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Lamb of God - The Palladium - 10/31/12

Lamb of God with In Flames, Hatebreed and Sylosis Hollywood Palladium 10/31/12 Better than... a candy sack full of strychnine-soaked raisins wrapped in razor-blades. See also: *More photos from the show *Top 20 L.A. Metal Albums *Randy Blythe, Ahead of His Manslaughter Trial, Talks About Losing a ... More >>

How's That "Millennium of Aftermath" Going?

See also: *Here Are Pictures of Dr. Dre's New $13 Million House *The Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2012 Thus Far It was November of 1999 and we were on the cusp of the millennium when Dr. Dre famously proclaimed that the next one thousand years would be "the millennium of Aftermath," on the song "Forgot A ... More >>

Reviews of The Leopard and Don't Hug Me, I'm Pregnant, and more . . .

​John Leguizamo opened his one-man show, "Ghetto Klown" on Sunday. See review later this week, along with the extended feature on Bayside High School Musical, at Victory Theatre Center -- one of two new local productions now playing based on popular TV series.(I Love Lucy, Live on Stage opened at ... More >>

Ana Tijoux and Zuzuka Poderosa - Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park - 8/11/11

Giovanni SolisAna Tijoux​WHO: Ana Tijoux with Zuzuka Poderosa WHERE: Levitt Pavilion at MacArthur Park WHEN: 8/11/11 Better than ...the ol' boys club The lady rappers who owned MacArthur Park's outdoor stage last night popped thick, multilingual rhymes at the mic -- all the while, we must po ... More >>

Eve Babitz at the Hammer Museum: Former L.A. Wild Child's Top 5 Memories of the 1960s Art Scene

Courtesy of Julian Wasser and Craig Krull GalleryJulian Wasser's famous picture of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz​ Last Wednesday night, two gossips met at the Hammer Museum to do what they do best. But this time, they were on stage, in front of an audience of over a hundred peop ... More >>

Punk Singer Steve Ignorant (Finally) Brings Crass to America: Interview

photo by Damon Allen DavisonSteve Ignorant and band​ Crass, the commune-living, hippie anarchist punks whose DIY way of recording and promoting had as much an impact on the genre as their brand of boot-in-your face hardcore, disbanded more than 25 years ago, having never toured the U.S. beyond ... More >>

Nicki Minaj vs. Lil Kim (And Five More Potential Combatants) (NSFW for Beef)

Nicki Minaj recently set the record for female rapper with the most singles on the Billboard Charts at once; her single "Your Love" hit number one this summer, making her the first female rapper with a number one single since Lil Kim's "Jump Off" in 2003. The Queen Bee was not amused, accusing M ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

Music Picks: BB King and Buddy Guy, Silversun Pickups, Hard Summer, W.A.C.O.

Also Lady Gaga, Frazey Ford, Whispertown 2000, Ludacris and others

Stage Raw: UCLA Live Drops Theater Programming

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON SHAHEED and THE ARSONISTSUCLA LIVE DROPS ITS INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL After more than a decade of the region's premier international theater programming, that has brought to UCLA's stages choral theater from Poland to ... More >>

How to Blow Your Career and Alienate Your Family, featuring Scott Storch

Illustration by Jason Seiler​Our sibling publication Miami New Times just published a long article about hip hop/pop producer (and LA resident) Scott Storch. Writer Gus Garcia-Roberts tried to interview Storch for this account of the spiral into drug-addiction and debt that destroyed his once- ... 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 >>

Theater Reviews: A Lie of the Mind, Mercy Warren’s Tea, Molly, Extinction

Also, Chatsworth, Grace Kim & the Spiders From Mars, Post, and more

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

Stage Raw: Violators Will Be Violated

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersNEW REVIEW GO VIOLATORS WILL BE VIOLATED ​Photo courtesy of Circle X Theatre CompanyCasey Smith's solo mime-show (he does scream a lot, but there are almost no deciph ... More >>

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 >>

Rock Picks: Amy Millan, Dirty Projectors, Chip Taylor, LA 101

Also, Pixies, Justice, the Happy Hollows and others

Theater Reviews: Altar Boyz, the Apple Tree, Chariot, Sprung: A Love Story

Also, Stop Kiss, Billie and Bogie, God Box and more.

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pericles Redux

 THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK PERICLES REDUXPhoto courtesy of Not Man Apart ProductionsScholars have long discussed whether Shakespeare wrote  the entirety of Pericles, Prince of Tyre or collaborated with another writer. (Given the play's convoluted elements, most commentators ... More >>

Rock Picks: Daedelus, Peanut Butter Wolf, Femi Kuti, Isis

Also, The Choke, Nouvelle Vague, Wilco, Sunset Rubdown and others

Sex, Lies and Videotape

All at once, if that’s how you like it: What to do June 12-18

Theater Listings

For the week of Jan. 18-24

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Concerts Clubs Other Rock & Pop Concerts Clubs Other Country & Folk

Naked Magicians and Funny Liberals

Wonder Twin Powers, Activate!

A scientific study of the two-piece indie-rock boom

So Alive

With their debut, the Living Things pose the question: Is the world ready for political glitter?

State of the Art ’05

A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn

The Psychic Hipster’s Pop 10

Woman vs. Machine

As persona overtakes person, Love, Angel, Music, Baby shows Gwen Stefani still drives her own ambition

Lies and the Dirty Liars Who Tell Them

Mike Ovitz takes the stand

The Life of the Party

Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

How to Survive a Depression Without Really Crying

Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth

Utter Non Sense

Decoding Boyd Rice

She Had To Stay

Exene Cervenka and Original Sinners, burning in L.A.

A Wintry Discontent

New York's global warning

Wise Blood

Letters

Giant Steps

Anatomy of a dance superclub

Head Trips

The new film from the director of Eve’s Bayou

Letters

Black Film Now

Dancing for the DNC

Things to do in L.A. when you’re delegating (or not)

Phantoms of the Opera

Darkness Audible

An interview with Me'Shell Ndegéocello

Groove Robbers

Summer of Spike

On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas

Hot Nice Lunch Forever

Black Like Who?

Notes on black film and the career of F. Gary Gray