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Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

The Jolly Oyster: Baja Oysters and Clams at the Beach in Ventura

Here's a delicious field trip that combines all the elements of an ideal Southern California picnic. Fresh-from-the sea proteins ready-to-eat. Bring-your-own wine and beer. And dogs are welcome. The Jolly Oyster is a fresh oyster and clam shackette just an hour north of L.A. on the 101. Inspired ... More >>

Leni Riefensthal's Olympia

Top Five Best Post-Hardcore Records

See also: At the Drive-In Speaks At the Drive-In Interview Outtakes Refused and At The Drive-In reunited for Coachella. Now Quicksand is getting into the act, reuniting to play FYF Fest. People are nostalgic for the post-hardcore bands of yesteryear? Apparently. For those not in the know, post-ha ... More >>

Westlake Bar Report: Monty

​ The Place: Monty, 1222 W. 7th Street, Los Angeles. The Hours: 8 p.m. - 2 a.m. The Digs: When we heard that Rio Hackford's new Westlake spot Monty was "hot" back in July, we assumed that meant it had swung open its doors, that when we arrived, mugs shimmering in the low golden light woul ... More >>

Movie Reviews: The City of Your Final Destination, Oceans, Five Easy Pieces

Also, Paper Man, Handmade Nation, Kenny Chesney: Summer in 3D and more

Snips and Snails: Let the Fall Art Season Begin!

Tetro: Coppola’s Family Business

Papa returns, successfully, to the clan

Breaking Boundaries, Onscreen and Off, at the Rotterdam Film Festival

The sky's the limit

Constance Mallinson at Angles Gallery

Linda Perhacs' Parallel Universe

How a Topanga dental hygienist who worked on Paul Newman's teeth created an acid-folk masterpiece (and one of the year's best reissues)

Paul Auster on his Man in the Dark

The light pours out of me

“Die in Anacortes”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 4 of 4

What happens in Anacortes, stays in Anacortes.

“Preachy Songs”: Phil Elverum (aka The Microphones aka Mt. Eerie) Interviewed: Part 3 of 4

Elverum on Crass: "I don't really like that music of Crass, but I love the band, and I love their way, and their presentation."

Lasting Impressions

Anton Heyboer, Han Dai-Yu

Jodie Foster: Chaos Control

With a controversial new vigilante movie, Jodie Foster takes the driver’s seat

La Vie en Rose: Poor Sparrow

A new Edith Piaf biopic takes the troubled singer�s life on trust

Rock Picks

For the week of March 29 � April 5

Leni Riefenstahl: Pretty as a Swastika

The sieve of time, or what Leni did

Listening to E. E. Johnson

Rise of the Machines

Pretty Boy and the Nerd try to bring down the Terminator, while the Democratic Party searches for its soul

Screwball Diva

Darcey Leonard

Live in LA

Sunset Junction August 27-28 Snoop Dogg/Red Hot Chili Peppers/Ice Cube at the Greek, August 25

Sweat, Semen and a Scream

With the Lights Out takes us through the past, starkly

Note After Note

Underground Man

The living death of Young Adam�s Alexander Trocchi

Thirteen Ways of Looking at Nirvana

Threepenny Broadway

The Life of the Party

Gendy Alimurung keeps a diary as she stalks Jeffrey Best, Zen planner of L.A. parties

Experiencing Disney Hall

Elliott Smith, 1969�2003

The Streetcar Cometh

Tennessee Williams� barroom symposium

The Wife's Old Tales

Portrait of a Dinosaur

Sam Messer, old-fashioned modernist, paints the moments between poses

Caff� With Danish

Dogme No. 12:Italian for Beginners

Phantoms of the Opera

High Culture, Low-Def

Obscure Objects of Desire

Cinecon 35

Beer, BBQ and Bullock

at the South by Southwest Film Festival