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RIP Santa Monica Civic Auditorium: Former Punk Haven Finished Holding Concerts

For the last 55 years, the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium has had all types of boring conventions, cat shows and craft fairs. But it's also held some amazing concerts; truth be told, its importance to the local rock and punk music scenes cannot be overstated. Due to a combination of obsolescence and ... More >>

­The Other Cleat Drops: Chad Billingsley to Have Tommy John Surgery Tomorrow

Well, the news on Chad Billingsley couldn't be worse for the Dodgers. Here is the statement from the club, issued this afternoon: "Chad Billingsley will undergo Tommy John surgery tomorrow, April 24, at the Kerlan Jobe Orthopedic Clinic in Los Angeles. Dr. Neal ElAttrache will perform the surgery. ... More >>

A Tale of Two Coachella Bros

It may be a bit early, but Coachella 2013 seems to be the Year of the Bro. For the ladies, it's business as usual, but the bros are really bringing it, from humorous neon t-shirts to costumes to all-around chiseledness. But there's more to being a bro than just looking good. Bros are there for ea ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Garry Marshall Directing a Play About the Making of Double Indemnity

Lost Moon Radio did another bang-up job hosting the 34th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. (See the full list of L.A. Weekly Theater Award winners here.) Thanks to Lauren Ludwig, Trish Hadley and the LMR troupe for their talent, and thanks for all the kind missives from people who had ... More >>

5 Nude Photos from Suicide Girls: Hard Girls, Soft Light (NSFW)

See also: *10 Erotic Photos from Taschen's New Photography Book (NSFW) *10 Sexy Photos From the History of Pornography (NSFW) Suicide Girls are heading from the Internet to your coffee table. Hard Girls, Soft Light is the latest book featuring the tattooed and pierced beauties who have been gracing ... More >>

Ryan Quincy Talks About Transforming From Reluctant Voiceover Actor to Creator of the New IFC Show Out There

Emmy-winning animator Ryan Quincy has always dreamed of having his own show. During the decade and a half he spent working his way up to animation director for South Park, he spent his hiatuses creating a world entirely his own, inhabited by hairy but harmless creatures just trying to sort out the d ... More >>

This Song is Not Free (Actually, It Cost $8,320)

The Internet can be a great marketing tool, but it is ruining the likelihood that new acts can create viable music careers. The '90s were the Golden Age for cash advances and record sales, partly because Internet connections were slow and file sharing wasn't rampant. Then Napster happened, and every ... More >>

I Rode the Entire L.A. Metro in a Single Day

I once dreamed of being a transportation planner: fast-roping into jungles, skirting ancient booby traps to snag gilded idols, natives and Nazi occultists in hot pursuit. Sadly, urban planners do none of those things. The most daring thing most of them will ever do is Sharpie "Fuck you, Robert Moses ... More >>

Dodgers And Marijuana: A New High Encouraged by Sunset Boulevard Dispensary

With Magic Johnson and Guggenheim Baseball Management taking over the team, it's a new era at Dodger Stadium. And what better way to celebrate than to buy you some of those recently reduced $10 tickets for seats way, way up in the top deck and ... get high. Really. There's a dispensary near Dodger ... More >>

Solar Cooker Project Fuels Hope in Chad

It's not often that a horrific problem can be fought with a simple tool. But that's what is happening in the refugee camps of Chad, where solar cookers are helping protect women and girls from rape and other violence. Now in its sixth year, the Solar Cooker Project of L.A.-based Jewish World Watch ( ... More >>

Five Anti-Improv Rules to Follow When Improvising a Three-Act Play, From Comedy Duo The Understudies

It's the night of the show and megastars Basil Shaw III and Chad Krause are missing in action. The understudies must go on. Which of Basil and Chad's many plays will they do tonight? Just shout out the location of your favorite one, any location really, and they'll do that play. This is the premise ... More >>

Music Picks: Roberta Flack, Summer Twins, John Cage Centenary Festival

Also, Spindrift, Lenny Kravitz, Dorian Wood, Howlin Rain and others

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Ambassador, and Experimental Methodology

Mads Brugger is sort of the VICE magazine version of Sasha Baron Cohen, as financed by Lars Von Trier. His last film was The Red Chapel, an exercise in hidden camera comedy with unusual socio-political stakes, which I put on my top 10 list for 2010. In Chapel, Danish journalist Brugger posed as th ... More >>

Music Picks: Esperanza Spalding, Elbow, Toro Y Moi, Blink-182

Also, Glen Campbell, the Smashing Pumpkins, Lanie Lane and others

Terri Review

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Tim Hetherington, Director of Oscar-Nominated War Doc 'Restrepo,' Killed in Libya

Tim Hetherington on the set of "Restrepo"​Update: Chris Hondros took these stunning photographs just hours before he died. More after the jump. Tim Hetherington, a wartime photographer and documentary filmmaker -- along with his associate, Chris Hondros, also a war photojournalist -- were kil ... More >>

Inside Job: Greed, Interrupted

Part meltdown memoir, part essential finger-pointing, Charles Ferguson's latest will make you seethe

Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes

Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

Stage Raw: Love Water

At your fingertips, the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's La DidoneNEW REVIEW LOVE WATER photo by Dan Bonnell In a drainage pipe near a park and a ditch that might be a space-alien breeding ground, ... More >>

Princeton's Seaside Conceits

A Westside band tackles the old-fashioned "concept" album of art-rock's fruity past

Fashion Week Diary: Debra Davenport, Giving Talbots A Run For Its Money

People kept asking me "Who is Debra Davenport?" and I kept having to say, "I'm not sure." A bit of googling reveals that she is the CEO of a luxury women's fashion house headquartered in Phoenix Arizona. HauteAZ tells us "She received her B.A. at the age of 19, her M.A. degree at the age of 21, and ... More >>

Step Brothers: Blended Family Values

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Get Relational

Danger Dude Without Borders

Jeff Antebi

LAFF 2008: Bagging on the Fest

The absolute best way to see BAGHEAD is at a film festival after you’ve seen a few other movies, because the opening scenes perfectly skewer the universal truths of indie fests, from the pretentious film being viewed (a black-and-white number entitled WE ARE NAKED) to the Q&A host plugging the spo ... More >>

Biking With Andrew Scott

Theater Reviews: He Asked for It, Office Sonata, Hedda Gabler

Also, Safe, The Glass Menagerie, and more

Mistakes Were Made

Dysfunctional business as usual at Pellicano trial When we last left the trial of Anthony Pellicano and four co-defendants, the proceedings had been thrown into chaos after attorney Chad Hummel’s cross examination of a “businesswoman” whom the government had called to the witness stand to tes ... More >>

Say You Love Satan

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Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop

New Crowned Hope

Up in Smoke

A musical comedy sums up our grave new world

Rock Picks

For Sept. 28 – Oct. 5

The World According to Amadeus

The Toronto Film Festival throws Mozart an early birthday bash

Band on the Run

Unsigned local group finds fame, fortune, Duran Duran in the U.K.

Getting The Hookah Up

Smoke is the new drink at these bars

Letters

After the Party�s Over

Sons of the City

The Red Hot Chili Peppers have made an unlikely pop masterpiece by singing bittersweet songs of salvation that could have only been born in L.A.

Life Studies

Legends urbane and urban

Sex, Mugs and Rock & Roll

Selling the Sun

The Pan African Film & Arts Festival at 10

The World�s Worst

How the international justice system works

Apocalypse Now

Poetry of protest at the San Francisco International Film Festival

Fear and Furs

The pomp and protests of W.�s stolen inauguration

Letters

The Big Wet One

Coming Soon

Y2KAOS

Demolisten Derby