Marlene Dietrich

Garbo's Cuban Lover

Red 2 Isn't Great, but Helen Mirren? Fabulous

Hattie ... What I Need You to Know

Down & Dirty

Zombie Joe's Goes Saucy in Down & Dirty, Memphis at the Pantages, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Adam Szymkowicz's comic book parody, Hearts Like Fists at Theatre of NOTE takes unrequited love to camp, and gets this week's Pick of the Week. Click here for all the latest New Theater Reviews, or after the jump.Also check out this week's Stage feature on performance beyond the theater walls: an i ... More >>

Santa Monica Auctions Says Goodbye, as Bergamot Station's C Building Will Be Demolished for Expo Line

Johnny Cash's lyric "I hear the train a comin'" best captures the mood at the Santa Monica Auctions farewell event, held this past weekend, June 9 and 10. Due to the planned extension of the MTA's Expo Line, the entire C Building at Bergamot Station -- home to Track 16, The Robert Berman Gallery and ... More >>

A $100 Cocktail: The Beverly Hills Hotel Turns 100 Years Old

One of L.A.'s most recognizable grand dames turns 100 on Saturday May 12 and marks the occasion with a $100 commemorative cocktail and movie star themed cocktail list. 10 special "These Walls are Talking" cocktails, available at the hotel's off-lobby Bar Nineteen12 and the Polo Lounge, salute the Be ... More >>

Hey You "Homo Superiors" — Go to This!

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top 10 Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #5-1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6 5. Music Box See also: R.I.P. the Music Box? Legendary Hollywood Venue Shuttered [UPDATE: Short-term?] News of the Music Box's overnight shuttering this month was met wi ... More >>

5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Weegee at MOCA to L.A. Art's Equivalent of The Wire

This week's picks pretty much sum up the year: L.A. boosterism, '70s nostalgia, autobiographical installation art and women artists recognized a few decades late. 5. The Original Paparazzo At MOCA, Weegee is more showman than craftsman. The photographer, who started his career as an aggressive New ... More >>

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Movies for dessert

Mick Rock's Top 10 Iconic Rock Images, with Running Behind-the-Lens Commentary (and a Few Surprises)

Mick Rock (c)​ Mick Rock has shot some of the most recognizable portraits in rock music history and he's got, hands down, the best name in shutterbugdom. But with a candor and style that's as palpable as any of his subjects, he is also just as cool. In LA this weekend for a couple of events ... More >>

The Big Canvas

If you give an artist a billboard ...

Stage Raw: L.A. Theater Aesthetic?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on The Event and Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSGROUNDLINGS SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN ​is one of almost a dozen new productions being reviewed this weekend. For the complete slate, hit the More tab at the ... More >>

Nightranger: Steppin' Out

Theater Reviews: The Ballad of Emmett Till, Dual Citizens, The Subject Was Roses

Also, Wit, Calliope Rose, Barbra’s Wedding and more

Stage Raw: "Wit," and other New Reviews

 COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURES ON NORTH ATLANTIC AND ED HARRIS THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW GO WIT ​Photo courtesy of Actors' Co-opPlaywright Margaret Edson won the Pulitzer Prize for this intense drama  about an English poetry pro ... More >>

Today in Photographs: August 8, 1940

Noel Coward, flanked by Marlene Dietrich and Cary Grant, enjoys a moment during a theater event benefiting the Red Cross at Hollywood's El Capitan Theater. LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL  

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 >>

Fiendishly Cute: How MySpace, Gothic Lolita and Pop Surrealism Influenced Dienzo's Vampires

Liz OhanesianDienzo at Hyaena GalleryFor his first solo show at Hyaena, the Burbank gallery that champions dark and subversive art, artist Rick "Dienzo" Blanco looked towards a favorite subject of his youth, vampires, for inspiration. In Vampyrically Speaking, his mostly female creatures of the nig ... More >>

Leave Him to Heaven: R.I.P. Steven Bach, 1940-2009

Shanghai Moon

Theater Reviews: DIETRICH AND CHEVALIER: THE MUSICAL

Also, Great Expectations, Snake in the Grass and more

Dietrich & Chevalier: The Musical

Thinguma-Bobs: A Dylan Exhibit

Don't Speak! (It's a Silent Movie Thing)

Rediscovering the pre-talkie résumés of three moviemaking greats

Recoveries

Tchaikovsky’s Fourth conducted by Stéphane Denève

Vintage Dame

Cate Blanchett exhumes Hollywood’s golden era

Lulu at Lacma

Celebrating the centenary of the enigmatic Louise Brooks

Theater Reviews

Including this week's pick, The 2006 Ojai Playwrights Conference

The Glamour Collections

Carole Lombard, Mae West, Marlene Dietrich

Decadent Gigantitude

GOLDFRAPP at the Wiltern, March 11

New Theater Reviews

For February 3 - 9, 2006

Sibling Reverie

Maximilian Schell ponders his sister

Mogul of Theresienstadt

Prisoner of Paradise and the cost of collaboration

Dragon’s Daughter

Anna May Wong simmers at center of UCLA retrospective

The Light Stuff

The Coffee Table, Revisited

Letters

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

The Look of Love

Introducing LA Weekly Books

Babes in Armor

The women of Hollywood

The Tao of Pop

Saint Etienne unbounces back

Just One of Those Things

Bryan Ferry brings Cole to Newcastle

Unforgiving

Abraham Polonsky's remembrance of things past

Famous Victories

How labor won on Tuesday; how Gray Davis can win this fall

Larry Johnson

at Margo Leavin