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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 >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope

Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Absolutely Filthy

Peter Robbins, Voice Of Charlie Brown, Arrested In SoCal For Alleged Stalking, Death Threats

Good grief, Peter Robbins: Authorities accuse Robbins, one of the original child voices of Charlie Brown back in the 1960s, of stalking and making death threats. The 56-year-old was arrested after being stopped at the U.S.-Mexico border crossing in San Ysidro over the weekend:

Yung Jake, a Recent CalArts Grad, Could Be the Breakout Art Star of Sundance

Although half of Los Angeles will decamp this weekend to the snowy hillsides of Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival, not everyone is going for the movies. Starry-eyed attendees relish access to the suits, the skiing and the swag, but what about the art? Shari Frilot has curated Sundance ... More >>

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 >>

The Miracle That Is 
A Charlie Brown Christmas

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you look outside while reading this, the odds are that it's sunny and mild. You might see green and red lights and tinseled pine trees glowing through ... More >>

Pumpkin Beer: Good for what Ales Ya, Or Not

Is there really a demand for pumpkin beer? Do squash aficionados start summer letter writing campaigns to make sure their fridges are stocked in November? Do brewmasters have a secret fervor for Charlie Brown cartoon reruns? Do they respond to skewed surveys that weigh the answers of the ardent few, ... More >>

He's Stoller Than He Looks

Kaboom! Brings Back Peanuts: Interview with Artist Matt Whitlock and Writer Shane Houghton

Liz OhanesianMatt Whitlock and Shane Houghton at Meltdown Comics​When artist Matt Whitlock was seven, he wrote a letter to Peanuts creator Charles Schulz with one request. He wanted to help draw the cartoonist's famed strip. "I got a form letter back with some Xeroxed drawings," Whitlock rec ... More >>

Ron English's 'Seasons In Supurbia' at Corey Helford: Artist's Perverted Spoofing of Disney, G.I. Joe and Charlie Brown

The celebrated billboard satirist and painter Ron English lives on the East Coast, and so most of his outdoor work takes place there. But he regularly provides downloadable paste-ups on his blog, and is himself a regular journeyman, who makes outdoor contributions to the public art in every city he ... More >>

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 >>

Julie Ingram: Rockin' the Cradle

Mark Ridley-Thomas To NFL: Call Me When You're Serious About Coming Back To L.A.

Mark Ridley-Thomas​AEG and Majestic Realty are duking it out in yet another act of the endless drama over whether the NFL will return to Los Angeles.Like Charlie Brown, Angelenos have had this particular football yanked away several times, so they can be forgiven for tuning the drama out. And spea ... More >>

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

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

Diana Sproveri Designer Bake Shop Replaces Cookie Munch: Welcome, Cupcake On A Stick?

Celia SoudryLollibakes​ Cupcake shops will probably outlive us all. Enter Lollibakes: little balls on sticks filled with gooey centers of cookie dough, red velvet, lemon and strawberry, then dipped in chocolate to create a hard outer shell. These mini cupcake-like treats can be found at Diana ... More >>

Halloween Classics at the Paley Center

President Obama's Campaign Manager David Plouffe Talks 2010 In Hollywood

David Plouffe, Obama campaign manager​ Democrats as a species are nearly always filled with dread and doubt, like Charlie Brown to the Republicans' Lucy. Except when they win, in which case they turn on each other with nearly as much venom as on their Republican opponents. David Plouffe, Pre ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Proof, A Song at Twilight, West

Also, The Pee-wee Herman Show, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road and more

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Stage Raw: West

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. NEW REVIEW GO WEST ​Photo by SpeedgraflexSteven Berkoff's 1983 tale of adrenaline, lust, rage, and violence amongst a group of young thugs in 1960s London is written in modified metrical verse, ... More >>

Brick's Picks: Saxes Roasting on an Open Fire

Lieber & Stoller Sign Copies of Their Autobiography at Book Soup: Five Essential Songs

Tonight at Book Soup legendary LA born songwriters Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller will sign copies of their new book, Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography. In this week's print edition, writer David Cotner runs down the deal: Responsible for some of the truly great pop songs of the 20th ce ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Rain, Rain, Come Back Again The recent winter storms were awfully photogenic on TV but all that rain was just so much water under the Sixth Street Bridge. The state remains in a drought state and water rationing appears right around the corner for Los Angeles. ReutersA Bridge Too Ugly? Speaking of t ... More >>

The Branding of Allan Kaprow: Anti-Warhol, Anti-Star

"This is really happening"

Weiss' Top 50 Albums of 2007 (#50-46)

50. Redman-Red Gone Wild [Def Jam] Other than M.O.P., Redman is the only East Coast rapper able to conceptually re-make the same album since 1992 and get away with it. The only difference is that where Billy Danze and Fizzy Womack are concerned with curb-checking you if you wander into Browns ... More >>

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Best Escape Vittles

Snake, gator and other edible critters at Charlie Brown Farms

Best of L.A. 2007 Armageddon it!

The last things we'd ever do

Day of the Dolphin

The Fuhrman Factor

Thirteen years later former LAPD detective is still haunted by one that got away. Was justice in the Dawn Gamez murder case another casualty of the O.J. Simpson debacle?

Prospecting for Beauty

Treasure map to the best park bench in Southern California

Dream on Silly Dreamer

New York Playbill

A winter sampler

Snakebites

A Day With The Locust

On the road with the world’s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, “hardcore,” millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

Husband and Husband

As real as any doggie or kitty wedding

'N Scene: Lip Gloss, Cell Phones and Justin Envy

L.A. Weekly’s 23rd Annual Theater Award Nominations

Hard Up

Diary of a Mad Waitress

Kids in the Hall

More freaks and geeks

Public Jocks, Private Dicks

Plus, Eddie Murphy's The PJ's and Scott Adams' Dilbert

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore

The Big Sleep

Eulogies for heads of state and underground artists, pop icons and ’60s revolutionaries

Behind the Velvet Rope

Sandra Tsing Loh on Bad Sex . . . and more. So much more.