Norman Rockwell

Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound

Zap Comix' Robert Williams

Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts, Updated

Earn a Merit Badge in Popular Art

Sons of Anarchy Meets Mad Men in Danny Lyon's Classic Biker Portraits

"Danny Lyon: The Bikeriders" at Duncan Miller Gallery's Bergamot Station location is one of the most engaging -- and surprising -- photography shows of the past year. Featuring 50 prints from Lyon's landmark 1968 book of the same name, "The Bikeriders" documents four years, 1963-67, during which the ... More >>

10 Bizarre Portraits of Ellen DeGeneres

Pop art will never die, so long as bizarre celebrity obsessions keep it fresh, fun and, y'know, weird. So what's with Ellen? How many renditions of her mug do you think you can handle in one gallery opening? This weekend at the Terrell Moore Gallery, artist Renda Writer assembled his second annual ... More >>

Helen Hunt in Our Town at the Broad Stage

War Horse Review

Steven Spielberg Does World War I

Hosea Nova, Who's Your Daddy? and More New Theater Reviews

​High praise this week for "Robert Reimer's nutcase of a play," Hosea Nova: A Jealous and Violent Man (this week's Pick of the Week) at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood, and for writer-performer Johnny O'Callaghan's Who's Your Daddy, at the Victory Theatre Center, in Burbank. ​For all ... More >>

Super Mario Brothers in the Style of Norman Rockwell? Five Works that Modernize the American Master

Courtesy of the Muckenthaler Cultural CenterAaron Jasinski's Super Mario Brothers​ If Norman Rockwell were alive today, would he be painting kids playing Super Mario Brothers? The show "American Nostalgia," currently running at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center in Fullerton, shows new artists ... More >>

30 Scoops in 30 Days: Sweet Rose Creamery (Day 4)

Does Sweet Rose Creamery make the best banana split on the planet? That may be taking things too far, but it wouldn't be hyperbolic to say they make the best banana split in Los Angeles.

NPR Reports: The Man Who Celebrates Thanksgiving With Strangers

Norman Rockwell​ Once, an uncle, having consumed half his weight in Fetzer Chardonnay, switched to Sierra Nevada halfway through Thanksgiving dinner, and remarked, quite loudly, as he took an exploratory sip and jauntily contemplated the bottle: "This beer tastes like p***y." Thanksgiving ... More >>

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Arias With a Twist, La Ronde de Lunch, Love in Bloom

Also, Molly Sweeney, Equivocation, Love’s Labour’s Lost and more

Stage Raw: ZAR

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshStage Raw: ZAR Theatre ZAR from Wroclaw, Poland has been in Southern California for over a week, conducting workshops of their choral-physical technique at UC Irvine and UCLA. Their Tryptich opens next w ... More >>

Stage Raw: Love's Labour's Lost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW GO LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST ​Photo by Amy Graves/Getty ImagesLondon's distinguished Globe Theatre lives up to its reputation with this traditional but resolutely un-stodgy production. Director D ... More >>

The Dov Boat: Woody Allen & American Apparel Settle for $5M

David Shankbone/WikepediaLos Angeles-based garment manufacturer American Apparel has made an out-of-court settlement with Woody Allen, the Associated Press reports. Allen, the idiosyncratic film maker of Annie Hall, Hannah and Her Sisters, and Vicky Cristina Barcelona, had sued the company, owned b ... More >>

Statutory Tape: Nixon Library Unspools More Recordings

Marx had Bismark in mind when described the "shallowness characteristic of all successful statesmen," but he may as well have been looking ahead to Richard Nixon. Today the Nixon Library has released a new batch of White House tapes and for my money the thrill is not in listening to the obvious mome ... More >>

Boise, USA

Theater Reviews: Jen and Angie, I'm Just Wild About Harry

Also, Money & Run, Boise U.S.A. and more

Forget the Mustache: Beauty-Shop Quartets

Some postquaint, teenage-girl harmonies

The Glowing Trough of Music: Five Days of South by Southwest

We laugh, we cry, we hate, we score some dirt weed, suck at the corporate teat, rejoice

SXSW Day 3: Pissed Jeans, Valet, White Rabbits, Thurston Moore, and an impregnated brain

Last night. Last night? Umm, last night ... What the heck did I do last night? Wait. Where the hell am I? In a hotel room, okay ... yeah ... good. At least I'm safe. Okay, now, what the hell did I do again? Jeez. Think. Flashes is all I got, and one grainy image on my cell phone. A half a taco on m ... More >>

Some Paintings

The artists in the third L.A. Weekly Annual Biennial

Paddleboat Economics

City Hall doles out riches, but stiffs the families who won back MacArthur Park

Do I look fat in this Wolverine costume designed for an 11-year-old?

Here's something Mr. Fish did when he was twelve.  His face, while he worked, was as serious as if he were carving his own tombstone.  Or strangling Norman Rockwell.  It was drawn with a black colored pencil, which could not be erased, that's how fucking talented Mr. Fish used to be: ... More >>

Catcher in the Grass

Salinger at an estate sale

Film Reviews

Including this week's pick, Rocky Balboa

The Art of Bodily Horror

A History of Violence director David Cronenberg talks about history — and violence

San Grove-ero Fest And Mo Cheese

Don’t Tread On Me

In two new films, foreign directors show us their vision of a gun-crazy America

Who Were You When the Lights Went Out?

Gonorrhea Gorgonzola

System of a Down’s fourth album, Mezmerize, is some crazy-ass bring-your-own-bong-style shit

The Man With the Golden Camera

Cannes 2005: The verdict is in

A Rheum of One’s Own

The creaky displeasures of Mona Lisa Smile and Calendar Girls

Turf War

It’s Little League versus skateboarders in Highland Park

Voodoo Doll

Bollywood Now!

The stars come out for Craze 2001

Get Pretty

Dave Hickey’s fantasy art team in Santa Fe

Homer and Ray

Illustration as social sculpture

Letters

Revisionist Dreams

Lary May’s Hollywood rewrite

Altar Cocker

Neil Simon's marriages of convenience; plus Steve Allen does Dickens

Our 20th Annual Theater Awards Nominees

You've Got Hate Mail

A critic wonders where it all went wrong

Seeing Red

When your lunch absolutely, positively has to match the color of your tie. . .

What’s New!?

eight tips for bursting your bubble

The Disquieting

DUIs, denial and turkey

Happy Birthday, Andy

Warhol, the prince of dark comedy, at 70

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