Brooklyn Bridge

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unusual Look at Motherhood

This week, our critics enjoyed composer and musical director Gregory Nabours' 90-minute musical The Trouble With Words (Coeurage Theatre Company at the Unknown Theatre) as well as a quartet of one-acts at the Lillian under the collective title Unscreened. This week's Pick goes to Dorothy Fortenberry ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Prancing Horses on a Stage the Size of a Football Field

The Canadian troupe Cavalia wowed critic Lovell Estell III this week with its equestrian spectacle Cavalia's Odysseo. Good notices also for Diane Glancy's The Bird House at the Autry National Center, and for a revival of Carlos Murillo's Dark Play (or Story for Boys) at the Whitmore-Lindley The ... More >>

A Family Thing

The State of the Occupation

From City Hall to suburban Van Nuys: Occupy L.A. looks much different one year later

Occupy Used a 'People's Microphone' to Spread Info Through a Crowd. Now There's a People's Mic Choir

The Occupy Movement's one-year anniversary is today. This means, nation-wide, morning headlines say things like "Why Occupy Fizzed," "Occupy in Disarray but Spirit Lives On" or "Can Occupy Come up with a Second Act?" Yesterday, a few hundred protesters who returned to Zucotti Park, where the Occup ... More >>

Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu

Bill Morrison at REDCAT

Justin Bua's Paintings Of His Most Influential Rappers

Justin Bua​Justin Bua is a hip-hop painter; you may have seen the print of his painting "The DJ" (see below), at Target, of all places. It's been out for over a decade, and has been selling ridiculous amounts of copies for years. He's done portraits of everyone from Nas to Kool Herc to Quee ... More >>

Angel City Brewing Debuts Downtown This Weekend

L. Balla​ For the last two weekends, Michael Bowe has been hosting beer tastings outside of his new Angel City Brewing complex in the Arts District downtown. But this weekend it's the real deal: The official grand opening takes place on Saturday, with a blowout that includes beers, barbecue an ... More >>

THE JOEL STORY

IT’S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY

Groundbreaker: Remembering Gertrude Berg

Firefighters To Run Cross-Country From Los Angeles To New York In Honor Of 9/11

​In commemoration of 9/11, a team of 30 American and Australian firefighters are attempting a cross-country run from Los Angeles to New York. According to KPCC (89.3 FM), the "Tour of Duty" is a relay run with six hours of pounding the pavement and 12 hours off intermittently. The cycle contin ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Broken Embraces, Paa, A Single Man, Armored

Also, Four Seasons Lodge, the Vicious Kind, The Lovely Bones and more

The Boredoms Pound Their Way Onto the Astral Plane

The all-seeing Eye

Cloverfield Is a Horror

Monster mash

Gordon Matta-Clark’s Urban Cuttings

Open city

Home Entertainment

A Bite at the Apple

Where to find the ideal NYC-style slice

Failure to Launch

With six flops in 13 years, indie filmmaker Eric Schaeffer is at it again

Up in Smoke

A musical comedy sums up our grave new world

Anonyme

Yale & the Hammer hit a Modernist jackpot

Close to the Ground

John Peterson

The Bridges of L.A. County

Let us now praise famous spans

The Manhattan Project

GOP Action Heroes

Arnold, Rudy, John McCain and the Bush twins

Where Are They Now?

An ever-evolving list of L.A. Weekly alumni

The Neocons’ War

This is supposed to burnish our reputation?

Silver Clouds

Warhol, post-9/11

Or Watch It on TV

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

God, the Devil and NBC

One show cancelled, one show begun

Lèse-Majesté

Racy Elizabethans, speedy Cruise