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After 44 Years, Hollywood Is Finally Smart Enough to Make a Judy Blume Movie

Tiger Eyes is a breath of fresh air -- and an opportunity

Music Picks: Ghostface Killah and Adrian Younge, and Anthrax

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Mesmerizing Child's-Eye View of Grief, Walking the Tightrope

Child-like views delighted our critics this week, with Mike Kenney's Walking the Tightrope at the 24th Street Theatre taking Pick of the Week, and a nod to Albie Selznick's magic show Smoke and Mirrors at the Lankershim Arts Center in North Hollywood. There's also a recommendation for an adult comed ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

5 Films People Will Be Talking About at Sundance

For the next 10 days, all Hollywood eyes--and those of many a filmgoer--will turn toward the frigid wilds of Park City, Utah, reportedly experiencing its chilliest winter in a decade. Their collective hope: to discover at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival (January 17 through 26) the next Beasts of the ... More >>

Exclusive: A Disgruntled Label Exec Spills the Beans About Taylor Swift's Insane-Sounding New Album

Big news: Young country-pop starlet Taylor Swift took a bit of time out from making the "Who me?" face to record another album. Red, out October 22, is about "relationships and breakups," according to Swift, and its first single is called (no shit) "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." She's be ... More >>

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Google's Los Angeles Map Gets 3D, 'Flyover' Imagery For Smartphones: VIDEO

Google just unveiled 3D maps that let you virtually fly over Los Angeles and Long Beach. The cool visuals, however, aren't available for iPhone and iPad users yet; they're only good for Google's own Android system for now. According to the company, L.A. and Long Beach are among 15 American cities ... More >>

Sun Araw, Eagles of Death Metal, Lil' Kim

Also, Harry Partch's Bitter Music, Jonneine Zapata, Alan Pasqua Trio and others

Prometheus Review: Ridley Scott's Epic

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/30 - 5/4

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Goan restaurants are almost nonexistent in the U.S., perhaps due to the fact that the region enjoys such a resort-town popularity in India that few of its chefs would ever imagine emigrating their bustling hotel kitchen posts. ... More >>

Lawrence of India: Lizardfish The Cuisine of Goa

With the exception the Kerala-style dishes at Mayura, most of the Indian restaurants clustered along Culver City's Venice Boulevard focus on the same vegetarian-centric vaguely Southern Indian style of cooking. This is far from a bad thing -- can one ever have too many choices for jackfruit curry, p ... More >>

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Lawrence Taylor Sued by Onetime Teen Prostitute Cristina Fierro: L.A.'s Gloria Allred Represents (of Course)

L.A. attorney Gloria Allred was in the mix this week as she picked up a new client, onetime teen prostitute Cristina Fierro, who was allegedly hired by retired NFL player Lawrence Taylor last year when she was just 16. Now Fierro alleges the encounter in question did not constitute paid sex (Lawren ... More >>

Oh, To Eat in England

Or as near as Los Angeles will allow

Letters: Old and Not in the Way

The face of post–Prop. 8 gay leadership; and more musings on Gold

Ballast: Weight of the World

Taking measure of Lance Hammer's Sundance-awarded drama

Movie Reviews: Redbelt, A Walk Into the Sea, Swimming in Auschwitz

Plus other releases opening May 2

Movie Reviews: Bra Boys, Super High Me, Alexandra

Also, Young @ Heart, Remember the Daze and more

The Brave One: Femme Fatal

Foster dishes out rough justice

Film Reviews: Hot Fuzz, Redline and More

Also In the Land of Women and the documentary, Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Pink, David Dimichele

From Radical to Roots

The Creative Music Festival and other jazz picks

Love's Labors

The Fountain and Flannel Pajamas give you the long and short of it