Joan of Arc

The Best Concerts to See in L.A. This Week

Don't forget to check our constantly-updated Los Angeles Concert Calendar Monday, September 23 Little Boots TROUBADOUR With her sophomore LP, Nocturnes, Brit electro-popper Little Boots (Victoria Hesketh to 'er mates) has yet to recapture the critical acclaim for and commercial success of her 2009 ... More >>

Two L.A. Plays About Creative People Who Won't Compromise Their Ideals

Resurrection of the Ants and One Night in Miami, reviewed

Corey Helford Gallery's Latest Show Tries to Attract New Art Collectors

See also: *Bulbous Noses and Painted Grins: Clowns! at Corey Helford Gallery *Eric Joyner's Vintage Robots Travel to Thailand in Paintings at Corey Helford *Natalia Fabia Looks Towards Lolita Fashion and Domo in 'Fashionable Aftertaste Without End" Since 2006, Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City h ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jeff Goldblum as a Writing Teacher

Starting this week, we will now include our listings of all ongoing shows, below the new reviews, to help make it easier for you to decide which shows to see this week.The writing of neurologist Oliver Sacks has inspired a new work at Theatre @ Boston Court in Pasadena -- Kathryn Walat's Creation. S ... More >>

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Snow White and the Huntsman Review

Robert Bresson Retrospective at the Aero

Occupy, the Art Show: Ted Soqui, Our Photographer Who Did Time Cover With Shepard Fairey, Gets an Exhibit

Ted Soqui​See our previous post, "Occupy L.A. Photos by Ted Soqui, Photog Behind Shepard Fairey's TIME Art, to Show at Gallery Where Cover Protester Sarah Mason Works" Six weeks after LAPD riot cops cut short the revolution and forcibly cleared Occupy L.A. from its home on the City Hall lawn, ... More >>

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

Cap'n Jazz

Movie Reviews: Chloe, Hot Tub Time Machine, Waking Sleeping Beauty

Also Sweetgrass, West of Pluto, Vincere and more

Quentin Tarantino Serves Up Hitler's Head in Inglourious Basterds

Mr. Blood Red, Vol. 2

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 >>

Synthpop and Hi-NRG Star Stacey Q Returns with a New Album, Live Dates

SSQ "Synthicide" In the early-1980s, a group of Southern California musicians channeled their love of Kraftwerk and The Plastics into Q, a short-lived synthpop studio project that quickly morphed into SSQ. The band was a unique presence amidst LA's musical landscape, where, despite the popularity ... More >>

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 >>

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

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

Hungarian Film Festival L.A.: Don't Read My Lips

Dreadful dubbing aside, strong films shine

Greenwashed and Dyed: Nori's Eco Salon

Nontoxic hair color under the shredded-denim ceilings of a Greenopia-recommended beauty parlor

Rock Picks: Dethklok, Billy Bragg, Erykah Badu, Mr. Gnome

Also, shows by Listing Ship, Detroit Cobras and more

Theater Listings

For the week of March 14-20

Theater Reviews: Regretrosexual, 1776

Also, The Boychick Affair, Othello

Theater Reviews: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson and more

Also: Romeo's Ghost, Prove It on Me, Are You Delicious? and more

The Saint Plays

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Reviews of Paradise Lost, Bob & Ed's Discount Enlightenment Warehouse

Also this week's pick, Limonade Tous les Jours

Laser-Guided Melodies and a Boy Named George

5 Overlooked Literary Sketches of Coastal California

''Seems never to achieve his potential. Indolent.''

Re-reading report cards can be depressing

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

5 Overlooked Literary Sketches of Coastal California

Ready for Takeoff

Cineastes and Evolutionaries

Henri Langlois’ ghost, David Lebrun’s Proteus etc.

The Aesthetic of Excess

William T. Vollmann on his 3,000-page tome and the vocabulary of violence

Students Against Old Ladies

And Man vs. Beast

In Praise of Witchy Women

Spirits in the material world

Björking the Waves

Dancer in the Dark’s beautiful agony

The Golden Age of Cinema?

Noodle-Noodle Soup

The Wild, The Innocent, The Pugilistic Shuffle

Isabella Rossellini in Central Park, Don Cheadle in Louisiana, Jon Favreau in the ring

One Out of Six

Body and Soul

Life before serotonin re-uptake inhibitors and boner pills

Head Trip

The Kingdom II, more weirdness from Lars Von Trier