of his own pasta sauce, before making he ... More >>

Romance Novels Are Alive. Reality TV? Not So Much

Das Racist: Are They Laughing with Us or at Us? (Exclusive Interview)

Now you're hungry. Or grossed out. ​Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's p ... More >>

AWAY IN A DOROTHY CHANDLER PAVILION

Bollywood, Hollywood Film Moguls Pat Each Other On The Back, Sign Feel-Good Pact

Hollywood better have snuck in a clause mandating Aishwara Rai appear in every Bollywood film, ever​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa got all misty-eyed this afternoon about another project he didn't really have anything to do with, but is feeling profound about anyway: a "historic cooperation pact" ... More >>

Happy Diwali: Where to Celebrate Indian New Year

Flickr/Swami StreamDiwali festival of lights​ Get dressed in your Indian best, meaning saris, sparkly shawls, glittery jewels or anything glamorous and Indian-inspired in order to celebrate Diwali, the Festival of Lights, which is also Indian New Year. The holiday lasts for five days, Nov. 5- ... More >>

Dolphin Bay (Artesia): Taiwanese Noodle Soup & Murderous Robots

If you're a Westerner, all Bollywood movies, with their gleeful disregard for logic, verisimilitude and emotional continuity, will blow your mind. Robot (Endhiran or Enthiran in Tamil), however, will sandblast through your neural cortex. The most expensive Bollywood movie ever made, Robot is about ... More >>

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Beyond

Stage Raw: Beyond

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON IN THE HEIGHTSNEW REVIEW GO BEYOND ​ Photo courtesy of El Portal Theatre This musical extravaganza, conceived and directed by Aurelien Roulin, is described as a cross between French cabaret and Cirque de Soleil, but ... More >>

Movie Reviews: After the Cup, Shrek Forever After, Prince of Persia

Also, Sex and the City 2, Survival of the Dead and more

Pieter Hugo at Shoshana Wayne

Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles: the 2 Percent Solution

Yearly event culls the cream of Bollywood and beyond

PAS DE DENA

Body Art in Motion: Zulu Tattoo's Benefit at Boardner's

In a city where body art studios are both plentiful and popular (and in some cases, nationally televised - hi, Kat!), it's a test to find a shop that draws as much universal praise and as loyal a clientele as Zulu Tattoo. Ronnie Zulu and his crew of profusely talented artists continue to be one of ... More >>

DANCE THE YEAR AWAY

THE POLITICS OF DANCING

HOORAY FOR BOLLYWEEN

Movie Reviews: The Girl From Monaco, Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Kambakkht Ishq, I Hate Valentine's Day

Also, New York and Youssou N'Dour: I Bring What I Love

THE DIVINE MISS I

Bollywood Dreams

blue13 dance company throws a slumber party

Jazzed and Motivated

Mayura's Flavors of Kerala

A thousand years of spices

Stop the Music!

In search of a quiet place to eat in L.A.

Tandoor at Heart

Maximum Dosa

From Hollywood to Bollywood

Pioneer Boulevard

India in Artesia

Lotus Eaters

Indian food for a post-Beck Silver Lake