Gertrude Stein

Organic Food Is Not Better for You, Study Finds

People who purchase organic food because they think it is more nutritious just got handed their heads of lettuce on a platter by Stanford University scientists. In a recent study, the researchers found that not only is organic food not better for you, it is not even any less prone to bacterial conta ... More >>

Poor Dog Group: Anti-Theater

2012 Best Picture Nominees: Performed by L.A. Bars and Restaurants

Playing host and home to the Academy Awards, this town vibrates with excitement (Editor's note: Or something, depending on your thoughts re 9/11 and Hawaiian shirts, Harvey Weinstein and whether or not you, too, wanted a refund after seeing The Artist, as did some folks in Liverpool) by the end of F ... More >>

Midnight in Paris vs. The Moderns

Alan Rudolph did Paris in the 20s over 20 years before Woody Allen

'Stop SB 48' Fails to Gather Enough Signatures for Repeal of California Gay History Law

Gore Vidal​"Stop SB 48," the group that sought to repeal a state law that allows California students to learn about important people in history who were gay, has officially announced that it has not gathered enough signatures from registered voters to place an initiative on the 2012 ballot. ... More >>

'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know About Gertrude Stein?

​​Carl Van VechtenWriter and art collector Gertrude Stein​​​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have always contributed to advances in many different societies. One such person is Gertrude Stein, influential writer and art collector who grew up for a period of her life in Oa ... More >>

Cookbook Review: Plum Gorgeous (Apricots, Cherries And Pomegranates, Too)

​If you're having a stone fruit moment -- daylight Blenheim apricot cravings, sleepless cherry clafoutis nights -- Oakland-based writer Romney "Nani" Steele has two words for you: Plum Gorgeous. The soon-to-be-released cookbook follows Steele's My Nepenthe: Bohemian Tales of Food, Family, an ... More >>

Alice and Gertrude: Inseparable Angeleno Geese

Amit ItelmanAlice and Gertrude, right, have already made friends in their new home.​ The two white geese, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, were carried down from the house by Allie, the 16-year-old daughter of an animal rescuer up in Laurel Canyon. The mother-and-daughter team scours county an ... More >>

Woody Allen Interview

The Midnight in Paris director on the dangers of "Golden Age" thinking, "that thing with Mia" and his latest film

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards

Stage Raw: L.A. Weekly Awards Report

THEATER NEW REVIEWS WILL BE POSTED BY 8 P.M.Stage FEATURE on L.A. theater's moment of truth this coming summerStage FEATURE on Norm Foster's The Motor Trade, and Thornton Wilder's Our TownTheater Awards Slide-Show by Timothy NorrisMONDAY NIGHT AT THE EL REY​Ash Panda rocks the house. Photo by Timo ... More >>

Stage Raw: Gertrude, Alice, and David Mamet

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Edward Antony's Wish I Had a Sylvia PlathL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEES                          &n ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Star is Hatched

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESA STAR IS HATCHED​Meet Gertrude Stein (right), and her girlfriend, Alice B. Toklas. Gertrude and Alice were rescued from extermination at an an ... More >>

The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Nominees

Year of the inner child

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Theater New Reviews: Ballroom With a Twist, Cologne, Cyclops: A Rock Opera

Also, Room Service, Traces and more

Stage Raw: Room Service

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE ​ Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I mean, actors -- have run up a $1200 bill at a posh hotel in 1930s Manhattan, and their producer Gor ... More >>

Stage Raw: LAWEES on the horizon

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLAWEES ON THE HORIZON ​The 32nd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards are coming to the El Rey on April 4. Nominees will be announced mid-February. The LAWEES, focusing on work presented ... More >>

Stage Raw: Fairy Tale Theatre: 18 & Over

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSPUZZLER​Padraic Duffy's noir drama of East German Spies opens this weekend at Sacred Fools Theater Company. Photo by C.M. GonzalezFAIRY TALE THEATRE: 18 & OVERJ. Michael Feldman's ... More >>

L.A. Theater in 2010

Thanks for the memories

Stage Raw: Rock With You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEW (see below)STAGE FEATURE on Cormac McCarthy's The Sunset LimitedNEW REVIEW GO  ROCK WITH YOU: THE KING OF POP, LATIN STYLE For those of us brought up to giggle at Michael Jackson's foibles, from his holding his son over a balcony by his arms t ... More >>

Brewsie and Willie

Stage Raw: Bedroom Farce

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALNEW REVIEW GO  BEDROOM FARCE ​Photo by Ron Sossi The title is apt, since the action occurs in three radically different bedrooms in a 1975 English suburb. Kate (blond and taffy-voiced Kate Hollinshead) an ... More >>

Stage Raw: Brewsie & Willie

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON LINDA PURL'S FESTIVALBREWSIE AND WILLIE ​Poor Dog Group's adaptation of Gertrude Stein's novella, is among the productions being reviewed this week. Photo by Scott Grolier Check back here on Monday night for reviews of THE BAKER'S ... More >>

Sergio Mendes, Eddie Palmieri and Poncho Sanchez at the Hollywood Bowl

The Little Dog Laughed

Evidence Rooms

Glenn Ligon at Regen II, “The ­Seventies Revisited” at dnj

Theater

The Los Angeles Reader

Mark Sarvas

Three Strikes on Carmen

Feeling in the Dark

The uncontrollable energies of Z’ev

Boys of Bad Music

Thirteen Operas in 12 Days

Exiting the System

On foot among the waterfalls of the Temescal Loop Trail

The Adams Family

When Brian Met Gertrud

Heiner Goebbels on Hashirigaki, and more

A Loss of Originality

Less Is More?

The Eighth Annual Common Ground Theater Festival

There Is a Heppy Book

Finding Room in the New Century

Director Anne Bogart on taking up space

12 Art Moments

London Calling

A sampling from the city’s stages

Beyond Sugarplum Fairies

Lula Washington, ODC/S.F., Mark Morris and more

Holiday Trimmings

Vallance, McCarthy, Besemer, Ott, Calabrese, more

Consume Part II:

[Mostly] Not Food

Moss Gathering

Watch on the Rhone

What did you do during the Occupation?