Marilyn Monroe

An Awards Show for Movie Trailers, and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, May 3 On Friday, Aisha Tyler (The Talk) and Rob Schneider will host the 14th annual Golden Trailer Awards at the Saban Theater; the pre-party  starts at 6:30 p.m. Don your cocktail-party attire for a night t ... More >>

TCM Classic Film Festival: Watching Hollywood's Greatest Films on Its Most Annoying Boulevard

Hollywood Boulevard during the TCM Classic Film Festival is mostly business as usual: Captain Jack Sparrow and Marilyn Monroe walk up and down the street to the delight of camera-wielding tourists, Jimmy Kimmel Live staffers give away free tickets, aspiring rappers hand out CDs before not-so-subtly ... More >>

Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty

5 Nude Photos from Suicide Girls: Hard Girls, Soft Light (NSFW)

See also: *10 Erotic Photos from Taschen's New Photography Book (NSFW) *10 Sexy Photos From the History of Pornography (NSFW) Suicide Girls are heading from the Internet to your coffee table. Hard Girls, Soft Light is the latest book featuring the tattooed and pierced beauties who have been gracing ... More >>

From Danny Boyle to The Big Bang Theory: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 8 As the first official LGBTQ student organization in any evangelical graduate theological school, OneTable at the Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena hopes to facilitate conversation between Christians and the gay community through its ... More >>

Pann's: 99 Essential Restaurants 2013

Well-dressed nightmares

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Battling Curators to Banana Splits

This week, there's a game show-style showdown in Santa Monica, a print fair at LACMA and a film that tours through facets of pre-invasion Baghdad showing in Eagle Rock. 5. Justin Bieber's leftovers Art Is Shit Editions, a fairly young, L.A.-based art publishing company that produces objects as well ... More >>

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, December 17 The Moonbeams HEMINGWAY'S LOUNGE The Moonbeams' upcoming single might be titled "Life's a Circus," but the song is more mournful and foreboding than cheery or escapist. Lead singer Beck Black howls her bloody imprecations with a solemn, sullen intensity as drummer Adam Alt and g ... More >>

Addicted to Fame Review: Squeezing One Last Buck Out of Anna Nicole Smith

Halloween at the Barn

10 Best Lindsay Lohan Artworks

See also: *Marilyn Monroe's Seven Rare Mostly Nude Photos *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Top 10 Artworks Inspired by Cult Movies Using celebrities as artistic inspiration is certainly nothing new -- just ask anyone who ever tacked up an Andy Warhol poster in a dorm room. Yet, there is ce ... More >>

'1 Image 1 Minute' Event Is Like Show and Tell, But With Republican Porn, Dolly Parton and Horse Bestiality

As part of its 15th anniversary celebration, X-TRA Magazine, a Los Angeles-based art journal, presented the fourth installment of its popular 1 Image 1 Minute event series, in which a few dozen members of the local art community are each asked to present a photograph that is meaningful to them and s ... More >>

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at the Geffen Playhouse and the Plight of Black Performers in Hollywood

Toronto Film Festival 2012 Report: The Master, Spring Breakers and More

Sex-Change Comedy (Missing Dick), in the Latest New Theater Reviews, Plus New Works Festivals Bustin' Out

REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's, Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwri ... More >>

Lindsay Lohan Reportedly Found Unconscious at Ritz-Carlton in Marina Del Rey

ABC7 is reporting that Lindsay Lohan "was taken to hospital after being found unconscious at Ritz-Carlton in Marina del Rey." Paramedics reportedly arrived around 10:15 a.m. She's been filming "Liz & Dick" in the area, and was involved in a car crash along the PCH last week. Alcohol was later repor ... More >>

What's In A Rose Name? The Food Hybrid Tea Varietals (Whiskey, Too) Planning Your Own Rose Cocktail Garden

Wander around any formal rose garden with name plaques this time of year (The Huntington, Palisades Park in Santa Monica), and you'll likely bump into several Hollywood celebrity stunners like Marilyn Monroe (a tall apricot flower with "large bloom size," per the official description). In the rose-n ... More >>

After the Fall

Mr. Brainwash's 'Art Show 2011' Gets Populism Right

photo by Nanette GonzalesMr. Brainwash's "Art Show 2011"​ Update: Show has been extended, and will be open one more day, on Jan. 8. Doors open at 2 p.m. Location is 960 N. La Brea Ave. At "Art Show 2011," equivocal street artist Mr. Brainwash's 80,000 square-foot feat, Mr. Brainwash sat at a ... More >>

A Black-and-White Red Carpet Riot

'Blue Sky Metropolis' at the Huntington Library Shows How Aerospace Shaped L.A., From Surfing to Marilyn Monroe

Nasa photoNASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.​ At a new exhibition at ... More >>

Would You Pay $3 Million for Ruby Slippers From 'Wizard of Oz'?

Home comes at a price.​Ruby slippers! They're everywhere these days. Namely, slung from the many crackling telephone lines of Los Angeles -- an art project originally thought to be marketing for the West Coast opening of "Wicked" but really a preview to artist Manny Castro's new show in Echo P ... More >>

Rave Standoff in Hollywood: Cops Move in to Disperse Crowds That Came to See DJ Kaskade

YouTubeKaskade spins on Hollywood Boulevard.​Updated at the bottom: LAPD detectives are investigating last night's events. A permit service source says organizers had planned to have Kaskade as a big part of the red-carpet festivities. AND EDC's promoter had earlier indicated it was hosting th ... More >>

10 Geeky Hollywood Artifacts Sold at Auction Over the Weekend, from Empire Strikes Back, Star Trek, Willy Wonka, Walt Disney and Others

Courtesy of Profiles in HistoryCar from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang​ An auction of big-name Hollywood geek porn organized by Profiles in History at the Saban Theater in Beverly Hills this past weekend grossed more than $5.8 million. We bring you the highlights: 10. An original film cel from the c ... More >>

Ask Mr. Gold: The Eternal Dilemma of LAX Food

Anne Fishbeinthe invisible restaurant critic​ Dear Mr. Gold: Do you have a lunch recommendation near LAX? I'm not opposed to In-N-Out, just looking for other options. --Evan Cohen, via Facebook

Q & A with Eric Greenspan, Part 2: Culinary School or Not Culinary School, Etc.

Photo by Felicia Friesema.​In Part 1 of our interview with Eric Greenspan, we discovered that The Foundry on Melrose is somehow a tight ship and a wild ride at the same time. The chef waxed poetic (and, well, dropped a lot of f-bombs) as he discussed the challenges of owning a restaurant, the ... More >>

Brentwood's second weirdest celeb murder case: Was Marilyn Monroe killed by the Kennedys to cover up Roswell?

​ Of course not. That's batshit. Why would anybody ask such a thing? But ask they do, as you can see in this week's Studies in Crap post over on our artsy/awesome Style Council blog. There we take a loving look at Donald R. Burleson's 2003 treatise UFOs and the Murder of Marilyn Monroe, whic ... More >>

Madonna's Gym Probably Won't Make You Look Like Madonna: Here's How She Maintained Her Material Body Through the Decades

MatrixBody fat? Who needs body fat!: Madonna opens a gym​The opening of Madonna's new gym, Hard Candy, got us thinking about the Material Girl and how she has maintained that famous bod throughout the decades. Madonna got her start as a dancer, dropping out of college and giving up her chanc ... More >>

Galaxina: Lost in Space

Playmate-turned-actress-turned–murder victim Dorothy Stratten's last role was in this cult not-quite-classic

We Are the Tallow Men: New Madame Tussauds Opening in Hollywood

In a town of fakes and pretenders, a wax museum populated by celebrity mannequins might be the only way for today's tourist to encounter movie stars -- when, 70 years ago, Hollywood visitors and locals could often encounter the real things in clubs, restaurants and drug stores. Today Madame Tussauds ... More >>

Stage Raw: The List Keeps Growing

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ON MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP (310) ... More >>

Stage Raw: Don Shirley and City Beat

CLICK HERE FOR COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSThe news that L.A.'s City Beat is folding leaves the prospect of the former L.A. Times arts reporter and City Beat theater columnist/critic Don Shirley without gainful employment -- temporarily I hope. It also mutes the opinions of one of L.A. theater's m ... More >>

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

Mr. Brainwash's Life is Beautiful

The faded mocha edifice that until last year housed CBS’s Columbia Square studios looks at first glance completely abandoned. On giant placards that once displayed pristine, smiling headshots of the KCBS news team, the local newscasters now sport spray-painted Marilyn Monroe wigs, Warhol style ... More >>

Harmony Korine's Singular and Sincere Mister Lonely

Finding Neverland

Short Subjects

Hot this summer: the swinging trapeze and frocks with pockets

Master Mizoguchi

Life, love and loss in the films of a cinematic giant

LA Theater 2007: To Play, or Not to Play, That Is the Question

Moments of truth in local theater

Too Disturbing for Kansans!

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Smokey and the Bandit: Special Edition

Crystal Blue Persuasion

Diving into the newest scenester abyss

Shopping the ’Bank

Bring your own parking meter

Hollywood Lived Here

The semi-glorious and sometimes gory history of Hollywood apartment living. (Part of LA Weekly's special apartment-living package.)

David Ehrenstein, Meet David Ehrenstein

A Sizable Paradox

Don't Let Your Meat Loaf

Edited by Kateri Butler

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Everbody's the Greatest

Waxing Nostalgic