James T. Kirk

Man of Steel: Making Sense of All That Christ and Death Stuff

Warning: This discussion is thick with spoilers

With Star Trek Into Darkness, J.J. Abrams Boldly Goes Back to Khan

Five Comedy Web Series You Need to Watch Now

Last weekend, the third L.A. Web Series Festival (a.k.a. LA Web Fest) took over the LAX Radisson Hotel, bringing a wide variety of Internet-based programming to screening rooms. I stopped by the event on Saturday afternoon and got to check out episodes from over 20 series. The annual convention ce ... More >>

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night: Henry's Ode to Winter

KCRW Broadcast #151 for Saturday, February 11, 2012 See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! I'm Not Dead Yet Fanatics! Cold much? Scandinavia has all the cold you could ever want. I am sitting in the airport in Helsinki, Finland, waiting for a flight to Frankfurt. From there we will go to Linz, Austr ... More >>

William Shatner on His New Solo Show, on Broadway and at the Pantages

Fanatics! Henry Rollins' KCRW Show Tomorrow Night:

KCRW BROADCAST #135 for Saturday, October 8 Fanatics! I am in Washington DC at the moment. Engineer X and I taped this show for you from our small studio set up. What we have here tonight is yet another great gathering of tunes that will not only make the weekend rock but will make October all the ... More >>

Charlie Sheen's Comedy Central Roast: The Fort Knox of Comedy Gold

Charlie Sheen at his roast​If you didn't know better, you'd think that Charlie Sheen spent all this time sabotaging the highest-paying gig in TV just so he'd wind up the guest of dishonor at his own roast, specifically, the Comedy Central Roast of Charlie Sheen, airing Sept. 19. For the show' ... More >>

Paul: Planet of the Aping

Too many sci-fi references, not enough Kristen Wiig

William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details

William Shatner is back in the studio working on yet another great big pile of Shat-mazing, Incredibly Strange music.  It's been over a week since Shatner first formally proclaimed Zakk Wylde's mad skills via Twitter( http://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/30113065924034560 "Best, Bill"), but o ... More >>

Orange you glad I didn't say Biennial?

Cali Bi at OCMA, plus Sean Duffy and John Paul Jones at LAM

Star Trek: The Motion Pictures

Reevaluating the Enterprise enterprise, midnights at the Royal

Top 5 Classic Sci-Fi Characters That Would Have Looked Even Cooler with Mustaches

Lando pimped the 'stache even in a galaxy far, far away​We're nearing the end of Mustache May and as people across the web compare facial hair, we couldn't help but wonder if some of our favorite, classic sci-fi characters would look even cooler with a little (or a lot) of fuzz above the lip. ... More >>

When Fandoms Collide: Nine Great Pop Culture Mash-Ups

Just because we seem to be constantly listening to music and hitting up concerts here at West Coast Sound doesn't mean that we aren't also reading comic books or taking nights off to re-watch Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. So, when our interests collide, be it in song or on the small screen, we get a lit ... More >>

Sean Duffy: Signs of Intelligent Life

Set the tricorder to temporal disruption mode, Mr. Spock

Trekkies Storm Hollywood & Highland "Star Trek: The Exhibition" for Abrams' DVD Release

Nicole CamposRod Roddenberry, posing with a key piece of Trek legacy, Captain Kirk's original uniform.​It's one thing to wait for a big DVD release, run out, grab the disc, run home and watch it on your killer entertainment system; it's quite another to watch it on the bridge of the Enterprise ... More >>

Star Trek Tribbles vs. Guinea Pigs: Side By Side Comparison of the Universe's Two Cutest Most Irritating Animals

Guinea pig photo on left courtesy of Skoop102 via Flickr​Ever notice how guinea pigs look remarkably like tribbles? Tribbles, for those unfamiliar with the Star Trek oeuvre, are small, furry animals that multiply like crazy. How do guinea pigs and tribbles match up pound for pound? 1. Physio ... 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: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

Farragut North

Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

Proud, Out and About

Fullmetal Trekkie: Voice Actor Vic Mignogna to Direct Star Trek: Phase II Episode

You probably wouldn't recognize the actor as he sits down to eat a burger at Mel's Diner, but if youYoung Vic Mignogna in Star Trek cosplay watch enough late-night TV, you might recognize Vic Mignogna's voice from many an English dub anime. The recent LA transplant has voiced characters in over 100 ... More >>

LA People 2009: Stand-in — Jon Donahue

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

Also, Crips and Bloods, Luck by Chance and the 2008 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

LA People: Wil Wheaton — Child Star, Adult Geek

Talking science fiction over drinks with the guy who calls William Shatner WFS

Put Heading Here

Concert Clubs Other Jazz Concerts Clubs Other Blues Other Country/Folk

LAFF 2008: Hell to the Yeah

I guess LAFF doesn’t want me to talk about how the premieres go, since my tickets for them have ended up being in overflow houses far away from the actual red carpet and celebrities, so if you want to know what Guillermo del Toro may or may not have said to introduce HELLBOY II, I can’t help ... More >>

Leonard Nimoy's Heavy Conversation

A man in full

ELECTION NIGHT AT PINKS

Six Inches of Soul

It's a Brand-New Year, so Let's Protest the War, and Drink Solar-Powered Beer

What to do in LA this week

Star Trek: The Tour

Captain, My Captain

William Shatner on life, love, horses and making a record with Ben Folds

To Hell With Bush

White House pushing God-vs.-Man election theme

Talk Me a River

Monologues in Pittsburgh, backbiting in Manhattan

Stuck in the middle with Neo

The Matrix Reloaded, sorta

Coming Back to Earth

The shuttle disaster and the Quiet American within

'N Scene: Lip Gloss, Cell Phones and Justin Envy

Scenes From My Life in Porn

Doug Harvey's (Non-Museum) Top 10