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Christopher Shinn's Acclaimed Pulitzer Finalist Dying City at Last Arrives in L.A.

"When I grew up," recalls playwright Christopher Shinn, "I grew up with the image of the artist as somebody who could be central to the culture in a big way, and that was the kind of artist I wanted to be. And I remember feeling with Dying City that I might get to be that kind of artist." Shinn is ... More >>

2013 James Beard Finalists: The L.A. Edition

The James Beard Foundation unveiled award finalists earlier this morning. Among the hometown candidates who remain contenders for the award are the following: Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo (Animal) for Best Chef: West (CA, HI, NV); Piero Selvaggio (Valentino, Valentino Vin Bar) and Carolyn Styne (Lucq ... More >>

Institute for Art and Olfaction Will Bring Together Art and Perfume

I spent a solid 30 minutes last Friday night attempting to figure out what exactly was "old lady" smell, sniffing through several bottles trying to find a version of it, before I finally gave up -- but not without learning a thing or two about scents. If that doesn't strike you as an evening of enc ... More >>

Stephen Sondheim's New Book Look, I Made a Hat Unloads on Theater Critics With Both Barrels. Here's Where He's Wrong

​ If you thought the week's top story had anything to do with mass protests on the streets of Cairo or the collapse of the deficit-reduction "super committee" in the halls of Congress, consider yourselves members of that misguided majority who inhabit what has wryly been called "the real world ... More >>

Countdown to Record Store Day: An Interview with RSD Co-Founder Michael Kurtz

​We've been looking forward to Record Store Day (or RSD) for awhile now. For one, it provides a welcome diversion for those of us not going to Coachella. Also, we are looking forward to all of the limited-edition vinyl releases, in-stores, and sales that come along with RSD. We keep hearing a ... More >>

Spider-Man on Broadway; La Traviata at the Met

Big loves in Gotham

Black Swan: Dance Dance Revulsion

Natalie Portman goes bat-shit in a tutu in Darren Aronofsky's latest

Notes From a Bunker in New York City

A Free Man of Color, Notes From Underground and two Pinter one-acts

Same As It Ever Was

Don't give up on Jean-Luc Godard: His alleged final film continues a career-long conversation

Bedbugs Finally Outnumber Hipsters In New York City, Shoot For Total (High-Brow) Infestation At Carnegie Hall

You can run, but you can't hide​In the month since we last reported on New York City's booming bedbug epidemic, the situation's gotten worse than we ever could have hoped. It was embarrassing enough when the nasty little vamps invaded fashion palaces like Niketown and Elle Magazine. (Turns ou ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lobby Hero

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteBREUER ON THE VOLGA ​View from the Volga River -- Russia's answer to the Mighty Mississippi -- the longest waterway in Europe, stretching from the Valdai Hills, between Moscow and St. Petersburg, to the Caspian Sea. The city of S ... More >>

South Pacific

Mazel Tov to Guest Bloggers The "Jews on Vinyl" Project, Also Tonight @ the Skirball

[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 5/3-5/7

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Romance and Mount Washington don't necessarily go together. I mean, they do, but not in restaurants, unless you want to re-enact the Lady and the Tramp spaghetti scene at Casa Bianca, which you don't."

James Beard Restaurant & Chef Awards Announced: The Winners

​The James Beard Foundation announced the second round of winners, naming the Restaurant and Chef awards last night at Lincoln Center. Tom Colicchio (Craft) was named Outstanding Chef, beating out L.A.'s Suzanne Goin (Lucques, AOC, Tavern). The award for Outstanding Restaurant went to Daniel B ... More >>

A Day With Wolfgang Puck: GMA & The James Beard Awards

Wolfgang Puck​If you're sitting at home this morning wondering what to cook for dinner and happen to have a whole chicken, a jar of mustard and a bottle of Port lying around, you might want to turn on the television sometime between 7 and 9 a.m. Wolfgang Puck will be cooking his recipe for pan ... More >>

James Beard Media & Book Awards Announced: The Winners

​The James Beard Foundation has announced the winners of the 2010 James Beard Foundation Media & Book Awards. The Restaurant and Chef awards will be announced tonight. The Weekly's longtime restaurant critic Jonathan Gold has won the Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Reviews award. Cook ... More >>

Ex-LA Weekly Writer Scott Foundas Wins 'Critic Of The Year' Award

Scott Foundas.​Film writer Scott Foundas won the "print critic of the year" award at the Los Angeles Press Club's third annual National Entertainment Journalism Awards Thursday night for his body of work published in LA Weekly. He left the paper at the beginning of the year to take over associ ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

Stage Raw: Arts Investments -- The Wallace Foundation and Alan Mandell

ARTS INVESTMENT: WALLACE FOUNDATION AND ALAN MANDELL The Wallace Foundation just announced a new study by the Rand Corporation that confirms what anybody with even half a brain already knows: The effects of arts programs in schools really do trickle up to the adult society in terms of quality o ... More >>

Getting Off-Broadway: A New York Guide

Roundup of shows in the shadow of 42nd Street

Natalie Cole Cancels Wednesday's Hollywood Bowl Appearance with Winton Marsalis, Replaced by ... Willie Nelson?

Hot on the heels of last week's Youssou N'Dour cancellation comes this news from the Hollywood Bowl that Natalie Cole is canceling her guest appearance this Wednesday, July 9 with Winton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. And, oddly, her replacement is Willie Nelson. Or, rather, no ... More >>

Simone White: Daughter of Invention

Lineage may have placed her on the stage, but her gorgeous new album will keep her there

Richard Greenberg's The Injured Party and SCR's New Play Fest

It's a small world after all

Grand Avenue; Bad Rap; Westside Chinese

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New Pork City: Eating Everything but the Squeal

Big Apple Pigs

Dance 2007: Opening Acts

The dance scene had its highlights, but the best is yet to come

Enchanted Evenings – and Not

Esa-Pekka Salonen's music, Bill Viola's visuals and Peter Sellars' staging of Tristan und Isolde is no perfect marriage

Gray Paris

Danièle Thompson’s valentine to the city of lights has a melancholy undertone

Monstrosities

Onward

Archive

Note After Note

The View From Four Score

Eighty years in a musical life

Experiencing Disney Hall

Don't Cry for Me, Korea

A new Yi dynasty arrives

The Site and the Sound

Broken Circles

A Loss of Originality

In the Beginning

A Sad Symphony With a Happy Ending

Classical music is alive and well

Answering Back

The New Math

Indie film goes prime time

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

Much Ado About Everything, or Here We Godot Again

A Complex Edifice

Boys and Girls Together

Elephant, Bull, Whatever

Obscure Objects of Desire

Cinecon 35

So Far, Still Good