A homeless man was stabbed to death on Canada's birthday, July 1, as he was waiting in line for food on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Vista Del Mar Street in Hollywood. View Larger Map The victim, a male African American in his 40s, apparently got into a verbal altercation with a Hispanic ... More >>
Sunny War In this week's print edition, LA Weekly presents an introduction to singer and guitarist Sunny War, who maybe you've seen busking at Venice Beach or at the Sunday morning Hollywood Farmer's Market. War, who draws on country blues and folk music to create her uniquely American sound, is yo ... More >>
Queer Town has noticed a number of comments, on this blog and others, where people are assuming how things went down on July 12 at the Outfest panel titled "Taking It to the Street: LGBT Directors Get Political," where openly gay, Emmy-winning director Todd Holland said he advises young, gay actors ... More >>
You could maybe see the writing on the walls as far back as last year, when the Knitting Factory, located in the heart of Hollywood just down from the intersection of Hollywood and Highland, was dealing with occupancy issues. The neighborhood wanted them out, were unhappy with the direction the club ... More >>
Police are searching for whoever stabbed a homeless man in Hollywood on July 18. View Larger Map The killing of Frederic Lombardo occurred about 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night near 6174 Santa Monica Boulevard. There is no word yet on who killed the 45-year-old transient. Anyone with information abou ... More >>
Police are searching for whoever stabbed a homeless man in Hollywood on July 18. View Larger Map The killing of Frederic Lombardo occurred about 10:50 p.m. on Saturday night near 6174 Santa Monica Boulevard. There is no word yet on who killed the 45-year-old transient. Anyone with information abou ... More >>
Two distant critics on two radically different takes on L.A. offered by Hollywood. The comments below are on, respectively, the Kevin Spacey film Shrink and HBO's Entourage series. The truth, no doubt, lies somewhere in between. Somewhere.Jihan Abdalla/Roadside Attractions "Like smog settling o ... More >>
The L.A. City Council today approved a $30 million loan to ensure that Montreal-based Cirque du Soleil will appear in Hollywood's Kodak Theater for a 10-year period, according to Associated Press. Pending approval from the mayor and federal government, the loan will be given to developers CIM, wh ... More >>
Photo Credit: Rhett MaxwellYou can say "No" to movie theater food and prescription comediesShould you be operating under the assumption that "Julie & Julia" is the only destination for lovers of food and film this weekend, we would like to remind you that you live in Los Angeles, where, for q ... More >>
Los Angeles police arrested a 54-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing to death two homeless men in Hollywood on August 6. Another victim was seriously wounded and is recovering in the hospital. View Larger Map The three knife attacks occurred within hours of each other on Thursday afternoon ... More >>
Los Angeles police arrested a 54-year-old man suspected of fatally stabbing to death two homeless men in Hollywood on August 6. Another victim was seriously wounded and is recovering in the hospital. View Larger Map The three knife attacks occurred within hours of each other on Thursday afternoon ... More >>
The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on Hair, at the Chance TheatrePEE WEE FOREVER?Photo by Greg GormanNot quite "forever," but Stage Raw just learned that The Pee Wee Herman Show, originally slated for Nov. 8 - 29 at the ... More >>
Photo credit: Jessica RitzIf you can stand to schlep additional weight in the summer heat, then bring extra bags for the good deals to be found on bound volumes this Sunday at the Hollywood Farmers' Market. The Culinary Historians of Southern California sponsors its thirteenth annual used coo ... More >>
Now in the final stretch of summer, each weekend we scramble to take in as many decadent hotel pool parties and outdoor film screenings as possible before the long days and warm nights end and we're forced back indoors to get our drink on at crummy dive bars. This weekend we went Swimming with Shark ... More >>
The latest NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, this week's STAGE FEATURE on improvised musicalsBOBRAUSCHENBERGAMERICA, AND THEATER IN PUBLIC SCHOOLSPhoto by Josh HeislerTheatricians Theater Group -- a new company consisting of mostly university students and ... More >>
The LATEST NEW REVIEWS are embedded in this week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso, see the current STAGE FEATURE on Adeline's Play at the PowerhouseECLIPSED in rehearsalBahni Turpin and Miriam F. Glover in rehearsals for the West Coast premiere of Danai Guria's Eclipsed, playing September 13 ... More >>
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Disney attend Mary Poppins premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater.Steve Young, Hollywood Citizen-News/LAPL
Last November, we covered Ruin Hollywood and the resurgence of LA's goth scene. Six months later, the Friday night party, which actually took place in Koreatown at Wilshire Blvd. haunt Monte Cristo, drew its final breath. But nothing goth is truly dead and it looks like Ruin Hollywood might be risin ... More >>
These days it seems like no matter where you live in Southern California, there's a farmers' market or two nearby offering fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies. Yet while farmers' markets in Los Angeles have a long history, (Third and Fairfax passed the 75 year mark earlier this summer) the Garde ... More >>
These days it seems like no matter where you live in Southern California, there's a farmers' market or two nearby offering fresh, locally grown fruits and veggies. Yet while farmers' markets in Los Angeles have a long history, (Third and Fairfax passed the 75 year mark earlier this summer) the Garde ... More >>
Quentin Tarantino's new Inglourious Basterds has been getting lots of critical hooha for its soundtrack and use of music. Nothing new there. But you may not know that a lot of the stuff on the soundtrack is music by legendary Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. The composer is best known for his ... More >>
Gendy AlimurungThe entertainment business is toughEarlier this morning while driving I heard a radio advertisement actually refer to the Vampire Diaries as "the TV show the Internet is buzzing about." Really. It's positioning like this that underscores how crucial it is to master what industry anal ... More >>
Saturday, the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound celebrates its 10 years with a day-long series of experiments and sonic art pieces by Dublab and L.A.'s finest alchemists of sound.
If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>
If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>
If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>
If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>
If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>
If movies can be said to subliminally express the hubris or anxieties of their makers' times, then movie posters are the films' more obvious mirrors of those feelings. For three months the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will feature an exhibit devoted to this overlooked art form. "Ar ... More >>
This just in: Flaming Lips are doing a MySpace show at the Nike Theater in Hollywood on Thursday, October 15: To celebrate the release of their new studio album Embryonic, The Flaming Lips, one of the world's most influential rock bands, will be playing a MySpace Music Secret Show in Hollywood, CA ... More >>
It's a gorgeous high school just off the 101 Freeway, lauded a few years ago by school officials as the new face of once-rundown Hollywood and named after Los Angeles education reformer Helen Bernstein.But earlier today a girl was shot and seriously wounded when she got in the crossfire of street ga ... More >>
Last week it was hard to avoid the saga of "Balloon Boy," 6-year-old Falcon Heene, who was believed to have been aboard his family's homemade weather balloon as it drifted above Colorado but who was later found safe at home. The sheriff in Larimer County, Colorado, where the Heenes live, called the ... More >>
The clock is ticking, and even if you don't have a (clever) costume yet, it's time to brave your social fear and figure out what the Hell you're gonna do this Halloween weekend. As far as dance dens go, pretty much everything bubbling this weekend will have a creep factor (more than usual in ... More >>
The deep, rich, dynamic box set Where the Action Is! LA Nuggets 1965-1968, which compiles 101 urgent rock songs from Los Angeles, has been out for a little less than two months, which for most releases is the lifespan of the so-called "marketing campaign." But Action! is a little different. It's a s ... More >>
The deep, rich, dynamic box set Where the Action Is! LA Nuggets 1965-1968, which compiles 101 urgent rock songs from Los Angeles, has been out for a little less than two months, which for most releases is the lifespan of the so-called "marketing campaign." But Action! is a little different. It's a s ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83ALL CAKE, NO FILE Photo by Jonathan KalanDonna Jo Thorndale's Johnny Cash tribute with live cooking, All Cake, No File, continues this weekend as part of the WTF? Festival at the Actors' Gang/Ivy Substation in ... More >>
High on the list of traditional activities during economic hard times has always been watching movies--and hitting the bars. This town is, happily, very good for both. But it's really no fun to toast the movements of the Dow with a $15 martini, so save a penny at one of Los Angeles' many watering ho ... More >>
Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>
Twenty years ago, Hollywood's David Hasselhoff stood on the Berlin Wall wearing a stylish jacket-o'-lights and a scarf depicting a keyboard, looked at Communism straight into its ruddy face, and sang to it thusly: "One morning in June some twenty years ago, I was born a rich man's son. I had everyt ... More >>
If you attended any of the fantastic shows the Hollywood Bowl programmed this past summer, you probably noticed the very large crowds gathered at the gift shop afterwards practically getting in fisticuffs over the limited number of concert posters available. The reason? The Bowl commissioned some ou ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>
In one of those only-in-L.A. factoids, we're amused to report that one of the places the Motion Picture and Theatrical Trade Teamsters say is difficult to access for location shoots is the iconic, industry-marking Hollywood sign. Yes folks, only in L.A. could Hollywood have a hard time filmi ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. Photo by Stefan OkolowiczThis riveting production from Poland's TR Warszawa theater troupe, presented as part of the UCLA Live Eighth International Theater Festival, is ada ... More >>
GIna CloverAnd she bakes too!If there's one thing Hollywood is full of, it's stereotypes. But dig a little deeper and you'll find that the people here aren't always as they appear: the hipster dreams of being a fireman; the town's most revered bartender just wants some time alone with his bi ... More >>
GIna CloverAnd she bakes too!If there's one thing Hollywood is full of, it's stereotypes. But dig a little deeper and you'll find that the people here aren't always as they appear: the hipster dreams of being a fireman; the town's most revered bartender just wants some time alone with his bi ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersHAMLET SHUT UP! Photo by Diane Meyer Jonas Oppenheim's silent version of Hamlet continues this weekend at Sacred Fools Theatre Check back Monday afternoon for revie ... More >>
COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the TigersHAMLET SHUT UP! Photo by Diane Meyer Jonas Oppenheim's silent version of Hamlet continues this weekend at Sacred Fools Theatre Check back Monday afternoon for revie ... More >>
Fans of Tender Greens who live in Hollywood soon won't have to drive over to Culver City or West Hollywood or San Diego--or anywhere else, for that matter--for their eco-friendly salads and plates of grilled Niman Ranch flatiron steak. Tender Greens is opening their fourth--and largest--location at ... More >>
On Thursday morning, L.A.'s Planning Commission will consider a controversial development project that could drastically change a charming, old-style neighborhood, permanently alter historic buildings and add tons of traffic to an already congested Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood.Jack BalingitHollywoo ... More >>
