Kodak Theatre

Hollywood's Urban Cleansing

12,878 mostly Latinos are pushed out by City Hall, high rents and hipsters

Minnesota Artist Bill Mack Has Original Hollywood Sign, Plans to Take the 'H' on Tour

Thank god for nostalgic Hollywood fanboys in the Upper Midwest! As the Associated Press revealed last Wednesday, if it weren't for Minnesota artist and memorabilia hoarder Bill Mack, the original "Hollywoodland" sign, erected in 1923 and replaced in 1978, might have ended up a pile of scrap metal in ... More >>

Top Chef Tour: Richard Blais vs. Fabio Viviani at Hollywood & Highland

If Richard Blais has any rug burn on its face, it's from hanging out with Fabio Viviani for the last few days. "The kisses are getting longer," Blais joked. "It's the stubble that bothers me." The two have spent yesterday and today going head-to-head on the Top Chef Tour -- a mini version of the Br ... More >>

Sacha Baron Cohen Vs. Ryan Seacrest and the Academy: The 'Dictator' Emerges Victorious

In the battle of egos between Sacha Baron Cohen and the Oscars last night, we have a very clear winner. Originally, Cohen was banned from debuting his Dictator character (the star of his next mockumentary) at the awards show, reportedly because humorless Academy fogies suspected he was trying to pu ... More >>

Massive LAPD Security Detail at Oscars Included Bomb-Squad Robot, Forklift

The Academy Awards in the heart of Hollywood make the perfect target for a terrorist. (Or an Occupier.) They're the ultimate symbol of Western culture, celebrating billion-dollar blockbusters and caught up in a media frenzy of nip slips/gown slits. Of this, the LAPD is well aware. Thus the massive ... More >>

Oscars Street Closures: Where in Hollywood to Avoid This Week (Unless You're Brad Pitt)

Obama traffic got nothin' on Oscars traffic. When the president breezes through town for some big Hollywood campaign cash, we get stuck on Wilshire or Santa Monica for a little longer than normal. Grumble grumble, etc. (And he's graciously got a tax-paid helicopter to take some of the pressure off ... More >>

Jack Sparrow Gets Worst of It From Catwoman as Characters Fight on Hollywood Boulevard

Clarification at the bottom. There's no stopping the costumed characters of Hollywood Boulevard. After the LAPD tried to ban them from the area near Highland Avenue, they sued and won: Freedom of speech. And now they're free to kick the shit out of each other once more. The surly, salty folks who ... More >>

Cirque du Soleil's Ovo: How to make costumes that look like bugs

Rolling Stone Restaurant: Beer and Loathing in the Hollywood and Highland Center

Away from street performers dressed as sort of sexy cops and cardboard Transformers, the new Rolling Stone Restaurant faces the California Pizza Kitchen on the upper floors of the Hollywood and Highland Center. In front of the restaurant, tourists mosey around, mouths open, cameras out, photographin ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil's Gymnasts and Dancers on Their Work and Lives In L.A.

Iris

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Oktoberfest, Taste of Taiwan, GOOD Food Festival, KCRW Pie Contest, Pig Parts and Beer

Guzzle & NoshIt's always a party when you bring out the pig's head.​ Farid Zadi's 2nd annual couscous festival, originally scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled (of cous, it was) as the chef is in the process of opening his first restaurant, but you can still head out to Arcadia for the Greek F ... More >>

Taste of Taiwan: Free Food Festival This Weekend

Flickr user roboppy​ The Taiwan Tourist Bureau will hold the inaugural Taste of Taiwan, a free food and cultural event, at Hollywood's Kodak Theater this Saturday and Sunday, September 17 and 18. The Mighty Boba Truck and The Dim Sum Truck will prepare a menu of popular Taiwanese snack foods to ma ... More >>

Bomb Scare Outside Kodak Theater in Hollywood: Cops Investigate Truck Carrying Barrels

Rajiv Patel​Update: The area was deemed safe at 12:50 p.m., police tell us. An LAPD bomb squad was checking out a pickup truck parked in front of the Kodak Theater near Hollywood Boulevard and Highland Avenue in Hollywood today. Suspicions about the truck, which apparently has barrels in its ... More >>

Eddie Murphy's 10 Comedy Bits To Avoid as Oscar Host

Flicker/wereswanEddie Murphy's head is about to get bigger as the upcoming Oscar host.​ What a wild idea: Eddie Murphy as Oscar host. On the bright side, it's a relief from James Franco and Anne Hathaway, whose chemistry last February rivaled that of a sasquatch and Kathie Lee Gifford. For t ... More >>

Toothless Arizona Boycott

Los Angeles Bus Cuts: MTA Axes 305,000 More Hours of Service, Stranding Low-Income Workers in L.A. Outskirts

Beverly PressThe 757, from Hollywood through Koreatown, will no longer run on weekends.​About every six months, we receive a deja-vous press release from the Bus Riders Union, furious at the Metropolitan Transit Authority for a new wave of massive cuts to the decrepit L.A. bus system. The cut ... More >>

Danny Elfman Scores New Los Angeles Cirque Du Soleil Show "Iris"

Zachary Pincus-RothDanny Elfman At The Kodak Theatre Preview of Cirque du Soleil's Iris​The game at Cirque du Soleil has always been to find new and different ways to bookend the acrobats we all came here to see, and their latest strategy at their upcoming resident show at the Kodak Theatre is ... More >>

Cirque Du Soleil Costumes

James Franco, Anne Hathaway To Host Oscars?

Movie WebAnne Hathaway and James Franco are rumored to be cast together in a future "Alien" prequel​Access Hollywood and USA Today -- followed by everyone else, now, in a game of scrambly Hollywood telephone -- are reporting that dashing youngsters James Franco and Anne Hathaway have been chos ... More >>

FOURTH UPDATE Exclusive: Antonio Villaraigosa free tickets are worth $50,000 to $100,000. Full list here of 80 free events; corruption laws ignored

By Tibby Rothman and Jill StewartDid the mayor lose, misplace -- or destroy -- his records? ​ L.A. Weekly is publishing below its exclusive ticket price list for the 80 events to which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accepted free seats.But first the hot news from City Hall moments ago. The below is a ... More >>

Raven, Death of a Hollywood Beauty

She went from pink dresses to meth. Sex offender found guilty of her murder

The Mad Men of Los Angeles

Living the good life, thanks to the big profits from illegal outdoor advertising

Hints About Cirque Due Kodak

Oscar, Mr. Gold

Where to go after the Academy Awards

Rolling Stone Magazine to Open Hollywood Venue Club/Restaurant in the Summer of 2010 (?!)

This just in: Rolling Stone Magazine, the once-venerable music behemoth, is spreading its wings and opening a music venue/restaurant/club in Hollywood, according to a press release we just received. The space is slated to open in the summer of 2010. We're assuming that this is the space formerly occ ... More >>

CIM Group: Hollywood's Richest Slumlord

Two fed up YouTubians embarrass a City Hall insider into demolishing a shocking hovel

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest. ... More >>

How Do You Say "Oscar Scandal" in Hebrew?

Much as I am loathe to give any further wind to the orgy of self congratulations and poor taste that was this year's Academy Awards, given that it has been something of an ongoing discussion on this blog I do feel obliged to offer a few words to the outcome of the Best Foreign Language Film contest ... More >>

Funny Stuff, Then Not So Much

What to do in L.A., January 9-15

Theater Review: A Christmas Carol

Plus, Harold Pinter, R.I.P.

The Worst Hoopla Ever!

What to do in L.A., January 2-8

Schwarzenegger's Lost Year

The Austrian Oak is beaten by a bureaucracy he swore he'd change

Praise Jesus: All the Kids Are Doing It!

What to do in L.A., December 19-25

Brick's Picks: Blue Note Specials

What not to miss this week

Eddie Izzard Takes off His Dress

Scheduled for five nights at the Kodak, comedian talks Bible Belt, Napoleon, spelunking and the future of The Riches

Idle's Messiah, Izzard's Stripped and Maya Rudolph on the Down Low

P.S.: I am in the Bahamas and really don't give a crap what you do for fun this week

America: I Want to Be Your Flag Hag!

What to do in L.A., July 4-10

Norman's Ark

Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

"And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

Propositions 94, 95, 96 & 97

Engorged with money, four tiny tribes spend a king's ransom to get more

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

Miss a week of Deadline Hollywood Daily? Here’s your fix!

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Latin Playboys

The rhythm, in many shapes and sizes, lands in town this week

Whoa, Nellie! You're the Best!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Golden

“This is the Best Weekend Ever!”

In the Kodak, in the Pink

And in the dollhouse

Is There Anybody Out There?

What to do in Los Angeles from January 5 – 11