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Why Do SoCal Drivers Love the DeLorean? Let Them Count the Ways

Hollywood loves a comeback, and few cars were ever more in need of one than the DeLorean DMC-12. The production line went dark all too soon, the manufacturer filed for bankruptcy, and its disgraced mastermind, John Z. DeLorean, was arrested for drug trafficking.Then came Back to the Future, the 1985 ... More >>

How USC Grads Freddie Wong and Ryan Coogler Became the Future of Filmmaking, Via Two Very Different Paths

Fruitvale Station was a hit at Sundance, while Video Game High School has millions of teen fans

Cinema, Crime and Conceptual Art

Caltech Crafts Gingerbread Mars Rover

One giant leap for a pastry chef? We've seen a lot of cool gingerbread houses around town, but nothing tops the gingerbread Mars Curiosity rover that the nerdy minds at Caltech have come up with. Crafted by Kevin Isacsson, head chef of the Athaneum, the Pasadena university's private dining club, the ... More >>

We Attended Cinefamily's Entire 24-Hour Holiday Telethon. Here's the Mind-Blowing Stuff That Happened

It's somewhere on the wrong side of 4 a.m., John Hawkes is casually smoking cigarettes on an outdoor couch, the German actor Udo Kier just went back to the coffin he likely sleeps in, and Cinefamily's back patio looks like the early morning lull after a biker-gang Christmas party. There are beercans ... More >>

The Adding Machine

Zombie Joe's Goes Saucy in Down & Dirty, Memphis at the Pantages, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Adam Szymkowicz's comic book parody, Hearts Like Fists at Theatre of NOTE takes unrequited love to camp, and gets this week's Pick of the Week. Click here for all the latest New Theater Reviews, or after the jump.Also check out this week's Stage feature on performance beyond the theater walls: an i ... More >>

8-Foot-Tall Lego Man Washes Up on Topanga Beach; No One Gives a Damn

Here's the difference between Florida and California: When a giant 8-foot-tall Lego man washes up on the beach as part of a guerilla art project, Florida cops detain him and hold him in custody (as we saw last October). But when the same thing happened early this morning at L.A. County's Topanga B ... More >>

Legos and accidents

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock's Debut

This week, a temporary exhibition takes over Mount Wilson Observatory, an artist reflects on Hurricane Katrina and LACMA's Levitated Mass finally opens to the public. 5. The artist and the hurricane "It is important you trust me enough to follow my thoughts but mistrust me enough to question them," ... More >>

Silicon Beach: 5 People Making L.A. a New Tech Industry Capital

Los Angeles may be 350 miles south of Silicon Valley, but it's making strides to close the distance between the two in terms of sheer brain power and inventiveness (with a little bit of entertainment thrown in for good measure). Here are five people from our People issue helping to make that happen.

Dan Goods: Thinking Outside the Lab

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Standing in his studio at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Dan Goods places a small cube of gel in a visitor's hand. He looks the visitor in the eye. Then he gets o ... More >>

Q & A With Jeremy Fox: Paper or Plastik, Pre-Fabs, His New L.A. Restaurant Life Post-Ubuntu

The last place you'd probably expect to find a chef with a Michelin star under his belt would be West L.A.'s Paper or Plastik, a neighborhood café that has been a favorite of locals for years but was never known as a place to host nationally-acclaimed chefs. But that's exactly where former Ubuntu ... More >>

The Pub at Golden Road Brewery: Liquid Gold

When the Union Pacific blows past the Pub at Golden Road Brewing, screaming its horn and rattling the building, the new customers look up, startled, midsip: Maybe Megatron has assembled himself out of all the propane and machinery in the neighboring industrial yards. The regulars, meanwhile, simply ... More >>

Eddie Izzard: Death Star Canteen [Video]

This video is a few years old, but since Eddie Izzard has been in town lately, playing a handful of late-night shows at Largo, his riff on the Death Star canteen (that's British for "cafeteria") is timely. And hilarious, especially when animated with Lego. Watch as Darth Vader complains about wet tr ... More >>

Fun Food Things You Can Make On MakerBot's New 3-D Printer (Sporks! 8-Handled Cups!)

If you own a 3-D printer (lucky you), you are probably already halfway to a drawer full of printable forks and spoons. If like us, you had no idea you could buy a 3-D printer for less than the price of dinner for four at The French Laundry, well, let the hamburger patty press printing fun begin. M ... More >>

Metropolis II at LACMA: Will a Sculpture Made of 1,100 Hot Wheels Predict L.A.'s Future?

Alissa WalkerCould this be L.A.'s transportation future?​ Where once art originated from the front seat of a freewheeling Los Angeles vehicle -- Ed Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip photography series, Dennis Hopper's Double Standard photograph of a gas station -- our kill-me-now tr ... More >>

50 Craziest Occupy Movements of 2011

Twenty Eleven has been a year of occupies. Occupations. Occupitudes. You get the idea. Sure, the Occupy Wall Street movement has only been around since September, but since then we've been occupying all manner of whatnot like there's no tomorrow (thanks to the Mayans, there actually might not be on ... More >>

Mofones: Dress Your iPhone in Art, Made in Los Angeles

Courtesy of MofonesHow cool would it be to talk into this Fossilfishfone?​ Like it or not, the Christmas shopping season is upon us. For those who prefer not to get pepper-sprayed by kamikaze shoppers at big box stores, however, there are thankfully other options. Even better -- there are opti ... More >>

Lady Gaga - KIIS Jingle Ball At Nokia Theatre - 12/3/11

Lina Lecaro ​KIIS Lady Gaga, David Guetta, Gym Class Heroes, Flo Rida, Nick Canon, Karmin and others KIIS Jingle Ball At Nokia Theatre 12-3-11 It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, but the annual blizzard of branded radio station holiday concerts somehow brings in the season like noth ... More >>

DJ Turntables Become Art in Pop-Up Gallery Outside MOCA's 'Art in the Streets'

Lea LionBMX guru Bob Haro's customized CD player​ Thanks to the rise of hip hop, the turntable transcended its status as an electronic device, emerged as the instrument of our time -- and gained a whole lotta respect in the process. Recently an exhibit titled "Art Mix" paid homage to the turnt ... More >>

Dark Side of the Moon: Five Essential Parodies of the Iconic Album Cover

​If I say "Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon," what's the first thing that comes to mind? Chances are you're picturing a luminous triangle on a black background, with a single ray of light coming from one end and a neat rainbow emerging from the dispersive prism. We couldn't agree more with ... More >>

Now Open: Paradis's Danish-Style Ice Cream in Los Feliz

T. Nguyen​ A great number of great things have come from Denmark. Hamlet. The Killing. Legos. To this we add: ice cream. Now open in Los Feliz, Paradis Ice Cream replaces the space vacated by Pinkberry on Vermont and brings Danish-style ice cream to the neighborhood. Paradis actually is ... More >>

Michel Gondry's Top Ten Music Videos Ever (In Honor Of His Book Signing Tonight)

​ Tonight Michel Gondry's coming to Family Books on Fairfax to sign copies of his new book/DVD My New New York Diary, a collaborative project with cartoonist Julie Doucet that merges autobiographical illustrations and cinematic storytelling. My New New York Diary is a hardcover volume from Pi ... More >>

"I Can't Go On Jay Leno with a Fragrant Vagina": Courtney Love Turned into Adorable Lego-Style Animation

Live through this animated parody​We've received a link from someone who knows someone who purports to know what working for Courtney Love is like. Somewhere along that chain of anonymity someone created a cheap, Lego-style computer animation of a purported backstage conversation between La Lo ... More >>

Munny Vinyl Toys Get the Rock Star Treatment for Miyavi Fan Event

Munny is a blank slate, what you do with it relies primarily on your imagination. For the vinyl toy, made by Kidrobot, you'll need paint, fabric, and maybe some polymer clay and a background in art, to create your own character. Liz OhanesianMina Nikhoo's Munny​

Disney Expo Channels Peter Pan

Ten Best LA Recordings 2009 (So Far)

​Last week as we were sorting through our piles of CDs and accumulated MP3 files, we started to notice how big the stack of recent excellent LA music was. It became apparent that we're in the middle of a pretty great year for Los Angeles releases, and decided to give mid-year props to our fave ... More >>

Rattling the Underground With Nosaj Thing and Low End Theory

Threadless Founders Jake Nickell and Jeffrey Kalmikoff Crowdsource Their Way Into Our Hearts

With recent the election of a former "community organizer" to presidency, community organizing or "crowdsourcing" has become the buzzword for the great shift in our culture from "top down" (Bush) to "bottom up" (Obama) everything. In this vein, the Threadless.com co-founders Jeffrey Kalmikoff and Ja ... More >>

Rock Picks: The Wailers, Thelonious Dub, Halfmonk, Mike Watt & the Secondmen

Plus, Good for the Jews, Legowelt, Resistant Culture, and others

La Boum With a View

Plus, Part Time Punks Fest and more

Wading in the Waste Stream With the Center for Land Use Interpretation

On the bus to the dump

Brian De Palma: Eyes Wide Open

De Palma’s Iraq movie never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

Playtime

Chris Burden at Gagosian, Marion Lane at BLK/MRKT

Home Is Where the Fear Is

Middle-class dreads take center stage

Eurosuburbia

Rachel Cusk’s Arlington Park sounds vaguely familiar

Green Without Envy

Less space, more fulfilling

To Live and Die (But Not Show) in L.A.

Jason Rhoades, 1965–2006

Theater Reviews

Reviews of Complexity, The Comedy of Errors, Zero Hour and more

Smash Box

The Incredible Hulk’s cathartic punch

Terminal Viscosity

It’s the end of the world as we know it, and I smell poo

Forever Then

Predator or Prey?

For James Rodriguez, the only way to freedom was to confess to sex crimes he — and one of his alleged victims — says he did not commit.

Evolution on the Desktop

Creating creatures at sodaplay.com

Extended Warranty

Does length matter?

Farting Robots and Shitting Ducks

The first of a new, biweekly column on science from the author of The Pearly Gates of Cyberspace and Pythagoras’ Trousers: God, Physics and the Gender Wars

Who She Took With Her

. . . The husband, the son, the boyfriend . . . a drunk's tale

Who’s Your Daddy?

Leonard Kleinrock and the birth of the Internet

BattleBots!

Mechanical gladiators who maim one another may be the spectator sport of the future