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In Memory Of A Fundraiser: Wally's Central Coast Wine & Food Event Ends Its 8 Year Run

Wally's Central Coast Wine & Food Celebration, a nonprofit wine and food tasting event that began eight years ago to support the Michael Bonaccorsi Scholarship Fund, has unexpectedly been cancelled this year. "We just don't have a place to do the event," says the event's volunteer publicist, Janni ... More >>

Hamlet

Wally's Central Coast Wine & Food Celebration, a nonprofit wine and food tasting event that began eight years ago to support the Michael Bonaccorsi Scholarship Fund, has unexpectedly been cancelled this year. "We just don't have a place to do the event," says the event's volunteer publicist, Janni ... More >>

Jonathan Gold Reviews a Beefsteak at Vibiana

Wally's Central Coast Wine & Food Celebration, a nonprofit wine and food tasting event that began eight years ago to support the Michael Bonaccorsi Scholarship Fund, has unexpectedly been cancelled this year. "We just don't have a place to do the event," says the event's volunteer publicist, Janni ... More >>

'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know About Walt Whitman?

​​ Walt Whitman​​​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have made invaluable contributions to many different societies. One such person is Walt Whitman, one of the most important poets in the history of the United States. "Whitman's greatest legacy is his invention of a truly ... More >>

Moby Dick Rehearsed

​​ Walt Whitman​​​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have made invaluable contributions to many different societies. One such person is Walt Whitman, one of the most important poets in the history of the United States. "Whitman's greatest legacy is his invention of a truly ... More >>

Orson Welles' Moby Dick, a Beatles Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

Craig SchwartzThis​ The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Dueling Pig Roasts, Crawfish, Wine, LQ @ SK

18th Annual Long Beach Crawfish Festival Long Beach hosts a crawfish festival that features two days of the tasty crustacean battered, boiled, fried and more. There's also the usual array of Cajun music, booths, games and -- bonus! -- beignets. Where: Rainbow Lagoon When: July 30 - 31 Cost: $13 - ... More >>

Wine on Tap: Restaurants Get Into the Flow

Vinson PhotographyWine Cask Santa Barbara​ Wine has always been tapped from barrels. Rarely though, except at a winery, can you drink it that way. That is changing as more California winemakers are packaging wine in multi-gallon kegs and restaurants junk bottles for tap systems. Draft wine is ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Griffith Park Shakespeare Festival

Much ado about nothing

Stage Raw: City Garage Bids Adieu to Fourth Street

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS Cover Story on LATE's The War Cycle2011 MARK TAPER FORUM SEASON ANNOUNCED ​John Lithgow Photo by Nigel Perry John Lithgow will ring in the New Year spinning yarns in Stories By Heart, previously produced at the Lincoln Center and at the National ... More >>

Stage Raw: Much Ado

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS STAGE FEATURE on My Penis, In and Out of TroubleNEW REVIEW GO GRIFFITH PARK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING​Photo by Ivy AugustaDon John (Sean Pritchett) is such a bastard. Really. He's the bastard son of Don Pedro (Luis Galindo), pri ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Thurgood, As the Globe Warms, I'm Not Here Anymore

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and more

Othello

Also, Othello, Redhead Cuban Hausfrau Husband and more

Global Touch

The world according to David Mitchell

Stage Raw: Two Plays by Yukio Mishima

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEAR​NEW REVIEW GO TWO PLAYS BY YUKIO MISHIMA ​Photo by Yukata Takeuchi Perhaps most notorious in the West for his sensational, 1970 suicide by seppuku, controversial poet-novelist Yukio Mishima was also a pl ... More >>

Samsara: California Wine Elevated To Art

J.KoslowSamsara's Finest​ Three hours north of Los Angeles in bucolic Lompoc, obscured by a Home Depot and suburban housing, resides one of the finest garage projects you've never heard of. It is Samsara, the smallest of small wineries, producing a scant 900 cases annually and distinctively h ... More >>

A Priest and a Woman: Jean-Paul Belmondo and Emmanuelle Riva in Melville’s Léon Morin

J.KoslowSamsara's Finest​ Three hours north of Los Angeles in bucolic Lompoc, obscured by a Home Depot and suburban housing, resides one of the finest garage projects you've never heard of. It is Samsara, the smallest of small wineries, producing a scant 900 cases annually and distinctively h ... More >>

How Fiction Works: King James and the Battle for the Novel

It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

CSI Paris: French Crime at LACMA

It's James Wood's World and We're Just Reading In It

Le Doulos

Hat trick

Royal Pains: King Richard II and Power

Bounced checks and balances

The Best Films of 2006: The Year of Army of Shadows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Theater

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Chasing Pynchon's Rainbows

And the First Annual L.A. Weekly Film Poll

Beyond the Imaginary Line

Hubert Cornfield, 1929–2006

Army of Shadows

Hubert Cornfield, 1929–2006

The Alain Delon Collection

Hubert Cornfield, 1929–2006

5 List Obsessed Books

Hubert Cornfield, 1929–2006

Queens of the Angels

Polly Warfield, 1914–2003. Pamela Gordon, 1937–2003

Oh Dad, Poor Dad

Surrogate fathers in The Good Thief and The Son

Good Rep

Smart selection and pristine prints from Rialto Pictures

When the Bad are Beautiful

Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge

Pool Man

Neck-Deep in the living waters

City Without a Story

Quick, Now: What's L.A.'s Story?

Claiming the Camera

The photographs of Seydou Keïta and Malick Sidibé

Truth and Daring

Reconstructing Laurie Anderson

Act II

New York theater comes back

A Few of Our Favorite Things

Fleas, flying fish, glass eyeballs, dissected Japanese criminals. Rimbaud and Hammett, too

Ghosts and Shadows

Reflections on a non-commercial theater

Double Agent for Cain

William T. Vollman and the case against God

Leaf Blowers

New fiction from T.C. Boyle, first fiction from Tod Goldberg, City in Fiction from David Fine

Blow Hard

Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm

Shipshape

Wolfgang Petersen’s The Perfect Storm

Daily Variety

Frederick Wiseman's poetry of the mundane

Grand Delusion

Frederick Wiseman's poetry of the mundane

Buddha! Buddha! Buddha!

Laurie Anderson, Tibetan sand painters and the Black Dragon Society

Black Hole Sonsabitches

The world is about to end with a giant sucking sound

Moby Dick (the Next Generation)

Patrick Stewart does Captain Ahab