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Zina Bethune, Famed Dancer, Theater Founder, Killed in Possible Hit-and-Run After Stopping to Help Injured Animal

Cops today were looking for the driver of a white car who might have fled after hitting Hollywood dance legend Zina Bethune near Griffith Park, leaving her for dead. Bethune, who was born Zina Feeley, is the founder of Theatre Bethune in L.A. She danced with the New York City Ballet under George Ba ... More >>

Q A With Eva's Gabriella Mlynarczyk: On Leaving NYC Cocktail Life For L.A. The Coastal Mixology Differences

GMlynarczykGabriella Flaming An Orange Peel​What does a former New York City mixologist think of life on the L.A. cocktail circuit? Gabriella Mlynarczyk, now at Eva after nearly 15 years on the New York scene (most recently, she was behind the now-closed Manhattan speakeasy Woodson and Ford), ... More >>

Dennis Coffey's Show Was Canceled; Who Cares? He's Still Amazing

Doug Coombe​By Craig D. Lindsey Detroit soul/funk guitarist Dennis Coffey was supposed to do a show at the Troubadour this week. Unfortunately, it was canceled. But considering how fascinating the man is, we decided to profile him anyway. After all, Coffey brought a new form of funk to Motow ... More >>

Winning the Future: Car Thieves Prefer Domestic Makes for First Time Since 2002

​President Obama should be damn proud of the 2010 car-theft report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau, craftily titled "Hot Wheels": Nationally--and for the first time since 2002--thieves preferred domestic makes over foreign brands. Ford took three spots, Dodge two and Chevrolet held o ... More >>

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Drive-By Paintball Gang Launches Yellow 'Shooting Spree' on Unsuspecting Pedestrians in Burbank

Creative NerdsPaintballs to the face in Burbank​The neighborhood hooligans must have been getting restless out in Burbank last week. In a span of two days, they launched a whopping 11 paintball-gun attacks on innocent sidewalk people in the Hillside and Valley areas of the suburban city [Burba ... More >>

Crowds Got Way Too Close To Racers In Lucern Valley Off-Road Tragedy

Dave Conklin / Associated Press​Authorities said there were few limits on how close crowds could be as off-road racers zoomed by at Saturday's deadly California 200 race that saw eight spectators perish when a prerunner-type Ford Ranger truck flipped into the audience. " ... There are no deli ... More >>

Nightranger: Bringing Sounds to the Sea

Top 10 'Green Cars' Announced: Which One Is Your Roadside Status Symbol?

Number one.​Remember when Escalades, Navigators and Hummers were all the rage? Dubs (20-inch-plus wheels), loud exhaust and bass music, right? Doesn't that seem like a million years ago? Today to be a true player in L.A., more modest hybrids are the status symbols to have. Kelly Blue Book on ... More >>

Brick’s Picks: Notes of Summer

New Location of Pancho's Tacos Opens In Culver City

If you grew up in Santa Monica, you've probably eaten at Pancho's Tacos. It originally opened in 1977, in a small strip mall on the corner of Pico Lincoln and Ocean Park, where it pleased locals and their kids, who scarfed down tacos and burritos, sipped Orange Bang and pumped quarters into the Ms. ... More >>

Auto Design Discussion

Les Paul, 1915-2009

W.C. Fields on the legendary innovator: “The music you’re making sounds like an octopus. Like a guy with a million hands”

Eat What Bourdain Just Ate: Cioppino and Offal, Burgers and Beer

Sometimes the hardest things to find are those closest to you. In this week's No Reservations, Bourdain and the crew were in San Fransisco, eating all kinds of local specialties that you won't come across easily in Los Angeles. Sure, he also went to a great farmer's market, ate good-looking tacos fr ... More >>

Car Talk: An Interpretation of Honks

Years ago a car company -- I believe it was Ford -- announced plans to build some kind of lighted message strip above the rear bumper of some of its cars. The idea, as I recall, was for drivers to be able to punch in pre-set messages from the dashboard that would appear for drivers following the For ... More >>

Do-Gooder Dining Agenda: AltaMed at Union Station, Concern Block Party, Dine Out for the Cure, Saban Extravaganza at Fox

With Sacramento still in its maddening political deadlock, some friendly intra-Golden State showing off feels quite refreshing in contrast.

Stage Raw: Actors and Chickens and Bears, Oh My!

THE WEEKEND'S NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSCo-hosts Vanessa Claire Smith and Jake Broder at the 20th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night. Photo by Tim NorrisTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSCo-hosts Jake Broder and Vanessa Claire Smith wer ... More >>

Sticker Shock Treatment: Fake Governor to Pay Real Sales Tax

At the stroke of midnight Angelenos will get hit by a double dose of sales-tax increases that will bring our county's up to 9.75 percent -- tying us with Alameda County for having the state's highest countywide tax. (Some individual cities, such as Pico Rivera and South Gate, will be even higher -- ... More >>

Stage Raw: Tartuffed

TARTUFFED A culturally provocative misunderstanding occurred over the weekend during a preview performance of Josh Chamber's "re-envisioned" Tartuffe, opening on Saturday at Theatre @ Boston Court. I'd arranged for a group of university students from Cal State, where I teach a world theater c ... More >>

Stage Raw: Mystic

MYSTIC"A visceral theatrical experience exploring the mystery of human origin, the evolution of consciousness and galactic destiny." All this includes performers from Rabbit in the Moon, Blue Man Group, Lucent Dossier, Mixology and Mass Ensemble.The dance performance happens Thursday through Sunday, ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. Stage Alliance Approaches L.A. Weekly

L.A. Stage Alliance Approaches L.A. Weekly over job cut News of L.A. Weekly's elimination of its Theatre Editor staff position, which I held until Wednesday -- as well as that of film critic Ella Taylor -- spread across the city last Friday, in a swirl of arts staff layoffs that also included Th ... More >>

Stage Raw: The Biggest Thank You Ever Given

The Biggest Thank You Ever Given I'm thunderstruck and deeply moved by the outpouring and quality of your appreciations to me in your emails and in the comments to Friday's posting on the elimination of the L.A. Weekly's Theater Editor position. What a privilege: to read all that, to have served ... More >>

Movie Reviews: An American Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Flash of Genius

Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more

Election '08: Beyond The Palin

As I was talking to the editor of the LA Weekly this morning about Sarah Palin, I said that I hoped the American people were smart enough to see through this bit of Karl Rove-ian evil genius. Just as I said it, a Ford van, jacked up to monster truck proportions, powered by a 345 horsepower V-8, went ... More >>

Studebaker near Staples

Here's a little relic that won't be around long. It's been 42 years since a Studebaker rolled off the line. Yet, almost right across the street from the convention center - and just a block or two from the Staples Center -is this old ghost ad on the side of a building which still seems to function s ... More >>

Harper by Oldham

Charley Harper: An Illustrated Life

Godmothersand Spicy Meatballs

Four classic delis

All I Want for Christmas Is a New Music Industry

Y'all Don't Come Back

Country music, aerospace manufacturing and the white working class leave town

6 Highs and Lows of American Automobilia

6 Highs and Lows of American Automobilia

Spinal Fusion

Ford bastardizes Spinal Tap and MySpace.com to sell cars; public is uncertain

I’ve Got You Under My Skin

Remembering the stinging lungs of an L.A. boyhood

The Siren’s Song

A Hollywood landmark comes under fire

The Capital of Car Design

L.A. is, once again, where the action is

Valhalla on a Tank of Gas

From the Red Car to the Hummer

An automotive timeline

Hummer Bummer

Going for a test drive the day after explosions rip through a dealership

What Would Satan Drive?

Then and Now

Iraq through the lens of Vietnam

Letters

Out of Gas

Auto industry cancels plans to kill anti-global-warming bill at ballot box

Black to the Future

Juan Atkins on the vision thing

The Big Blowup

A mom’s guide to dumping Firestone tires

Tilt, Roll Over, Play Dead

Remix: Utopian Vision vs. American Dream

One hundred years of architecture at the Geffen Contemporary

Tough Driving

SUV owners: Park it — right now, before I hurt you

Bad News

L.A.'s Low-Definition TV Journalism

Rocket Reducer

Wayne Kramer on the MC5

Moving Violations

Art cars don't kill people. They just annoy them.