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Theatre to See in L.A. This Week, Including Broadway's Scottsboro Boys at the Ahmanson

Kander & Ebb's musical The Scottsboro Boys, a Broadway-import minstrel show about Jim Crow, rolled into the Ahmanson and grabbed this week's pick. Good notices also for Zayd Dohrn's immigration saga Long Way Go Down at the Art of Acting Studio, and for the silly Aussie import Priscilla Queen of ... More >>

Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical Is Stuck in 1993

"I'm not a stalker," trills Annie (Chandra Lee Schwartz) in Sleepless in Seattle: The Musical, after she's flown across the country to stand outside the houseboat of widowed father Sam (Tim Martin Gleason), whom she's never met. Debatable. But to cut down on the creep factor, Jeff Arch, Ben Toth and ... More >>

Wilshire Grand Los Angeles, Tallest Skyscraper on West Coast at 1,100 Feet, Will Have a Wicked Sky Lobby for Views Across the City

By Hillel Aron Secret designs were just released of the Wilshire Grand, a 73-story, 1,100-foot-tall hotel/office tower/retail/phallic image that will be the tallest skyscraper on the West Coast and in Los Angeles, pushing out Library Tower (officially, U.S. Bank Tower) as the 10th-tallest building ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

Kong: A Goddamn Thirty-Foot Gorilla

The Pain and Glory of Competitive Stair-Climbing

See also: *10 Best Ways to Get in Shape in L.A. *10 Best Workouts in L.A. for People Who Hate Working Out Competitive stair-climbing, its devotees like to say, is the hardest sport that no one's ever heard of. That there is such a thing as an elite stair-climber probably comes as a surprise to an ... More >>

James Beard 2012 Award Winners

The James Beard awards are the food equivalent of the Oscars: prestigious golden whatsits, fancy dress event, silly acceptance speeches, requisite grouching about the whole thing being rigged. Oh, yes, and lots of highly talented people getting much-deserved recognition. This year's awards ceremony ... More >>

Top 5 Accidentally Patriotic Things to Do in L.A. July 4 Weekend

Screenshot taken from Ghostbusters​ Everyone knows that L.A. isn't the 'real' America. It's full of communist liberals who have no faith in the great American nation. However, have no fear -- if you're planning on going to that show at the Echo on July 4 and skipping out on the fireworks, you ... More >>

Top 10 Metal Shows in LA in 2010 (with Bonus Video Evidence!)

Timothy NorrisThe 2010 LA Weekly poster children for LA Metal posing at Sunset Strip Music Festival​ "THE" 10 best LA Metal shows of the year? How dare we? Alright--we're gonna go there. It wasn't easy but after a few hours rummaging through the desk drawer that finds my old drunkenly discard ... More >>

We Are the Mods, The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead

Also, Inception, Predators, Kisses

HOW ALTER IS YOUR KOCKER?

Q & A With Wolfgang Puck, Part 2: Spago (The Musical), Life in an Austrian Kitchen The Joys of HSN

In yesterday's first part of our interview with Wolfgang Puck, the chef talked about his new downtown restaurant WP24 and gave us a little backstory of Ma Maison, Spago and the invention of his famous pizza. Speaking of pizza, turns out that Puck decided to detour, mid-interview and en route to the ... More >>

Architecture Exhibit

The $850,000 Crosswalk, a.k.a. the Island of Dr. LaBonge

Your Los Angeles City Council at work

Confessions of an Aspiring Kept Man: Is That a Cucumber in Your Shopping Cart?

It's not easy trying to be cougar bait

Classical Pick: Bipolar Opposites

Southwest Chamber Music does Bach and Cage

Survival of the Fiercest

Natural History music; art vandals; bashes worth crashing

Bipolar Opposites

Rock Picks: John Fogerty, Band of Horses, Eek-a-Mouse, Gram Rabbit

For the week of November 23 - 29

Brigham Young at Heart

Steven Fales’ Mormon memoir

Send a Salami...

The Return of the Kong

Bigger isn’t always better in Jackson’s remake

King Kong's Monkey Love

Intimacy on the primate family tree

The Gorilla Inside Me

Preparations for the return to Skull Island

The Joy of Painting Saddam

John Kilduff and Let’s Paint TV

Summer Songs

Music for changing seasons and future days

Meeting Al-Jazeera

The new documentary Control Room shows the way Arabs and Americans look at the same events and see two entirely different things

University of Fear

How the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a big man on campus

Extremities

The video passions of Bill Viola

Hollywood Moment: Monstrous, Magnificent Spall

World to New York: Move On

The Tao of Andy

Warhol at MOCA

London Calling

The American Embassy, plus Andy Richter and Bernie Mac

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

The City So Nice They Named It Twice

Lessons From Israel

Open Doors

SCI-Arc rediscovers itself — and the city — downtown

Why I Drive a Hate Crime

Going down the road feeling bad . . .

New York, New York

Actoids, lockdowns and double rainbows

Work the Dream

Home, the world and Eleni Mandell

Landmarks

Please Pass This Notice On

Netlore is fast replacing urban legends in limning 21st-century angst

Spun City

The big documentary, plus Kane redux

Mallywood

Can David Malmuth’s “urban destination entertainment center” save the Boulevard?

Heel!

Yanking Matthew Margolis' chain

Stuff of Obsession

Rediscovering Yayoi Kusama