Palestine

Sundance 2013: Sex with James Franco, Sultry Scarlett Johansson, Daniel Radcliffe's Jew-Fro, and a Great Film From Jordan

In his brief remarks before the first public screening of the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Robert Redford praised the Sundance Institute's ongoing filmmaker development labs as "our core," noting that the festival itself was conceived "to create an audience for the filmmakers in our lab program."

Madonna Impersonator Nadya Ginsburg Chats With Us (as Madonna)

Actress, writer for E!'s Fashion Police and Madonna impersonator Nadya Ginsburg (she does a hilarious, spot-on Cher, too) will be doing her one-woman show, Madonnalogues, at the Cavern Club tonight and Oct. 23. Ginsberg, in perfect character as Madonna, sat down to talk with us about the pop diva's ... More >>

Got a Reality Show Idea or Documentary in the Works? Here's a Festival Where You Can Pitch It

Anyone who's ever played certain junior high party games knows a lot can happen in seven minutes. It can be heaven, maybe, if it goes well. And if you happen to be a participant in the annual WESTDOC Pitchfest, and your seven minutes goes really well, you may walk out with a prize package worth $25 ... More >>

MAP: Los Angeles Is Bigger Than These Eight Major U.S. Cities Combined

Whenever out-of-towners complain about how hard it is to get anywhere in Los Angeles, we try to tell them: It's no more difficult than trying to traverse the entire Bay Area in a single shot. Because this city is HUGE. Like, half the size of Rhode Island. And because of that, we've got a whole serie ... More >>

On Holy Ground

Baby Doll, Forgotten, On Holy Ground and other new reviews . . .

Joel DaavidTony Gatto and Lulu Brud, in Tennessee Williams "Baby Doll" at the Lillian​Lovell Estell III found Tony Gatto's performance to be a highlight of this week's, Pick of the Week, Tennessee Williams Baby Doll at the Lillian. ​ Recommendations also for Pat Kinevane's solo performance abou ... More >>

Reviews of The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Jolson at the Winter Garden; Laurel and Hardy; and more . . .

Courtesy of the Getty VillaThe Helen and Hecuba Show, in "Trojan Women (After Euripides)"​​SITI Company's Trojan Women (After Euripides) at the Getty Villa is a regal and passionate affair about despair, oddly floating in its own world. See Theater feature on Wednesday.  Also check out this ... More >>

Docuweeks 2011

Miral: Muddle East Politics

Style but little substance in Schnabel's Palestine plea

THE PIANO MANIAC

L.A.'s Simon Wiesenthal Center: 'Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'

Mel, this list needs you.​TMZ called it (as usual): Mel Gibson didn't make the "Top 10 Anti-Semitic Slurs of 2010'' list? Surprising, innit? It's a whole new era in unenlightened Jew hating. And the L.A.-based Simon Wiesenthal Center has the list of fresh recruits. At the top, former Associa ... More >>

The California International Theatre Festival

Purl's pearl in Calabasas

Flying Under the Radar: The Best of L.A. Theater in the '00s

Stage Raw: A Rubicon Family Christmas

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoNEW REVIEW GO A RUBICON FAMILY CHRISTMAS ​Though Andy Williams and his fancy sweaters are nowhere to be seen, the Rubicon company misses little else this corny Christmas delight. Not a word of spoken ... More >>

Tripping on the Rez: Richard Montoya’s Palestine, New Mexico at the Taper

Stage Raw: The Female of the Species

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSTHIS WEEK'S STAGE FEATURE on Palestine, New MexicoFEMALE OF THE SPECIES The Geffen Playhouse just announced that Anette Bening will star in Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy, The Female of the Species along with David Arquette, Mirielle Enos, Merritt Weve ... More >>

Messy Shoppers, Guatemalans and Lebanese Wannabes

Today in Photographs: April 8, 1948

A Different Kind of Palestinian Rally:  Demonstrators outside City Hall protest U.S. abandonment of the United Nations plan to partition Palestine.Photo: LA Daily News/UCLA CollectionClick image to enlarge

Movie Reviews: Fanboys, The Pink Panther 2, Push

Also, Crips and Bloods, Luck by Chance and the 2008 Academy Award-Nominated Shorts

Rose

Movie Reviews: Kung Fu Panda, Mongol, Mother of Tears

Also, The Go-Getter, Trying to Get Good and more

1001

Record Reviews: Man Man, Tokyo Police Club, Roommate

Also, Langhorne Slim, Sub Rosa's Noise Anthology and MP3s

Jordan Elgrably

Middle man

Record Reviews: Usher, Lurker of Chalice

Also, The Dodos, Mezzanine Owls and more

Joe Sacco on Comics, the Arabs and the Jews

Make it mandatory

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Post Cards From a Paranoid Universe

John Powers on summer's slithering freaks and creeps

The T-Word

Coming out for Hizballah on the streets of L.A.

14th Annual Pan African Film & Arts Festival

Unchain Your Heart

Bookstores for the independent-minded book lover

Observing a Non-Election

What If?

Sinister scenarios in Philip Roth’s latest novel

Articulate Snarls

The return of protest rock

Sail Away

World of Wonders

Global Lens at REDCAT

The Vanishing

Brueghel in Bosnia

Kristine McKenna talks with graphic journalist Joe Sacco

Streets of Loathing

George W. Bush and the London protests

Visit Palestine

How an old tourism poster became a ubiquitous symbol of modern struggle

10 Cents a Life

Cramming in Ramallah

Five Palestinian students bone up on American Studies

A Sick Day

Henry Norr loses his job for going against the war in Iraq

Truth Without Borders

Conversations with Grandpa about Israel and Palestine

Boundaries Going Up

A layman’s (and statesman’s) guide to fencing in the Middle East

Read This

comic creators recommend their favorites

The Blair White House Project

Almost Subversive

An interview with Amos Gitai

Out of the Past

Arabs and Jews revive their blood hatreds

War Without Borders