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5 Musical Comedy Things to Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week If you need a laugh to start your weekend, or if you want to cool down from your week with some music, L.A. has you covered. This week, Angelenos can take in some jazz, enjoy some Real ... More >>

Sunday in the Plaza With Jazz

Cross-Dresser Secretly Videotaped Women In SoCal Macy's Restroom, Cops Say

In the annals of bizarre and desperate attempts to videotape women in the most private of moments, this one is a winner. A man dressed as a woman went into a Macy's restroom with a camera concealed in a paper bag and got to taping, L.A. County Sheriff's Department officials said last night:

Think You Like the Hollywood Bowl? These People Really Like the Hollywood Bowl

See also: *More articles about the Hollywood Bowl *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Annoying Things About Summer in L.A. Tickets for the Hollywood Bowl went on general sale to the public Saturday morning at 10 a.m., and for Alisha Staten, Gwen Corben, Sheila Tunnel and their cohorts, this ... More >>

Marcos Gurrola: Fashion Island Shooting Suspect Had Security Guard, Gun Licenses

Marcos Gurrola, the 42-year-old suspected of opening fire outside Newport Beach's Fashion Island mall only a day after the Newtown mass shooting, once was a state-licensed security guard with a gun permit. State records show that his firearm permit and "guard/patrolperson registration" expired near ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Japanese War Brides Musical Tea, With Music

A musical about World War II war brides, Tea, With Music, for which the author, Velina Hasu Houston, has added songs and music for this production, is our Pick of the Week. For all new theater reviews, see below. This week's stage fature looks a couple of plays aiming to be light fare: Micha ... More >>

Rihanna 'Nude' Coming To Century City Mall Saturday; Hundreds Of Fans Expected

Holiday shoppers, if you thought Black Friday was a spectacle, just wait until you see the teenyboppers and fans rushing to see ... Rihanna. The star with the allegedly off-and-on relationship with Chris Brown will be making an appearance at Macy's in Westfield Century City Mall Saturday. And orga ... More >>

JTYH Restaurant, Starry Kitchen Bee Yinn Low at Macy's

Macy's doesn't just celebrate holidays. It celebrates "months." Black History Month in February. Then Hispanic Heritage Month in September. For June, LGBT National Pride Month. Now, it's Asian Pacific American Heritage Month -- and that calls for food. This Saturday afternoon, two store locations wi ... More >>

The Rose Parade -- We Love It!

Ba-Freaking Humbug

Thoughts From a Random Black Guy: The Time I Took The Surfing World By Storm

Kelly Clancy​[Editor's note: Odd Future member Lionel Boyce writes a weekly column for West Coast Sound. His archives are available here.] During my 20 years of living, I have accomplished many things and acquired many skills. One of the more impressive things that stands out is the brief per ... More >>

Los Angeles Film Festival 2011 Preview

Parking Enforcement Officers in L.A. Allegedly Solicited Prostitute, Punched Driver, Shoplifted: They're Still On The Job

Parking porn.​Rough spring for L.A. parking enforcement. First a couple of officers were found cavorting in a porn video -- while on-duty. Then City Controller Wendy Greuel last week revealed, among millions of dollars wasted on poor practices, a get-out-of-tickets-free "gold card" program for ... More >>

Nightranger: Star Bright

Top 10 Popstar Clothing Lines that Put Madonna and Lourdes' New "Material Girl" to Shame!

In this week's Nightranger column, we cover last week's Macy's Passport "Glamorama" event at the Orpheum Theatre downtown. The event was scaled back from years past live music-wise (Macy Gray and Eric Hutchinson performed short sets in between the runway looks) but the production was still top-notch ... More >>

Shoddy Downtown L.A. Mall May Be Getting Target

​Los Angeles Downtown News reports a Target store may be moving in to the 7 Fig mall, which, despite the pretentious name, has been struggling of late. Downtown residents, who rejoiced when the area became a bit more livable with the opening of a Ralph's grocery store in 2007, can now look f ... More >>

One Knife is (Usually) All You Need

Ben CalderwoodWushof Classic 10-inch chefs and 3.5-inch paring knives​ Even the most prosumer home chef has found himself creeping surreptitiously down the aisles of the Macy's kitchen department, tempted by the siren song of the 23-piece cutlery set. There are boning knives, tomato/bagel kniv ... More >>

Transgender Worker Sues Macys After Being Thrown Out Of Women's Restroom

Macy's​A transgender employee of Macy's filed suit against the store this week after three years of alleged discrimination, including being thrown out of the Torrance location's female restroom. Jason "Jazz'' Araquel, who identifies as a "pre-op" female, claims he received "unfair treatment," ... More >>

Are You Between 24 and 34? Prepare to Be Rebranded as "Generation Mix"! (and to Be Treated Like a Moron)

Bill JensenGeneration Mix in da house!​So, if you're between 24 and 34, the people who are trying to sell you stuff you don't need in order to get the money you don't have have just decided to start calling you a member of Generation Mix. What defines Generation Mix? Well, VH1 apparently got ... More >>

Up in the Hair: Reitman Blows Off the BAFTAs to Guest Program the New Beverly

Nicole CamposReitman​Writer-director -- and recent LA Weekly guest blogger -- Jason Reitman is in the midst of a banner awards season, his much-lauded George Clooney-starrer Up in the Air having raked in a truckload of nominations and snared more than one win, in particular for his screenplay ... More >>

A Talking Coffee Maker: For Your Cup of Joe, Talk to Your Coffee Pot, Not Your Barista

You can talk to your car and your phone; now you can talk to your coffee pot too. Today the Primula Speak n' Brew, a 10-cup drip coffee maker designed by a 3rd generation company based in New Jersey, launches at Macy's Home stores, and November 1st on Amazon. "It took us about 18 months to develop i ... More >>

Keeping Up With the Times

Expo Line's Fantasy Future Stop

The other day Dakota at Curbed L.A. noted that, in this sketch of the Expo Line's proposed Santa Monica terminus, "even the sea gulls are happy." It's not only the sight of contented seagulls that lends an air of whimsy to this scene, though, nor even the fact that the "Subway to the Sea" may not ac ... More >>

Trader Joe's Aisle Meltdown

There are some things that the bonds of matrimony are no match for and they come up this time of year through my admittedly perverse desire to walk into Macy's on Christmas Eve (Union or Herald Square, in San Francisco or N.Y. -- the bigger the better) and, on New Year's Eve, to "pick something up" ... More >>

Scenes at the Mall: Angry Black Friday

America did its patriotic duty to stimulate the national economy at the malls this past Thanksgiving weekend. Black Friday sales, you may have heard, were up 3 percent from last year, topping out at $10.6 billion. Shoppers spent $372 over the Black Friday weekend. Nevermind that nasty little busine ... More >>

SMMOA and LACE Put the Fun in Fund-raisers

Going ... going ... incognito

Best Mall for (Actual) Rats

Who Goes There?

L.A. security guards seek more security

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

Huffing and Puffing

Thank You For Smoking lights up the doctors of spin

Everything Counts in Large Amounts

11 secrets of swarm success

Smash Box

The Incredible Hulk’s cathartic punch

Squinting Into the Sun

How our theater will change over the next decade

Carolina in my Mind

'My Name Is Bill . . .'

A Q&A with the anonymous founder of flash mobs

Laughter Therapy

Less Sugar, More Spice

Mean Girls, though entertaining, could be meaner

Store Front

In the bid to expand its empire into Inglewood, Wal-Mart’s getting black like me

Sam and His Pals

L.A. is a Wal-Mart town. Get used to it.

Pennies Striking Dust

The short, almost happy life of the Los Angeles Writing Club

Act Two

Friends in the key of life

The Adelphia Story

Fire & Ice

Making it up

Style and Substance

Makeup or Breakup

Continental Divide

A shoeshine in Istanbul

Wal-Mart Knocks on Crenshaw’s Door

But the news inspires catcalls as well as cheers

Letters

ExitToll

Macy’s donations anger Crenshaw anew

Loaves and Fishes

Creole food on the Third Street Promenade