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Benjamin Millepied, Black Swan's Star Choreographer, Danced Through MOCA's Galleries Last Night

It was a scene, all right, at LA Dance Project's "sneak preview" show, a site-specific dance by Benjamin Millepied in MOCA's galleries Thursday night. The performance (which repeats Aug. 2 and 9) was the first by the Black Swan choreographer since he announced the formation of the Music Center-back ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Surrealist Peepshow

There are a few great tributes to vintage artists on this week's list. And Chinatown's fourth performance festival, always a wild card and always worth visiting for just that reason, happens this Saturday. 5. Slam poetry with Slanguage "One hundred thousand dollars can be stretched a long way down ... More >>

Benjamin Millepied: Ballet's His Lady

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. Choreographer Benjamin Millepied favors Silver Lake's Sunset Junction for interviews. There's Intelligentsia for a cappuccino and the croissant that he gobbles (politely) befor ... More >>

Liz Meriwether: Nice Quirk if You Can Get It

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. If you haven't seen New Girl -- the Fox sitcom that premiered last September to stellar ratings -- you've probably seen the billboards all over town, featuring star Zooey Desch ... More >>

Christian Marclay's The Clock Winds Down at LACMA, Applause Erupts at Midnight

Christian Marclay, Detail from The Clock, 2010, single channel video, purchased with funds provided by Steve Tisch through 2011 Collectors Committee. The Clock © Christian Marclay, courtesy White Cube Gallery, London, and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York​ (Also check out Catherine Wagley's pre ... More >>

TUTU MUCH

Academy Awards Losers to Receive Consolation Gift Bag With Crystal Necktie, Stem-Cell Serum, Doggie-Slobber Cleaner -- and More!

Life ain't so bad, in the end​Now now, child. You're way too pretty for tears. What's a promising young starlet like yourself doing way down there in the dumps on such a fine day as the Oscars? Oh, shit -- you lost the Best Actress statue to Natalie Portman? Well, do try to refrain from kinki ... More >>

Top 5 Alternative Oscar Movie Food Pairings

Guzzle & NoshNatalie Portman Kyochon chicken bones​ Subsequent to the Golden Globes and SAG awards, with Oscar season in full swing, we've seen both good and bad films this year. With few exceptions though, movie theater food remains as uniformly vile as ever: Styrofoam packing chips douse ... More >>

No Strings Attached Review

High-concept director Ivan Reitman goes low-key for believable romantic comedy

Topless Video of Ballerino Benjamin Millepied, aka "The Guy Who Knocked Up Natalie Portman" (Watch)

​So, a guy knocks up Natalie Portman, and he's trending as all getout and now everyone wants to know everything about him, so much so that they crash his website! Here's some topless footage of ballerino Benjamin Millepied, aka "The Guy Who Knocked Up Natalie Portman." Enjoy:

The Social Network Named Best Movie of 2010

The film critics' poll

The 2010 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Poll

From best to worst, the results are in

Black Swan: Dance Dance Revulsion

Natalie Portman goes bat-shit in a tutu in Darren Aronofsky's latest

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

How To See Movies For Free: A Guide to AFI Fest Ticketing

Evil Ballerina Natalie Portman wants you to Rush for AFI Tickets​ This week's big local film story is the launch of AFI Fest 2010, which begins tonight with a gala screening of the naked Anne Hathaway movie Love and Other Drugs, and will screen over 60 features over the next seven days, inclu ... More >>

Leaving

Last Night: Broken Bells ( The Morning Benders) at the Music Box

Timothy NorrisBroken Bells (Mr. Mouse, center and Mr. Mercer, right)​ Broken Bells played their second show in LA in only a few months last night at the Music Box (again, per: memo--it's never to be called "the Henry Fonda" ever again. Easy mnemonic: the Fonda didn't have odd, humongous Hiero ... More >>

Apocalypse "New": Free Experimental Musical featuring Ariana Delawari and Many Others, Tonight

​Here's an Earth Day thought: imagine that two narcissistic party girls--Nicole & Paris but with better vocabularies--survive the apocalypse and rebuild civilization according to their depraved self-serving desires. They destroy the world maybe twice in the process through song and dance. This ... More >>

Last Night: Strip Dreidel, Christmas Eve Heebonism and Jewjitsu in Palm Springs: Heeb Mag's

Jeremy PelleyThe Ace Hotel in Palm Springs honors the tribe on Christmas Eve​Being Jewish on Christmas sucks. The only places open are Chinese restaurants and movie theaters. Every house but yours is beautifully ablaze in lights and big French windows filled with families in ill-fitting itchy ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Armored, Brothers, Everybody's Fine

Also, The Last Station, Transylmania and more

A Night of Top Chef Programming on Bravo: Pack Your Knives First, Please

Photo credit: BravoTom & Padma​If you're a fan of Top Chef, you will be staying at home tonight, breathlessly munching on dishes you've perhaps cooked from one of Rick Bayless's books. Or Huber Keller's or Michael Chiarello's. Or maybe Tom Colicchio's or even Padma Lakshmi's (yes, two of them) ... More >>

Rock Picks: Future of the Left, Deerhoof, Ronnie Mack's Barndance, The Urinals

Also, Torche, Alejandro Escovedo, Quintron & Miss Pussycat, and others

Rock Picks: Jon Brion, Andrew Bird, Tortoise, Vice Squad

Also, Beyonce, the Datsuns, the Veils, the Germs and others

LA People 2009: Vujachick — Sasha Watch Blogger Emily Ho

The mild-mannered librarian discovered her inner Laker through her obsession with Sasha Vujacic

Rock Picks: Amanda Palmer, Metallica, War Tapes

Also, J.D. Souther, Von Iva, Juliette Commagere and others

Rock Picks: AC/DC, Dressy Bessy, Meshell Ndegeocello

Also, the Submarines, Ruben Guevara, the Coup and more

YES, MORE CELEB DJ SETS

What do Bloc Party, the actor Ryan Gosling and Chromeo have in common? All are non-DJs who gave the decks a spin this week. Actually Chromeo's tonight, so if you're looking for something to do after their Fonda show, hop on down to the Ivar for the after-party where they'll be attacking the wheels o ... More >>

The Kidz In the Hall Demonstrate the Power of A Good Rolodex

When ex-Just Blaze proteges, Kidz in the Hall released their debut album, School Was My Hustle on the newly revived Rawkus Records, I didn't listen to it for a variety of reasons. Chief among them was the "Ivy League Rap" label critics ascribed to the duo of Nawledge and Double-O. Still scarred f ... More >>

Devendra & Natalie sitting in a tree. But are they K-I-S-S-I-N-G?

Is Devendra Banhart a starfucker or just a star?

The Other Boleyn Girl: Sister Act

Sibling rivalry can be a heady affair

Small Wonder: Mr. Magorium

A movie far less fantastical than its title

Film Reviews: Goya’s Ghosts, Cashback, Captivity

Also this week's pick, Ten Canoes

Francophilia

Have no fear, the French will save cinema

Sales Go Soft. Shins Go Limp. Rock Critics Go Limper.

In the Pink

Shins take a trip to the dark side of the moon

Theater Reviews

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

Anarchy in the U.K.

The Wachowskis prosecute their Vendetta

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

Seems Like Old Times

Lucas’ Star Wars III, Schrader’s Exorcist prequel

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

A Considerable Town
Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77 — film . . . fashion . . . warm bodies

Baby, It’s Cold Inside

Oscar at 77

Have They No Shame?

Oscar gets a razzie for kissing Marty’s and Harvey’s butts. Plus, who’ll win and who’ll lose.

Notable Scene Stealers

(In a Good Way)

Been Here, Done This

Mike Nichols can’t polish Closer to a shine

On the Couch, Off the Meds

Patrice Leconte’s Intimate Strangers, Zach Braff’s Garden State

Song of the South

Cold Mountain’s glow is somewhat too golden

A Thousand Clones . . .

...do not an awesome Star Wars make

Venus Rising

Natalie Portman is Where the Heart Is