Humphrey Bogart

From Vampires to V-Day: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 8 Barbra Streisand's award-winning directorial debut, Yentl, returns to the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 p.m. The musical that originated "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" by composer Michel Legrand and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman follows one ... More >>

10 Haunted (Maybe) Los Angeles Restaurants and Bars for Celebrating Halloween

Masked monsters -- or actors -- may be screaming and grunting for our attention at theme park-style events around town this Halloween, but there are plenty of places in Los Angeles for a trip into the city's past. Back in the days when "trunk murders" caught the public imagination and it was easy t ... More >>

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Baseball, Bikes and Body Snatchers

Top 20 Things We Learned About L.A. from Vintage Menus

We've been big fans of Menu Design in America since it came out in autumn of 2011. It's big, beautiful and lovingly curated by Taschen editor Jim Heimann, an obsessive menu collector and self-admitted menu thief. Now that we've had time to pore over the book, which features plenty of menus from Los ... More >>

Is Musso & Frank the True Crossroads of Hollywood and Literature? Richard Schave Wants to Find Out

Simone PazRichard Schave with wife Kim Cooper at Musso & Frank​At Hollywood's Musso & Frank Grill, legend has it, giants of American literature -- Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Dorothy Parker, Nathanael West, Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain, Charles ... More >>

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

Pete Smalls Is Dead Review

Peter Dinklage's Big Break

The Dead Celebrity Cookbook: Frank DeCaro Goes from The Daily Show to Peter Falk's Pork Chops A Recipe

​Sure, there are plenty of cookbooks out there written by chefs or celebrity chefs or home cooks or people who somehow cook things for a living. But who needs kitchen experience to write a cookbook when you've been the movie critic on The Daily Show. Which is what Frank DeCaro, author of The D ... More >>

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Bad boys Sean Penn and Nicholas Ray

Five Noir Films To Remind You Why You Heart L.A.

"You seen my cat?"​ Yes, we love this place, but that doesn't mean it doesn't get exhausting explaining to everybody else what it is, exactly, that we're doing here. Particularly in summer when the fake tans, overpriced cocktails and newsboy caps worn by people who don't deliver newspapers for ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 6/6-6/10

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "And try not to slug the cop who is in the process of ticketing your car. That sort of thing is frowned upon in California." First Bite: Papaya King Brings Late-night Hot Dogging to Hollywood. "No ... More >>

Joan Luther, Longtime Restaurant Publicist, Dies at 83

In the Pleiocene epoch of restaurants in Los Angeles, before Yelp, before blogs, before even the Usenet groups, restaurant publicists were a rare and exotic breed, neither hip as music publicists nor sleekly professional as film flacks, but creatures of another era; direct descendants of the press a ... More >>

Food News Roundup: The Cheese Police, 1 Billion Anchovies Paula Deen Riding Things

-- The 15 best meatballs in New York City. [Marcus Samuelsson] -- Billions of dead fish invade Redondo's King Harbor Marina. [Daily Breeze] -- Bring Back the Poison Squad (that would be old school food-safety regulators). [Slate] -- Three Drinks Ahead, with Humphrey Bogart. [Modern Drunkard] ... More >>

Luster Fades, Fondness Lingers at Formosa Café

Flickr/stevendamron​ Now in its 76th year, this much-loved, occasionally ridiculed museum of old Hollywood has careened from glamor to self-parody and back again so many times, it's impossible for anyone--employees and patrons alike--to gauge whether the drinks are ironic or genuine. That said ... More >>

Breathless: The Dying Animal

Will the uninitiated breathe new life into Godard's 50-years-young classic?

The Sexiest Rainy Day Scene Ever

​ This morning's storm seems to have passed, but you can live through one of the greatest rainy day scenes in all of cinema tonight at UCLA. As part of their ongoing tribute to Humphrey Bogart, the UCLA Film & Television Archive is screening The Big Sleep tonight at 7:30. Before the film thru ... More >>

BOGIE AT THE BIJOU

Sabrina

Movie Reviews: This Is It, Boondock Saints II, Gentlemen Broncos, The House of the Devil

Also, The Fall, Skin and more

Michael Jackson's This Is It Premieres for the Press in Hollywood

If you're a MIcheal Jackson diehard, prepare to be thrilled -- and heartbroken yet again. This Is It, the new documentary created from film footage of Michael Jackson's rehearsals at the Staples Center and Culver Studios in advance of what was supposed to be his final 50-show run in London, provides ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Altar Boyz, the Apple Tree, Chariot, Sprung: A Love Story

Also, Stop Kiss, Billie and Bogie, God Box and more.

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pericles Redux

 THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK PERICLES REDUXPhoto courtesy of Not Man Apart ProductionsScholars have long discussed whether Shakespeare wrote  the entirety of Pericles, Prince of Tyre or collaborated with another writer. (Given the play's convoluted elements, most commentators ... More >>

Stage Raw: Mr Merkin to be a Tony Award Voter!

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSMR. MERKIN BECOMES TONY AWARD VOTER! Mr. Merkin's father, also named Mr. Merkin, ruminating upon why his son is such an idiot. His dog, Scrapper, feels exactly the same way. Our guest blogger-critic Mr. Merkin reports ... More >>

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

That's Not All, Folks: PBS Tackles The Warner Bros. Story

Brando? Check. Bogart? Check. But the American Masters segment could have used more from the studio's most successful film, The Dark Knight

Manny Farber, 1917-2008

Critic's passing leaves a Space

A New Firefighting Tool? A Canadian Company Joins the Battle to Fight Wildfires in California. President Bush Takes a Peek at the Giant of the Sky

British Columbia resident Wayne Coulson says he has the tool that will save hundreds of homes threatened by California fires annually. It is called the Martin Mars water bomber. Owned by the Canadian company, Coulson Flying Tankers, the 162,000-pound Martin Mars can drop 7,200 gallons of water and ... More >>

Casablanca on St. Valentine's Day

Play those heartstrings again, Sam

Richie Ramone does West Side Story

Golly, Moses, naturally we're punks!

Imprint

Ice Cream, Barbie . . . and Queercore

The Fast and the Curious

The joy of Talladega Nights lies in its randomness

Party Monstrosity

Don’t gimme Shelter, some in Hollywood say

In Glorious Technicolor

Three-quarters of a century on, the dye transfer epics haven’t aged a day

East Riverdance

The Michael Ritchie era opens at the Ahmanson

Hallowed Kitty

The Other Texan

Dan Rather’s Evening News exit

Have You Noticed That . . .

Putting on Your Party Best

Heat

The O.C., Camille Paglia, Thomas Hardy, Pocket Pool

Fajita pitas, Octopus Tacos, and the Birth of California Cuisine

25 moments — over 25 years — in L.A. restaurants

When Bad Is Beautiful

The uncompromising Gloria Grahame, at UCLA

Gays & Dolls

Laughing out loud in the new century

All You Need Is Weed

Tales of serendipity and Lennon

Manhattan Project

Lit Crit

Smoke House

Guns and Roses

The Women of Noir

Solo

Dating Yourself