Louvre Museum

Sorting Through Sam Francis' Paintings at the Pasadena Museum of California Art

Barefoot at the Louvre

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Celestial Bowling Party in Eagle Rock

This week, an alien-inspired concert/party happens at an iconic bowling alley, and two artists make intricate renderings of mystery plants. 5. The art star with the bloody head In Happy Song for You, the short film made by artists Stanya Kahn and Llyn Foulkes in 2011, Foulkes appears with blood dri ... More >>

What is .art? Financiers and Artists Vie for the Power to Define the Domain Name

By Jef Otte The Internet is about to radically change, and hardly anyone knows it. Think about it like a phone system: The Internet operates on just a handful of top-level domains (TLDs) -- like .com and .org -- that function like area codes. Right now, the internet needs more of them. And pretty ... More >>

Nathan Barnatt Never Grew Up

Check out our entire YouTube issue here. Nathan Barnatt wakes up each morning in Star Wars bedsheets. If the trap door in his bunk bed isn't buried under toys, he pops through that to greet the day. For breakfast, he'll have some candy, then go play video games. Or jump on a trampoline. Or crawl th ... More >>

L.A. Weekly Critics' Choices

Highlights from the fall season

Stage Raw: A Memory of What Might Have Been

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCurrent STAGE FEATURE on Anton Chekhov's 150th Birthday BashNEW REVIEW GO  A MEMORY OF WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ​ Photo courtesy of Zombie Joe's Underground George Bernard Shaw wrote that "men and women are made by their own fancies in the image ... More >>

David Sedaris Live at UCLA's Royce Hall

David Sedaris​Imagine paying the equivalent of your mortgage on a ticket to see the Rolling Stones and in return the seminal British band hits the stage and opens with a bunch of new songs. Then, to make matters worse, instead of making up for the lackluster beginning, Mick, Keith and company ... More >>

ANNA LE BANANE

Critical Mass

LACMA's three-weekend series spotlights the disparate passions of late, great film critic Manny Farber

Alice Cooper Gets All Funny When He Thinks About Erykah Badu's Tight Naked Body

This morning, Alice Cooper went on CBS's The Early Show where he talked about that video where Erykah Badu gets nekkid in the Dallas square where the Freemasons, the CIA, disgruntled Cubans, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Illuminati shot JFK. The CBS lady interviewing him really thinks Erykah has been a ... More >>

Top Ten List of Reasons You Like Top Ten Lists (featuring Umberto Eco!)

​There's something about lists that has almost universal appeal. But why? Italian semiotician and best-selling novelist Umberto Eco (The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, and a few later ones that are not as good as those first two) has curated an list-centric exhibit at the Louvre Museu ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 10/17 - 10/23

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "A truly great dive bar is like a successful horror movie: it's a little gross, maybe a bit scary, but always a fun adventure, and filled with an eclectic cast of characters."

Cassoulet Nights at Bistro LQ: The Southwest of France, on Beverly

If you're the sort of person whose idea of a fun time is curling up with a mug of Armagnac and a sauce-spattered vintage edition of Paula Wolfert's 1983 classic The Cooking of Southwest France, then you might want to make reservations at Bistro LQ next Tuesday or Wednesday night. Both nights chef La ... More >>

Where to Eat Now

2 Days in Paris: After Sunrise

The long walk over, Julie Delpy explores what comes next

Disruptive Influences

Don Suggs is all over the place —in a good way

King Jeremy the Wicked

Around the world and back with designer Jeremy Scott, guest-starring Karl Lagerfeld, Cory Kennedy, Mario Testino and the FedEx lady

Where To Eat Now

Absolute ****

Beware, it’s Banksy Updated with location of Los Angeles show

We Jam Econo: The Story of the Minutemen

The Itsy-Bitsy Spider

Has very big eyes and is a lot smarter than you think

Blame Ovitz: When Art Started Imitating Hollywood

Pacoima’s Lot

A deindustrialized L.A. imports its smog

It’s the Gospel Half-Truth

Tyler Perry’s Diary of a Mad Black Woman

Studio City

Post-Puck Generation

Cooking in the Age of Anxiety

Al Fresco

The new old Hollywood Bowl

Yellowcake Rising

Nouvelle Cuisine

French pop non-stop

Art and Leisure

Band Plays On

The buoyant early Godard

SWM Seeking Reality

Finding it in the culture of books

The Greatest Art Show on Earth

(Be careful not to splash marinara sauce on the paintings.)

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