Henry Mancini

Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry and the Band of L.A. Architects Who Changed Everything

'Confederacy of Heretics' ahow at SCI-Arc re-examines the 1979 exhibits that introduced Los Angeles architecture to the nation

The Definitive Guide to the Music of The Big Lebowski

L.A. Weekly is celebrating The Big Lebowski's 15th anniversary with a massive cover story tribute! Check out our other Lebowski-themed stories. Not doing so would be very un-Dude. The Dude's identity is strongly informed by music. As a former Metallica roadie and free love-era denizen still trying ... More >>

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Guns N' Roses - The Forum - December 21, 2011

Timothy Norris"Do you know where you are?"​See also: *Our slideshow of the concert *True Story: Axl Once Threatened To Skip A Concert, So Barry Fey Got His Gun *Tommy Stinson Interview: Guns N' Roses' Bassist Compares Axl Rose And Paul Westerberg *Top 20 Hair Metal Albums Of All Time: The Comp ... More >>

Five Revelations from the Hollywood Bowl's Trippy, Light Stick-Crazy AFI Great American Movie Quiz

Mathew Imaging"If Timothy Leary was here he'd say 'Boy did they give me some real good stuff," quipped AFI Movie Quiz host Alex Trebek about patrons' light sticks.​ There's typically a spot on the September Hollywood Bowl calendar for its revue of classical Hollywood scores, aka The Big Pictu ... More >>

Bob Dylan Turns 70

An L.A. Weekly birthday tribute

Happy Birthday, Chekhov!

Anton's Uncles and the Cherry Orchard, 150 years on

Lalo Schifrin: The Cool Maestro

On the eve of the Oscars, film's premier composer offers thoughts on the state of the art

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Arias With a Twist, La Ronde de Lunch, Love in Bloom

Also, Molly Sweeney, Equivocation, Love’s Labour’s Lost and more

Stage Raw: ZAR

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

Stage Raw: Love's Labour's Lost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW GO LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ​Photo by Amy Graves/Getty ImagesLondon's distinguished Globe Theatre lives up to its reputation with this traditional but resolutely un-stodgy production. Director D ... More >>

Better Late Than Never: Howard Hawks at LACMA

Retrospective surveys indomitable director’s final films

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Altar Boyz, Bent, Kimberly Akimbo and more

Sweet Val-en-tine (Bump, Bump Bahhh!)

What to do in Los Angeles this week

King Fuzz!

Three new Davie Allan reissues are even sweeter the second time around

Unholy Orders

Catholic damage in Almodóvar’s Bad Education, plus Conspiracy of Silence

Silver Lake 90026

Solo Sax

Plas Johnson and his eight-bar miracles

Time of the Session

When the music was fast, and the players anonymous

The Lady at the Bottom of the Groove

Experiencing Disney Hall

Little Big Things

Burt Bacharach’s elevator to the stars

Eyes Half Closed

Novelist Michael Ondaatje and film editor Walter Murch talk Coppola, Lucas and the problems that make the movies

Puffy Stuff

Sound + Vision

Music and the movies