Paul Rodriguez

Armando Gonzalez: The Skate Shopkeeper

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. In Latino neighborhoods in the early 1980s, skateboarders were rare. The ones who were around were mocked as whitewashed wannabes. After all, skateboarding was born when beach k ... More >>

Laugh Factory's 33rd Annual Thanksgiving Day Feast

Trayvon Martin's Parents Are in L.A. for Justice Rally -- Along With Al Sharpton, Stevie Wonder

When black Florida teen Trayvon Martin was shot dead by apparently crazed neighborhood watchman George Zimmerman earlier this year, his parents -- Tracy Martin and Sybrina Fulton -- took on the sudden responsibility, like it or not, of becoming justice fighters against the greater evil of racism in ... More >>

Stage Raw: Krunk-Fu Battle Battle

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS   Stage FEATURE on William Leavitt's Spectral Analysis Courtesy of East West PlayersKrunk-Fu Battle Battle​Though Mayank Keshaviah found thin patches in the new musical Krunk-Fu Battle Battle (book by Qui Nguyen, lyrics by Beau Sia and vocal ... More >>

Blanca Martinez-Navarro, Gang Reduction Staffer For Mayor Villaragosa, Arrested At Conga Room For Allegedly Attacking LAPD Cop

Conga Room / FacebookA performance at the Conga Room.​Did a member of the mayor's $26-million-a-year gang-reduction staff just go gangsta' on a Los Angeles police officer? That seems to be the story coming from the LAPD over the weekend after they were called to the Conga Room downtown early ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Food, Inc., Imagine That, Moon

Also, The Art of Being Straight, The Taking of Pelham 123 and more

Death of an Angel: Pitcher Nick Adenhart Killed in Car Crash

The tragic news from Fullerton about a three-fatality automobile accident became even more shocking after the disclosure that one of the victims was L.A. Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, who had pitched in an opening-week game hours before the crash. Police say a minivan ran a red light at the intersec ... More >>

The Conga Room Debuts Downtown, and It's a Beautiful Thing

The first thing that becomes painfully obvious as I arrive last night for the grand opening of The Conga Room, another new space at the L.A. Live complex downtown, is that I'm woefully under-dressed. What was I thinking? This isn't the reopening of the Snorkle Room or the Loser Room, this is the fr ... More >>

Cantinflas: Actor as Household Verb

And he wouldn't be caught dead in Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Byron Allen

In control

Film Reviews: Bratz, El Cantante, Hot Rod and more

Also, this week's picks, Laura Smiles and This is England

Fashion Flashing

Music Picks

For the week of May 25 - 31

Music Picks

For the week of May 18 - 24

Gates of Eatin'

Grammy Diary - Updated

New Film Reviews

For the week of February 3 -10, 2006

A Mexican and an Irishman Walk Into a Bar...

Chicanos and the Man

Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

Transports and Transplants

Affairs of the heart in The Good Girl and Blood Work

Def Hef