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4 Great Baja Chefs Coming to Tacolandia

If you're planning on spending the afternoon of June 23 watching a baseball game (the Dodgers will be in San Diego anyway) or catching a matinee of World War Z, you maybe haven't been paying attention. You have tacos to eat. TiVo the game, watch the movie later, after you've spent the better part of ... More >>

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Cannes 2013: Five of Our Favorite Films

Some of The Lowest Air Fares in The U.S. Can Be Found in SoCal

If you're tired of L.A. constantly having the some of the highest gas prices in the nation, there's a small consolation. If you're the flying type, the area also has some of the most affordable air fares in the entire U.S. of A. That according to a U.S. Department of Transportation domestic air far ... More >>

Local Promoters Raw Put Bands in Front of Audiences -- For a Fee

A Los Angeles-based company called Raw would like to give your band a show. And also, possibly, an award. In exchange, it would like a few dollars. Raw's clunky, full moniker is RAW: natural born artists -- it's not an acronym but rather references "unpolished" performers. It puts on parties in mo ... More >>

Wonder Girls Interview: Sometimes L.A. Korean Food Is Better Than In Korea

A few years ago, none of the Wonder Girls spoke English; today they are all nearly fluent. Formed in 2007, the five woman K-pop group was on the forefront of the cultural crossover phenomenon with a string of hits. All in their early twenties, the Girls -- Sun, Lim, Sohee, Yenny and Yubin -- have o ... More >>

Flight Review: Denzel Washington Sulks and Soars as an Alcoholic Pilot

VIDEO of Shamu Killer Whale Attack at SoCal SeaWorld Goes Viral

Video of an killer whale attack on a SeaWorld trainer surfaced this week thanks to an author who filed a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the imagery, which was used in a federal court case against the park. The footage depicts trainer Ken Peters, whom U-T San Diego says is still workin ... More >>

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Brooke Shields and Richard Chamberlain and Beautiful Lighting Can't Save The Exorcist, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

The Hollywood Fringe Festival continues through August in an extended program, The Best of Hollywood Fringe, sponsored by a trio local theaters: Actors Circle Theatre, Artworks, Theatre Asylum and Lab. For shows you may have missed in June, see the complete schedule following New Theater Reviews aft ... More >>

The Time David Lee Roth Abandoned His Plymouth Valiant to Rot

By Michael Wilton See also: *Van Halen's Babysitter: The band's record label assigned Ted Cohen to go on tour with them in their glory years. Here's what he saw *Van Halen's 1980 Tour Rider: Why They Demanded The Brown M&Ms Be Picked Out For our music feature this week we spoke with Ted Cohen, a ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: Queen of Versailles Review

Queen of Versailles, the latest film from documentarian and photographer Lauren Greenfield (Thin), follows David and Jackie Siegel, the 70-something Westgate timeshare mogul and his 40-something trophy wife who were in the middle of building the largest single-family home in America when the financi ... More >>

Backstreet's Back, All Right! Kevin Richardson Dons a Tuxedo, Talks Lusty 12-Year-Olds

Kristin Kay PhotographyKevin Richardson and Rob Gonzalez​Kevin Richardson strutted into a Sherman Oaks café for breakfast recently -- and none of the preteen girls even noticed. If this were 1998, things would have been different: As a member of the Backstreet Boys, Richardson was the suave ... More >>

Cry Baby Lane VIDEO: Watch Nickelodeon's 'Banned' Halloween Movie Online

Viacom (Please don't sue me?)Scaredy cat.​So much hullabaloo, this Halloweentime, about the revival of Nickelodeon's fabled turn-of-the-century horror flick "Cry Baby Lane." According to Reuters, it'll be airing this Oct. 31 for the first time since it debuted in 2000. (Once at 12 a.m., and on ... More >>

Weekend Bar Openings: The Churchill, Oldfield's Liquor Room, Hollywood Magic Bar

Jen JonesThe Churchill's interior​Angelenos have three new bars they can hit this weekend: The Churchill, Oldfield's Liquor Room and the Hollywood Magic Bar. (The opening of Josef Centeno's new restaurant, Bäco Mercat, has, sadly, been delayed until sometime in early November.) The Churchill ... More >>

Cop's Book Says Sean Combs, Suge Knight Ordered Tupac and Biggie Killings

Top detective on rap murders says LAPD pulled the plug despite confessions

Tupac and Biggie Murders: An Up-to-Date List of Characters, Given New Evidence From Ex-LAPD Detective Greg Kading

Update: "The 'Keffe D' Tapes: 10 Highlights of Confession From Gangster Who Says Sean Combs Hired Him to Kill Tupac." Of the many theories that have emerged over the last 15 years as to who was behind the drive-by killings of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, the closest thing we've seen to an invest ... More >>

The 'Keffe D' Tapes: 10 Highlights of Confession From Gangster Who Says Sean Combs Hired Him to Kill Tupac

Orlando "Baby Lane" Anderson (pictured) shot Tupac to death, according to his uncle, Keffe D.​"A barrel-chested black man with a front tooth missing, relaxed yet instinctively cautious, is seated across from four spellbound cops in a glass-walled conference room at 8200 Wilshire Blvd." So beg ... More >>

Los Angeles Comes in Second Among American Big Cities in Total Pedestrians Killed in '00s

prayitnoWalking in L.A.​You can sleep well knowing that L.A. came in at No. 27 -- if you weigh for population and walking to work -- in a national ranking of big-city pedestrian deaths by the organization Transportation for America. Or you can wake up in a cold sweat knowing that we had the se ... More >>

Stage Raw: D is for Dog

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Gregg Ostrin's KowalskiKris BicknellD is for Dog​This week, Deborah Klugman was smitten with Kate Polebaum's new play about 1950 suburbia gone awry, D is for Dog. Also, weekly critics filed strong reviews this week for As You Like ... More >>

Backstreet Boys, New Kids On The Block Announce More New Tour Dates ("LOL")

​ No, This is not next season's cast for Jersey Shore. Remember New Kids on the Block? You know--Donnie Wahlberg's band, which sold eighty million records worldwide? (This was in the late '80s and early '90s, when people still deigned to purchase music.) And who won two American Music Awards ... More >>

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Actress/producer Tilda Swinton on her postmodern romantic epic, I Am Love

Theater Reviews: All in the Timing, Hair, Life Could Be a Dream

Also, 7DS, Cannibal! The Musical, Fernando and more

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