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Patti Smith Talks About Her Greatest Success

By Jessica Baran Profoundly influential, incantatory songstress, poet, artist and writer Patti Smith may be best known as the Godmother of Punk. Her groundbreaking album Horses, released in 1975, has been hailed as one of the greatest rock albums of all time. Born in Chicago, she was raised in Sout ... More >>

Rolling Stones - The Echoplex - April 27, 2013

We get big bands in small venues around these parts not infrequently. Hell, Depeche Mode just played the Troubadour on Friday. But the Rolling Stones at the Echoplex? That's as good as it gets. The announcement that a small amount of tickets -- maybe 350 -- would be available yesterday at the El Rey ... More >>

5 Awesome Free Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Fans of a good laugh, Tom Sizemore and the realm of the fantastic need not break their wallets this week. Check out these free offerings that make even the dullest weekday interesting, f ... More >>

Cocktail Nerdom: Happy Birthday Washington Irving A Recipe For The Sleepy Hollow Cocktail

Today in 1873, Washington Irving was born in New York City. It was the same week the American Revolution ended, and Irving was named after the hero of the day, George Washington.

Future's "Turn On The Lights": Why This Song Is Amazing

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. However, this week we're utilizing science to explain why a song is goddamn amazing.] Song: Future's "Turn On The Lights" History: history? History? HISTORY? Don ... More >>

Claudene Christian: HMS Bounty Crew Member Was USC Grad, South Bay Local

A crew member whose body was found after the HMS Bounty sunk in hurricane Sandy off the North Carolina coast was a local woman who attended USC and co-owned a defunct Hermosa Beach bar. Claudene Christian's body was recovered by the U.S. Coast Guard yesterday afternoon after the vessel, a Hollywood ... More >>

5 Places in L.A. to See Affordable Opera

Centuries ago, opera was more affordable, not just something thought to be for the country club set when the dained to put on their long silk gloves and gold-rimmed glasses. Several companies in Los Angeles have strived to recreate this custom, but it hasn't always been easy. Ticket prices are one ... More >>

Damien Echols

Jonny Edwards: Ax in the Box

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When in character as his alter ego, Jonny Coffin, Jonny Edwards sports a black trench coat, gloves and a top hat. With his flowing dark hair, chiseled features and dramatic mak ... More >>

What Fantasy Production Would L.A. Artistic Directors Put On If They Had Unlimited Money?

Burton's Bacharach

Marilyn Manson, Slash, Evanescence - Club Nokia - 4/11/12

Revolver Golden Gods Club Nokia 4-11-12 Better than ... Any hard rock show you'd see on the Sunset Strip nowadays. Music awards shows generally suck. They are most often excuses for industry people to slap themselves on the back and perform crappy performances of songs you don't want to hear anywa ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Vincent Price Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Studio 69's "Pirates vs. Ninjas" Night Brings Out Epic Props and Partiers

Lina Lecaro Perish Dignam, Adam Lambert and Roxy Contin rrrrrrock matey.​Studio 69 definitely knows how to throw a theme party. The hedonistic underground happening meshes fetishy fashion, art, music and performance in the boldest, most bodacious and imaginative way. We're talking huge, wild p ... More >>

Tim Burton's Top 5 Lady Badasses

​ Sure, Tim Burton's reigning muse might be Helena Bonham Carter, but what about the director's less-lauded heroines? Prepare for the Tim Burton exhibition opening up at the LACMA this weekend (May 29-Oct. 31) by reacquainting yourself with these great Burton female leads of the past.

Tim Burton at LACMA: Burbank Goth Boy Makes Good

LACMA.org​Overheard last night at the members' preview of the Tim Burton Retrospective at LACMA: (Two women are gazing upwards at the rear end of a pedestal-high display of Edward Scissorhands' buckled, tight-fitting black leather costume.) Woman #1: Ahh, Johnny Depp. Sexy even without a ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

HOW DARK IS YOUR LOVE?

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

Top 10 Killer (Literally) Food Films

Did watching Julie & Julie make you want to kill yourself? Or someone else? Or perhaps you've heard that your preoccupation with eating, your appetite for amuse-bouche, your thirst for terroir--the sort of things that would drive you to see such a film in the first place--might be symptomatic of a n ... More >>

Nightranger's Coachella Check-list: Desert Dos and Don'ts

Ready and rarin' to go for Coachella? If you packed days ago, drove up Wednesday or Thursday morning and didn't over do it at the parties last night, then you probably are. Goodie for you. But those of us preparing to battle Friday traffic in hopes of getting there before sunset tonight, well, we mi ... More >>

Brittany Murphy, the Japanese Sideways and a Psychedelic Hospital at the Japan Film Festival 2010

The Ramen Girl (C) Digitalsite Corp./Media 8 Entertainment. Ramen Girl​ Shrinking from ten days to two, eighteen feature films to nine, and migrating east from last year's Santa Monica location to the New Beverly Cinema, the 2010 Japan Film Festival offered large crowds a taste of the past y ... More >>

Strange Fascination

Archival footage is the real draw of this doc about the Doors

Movie Reviews: Liverpool, Dreamkiller, Brooklyn's Finest, Alice in Wonderland

THE LAND OF GIANTS: PMK-HBH AND BNC

A new Hollywood PR merger and best-ever box office

Top 10 Food Movies: Eat, Drink, Watch

Whether it's dinner and a movie or popcorn to munch on during the previews, your stomach is often tied to the cinematic experience. From the comic relief of Robin Williams cooking dinner dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire to Meg Ryan moaning over apple pie in When Harry met Sally, food can shape the story (J ... More >>

Disney Expo Channels Peter Pan

Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die: A Look Back at Terry Gilliam's Most Memorable Characters

Heath Ledger in The Imaginarium of Doctor ParnassusIt's a journey through a magic mirror where the lead character in the film changes form not because the original script dictated it, but because the actor sadly passed away in the midst of filming. The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus isn't just a fa ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Candlelight for 200 Several hundred same-sex marriage supporters backing the overturn of Proposition 8 held a rainy vigil in downtown L.A. on the eve of state supreme court hearings on the measure's constitutionality. L.A. TimesD.A. to Decide on Chris Brown The District Attorney's office might decid ... More >>

10 Uniquely Noteworthy Posthumous Performances on Film

Glow, Baby, Glow!

What to do in L.A., July 18-24

Hootenanny '08, Oak Canyon Ranch, Orange County, 7/5/2008

Hootenanny featuring Grant Lee Phillips, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, Royal Crown Revue, Chris Shiflett, James Intveld and Russell Scott and his Red Hots. Also Tiger Army, Mike Ness and Glen Glenn Is there anything more quintessentially SoCal than the 50s love of the pyschobilly scene on a hot ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Gonzo, Tell No One, The Wackness

Also, Diminished Capacity and Holding Trevor

Missing Hollywood

What's great (and not-so-great) about our old hood

What I'll Miss About Hollywood

And so begins LA Weekly's last day in Hollywood. Sunny, 72 degrees... 12 minute commute. As of Monday LA Weekly will be run out of offices nestled into the on-ramp of the 405 on the outskirts of Culver City with convenient access to the only store left in America that still sells Murphy Beds. Her ... More >>

Burton and Depp Give New Blood to Movie Musicals

Meat is murder

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings

What to do in Los Angeles this week

I Know What You Did Last Summer, Again

What Hollywood should learn, but probably won’t, from the tent-pole season

Jodie Foster: Chaos Control

With a controversial new vigilante movie, Jodie Foster takes the driver’s seat

Film Reviews

Incuding Salaam-e-Ishq, Epic Movie, and Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington Anymore?

Running With Scissorhands

Matthew Bourne’s very odd man out

Thinking Inside the Small Box

On the List

Nightlife by the numbers

Breakfast with Tiffany

Burning Bright

Simon Field and the Tigers of Rotterdam

The Dwarf Got Dissed

Why this year’s Oscars suck more than usual

Not Fade Away

Oasis, three bridges shy

This Boy's Life

Actor Tobey Maguire

Pleasure Pits on Parade

A romp through L.A.'s rock, blues and country clubs