H.P. Lovecraft

An H.P. Lovecraft Festival and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Sept. 27 Named after the famous American sci-fi and horror writer, the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival showcases shorts and features of the macabre, fantastical and bizarre. After a dinner at the nearby, Victorian-themed Whale & Ale at 5 p.m., the three-day fest officially kicks off at 7 p.m. ... More >>

Pacific Rim Review: Guillermo del Toro Tries to Make a Better Blockbuster

L.A. Weekly Theater Awards 2012: Greece is the Word

Blending droll wit and broad farce, sketch-comedy troupe Lost Moon Radio hosted the 33rd annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards Monday night in a taut show at Avalon in Hollywood, handing out more than 30 awards in less than two hours. The "Lawees" honor the best stage work in theaters of 99 seats or le ... More >>

Patton Oswalt Considers Downton Abbey Via Twitter: Tea, Sauce Maggie Smith

As all PBS Anglophiles know, the highly anticipated second season of Downton Alley aired last night. (6 days, X minutes to go until the next one...) Why do we care? Because we're all secret monarchists who would trade every taco truck and empanada stand in this town for a sitdown cup of tea and toas ... More >>

Gil Cates dies at 77

Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

'Re-Animator The Musical,' Now With Ravaging Rock Band Openers

Lina Lecaro Head bangers welcome at Re-Animator- The Musical. ​From Alice Cooper to GWAR to Marilyn Manson, sinister schlock and rock have always gone hand in (severed) hand. Music artists embellishing their stage show with theatrical thrills will never cease (even Lady Gaga's got monsters and ... More >>

THEATER OF BLOOD

Stuart Gordon's Re-Animator: The Musical and B. Walker Sampson's Alceste

Stage Raw: Comedy of Errors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Oedipus the Tyrant and King LearL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESNEW REVIEW GO COMEDY OF ERRORS ​Photo by Craig Schwartz A strongman, a ventriloquist, three showgirls and a mimic with 1,000 voices make up just half of the Bu ... More >>

Marilyn Monroe: Killed in Brentwood by those "big time" jerks, the Kennedys, over UFOs

​ Each Monday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets around Los Angeles. UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe Author:Donald R. Burleson, PhD Date: 2003 Publisher: Black Mesa Pres ... More >>

Theater Reviews: From Hoboken to Hollywood: A Journey Through the Great American Songbook

Also, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, When Garbo Talks!, Wicked Lit and more

H.P. Lovecraft Is the Theme for Gallery Nucleus' Latest Group Show

"At the Mountains of Madness: A Tribute to the Writings of H.P. Lovecraft" opens tonight at Gallery Nucleus, the gallery that hosted Japanese street fashion-heavy "Sweet Streets 2" last month. Tonight's reception starts at 7 p.m. and we've been told that guests should feel free to wear their Edwardi ... More >>

BORN TO BE MILD

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Schedule: Emily the Strange, Yoshitaka Amano, Buffy the Musical

Check out our Comic-Con picks for Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Sunday is Kids' Day at San Diego Comic-Con. Throughout the day, there will be lots of events for the young ones. But, if you don't have kids and you're not completely exhausted, there might be a few panels for you too. If you've been ... More >>

STAND BY YOUR DAN

Movie Reviews: The Rocker, The House Bunny, Death Race

Also, America the Beautiful, The Longshots and more

LAFF 2007, From A to Y

ArtStation 2

Nic Kelman on games’ higher aspirations

Sister From Another Planet

Remembering Octavia Butler, June 22, 1947 – February 25, 2006

Does Dr. Dolittle Talk to Zombies?

Ring of Fire

A committed vegan, the Earth Liberation Front, and the FBI

Fangs for the Memory

About a Book

Nick Hornby, ambivalent reader

The Misfits

Four killer producers on the cutting edge of independent film