Golden Gate Bridge

When Art Meets Therapy

R.I.P., Ray Harryhausen, Master of the Handmade Fantasy

Tony Scott's Vincent Thomas Bridge Suicide Inspires Barrier Legislation

Citing Director Tony Scott's fatal dive off the Vincent Thomas Bridge in San Pedro last summer, a California legislator is proposing that new and rebuilt state bridges contain "suicide barriers." San Francisco state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano says it's too easy to jump off bridges like the Vincent Tho ... More >>

The Miracle That Is 
A Charlie Brown Christmas

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] If you look outside while reading this, the odds are that it's sunny and mild. You might see green and red lights and tinseled pine trees glowing through ... More >>

Kam Redlawsk's Bizarre Disease, Ignored by Big Pharma, is Targeted by her Bicycling Pals and an Encino Lab

By Andra Lim The odds never stood in Kam Redlawsk's favor. Redlawsk, 34, is one in a million people affected by a genetic disorder that has wasted and weakened her muscles, to the point where she now uses a wheelchair. And because the condition -- hereditary inclusion body myopathy -- is so rare ... More >>

Jeb Corliss Video Captures Gnarly Base Jumping Crash at South Africa's Table Mountain

Jeb Corliss, the insane Venice base jumper who calls himself "fearless," lived up to that adjective this week when he told ABC News that he will "jump again" following a caught-on-video (after the jump) accident in South Africa that left his leg bones in pieces. He's expected to get out of the hosp ... More >>

Ethan Gold's Art and Tragedy

Silver Lake singer-songwriter faces down the darkness, with only his music to see him through

Benson Goes Ape

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Every Day's a Birthday with Ace Young

Anger and resentment on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills seem to follow the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Only transferred. Case in point: Taylor arrived at Lisa's tea party fuming at her. Two years of stomaching insults from the sarcastic ... More >>

Bay Arabesque

Rise of the Planet of the Apes: Simian Disobedience

The making of a monkey activist

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law

Theater Reviews: Friends Like These, The Crossing, Peace, Somebody’s Somebody

Also, F*ucking Men, The Kingdom Come, The Golden Gays and more

Weathermen’s Ticking Time Bomb

The investigation into a cop killing in the ’70s leads to a Chicago law professor involved in the early stages of Barack Obama’s political career

The Crossing

Stage Raw: Baby It's You

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUTHE LATEST NEW REVIEWSBABY IT'S YOUThe jukebox musical that's been playing since the spring at the Coast Playhouse, will be the final entry in the Pasadena P ... More >>

Stage Raw: August: Osage County

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current NEW REVIEWS and this week's STAGE FEATURE on The Night Is a Child at the Pasadena Playhouse, and Not to Be, at ZJUNEW REVIEW GO AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY ​Photo by Robert SafersteinTracy Lett's 2007 Great American Family Drama, or so we'd believe from ... More >>

Hustler After Dark: Flynt Building to Turn Off Lights Saturday

Rome's Colosseum. Sydney's Opera House. San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. And now Beverly Hills' Flynt Publications Building. What these august monuments to the human spirit have in common is that, along with the Las Vegas Strip, they will all turn off their lights tomorrow during Earth Hour. Thos ... More >>

Last Night: Comedy Is Dead featuring Sarah Silverman @ Hollywood Forever

Comedy in a cemetery. A novel concept, inspired, even; what's going to stand any chance of waking the dead more than a really good joke?  Kind of gives "rolling in his grave" a whole new meaning.  One problem - where do you put the spot?  Not a problem at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, w ... More >>

Riverside's Castle Park: Southern California's Minigolf Mecca

Splendor in the "grass" among pagodas, minarets and mine shafts

Brownout Is the New Black

L.A.’s bid to copy Sydney feels like a humiliating replay of Millennium Eve

Film Reviews

Life Not Quite Imitating Art

What the prez could learn from his West Wing addiction

Rock Monsters

Sleater-Kinney’s The Woods takes Northwest indie back to its stoner roots

Kissing Up to Arnold

A blatant picture of influence peddling in the Governor’s Office

Welcome to L.A. — Now Get Out!

Sandow's Inferno

Out of L.A. and into the fire

Off

Beloved Infidels

Chicken-Hearted

The hatching of memory

Less Than or Equal To Another Vacation

Field of Wet Dreams

Build it and they will cum

Arrows of Desire

When life is gay

Beats Chocolate

The matter of Mr. Mesfin’s Mercedes

Cruising for Zombies

A review of local arcade diversions