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The Grammy Awards, As Seen from the Staples Center Press Room

Last year we came down pretty hard on the numbskulls journalists in the press room at the Grammys, but would like to officially recant last year's unfair judgment. Specifically, for the record, this is what we said about what awaits the lucky Grammy winners backstage: ...their audience, a bunch of ... More >>

West Coast Sound: A Stroke Chokes (And Nearly Goes Broke)

Poor Little Rich Stroke: Julian Casablancas "Broke" After Ruinous LA Gigs, Glad to Be Out of Here

Soon busking for grocery money at a subway near you: "Broke" JC​Julian Casablancas recently gave an interview to New York magazine, where he bawwwwwed extensively about the lack of massive success of his recent album Phrazes for the Young. The interview is part of an absurd hand-job to profile ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

Twist and Shout

Stage Raw: ZAR

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

JiRaffe Joins the Circus (Metaphorically) With A Prix Fixe Menu

Erinn EichingerKooza Tickets​If you've been anywhere near the Santa Monica pier lately, you know the circus is in town: dominating the landscape these days is the yellow and blue striped big top that is Cirque du Soleil. The troupe is in town with their new show Kooza. Chef Raphael Lunetta ... More >>

Blood on the Dance Floor

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 >>

Disco Bloodbath: LA's Freakiest, Creepiest, Trashiest Themed Halloween Dance Parties

​The clock is ticking, and even if you don't have a (clever) costume yet, it's time to brave your social fear and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do this Halloween weekend. As far as dance dens go, pretty much everything bubbling this weekend will have a creep factor (more than usual in ... More >>

Stage Raw: Wonder of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsNEW REVIEW GO WONDER OF THE WORLD ​Photo by Ed KriegerContemporary American farce has a hero in playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who skews old-fashioned two-dimensional absurdity by surreptitiou ... More >>

Stage Raw: Comedies About the End of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsCOMEDIES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD​Poland's Theatre ZAR rehearsing Gospels of Childhood at the Barbican in London, where they performed last month. That piece is the first third of the ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

Beck Interviews Will Ferrell, Talks Cirque du Soleil, Unitards, Fusion Bands, Funny Words

​ Beck interviews Will Ferrell at Beck.com, and it's a laugh-out-loud conversation, for sure, replete with discussions about red unitards, Cirques du Soleil, cassette technology and Beck's desire to start a fusion band called Kudos. For example, this exchange, in which they talk about "The Ci ... More >>

City Council OKs Cirque du Soleil Loan

The L.A. City Council today approved a $30 million loan to ensure that Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil will appear in Hollywood's Kodak Theater for a 10-year period, according to Associated ​Press. Pending approval from the mayor and federal government, the loan will be given to developers CIM, wh ... More >>

L.A.: Where's Our Stimulus Money?

If Los Angeles was thinking Christmas in July as far as stimulus money is concerned, it's got another think coming. Today Bay Area communities from Vallejo to Hayward are celebrating the windfalls their police departments are receiving -- nearly $71 million that will, among other things, add or reta ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Cirque Berzerk, Elysium Festival, Air Guitar Championships

Summer has arrived and the circus has rolled into town. Over the weekend we caught the opening of Cirque Berzerk's bizarre big top spectacle, jammed out to "Freebird" with guys named Guitarth Vader and Hott Lixx Hulahan at the 2009 Air Guitar Championships, and took a trip into the forest for Elysiu ... More >>

Beige Beef Breeds New Rusty's Supperclub, and Lucent Dossier Experience at the Edison

N.A.S.A. lands at Cinespace for Aoki's bash

Best Place to Express Yourself and Your Biceps: Kinetic Theory Theatre

Live in L.A.: Radiohead at the Hollywood Bowl, August 24

All photos by Timothy Norris Perhaps it’s most illustrative to consider last night’s Radiohead performance at the Hollywood Bowl not as a "concert" but as a massive geometric light sculpture constructed in a natural basin, with grand musical accompaniment. Kind of like Cirque de Soleil, but de ... More >>

Reviving Dead Kennedys, Rolling Over Beethoven and Revisiting Tennessee

What to do in L.A., August 15-21

PETA's Lady in a Cage: Protesting Animal Treatment by Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus

Hold that tiger! Foot traffic pauses on Hollywood Boulevard as reporters, tourists and photographers catch a glimpse of near-naked activist in painted stripes

People. People Who Need Laughter...

What to do in L.A., May 16-22

Here Comes the Sin

The start of a spicy new year

Nagano: On the Road

Art thou not Kent?

Put Your Bra Back On!

How Cirque du Soleil made Vegas a family town

Theater Reviews: Pirates & Ninjas, A Matter of Honor

Also Inside Out, Beautiful Morning and more

Theater Reviews: Cirque du Soleil's Corteo, The Hasty Heart

Also A Doll's House, Confessions of a Catholic Child and more

Hot Enough for You

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Yellow Face, Junk, Mornings at Seven and more

The Steben Sisters

Aerials

Oops! Year-Ended Again!

Theater

Hanukkah Punks and Christmas Queens

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Let It Snow

Clown Slava Polunin’s very Russian carnival

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Elia Arce’s The Fifth Commandment, Samuel Beckett Centenary and Stephen Holman

One Love

The evolution of a swimsuit

Cirque Du Vegas Does Beatles

Be drunk. Be very drunk

Theater Reviews

Suspended Storyteller

Eric Newton

Stalin's Bride, the Twelve Chairs

Theater Reviews

Weekend Theater Reviews

Reviews of The Children's Hour, Eden and Pilgrim

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 31 - April 6

Happy Endings With The Suicide Girls

"More boobies, RIGHT NOW!" roared the crowd at the El Rey theatre as alternaporn starlets the Suicide Girls jiggled their pastied jubblies during the final show of their burlesque tour of the US. Despite recent Suicide Girl defections (the girls apparently ge ... More >>

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Riding the whirlwind in the bike lane

Triple Luxe

The Point of Being Different

The Cirque is back in town

Is That Edward Gorey in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to Seam Me?

Edited by Kateri Butler

I, Bug

On Spider-Man and Woody Allen