Liza Minnelli

An Arrested Development Variety Show

See also: *5 Awesome Album Covers Inspired By Arrested Development *5 Best Arrested Development Artworks at Gallery 1988 *Why Emily Maya Mills Could Be the Next Carol Burnett On Saturday, Silver Lake's Lyric Hyperion Theater staged an Arrested Development-inspired variety hour called Bluth Fest for ... More >>

From the Los Angeles Public Library Menu Collection: Man Jen Low, One of Chinatown's Oldest Restaurants

Exploring the LAPL menu collection is an ongoing project in which we'll take a close look at the menus owned by the Los Angeles Public Library. Read about the project here. It's amazing how often menus discovered in the LAPL menu collection narrate the history of Los Angeles. Today we look at a men ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Christiane Lange, Clark Gable Jr.'s Girlfriend and Celebrity Makeup Artist, Found Dead in Malibu Mansion

Updated at the bottom with more on the glamorous Lange. Originally posted April 11 at 5:35 p.m. Clark Gable Jr.'s live-in girlfriend died mysteriously this morning at the couple's mansion in Malibu. (Yes, Clark Gable Jr., the son of the Hollywood legend. No, not Clark Gable III, the grandson of th ... More >>

Top 5 Ridiculous But Awesome Christmas Shows In L.A.

​Need a break from all the credit card-maxing, house-lighting, bad party-attending and general seasonal stressing? Why not try something outside of the gift box this year? Here, five festive, somewhat freaky holiday haps in town that are anything but cookie-cutter Christmas confections. 5. Ch ... More >>

Dzi Croquettes review

Trannyshack L.A. Returns With A Bang (And Wang) for July 4th Weekend

Lina LecaroSF's Heklina messes up the stage. ​Saturday at the Echoplex offered an explosive evening of pocket rockets, piccolo peters, hot snakes, and (eye) poppers ... and there wasn't a firework to be seen. Yes, we're talking about another kind of banger all together, friends. It was Trannys ... More >>

Five Reasons to Love (or Loathe) Lady Gaga's Born This Way

​Despite being sick of her face, we still admire Lady Gaga's go-big-or-go-home approach to music, imagery, shoes and yes, beauty marks. Even her most zealous haters gotta give it up to the omni-present, ever-polarizing pop freak when it comes to marketing herself as an outsider icon. For many ... More >>

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Perez Hilton Grows Up: Chats About New Music Projects, His New Attitude. Plus, A Peek Inside His Blue Ball Birthday Bash

Lina Lecaro Selena Gomez and Perez Hilton are true blue. ​ With live performances by Macy Gray, Dita Von Teese, Prince Poppycock, and Greyson Chance to name a few and Debbie Gibson, recorded greetings by Lady Gaga, Taylor Swift, and Justin Bieber, and an in person Happy Birthday serenade from ... More >>

Gay-Cougar Alliance Commemorated with Liza Minnelli's "Single Ladies"

This comes allegedly from the much anticipated/much reviled (depending who you talk to) Sex & The City 2: The Wrath of Menopause. It's Liza Minnelli singing Beyonce's "Single Ladies" (and saying "shit" a lot--it rhymes with "it"). That sound you heard is a bunch of heads in WeHo exploding.

Ultrasuede: In Search of Halston

Nightranger: The Rest Is Still Unwritten

This Week In Nightranger: Perez Hilton's Three Bling Circus at Paramount Studios

In this week's column (out Thursday) we rejoice over The Hills' cancellation and survey LA's newest upscale hotspots: Drai's, Trousdale and Industry. But the circus of celebs at Perez Hilton's Saturday night Carn-Evil birthday party at Paramount Studio almost outshined 'em all. If the notion that ... More >>

Paula Deen Live at the Pantages Theatre: Lights, Televisions, Pork Chops!

Paula Deen, TV chef, cookbook author, queen of "down-home" cooking, and a woman who can somehow cook with more rocks on her fingers than Liza Minnelli, is coming to the Pantages Theatre next month. Deen and Family will present an evening of "cooking demonstrations, story-telling, Q and A and fun," c ... More >>

The Royal Family Album: Queen Gets Definitive Photo Bio

​Here's a Christmas gift for Queen fans that you can't stuff into a stocking. Though there's a never a shortage of Queen books out there, Phil Sutcliffe's hefty, just-released Queen: The Ultimate Illustrated History of The Crown Kings of Rock (Voyageur Press) features more than 500 eye-poppin ... More >>

RSVP ASAP!: Fantastic Hollywood Bowl Poster Art Opening @ the Arclight Tonight

If you attended any of the fantastic shows the Hollywood Bowl programmed this past summer, you probably noticed the very large crowds gathered at the gift shop afterwards practically getting in fisticuffs over the limited number of concert posters available. The reason? The Bowl commissioned some ou ... More >>

Rock Picks: Os Mutantes, Hall and Oates, Bat for Lashes, Davila 666, Maia Sharp

Also, the Mars Volta, Nine Inch Nails, Gun Outfit, the Pretenders and others

Start Spreading the Food . . .

Los Angeles County Coroner Says Michael Jackson Autopsy Toxicology Rumors Wrong: It Will Take Time

Eric VanBeekMichael Jackson's toxicology and other drug tests will not be completed for weeks, and rumors that a celebrity "rush job" is underway are bunk, says Craig R. Harvey, Chief Coroner Investigator and Chief of Operations at the Los Angeles County Department of Coroner. "Is this rumor just n ... More >>

Stage Raw: Your Source for Free and Discount Theater Tickets

FREE AND DISCOUNT THEATER TICKETS RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW Plays411 is offering FREE & Discount Tickets: You only pay $3.50 Service Fee, or Half-off where indicated. Advance Reservations only: Go to: plays411.com, then select the show, use Promo Code: "LETMEIN" (unless otherwise instructed ... More >>

Stage Raw: Leslie Jordan's Trip Down the Pink Carpet

This Week's Theater Pick Leslie Jordan's Autobiographical Trip Down the Pink Carpet If a zest for life is infectious, there's probably no more delightful a carrier than Leslie Jordan. A diminutive stage, film, Emmy Award-winning TV actor, and fugitive from the Bible Belt, Jordan regales us ... More >>

Stage Raw: Ivanov

IVANOV Ivanov Photo Credit: Thomas Aurin Berlin's Volksbühne presents its U.S. premiere of Chekhov's Ivanov at UCLA's Freud Playhouse tonight and Satruday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 7 p.m. Click here for more information. FOURPLAY @ BOSTON COURT The Pasadena theater hosts readings of four new ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck

Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>

Stage Raw: Critic-O-Meter

CRITIC-O-METER In case you're wondering what Rob Kendt has been up to in New York City, since leaving his post as editor of Back Stage West, first look no further than his byline - now Rob Weinert-Kendt. That's what a wedding can do. He's also been having bowls of matzoh ball soup at the Polish ... More >>

Stage Raw: A Conversation With Robert Lepage

He Is Diva

Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara

Sacred Fools' Soaring New Musical, Louis & Keely Live at the Sahara

Just a gigolo

Flora, the Red Menace

The Doors? Black Flag? The Chili Peppers? Nope. L.A.'s Best Band Was Love.

The more things change . . .

Sensuous Woman, Mean Men, Dancing Swans

Theater Reviews: Sexy Laundry, Stupid Kids

Also, Frozen, Robots vs. Fake Robots

Cabaret

Theater Reviews

The Adding Machine, Gamblers, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and more

Hot Choclo

Digging into El Parron’s Chilean stews

Film Reviews

Harry, Dykes and Gays

No cartooning today

Here's the story:  Before going on stage with my band, The End, in Philadelphia, I found myself waiting for my fucking brother to show up so we could agree on the set list.  He was always late in the same way that I imagined Liza Minnelli was for her gigs.  Anyway, after getting a Sha ... More >>

No cartooning today

Here's the story:  Before going on stage with my band, The End, in Philadelphia, I found myself waiting for my fucking brother to show up so we could agree on the set list.  He was always late in the same way that I imagined Liza Minnelli was for her gigs.  Anyway, after getting a Sha ... More >>

American Idol 1.0

The Gull Can’t Help It

Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds lands onstage

Mr. Blonde Ambition

Developed Arrestment

Arrested Development

The Sound of the City

Edited by Kateri Butler

Flashes in the Pan

Stage odes to a hard-boiled past

The 21st Annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards