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Five Dance Shows to See This Week, Including Balanchine's "Rubies"

This week's dance events include Los Angeles Ballet with Balanchine Festival Red, visitors from Canada, and a last chance to meet Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre at the Oasis. See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Thing ... More >>

Tug-O-War Severs Two Student's Fingers at South El Monte High School: Nylon Rope May be Cause of Terrible Maiming Trend

On Monday, two students at South El Monte High School tragically lost their fingers during a game of tug-o-war for Spirit Week homecoming celebrations. An unidentified male football player and senior female soccer player are today at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center, where doctors are trying to ... More >>

Sound Nightclub Opens In Hollywood Tonight With Sander Kleinenberg

Sure, there's no shortage of EDM clubs and nights in Hollywood these days (Avalon, Vanguard, Playhouse, Supper Club, Dim Mak Studios, ... ). But, considering that ours is a celebrity-focused and rockist scene, it's quite a treat when a venue owner comes along and decides to open a space 100 percent ... More >>

Stanley Kubrick Exhibit at LACMA: Our Review

Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project Debuts at Disney Hall: Our Review

See also: *Our profile of Benjamin Millepied *Benjamin Millepied Danced Through MOCA's Galleries Last Night At last, after 10 months of anticipation, here we were in Disney Hall Saturday night, for the premiere of Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project, a "curatorial collective" with inaugural fun ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! German Metal 
Festival Time

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] Since I last wrote you, I have been living in hotels, hitting festival stages and spending a l ... More >>

MOCA Crisis: What Do Younger Artists and Curators Think?

See also: *Marina Abramovic Speaks Out About the MOCA Gala *Dennis Hopper at MOCA: Double Trouble *Mike D of the Beastie Boys on Curating His New Show at MOCA *Street Art at MOCA The crisis at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, which exploded with the ouster of longtime chief curator Paul Sch ... More >>

Shaman in a Felt Fedora

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Malibu in 3-D

This week's list includes an awkward, bearded voyeur in West Hollywood, a picture of a white horse in a Chinatown basement and stereoscopic images of made-up archeology in Crenshaw. 5. Underground Malibu in 3-D The name "Malibu" comes from "Humaliwo," a word the Chumash Native American people used ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Ode to Winter

KCRW Broadcast #151 for Saturday, February 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet Fanatics! Cold much? Scandinavia has all the cold you could ever want. I am sitting in the airport in Helsinki, Finland, waiting for a flight to Frankfurt. From there we will go to Linz, Austr ... More >>

Moguai: Deadmau5's Associate Leads a Big Beat Comeback

Veteran DJ Moguai was born Andre Tegeler; he's been playing parties and putting out music since the mid-'90s. Jams like "U Know Why" (2002) picked up on the Big Beat sound popularized by artists like Fatboy Slim, while 2007's "Freaks" is a guitar-inflected electro track. He's even got his own label, ... More >>

Stravinsky vs. Schoenberg: Who Was More Gangsta?

[Editor's note: Deathmatch pairs two artists who have something in common, and determines who is better. It's a concept we sort-of ripped off from MTV, except that instead of claymation it's the printed word!] Towering classical music geniuses Igor Stravinsky and Arnold Schoenberg were pitted again ... More >>

Harry Burkhart, Alleged L.A. Arsonist, Suspected of Burning Down German Home in October

L.A. arson fire suspect Harry Burkhart might have had some previous experience sparking blazes, at least according to allegations made public in the German media today. The German network PNN says authorities in that country suspect that Burkhart burned down his family's home in the town of Schwalm ... More >>

Harry Burkhart's Mother Dorothee Linked to Erotic Massage Business: Alleged L.A. Arsonist Reportedly Upset Over Her Possible Extradition

Updated at the bottom with allegations that the mom committed fraud as a member of a gang. Really. First posted at 2:08 p.m. The mother of L.A. serial arson suspect Harry Burkhart has been linked to a massage services website and to online advertisements for "body rub" services. A woman with the ... More >>

AFI Film Festival 2011: Melancholia

Dunst is the heir apparent to Louise Brooks

Young Goethe in Love Review

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH THEM

California's $43 Billion Bullet Train Will Go To ... Bakersfield?

A bullet train, German-style.​The Weekly's Jill Stewart noted this week that California's planned high-speed rail line's "route to nowhere" now has a route to ... somewhere -- but not here, or San Francisco, or San Diego, or pretty much anywhere a vast majority of California's population resid ... More >>

L.A. Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann, (1924-2010)

Obituary: LA Philharmonic's Ernest Fleischmann (1924-2010)

​[Ernest Fleischmann, the former head of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, died last Sunday at 85.] "The U.S. is the only country in the world today where the fortunes of most symphony orchestras depend on the generosity, the wisdom, the enthusiasm, indeed the musical tastes and policies of banke ... More >>

Bringing Zappa's "The Yellow Shark" to the Ojai Festival Stage: An Interview with Ensemble Modern's Uwe Dierksen

​The 2010 Ojai Music Festival (June 10-13) spotlights the music and legacy of Frank Zappa, with panel discussions and performances of his music. The Friday-night concert on June 11 pairs Zappa pieces from the albums Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions and The Yellow Shark with Density and Oct ... More >>

When Zappa Met Schoenberg: An Interview with Ojai Festival Programmer George Benjamin

This Sexy Katy Perry Bikini Photo wants you to read a great interview about the Ojai Festival of contemporary music!​The 64th Ojai Music Festival takes place June 10-13. A four-day series of concerts, symposia and auxiliary events set amid the tranquil oaks of Ojai Valley (also known as Califo ... More >>

Schoenberg and Zappa in Shangri-La

Ojai Festival curator George Benjamin on programming for adventurous ears

Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

Theater Reviews: The Unexpected Man, Influence, Old Glory, Dreamgirls

Also, Control Me/Parents Who Love Too Much, Don Juan Dispenso and more

The Unexpected Man

It Can't Happen Here (Again)

Saul Friedlander receives a peace prize at the Frankfurt Book Fair

Where To Eat Now

Film Reviews

Including G.I. Jesus, Smokin' Aces and Verdict on Auschwitz

Where To Eat Now

Kill Them All. Kill Them All!

Music and video games: an endless, wretched love affair

Rooms With a View

How Am I Not Myself

Welcome to AFI Fest 2005 — all of them

Aprés View

The Revolutionary: Ludovic Lefebvre at Bastide

Joe Pytka's restaurant under Lefebvre has all the bells and whistles you’d expect in a Michelin-starred French restaurant, and then some

Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America

Hecho Wherever

Heavy Petting

Tracy Nakayama’s sex from a woman’s perspective

David and Golgotha

Curb your Enthusiasm and the pain of being rich, white, and living in West L.A.

The Adams Family

When Brian Met Gertrud

Heiner Goebbels on Hashirigaki, and more

Germany’s Trial Balloon

Anti-Semitism for political gain and profit

Timeless and Timely

Dieties of the Big Bang

Ghetto Star

'Monster' Kody Scott and the Culture of Ornament

Forever Fabulous

Happy hours with Royce and Marilyn

Letters

Return of the Native

David Robertson's excellent new-music adventure

A Trivial Traviata

My Own Private Nuremberg

C.P. Taylor looks at the evil of banality