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

Simon Lewis: A Hollywood Survivor

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here.Simon R. Lewis would like to expand your consciousness, which might seem odd coming from the man who co-produced the silly but successful movies You Can't Hurry Love and Look Who ... More >>

Peter Murphy Of Bauhaus Arrested For Alleged DUI, Meth Possession

Updated at the bottom: He says he didn't do it. First posted at 7:01 a.m. Peter Murphy, the "Godfather of Goth" and the vocalist for legendary group Bauhaus, was in jail this week after he was arrested based on an alleged felony in Glendale, according to L.A. County Sheriff's Department inmate data ... More >>

Spring Breakers Review: Godard Meets Girls Gone Wild

To Join the Loyal Order of the Drooling Bastard, You Must Drink 78 Cocktails at Tonga Hut

See also: *4 a.m. Last Call for Alcohol Proposed For Calif. Clubs by Sen. Mark Leno *Top 10 Bars With the Hottest Women in L.A. *10 Bars Most Likely to Get You Laid in L.A. The rules state you have a calendar year to complete the task. Amos Clarke is nine months in, "but I've only been making serio ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

L.A. Theater 2013: A Preview

10 Most Memorable L.A. Theater Moments of 2012

Sopranos Creator David Chase Talks About His New Movie Not Fade Away

Music Picks: Lauryn Hill, Bad Brains, Shuggie Otis

The Magic Bullet Theory

Seven L.A. Comics Report From the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is a festival unlike any other. The 65-year-old whirlwind event lasts the entire month of August and is essentially a free-for-all: interested performers merely have to book their own venue, travel, and accommodation, then show up, self-promote like mad, and pray you ge ... More >>

Underground Rebel Bingo: Like Regular Bingo But With Boobs, Panda Suits and a Unicorn Master

It's Saturday night, and there's a guy pacing the stage like a circus lion eyeing his captors. He has barely started his monologue and he's already sweaty. He's explaining the rules, such as they are. "And losers ... " he screams into the microphone " ... will continue to be losers for t ... More >>

Red, The Return to Morality, and the Artist as Subject

John Logan and Jamie Pachino's plays examine the concept of true self for artists with false names

Trishna: Michael Winterbottom Brings Thomas Hardy to Mumbai

Comments: Porn Enemy No. 1

Music Picks: The Dickies, Rufus Wainwright, Jack DeJohnette

Also, Calle 13, Andre Nickatina

Judy Holliday, a Gay Mormon Boy, and More New Theater Reviews

Jessica Abrams comedy about Hollywood, The Laughing Cow traffics in stereotypes but is nonetheless so delightful, says reviewer Rebecca Haithcoat, it grabs this week's Pick of the Week. Here are all the latest New Theater Reviews, or you can find them after the jump. Also, check out this week's st ... More >>

The Convert and The Magic Bullet Theory, Plays About Accidental Killings

Hanni El Khatib Makes an Album With Dan Auerbach, Gets Drunk

[Editor's note: Weekly scribe Jeff Weiss's column, "Bizarre Ride," appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday. His archives are available here.] "I'm blaming you if I puke later." "Fine. But admit it in the story," Hanni El Khatib replies, passing a vodka and soda that I didn't order. We've been ... More >>

50 Cent, Eminem, and the Best of SXSW Yesterday

See also Houston Press's 50 Cent showcase slideshow 50 Cent / Eminem - Austin Music Hall Never mind that Get Rich or Die Trying actually came out in 2003; the moist and dewy crowd at Austin Music Hall last night was plenty psyched for his performance of his debut album on its "10th anniversary." Ba ... More >>

Music Picks: Sinead O'Connor, Ryan Adams, Busdriver, Matthew Dear

Also, Wye Oak, Jeff Lorber Band, Hiromi and others

Music Picks: Roberta Flack, Summer Twins, John Cage Centenary Festival

Also, Spindrift, Lenny Kravitz, Dorian Wood, Howlin Rain and others

Campaign to Ban the Word 'Awesome' Launched by L.A. Poet, Echo Park Bookstore

Local poet John Tottenham hates the word "awesome." Not in that passive, party-annoyed sense where he's like, please stop being so dull, you overstoked American, or there's a small possibility I'll float away and start talking to somebody else, soonish. Nope. Tottenham, who's an L.A. transplant fro ... More >>

Music Picks: The Descendents, Stones Throw 15th Anniversary Show,, Princess Pangolin, Brian Setzer

Also, Guns N' Roses, Weingart, Stevie Wonder's House Full of Toys, and others

Real Housewives of Beverly Hills: Every Day's a Birthday with Ace Young

Anger and resentment on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills seem to follow the first law of thermodynamics, which states that energy cannot be created or destroyed. Only transferred. Case in point: Taylor arrived at Lisa's tea party fuming at her. Two years of stomaching insults from the sarcastic ... More >>

Theresa Rebeck's Poor Behavior

A play of ideas or a sitcom, or both?

James Blake - The Music Box - 9-18-11

Jessica Comingore​By Aly Comingore James Blake and Teengirl Fantasy The Music Box September 18, 2011 Better than... an Emmys after party Those who caught James Blake's recent L.A. shows -- at the Troubadour and Hollywood Forever Cemetery, respectively -- know this Englander is best caught ... More >>

Five Pop Songs Ruined By Glee

Glee's GQ shoot​You've got to hand it to Lea Michelle, Matthew Morrison, and the rest of the cast of the TV show Glee -- they certainly have a special talent for taking a once awesome pop song and turning it into an insufferable case of over-singing and unnecessary theatricality. The third sea ... More >>

Music Picks: Joan Osborne, Tears for Fears, the Cute Lepers, J. Cole, Low

Also Bon Iver, Cerebellion, Surfer Blood and others

The Ettes, Sade, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Benefit for Nick Curran

Also, Kendrick Lamar, the Punk Rock BBQ, Katy B and others

Music Picks: Linda Perhacs, Joni's Jazz, L.A. Phil, the Go-Go's

Also, J*DaVey, the Decemberists, Dragon Head, Wye Oak and others

The Sublime Webb Sisters

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Stage Raw: Aaron Sorkin's First Stage Play

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS NEW THEATER REVIEWS Stage FEATURE on The Chinese Massacre and House of the Rising Son ​Maia MadisonAaron Sorkin's first stage play, Hidden in This Picture, is reviewed by Amy Nicholson; Neal Weaver was taken with the collection of theater-celeb-scribed gay-theme ... More >>

Robert Plant and The Band of Joy: Live Review

Daniel KohnRobert Plant: A Whole Lotta Love​WHO: Robert Plant and The Band of Joy WHERE: The Greek Theater WHEN: 4/23/11 If you came to the Greek on Saturday night expecting to a hear a half-assed, run-of-the-mill set of Led Zeppelin covers, well, you have another month until Jason Bonham's ... More >>

REVOLUTIONARY ELGAR

Banksy's Valuable 'Crayon Soldier' Piece in Westwood Removed

Pia MiaBanksy has left town.​Banksy has left the building and so has much of his art, seems like. After his art was spotted on the back of a Westwood Urban Outfitters last month in the weeks ahead of the Academy Awards, where the Brit vied unsuccessfully for a best documentary Oscar, a Facebo ... More >>

Six-Figure Banksy Piece Ripped From Sunset Boulevard Billboard Just Not Good Enough For CBS Outdoor

Ted SoquiBanksy is just not CBS Outdoor material.​Banksy might be a world-renowned street artist whose work can fetch six-figure prices. But don't tell that to CBS Outdoor, the advertising company that ripped the Brit's "Livin' the Dream" piece from a billboard above Sunset and Crescent Heigh ... More >>

Neil LaBute's The Break of Noon and Crack Whore Galore — Live!

Prophets and profits

Music Picks: Haroula Rose, Jimmy Webb, Adler's Appetite, Nikka Costa

Also, The Melvins, Graf Orlock, Dudamel/Mahler 9th, Lissie and others

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: The End Is Near

And the kids are not all right in Part 1 of the franchise's finale

Music Picks: Amanda Jo Williams, Usher, Masaki Batoh, Procol Harum

Also, Dustin Wong, Greg Dulli, Ghostface Killah

Music Picks: Batusis, Interpol, Minus the Bear

Also, Taj Mahal, Shakira, Sufjan Stevens and others

Music Picks: Grizzly Bear, Muse, Dark Dark Dark, the Charlatans UK

Also, Tonya Watts, Modeselektor, Heart and others

Difficulties in Translation

One Potato, Two Potato . . .

Do the Continental

You dine while you’re dancing . . .

Liquid Diet

In the beginning, there was beer...