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Tom Cruise Can Still Be Great -- Why Aren't His Movies?

To Join the Loyal Order of the Drooling Bastard, You Must Drink 78 Cocktails at Tonga Hut

See also: *4 a.m. Last Call for Alcohol Proposed For Calif. Clubs by Sen. Mark Leno *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. *10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A. The rules state you have a calendar year to complete the task. Amos Clarke is nine months in, "but I've only been making serio ... More >>

YouTube Stars Fight Back

Machinima and Maker Studios, two of YouTube's most high-profile networks, have come under fire from their own talent

Happy Repeal Day: Drink Up at the Longest Continuously Running Bar in L.A.

Farewell to the 18th Amendment. Seventy-nine years ago today, on Dec. 5, booze in the United States flowed freely again. Celebrate the repeal of Prohibition at the longest continuously running bar in Los Angeles. "We never technically closed during Prohibition," General Manager and Beverage Director ... More >>

[Updated] Campanile La Brea Bakery Store Closing: Walter Manzke's Republique Opening in the Space

Campanile and the La Brea Bakery shop are closing. The restaurant and bakery, which are in adjoining locations separated by a courtyard on La Brea Avenue and were both opened by then-married chefs Mark Peel and Nancy Silverton in 1989, will close at the end of November, the Los Angeles Times reports ... More >>

Years of a Clown: Stoneface: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Buster Keaton at Sacred Fools

The Best Comeback to 'L.A. Is a Heavenly Place,' CNN's Embarrassing Love Note to Los Angeles

We're tickled, of course, that CNN thinks "L.A. Is a Heavenly Place." We do, too! But as so many L.A.-ophiles discovered upon actually reading the meat of the article, writer Jennifer Wolfe thinks of L.A. like a postcard, not the smoggy grimy wasteland we've come to call heaven. The piece is part ... More >>

Still in Hollywood

Is Musso & Frank the True Crossroads of Hollywood and Literature? Richard Schave Wants to Find Out

Simone PazRichard Schave with wife Kim Cooper at Musso & Frank​At Hollywood's Musso & Frank Grill, legend has it, giants of American literature -- Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles ... More >>

Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: Phineas and Ferb/Penn & Teller Writer On His New Book, a Satire of Satan

​Ever had questions about Hell, Satan or various and sundry demons? Then TV writer Martin Olson's Encyclopaedia of Hell: An Invasion Manual for Demons Concerning the Planet Earth and the Human Race Which Infests It will prove most edifying, as it sheds some much-needed comedic light on the da ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe's $5 Million Subway Dress and Debbie Reynolds' Ginormous Hollywood Auction: An Official Bidder's Insider Account

​ Debbie Reynolds held Hollywood's largest garage sale at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills on Saturday. In case you missed it on Oprah, Ms. Reynolds had one of the largest private collections of classic Hollywood memorabilia and most of it was up for grabs this weekend in front of a ... More >>

Danny Elfman Scores New Los Angeles Cirque Du Soleil Show "Iris"

Zachary Pincus-RothDanny Elfman At The Kodak Theatre Preview of Cirque du Soleil's Iris​The game at Cirque du Soleil has always been to find new and different ways to bookend the acrobats we all came here to see, and their latest strategy at their upcoming resident show at the Kodak Theatre is ... More >>

Hollywood Man Shoots 33-Year-Old Roommate Along Walk Of Fame, Barricades Himself From LAPD For Four-Hour Standoff

Hudson ApartmentsScene of the crime​Updated after the jump with LAPD confirmation: The shooter was Paul Matthew Allee, and officers were forced to subdue him with a Taser gun. Victim was 33 years old. Update, 12 p.m.: The boyfriend of another resident blogs about the shooting. He claims the s ... More >>

Andrew Meieran's New Clifton's Cafeteria: 4 Bars and an Appearance by Ray Bradbury

Caroline on CrackThe Edison's Andrew Meieran standing before Clifton's artifacts.Last year, science fiction author Ray Bradbury celebrated his 89th birthday at Clifton's Brookdale Cafeteria on 7th and Broadway, a place where he, along with sci-fi writer/memorabilia collector Forrest Ackerman, founde ... More >>

Master of the House of Playboy

Hef, still doing it his way (does he really have a choice?)

Banksy Revealed?

The Zorro of street art talks about his new film, Los Angeles and, of course, Mr. Brainwash

Music Picks: Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba, Donovan, Ana Tijoux, John Wicks

Also, Janelle Monae, Devendra Banhart, the Low Anthem and others

The Passion of SSION: Cody Critcheloe talks Ghosts, Effigies and LA Boy Toys

​ Photo by Lina Lecaro SSION's Cody Critcheloe has been hailed by everyone from Pitchfork to Vice for his multi-faceted disco-drenched artrock. Not sure it's as deep as the 'Fork cogitates (what is?) but his work is seductive, sardonic, and fervently visual. He was recently in town to show ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Eclipsed, Naked Boys Singing, Scarecrow, Underground Woman

Also, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Shining City, Gogol Project and more

Matthew Modine Can’t Save the Alpacas

Can anyone save Matthew Modine?

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

Puppet Up! Uncensored: The Monthly TV-Stage Hybrid From Brian Henson

Out-of-control freaks

WALL-E: Robots in Love

Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

Miss a week of Deadline Hollywood Daily? Here’s your fix!

Napoléon

Christian Bale and the Art of Extreme Acting

What won’t the best actor of his generation do for a role? Not much.

The Good Word

Fiction: New voices

Electric Avenues

The Edison, a thoroughly modern speakeasy

A (Really) Hard Day's Night

Gosling discusses the sexual Internet, life in L.A. and Disappearing Record Label disease

Missing the Ex-Factor

AFI remembers the past, neglects the present

Napoléon

Art School Rejects

Breakfast with Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes

Work in Progress

One architect’s never-ending search for the well-lived home and life . . . in which Josh Schweitzer explains why you should tear down your house

George Gershwin Lived Here

And Beverly Hills just let the place be torn down

For the Love of Redd

Some scenes with pianist Freddie Redd, one of the last true beboppers

Blind Spots, Indeed

Hitler, what a bastard . . . who knew?

O Pioneer!

Dorothy Arzner's all-girl universe

The New Mall

Freudian Slippers

And other artifacts from the archetypal couch

Welcome to the Nuttwerx

Around the bend and back again with Fishbone

Life Force

Jacques Heim and La Comedie Humaine

Behind the Screen at the Museum

LACMA film programmer Ian Birnie

Alternative Destinations

A guide to our advertisers

Letters

Orchestral Manuever

Salonen as dancer, Chuma as conductor, Oguri as composer

Fatuous Fascism

Benigni and Singer give Holocaust lite

They're Off!

Brace yourselves for an actual sheriff's race