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Los Angeles Sugar Daddies Spend $5,448 A Month On Their Ladies?

The economy is dire. People are selling their used underwear on Craigslist. You've downgraded from DirecTV to YouTube. You buy your fresh produce from a freeway offramp! And yet Los Angeles sugar daddies are spending $5,448 a month on their chickadees? Yep. So says the latest annual sugar daddy rep ... More >>

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 >>

Mommune

Sex and the City Meets Some Like It Hot: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 15 Five days after Chinese New Year comes the first Asians on Film Festival at J.E.T. Studios, showcasing the work of up-and-coming Asian filmmakers. The red carpet begins at 6 p.m., and the winner of the Best Comedy prize, Starting From Scratch from writer-director-actor James Huang, ... More >>

Marijuana Advocates Plan Anti-Obama Protests at Presidential Campaign Offices

Mitt Romney's embrace of the Republican right wing (via his choice of running mate, Rep. Paul Ryan) would seem to have put most of the left firmly in the hands of Team Obama. Not so fast, apparently. Many in the marijuana nation are still fuming over the president's crackdown on weed dispensaries ... More >>

Eric Garcetti Is A "Rising Star" At Democratic Convention, Says Eric Garcetti

Everybody knows who the Democrats will nominate for president this week. But who will they nominate in four years, or 12? Chances are those folks are in Charlotte, and party regulars are looking for them. Away from the TV cameras, a convention can resemble an NFL scouting combine, as everyone hunts ... More >>

Sex-Change Comedy (Missing Dick), in the Latest New Theater Reviews, Plus New Works Festivals Bustin' Out

REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's, Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwri ... More >>

Google's Los Angeles Map Gets 3D, 'Flyover' Imagery For Smartphones: VIDEO

Google just unveiled 3D maps that let you virtually fly over Los Angeles and Long Beach. The cool visuals, however, aren't available for iPhone and iPad users yet; they're only good for Google's own Android system for now. According to the company, L.A. and Long Beach are among 15 American cities ... More >>

The Standing Room: A Hawaiian Lunch 
in Redondo Beach, 
Without Chairs

It seems crazy to find a line winding out the door of Catalina Liquors. But a stream of hungry humanity queues up at this nondescript Redondo Beach convenience store to score the outrageous sandwiches and Hawaiian-inspired lunch plates sold at The Standing Room within. This minuscule, seatless deli, ... More >>

Moon Over Buffalo

Identity Festival: Steve Aoki, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Chad Hugo and More - Hollywood Palladium - 9/4/11

Roselle ChenJessie And The Toy Boys​Steve Aoki, Booka Shade, Jessie and the Toy Boys, Chad Hugo Identity Festival Hollywood Palladium Sunday, September 4 See also: Identity Festival Preview: We Talk With Steve Aoki, Nervo, Figo, Jessie And The Toy Boys and Others Sunday's Identity Festival a ... More >>

Jane Anderson's The Escort and Dolores Ribakoff's Fetish

Tiny Furniture: Shame and Fortune

Family time with indie darling Lena Dunham

Theater Reviews: K2, The Train Driver

Also, Venice, On Emotion, FDR and more

Stage Raw: The Train Driver

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteNEW REVIEW GO THE TRAIN DRIVER ​ Photo by Ed Krieger South African playwright Athol Fugard's plays have dealt with the havoc wrought in his country by Apartheid, but his more recent works also often possess the feel of a ghos ... More >>

FREE MP3 and Interview with Sean Lennon's New Band Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger: "We are like two Serge Gainsbourgs"

Terry Richardson for Purple MagazineDoes this pose look familiar? (full NSFW picture below)​Sean Lennon has been collaborating with girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl on a set of "surrealistic psychedelic pop songs," which they will be unveiling under the collective project name Ghost of a Saber T ... More >>

Charlotte Gainsbourg Reveals Haunting Songs on American Television Debut

Charlotte Gainsbourg Reveals Haunting Songs on American Television Debut

Census Kick Starts In Los Angeles; New York Gets Bigger Census Rig

U.S. CensusA trailer in full bloom.​As the 2010 U.S. Census head count kicked off in Los Angeles this week, we were disappointed to learn that New York hosted a bigger traveling rig than what L.A. is getting. First New York claims it sees twice as many international tourists as the City of Ang ... More >>

Frog of the South

Disney’s song and dance about a black princess croaks

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Half Beards, Beck, and Bread Baseball in New Video "Heaven Can Wait"

Charlotte Gainsbourg, Half Beards, and Bread Baseball in New Video "Heaven Can Wait"

The Wednesday Edition: A Roundup of Today's Newspaper Food Stories

SapphireBlue22stack of newspapers​What's the country reading today food-wise? Here's a roundup of some of the food-related stories from other newspapers, many of which print their food sections on Wednesday. And remember, even if you don't actually buy papers these days (or not; this paper is ... More >>

La Vida Loca: Monsters, and Cory Kennedy's Socks

Plus, Obama socks take off big time

Making Fiends: Amy Winfrey's Animated Vendetta

Already a Web hit, Winfrey's monster series prepares to attack kid TV

Sex and the City: Big-Screen TV

Despite the labels, SATC movie is a Canal Street knockoff

How to Be Jane Austen

Cultivating your inner aristocrat

Theater Reviews: Bug, Scab, Fowl and More

Also reviews of Food for Fish and The Merry Widow

Private Fears in Public Places: Six Lives to Live

Resnais’ latest plays like a soap opera. And that’s a compliment.

Bad Charlotte

The Charlotte Church Show

Film Reviews

Backstage, Charlotte's Web, Eragon and more

Scruffy Boys' Treehouse

Rock Picks

For Sept. 28 – Oct. 5

Secrets...

Air France

CoLCoA closes with its head in the clouds

Crazy Gypsy

Family Viewing

At the movies and on TV, the changing face of American domestic life

Oil On Ice

Good Charlotte

Jefferson Mays on his ever-evolving one-man show

Carolina in my Mind

Semi-Naked Defiance

The Red Stuff

The sullied waters of Tom Wolfe’s I Am Charlotte Simmons

Pale Fire

The quiet determination of Sofia Coppola

More Than This

The road unexpectedly taken in Lost in Translation

Scarlet Fever

Johansson smolders on the edge of stardom

Sight and Sound

How the Vitaphone Corporation brought them together

Sex, Mugs and Rock & Roll

L.A. County's 10

Death-row inmates and mental retardation

Eros Bound

Secrets and lies in Merchant-Ivory’s The Golden Bowl

An Old Time in the Hot Town

Notes on the Palm Springs Film Festival

The $135 Question

L.A. Opera's Werther: Modest proportions

Boogie Nights

Breaking the fever in Whit Stillman's