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Today in Photographs: June 13, 1977
Fifty-five hundred people assemble at Hollywood High School before marching through Hollywood to protest possible anti-gay legislation sparked by singer Anita Bryant.LA Times/UCLA
June 13, 2009Hollywood Jobs to Be CGI'd to Mumbai
It seems like only yesterday that the Times of London was ballyhooing the outsourcing of New Line CinemaOscar-winning special effects winner The Golden CompassHollywood special-effects projects to India. "Post-production movie work," the Times reported in May, 2008, "is steadily migrating from traditional centers such as L.A. to low-cost locations on the sub-continent." At that time, Mumbai special effects operations owned by L.A.-based Rhythm and Hues had run up an impressive six-year tra
June 18, 2009Murder was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 136, Hollywood Teen Gunned Down at Bus Stop
News is slowly trickling in about the shooting death of a Hollywood teen on June 19. View Larger Map According to preliminary police reports, Gabriel Banos Arcos, 17, was shot as he was waiting at a bus stop with friends in the 6200 block of Santa Monica Boulevard near Vine Street. The shooter walked up to him and shot him for no apparent reason at 1:30 p.m. The shooter was described as a male Hispanic with a shaved head, around 5 feet 9, between the ages of 16 to 18, and wearing a blue o
June 23, 2009Rock Picks: Electric Daisy Carnival, Explosion in the Sky, Rodriguez
June 25, 2009Sergio Mendes, Eddie Palmieri and Poncho Sanchez at the Hollywood Bowl
July 2, 2009Biting Beeyatches
July 2, 2009Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 142: Homeless Man Stabbed to Death in Hollywood
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 male suspect. The fight escalated and the victim was stabbed several times in the chest. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died. The suspect is in custody. No word yet on the identities of t
July 2, 2009Meet Sunny War: A Country Blues Singer Who Transcends Time
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 young, is smart, also plays in a Smell band called the Anus Kings, and just signed both a publishing deal and a sponsorship deal. (Gotta love LA). Writer Michael Simmons, who profiled her for this wee
July 16, 2009Queer Town: Blow-by-Blow Details of Todd Holland's Remark at Outfest
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 to "stay in the closet." We'd like to clear things up.Openly gay director Todd HollandWe attended the panel at Theater 2 of the Directors Guild of America building on Sunset Boulevard in Los Ang
July 17, 2009Knitting Factory Hollywood Closing Its Doors
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 had taken, and moved to shutter the doors. At that point the club knew it only had another year on its lease, and even then had a notion that when the lease was up they might get the boot. Scott Sch
July 20, 2009Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 165, Homeless Man Found Stabbed in Hollywood
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 about the stabbing should contact Hollywood detectives at (213) 972-2910.
July 21, 2009Todd Holland's Advice to Play it Straight
July 23, 2009A Tale of Two L.A.s
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 over Los Angeles, a creeping sense of anomie haunts the Hollywood power players and parasites sidling nervously through "Shrink," a portrait of a disenchanted therapist to the stars and his clientele."
July 24, 2009City Council OKs Cirque du Soleil Loan
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, which owns the Hollywood and Highland shopping complex and which leases the Kodak from the city. CIM, AP says, "has pledged with its partners to create at least 850 jobs in exchange for the loan."The L.
August 4, 2009What To Do This Weekend: There Are Alternatives to Stale Popcorn and Cinema
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 quality film and cuisine--and both simultaneously--there are always myriad options. Here's a short list of this weekend's alternatives to stale popcorn and cinema: At 9 p.m. this Saturday, Bulgarini i
August 7, 2009Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 190 and 191, Two Homeless Men Killed in Knifing Attack in Hollywood
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 along a busy stretch of Hollywood and Sunset boulevards and Argyle Avenue. Ironically, the crimes occurred just hours after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Bill Bratton held a press conferen
August 7, 2009Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 190 and 191, Two Homeless Men Killed in Knifing Attack in Hollywood
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 along a busy stretch of Hollywood and Sunset boulevards and Argyle Avenue. Ironically, the crimes occurred just hours after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and LAPD Chief Bill Bratton held a press conferen
August 7, 2009Stage Raw: Pee Wee Forever?
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 Music Box @ The Fonda is now selling tickets through December 20th, due to overwhelming pre-sale. The show was born in 1981 at The Groundlings (reportedly after Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee, was snub
August 14, 2009Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Cook: Culinary Historians' Used Cookbook Sale at the Hollywood Farmers Market Sunday
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 cookbook sale, which benefits the Culinary Collections at the Los Angeles Public Library. Arrive early for the best browsing, selection, and inspiration. An extra Hollywood market FYI via SEE-LA regard
August 14, 2009Over the Weekend: Burning Man Meets Hollywood, Mustache Circus, Shaun of the Dead Outdoor Screening, Swimming with Sharks Pool Party
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 Sharks at a hotel pool party, ate blood-spattered brain cupcakes at Hollywood Outdoor Cinema's Shaun of the Dead parking lot screening, previewed The Wandering Marionettes' new monthly party coming this fa
August 17, 2009Stage Raw: bobrauschenbergamerica
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 recent grads from U.C. Santa Barbara -- joins Woodland Hills' Class Act Musical Children's Theatre for benefit performances of Charles Mee's bobraushenbergamerica August 7-9 and 14-16 (Fridays and Sa
July 31, 2009Stage Raw: West
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 to October 18 at the Kirk Douglas Theater. Guria's story of women caught in the crossfire of Liberia's Civil War premiered at the Woolly Mammoth Theater in Washington, D.C. Photo by Craig Schwartz WES
August 21, 2009Today in Photographs: August 27, 1964
Mr. and Mrs. Walt Disney attend Mary Poppins premiere at Grauman's Chinese Theater.Steve Young, Hollywood Citizen-News/LAPL
August 27, 2009Is Ruin Hollywood Making a Comeback?
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 rising from the clubland graveyard. Liz OhanesianRuin Hollywood The club, which is noted for mixing genre standards from Marc and the Mambas and Coil with newer material from artists like Bat for
August 27, 2009Celebrate 30 Years of L.A. Farmers' Markets at City Hall This Thursday
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 Gardena Farmers' market, the precursor to all of the community farmers' markets that we know and love, celebrates its 30th anniversary with a special event at 10 AM this Thursday at City Hall. Summer ston
August 31, 2009CIM Group: Hollywood's Richest Slumlord
September 3, 2009Ennio Morricone to Make Los Angeles Debut (Finally!) at the Hollywood Bowl
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 spaghetti western scores for Sergio Leone, but has created one of the most respected bodies of work in the history of the medium. Oddly, for someone so entrenched in the film world, Morricone, 80,
September 10, 2009You're Late to the Game, Hollywood: A Social Network for Zombies? Movie Promotion '09 Style
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 analyst Chris Brogan refers to as "tomorrow's radios," a.k.a "Internet buzz" (barf). At this point you'd be hard pressed to find a company that hasn't attempted social media campaigns and Hollywood is beh
September 10, 2009Society for the Activation of Social Space Through Art and Sound 10 Year Anniversary
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.
September 11, 2009Movie Poster Children
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. "Art of the Movie Poster" covers 38 posters from the 1950s through the 1980s, displaying not only one-sheet lobby art work for such works as Paths of Glory, The Great Escape, The Group and In the Heat of
September 16, 2009It Came From Cinecon
September 17, 2009Cry Me a Reverb
September 24, 2009BEST WHERE'S JOHNNY
October 1, 2009The Secret Lives of Queer Leading Men
October 8, 2009WELCOME TO TINSELTOMB
October 8, 2009Flaming Lips to Play Free Secret Show at Nike Theater
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, on Thursday, October 15 for their MySpace friends and fans. Tickets for the event will be made available on a first-come, first-served basis at the opening of The Flaming Lips Pop-Up Store at The Ni
October 12, 2009Girl Shot at New Helen Bernstein High School in Hollywood
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 gangs who still control much of the new, supposedly improved Hollywood.The cops did not identify the street gangs that might be involved, and Los Angeles Unified School District spokeswoman Ellen Morgan
October 13, 2009The Balloon Has Burst: Papa Heene Is A Former Convict
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 whole thing a publicity-seeking hoax on the part of the Hollywood-enamored parents, and he declared that charges would be filed against the mom and dad.Larimer County Sheriff's DepartmentLarimer Count
October 19, 2009Disco Bloodbath: LA's Freakiest, Creepiest, Trashiest Themed Halloween Dance Parties
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 Hollywood!). Here, an expansive if somewhat selective list of terrorific options for everyone -from g(ravers), dragsters and glamsters to time-warpers, blood suckers, and of course, boo!-balicious ba
October 28, 2009Sunday at the Egyptian: LA Nuggets Hosts a Film Screening of 1960s Rock Footage
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 slow burn, one of those collections that grows on you as songs you previously ignored pop up on shuffle or arrive at the perfect moment and transform themselves into essentials. The smart people at Rhi
October 31, 2009SUPER-FREAKY PICK OF THE WEEK!
November 5, 2009Stage Raw: All Cake, No File
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 Culver CityCheck back here on on Monday for New Reviews of that show, plus Robert Rinow's Detention of the Dead, presented by Katselas Theatre Company at the Beverly Hills Playhouse; Emperor Norton t
November 6, 2009Top 10 Happy Hours: Penny Pinching Drinking
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 holes and head for a happy hour. No longer set for just the stereotypical end of the business day crowd, LA bars and restaurants offer happy hours at various times, with specials on drinks, entertainmen
November 9, 2009Germany Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Historic Impromptu Hasselhoff Concert
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 everything that money could buy, but freedom--I had none. I've been lookin' for freedom I've been lookin' so long I've been lookin' for freedom Still the search goes on I've been lookin' for freedom Since
November 9, 2009MAKE US LAUGH, FUNNY BOY!
November 12, 2009RSVP ASAP!: Fantastic Hollywood Bowl Poster Art Opening @ the Arclight Tonight
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 outstanding graphic and fine artists to create these visual souvenirs to appearances by Aretha Franklin, Liza Minelli, Grace Jones (it was a diva-ful schedule, for sure) et al. Tonight at 7 at the Arcl
November 17, 2009Stage Raw: Impacted Wednesday
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 Grzegorz Jarzyna's staging of Pasolini's 1968 film, Teoremat) plays as part of UCLA's international theater festival at the Ralph Freud Playhouse; meanwhile at REDCAT downtown, there's the West Coast
November 18, 2009Hollywood Sign Not So Accessible ... To Hollywood Film Crews
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 filming "Hollywood." Other sore spots: the AT&T Building downtown, County-USC Medical Center, Farmers and Merchants Bank downtown, the Griffith Park Observatory, the Japanese Heritage Museum in Little Toky
November 19, 2009Stage Raw: Pasolini on Stage
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 adapted from Pier Paulo Pasolini's 1968 movie Teorema. A typical suburban upper-class family's pleasant, if complacent daily lives are interrupted by an unexpected telegram warning that someone is "arriv
November 20, 2009Your Server's Other Job: Hostess, Cocktail Waitress, Box Girl, Scribe
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 bike. In this installment of Your Server's Other Job, we visit with Gina Clover who, in addition to working the door at The Varnish, lies in her skivvies inside a glass box at The Standard in Hollywoo
November 20, 2009
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