Central Park

Girls Targeted By Scary, Would-Be Serial Kidnapper In Whittier, Cops Say

Cops in Whittier were on the lookout for a creep in a red convertible they believe has been trying to kidnap girls all month long. The latest attempt happened yesterday when an 11-year-old was grabbed and put in the backseat of the car near a park, police said: Also in the backseat? A girl who appe ... More >>

Pan African Film and Arts Festival 2013 Spotlights Immigration, Civil Rights and Jazz

Top 10 L.A. Architecture Stories of 2012

We spend most of the year criticizing Los Angeles' ugly buildings and other unfortunate aspects of the local built environment. Here's our chance to rundown some of the thoughtful, inspiring and downright stellar projects that make us L.A. proud, and that make our burg a better place in general.

AFI Fest 2012: Four Trends to Watch For

20 Movies You Need to See at AFI Fest 2012

Reggie Watts

Congregation Ale House: A Sip At The Gastropub's New Pasadena Altar

Much as we are Beer Church believers, our drive-by impression of Congregation Ale House's latest branch across from Pasadena's Central Park was hardly revelatory. The freestanding building is boxy and rather shiny, a little too carefully designed in that chain restaurant or mega-church sort of way. ... More >>

Cookbooks Panel at LitFest Pasadena

Cookbooks have long faced competition from magazines and newspapers. But now, it's the Internet Age. Print publications are putting their recipes online, and websites such as Epicurious and Food help you find instructions for virtually any dish with just a few clicks. Meanwhile, blogs are offering t ... More >>

Occupy LA Plans Big March on 11-11-11: In New York OWS is Taking Over Central Park That Day

Occupy Los Angeles​Some people are banking on a good luck day as the strange date 11-11-11 hits tomorrow. Folks are even reportedly flocking to Las Vegas for quickie marriages. In L.A. they'll be protesting in the streets again. Following Wednesday's citywide actions against banks -- from a s ... More >>

Echo Park Lake Is About to Get Drained Into an Empty, Stinking Mud Flat

The Eastsider via PicasaThe lake was last drained in 1984. Yes, it was awful.​For the new wave of borderline-eastside gentry who weren't around to see Echo Park Lake in a surly state of "stinking mud flat" in 1984 (or 1902, 1906, 1919, 1922, 1932 or 1946): We hate to be the bearers of bad ne ... More >>

Daphna Edwards Ziman, NY Times Bestselling Author of The Gray Zone: Our 'Ask the Author' Interview

Ziman's first novel, The Gray Zone, published by Greenleaf Book Group Press in June 2011.​ Local author Daphna Edwards Ziman garnered a lot of attention for socially aware novel The Gray Zone, which chronicled the fate of kids put in the American foster care system via a fast-paced thriller o ... More >>

The Other Woman

Before You Make Your Own Turkey for Thanksgiving, Roast One for the Homeless

Photo by Colin Young-Wolff ​ If you're just now looking into volunteer opportunities for Thanksgiving Day, we hate to break it to you: You might be too late. Many volunteer lists are already full, especially for those photo-op moments of scooping out corn niblets and ladling gravy for a sea of ... More >>

Daddy Longlegs: The Kids Are Not All Right

Cult filmmaker Ronald Bronstein plays fuckup father

The Wry Romanian: Corneliu Porumboiu

The director talks about the literary foundations of his comic films

Yayoi Kusama at Gagosian Gallery

Parks and Wreck: L.A.'s Fight for Public Green Space

In search of the Emerald City

I'd Rather Be Right

Theater Reviews: Hillary Agonistes, Of Mice and Men, Flora the Red Menace

Also Indecent Acts, I'd Rather Be Right and more

Pregnant Pause: 4 months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days

On a rock with Romanian director Cristian Mungiu

Free-food Alert!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Onward! The Philharmonic's Concrete Frequency

And Esa-Pekka Salonen’s final season

The Brave One: Femme Fatal

Foster dishes out rough justice

Unmasking the Essential American Soul

Director Neil Jordan on revenge, forbidden hate and the making of a killer

Theater Reviews

Including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Four Man Plan and more

Glenn and the Art of Locomotive Transformation

Growth Management

Lauren Bon

New Theater Reviews

Reviews of Neil LaBute's Bash, Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard and Terry Johnson's Hitchcock Blonde

Bubblegum Hip-hop and a Band With three Test Icicles

My Urban Paradise

It takes a village to raise a city

Teed Off

World vs. GOP

War for truth marches on in the streets of New York

The Perfect Storm

Remember me to Herald Square

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

Five Really Really Really Bad Sci-Fi Movies

Caviar Empty

It Must Have Been Another Country

A Wintry Discontent

New York's global warning

Bad, Bad Gurley Brown

America’s Cosmo girl returns to her L.A. roots

Rip-Rolling Blackouts for Your Summer Calendar

Blind Buff Man

PBS’s Chief Inspector Ross Tanner

Becoming L.A.

What it is and what it might have been

Sunny Days, Sultry Nights

Highlighting the events of the season

Boys and Girls Together

Villagers

Watch global, live local

Grimm and Ghastly

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

The Wild, The Innocent, The Pugilistic Shuffle

Isabella Rossellini in Central Park, Don Cheadle in Louisiana, Jon Favreau in the ring

What Is This Bee?

Reading lessons

Sailing to Byzantium