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Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Snowfall in Chinatown

See also: *10 L.A. Art Spaces That Change Our Idea of What an Art Space Is *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying This week, a Eurasian collective tells uncanny histories, artists take on maintenance work and a sculptor builds an uncomfortably large minimalis ... More >>

From Vampires to V-Day: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Friday, Feb. 8 Barbra Streisand's award-winning directorial debut, Yentl, returns to the big screen at the Egyptian Theatre at 7:30 p.m. The musical that originated "Papa, Can You Hear Me?" and "The Way He Makes Me Feel" by composer Michel Legrand and lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman follows one ... More >>

Two Plays About Big Ideas

Cassiopeia and Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ruminate on Heaven and Earth

Cheese-Making May Date Back 7,500 Years

Aged cheeses are delicious, although 7,500 years old might be a bit much. But that's how old the practice of cheese-making may be -- much older than previously thought -- according to an article in the journal Nature. Scientists have reportedly discovered 7,500-year-old pottery fragments that have ... More >>

Europe in Love: The King of Hearts Is Off Again and The Belle of Belfast

Jewish romance in Poland and Catholic romance in Ireland

Begley/Huffman in November, Roger Robinson in Fraternity, Brushing up Our Shakespeare, Plus All the Latest New Theater Reviews

Our critics were brushing up their Shakespeare over the weekend, with reviews of CymbelineJulius Caeser and Henry VI, Part I Jeff Stetson's 1987 retrospective drama on the effects of church Bombing in Birmingham, Alabama is this week's Pick of the Week. For all the Latest New Theater Reviews, go to ... More >>

Penny Marshall, E.T. and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Our weekly list of special event movies to check out this week: Friday, Sept. 28 How do you examine the nature of time on film? VICE and Grolsch Film Works asked three filmmakers -- Russia's Alexy Fedorchenko, the U.S.' Harmony Korine and Poland's Jan Kwiecinski -- to do just that in three 30-minut ... More >>

World Cup of Baking Winners Announced in Paris

No culinary fragrance can compete with that of freshly baked bread. You can be comforted, exalted, seduced, relieved, or stimulated by nutty yeast tones gently wafting toward you. Or maybe you're just hungry. The Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie, or World Baking Cup, is an event that will make every ... More >>

Alina Szapocznikow at the Hammer Museum: Sexy Sculptures of a Forgotten Polish Genius

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Music by Babies

Two exhibitions with Chinatown in the title top this week's list, and both are remakes. One further twists Roman Polanski's already twisted classic film about where incest meets corporate corruption. The other is a sequel to an exhibition that never actually happened.

The World in Dumplings: Or, Not Living By XLB Alone

Dear Mr. Gold: I'd like to do a tour of the world's cuisines through dumplings. Xiao long bao [Chinese soup dumplings] may be my favorite food on Earth, but one does not live by XLB alone. So far I've got momo, gyoza, shui jiao, samosa and piroshki on the list, even though the latter two are perhaps ... More >>

[Updated:] LA Weekly's First Annual Pancake Breakfast

Flickr/stormgrasspancakes​ Update: 7/25, 2:30 p.m. A few more people will be cooking your pancake breakfast next month. Specifically, Salt's Cure, 101 Noodle Express and Glowfish Truck. Which should help answer some pressing questions about bacon. The issue of coffee is also coming into focus, ... More >>

reliq, SYMBOLCLUB and More: Berlin Goths Keep It Up All Night

grayl growlsphoto by Adi Parvulescu​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her next stop was a goth club in Berlin, where she met the band reliq. Despite their myriad references ... More >>

Lithuania's Rebel Radio Station Neringa FM--Bringing Gaslamp Killer To The Baltics

​ Our writer Drew Denny traveled from L.A. to Lithuania, Germany, Poland and Denmark meeting artists and musicians for her "Overseas Underground" series. Her first stop was a national forest on the Baltic Sea where Lithuanian DJs celebrate their country's liberation on air. After the Soviet ... More >>

Cannes 2011: The Winners

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

Jonathan Gold Judges Cochon 555's Traveling Pork and Wine Bacchanalia

While We Were Thawing Our Toes This Morning, We Noticed That Unemployment Benefits Had Been Terminated For 2 Million Americans

ZastavkiWhad'ya say we all just move to Antarctica​What a bone-chilling way to slide into December. Not to mention the holidays. We woke up this morning after a night of visible breath and twinkly lights to the news that unemployment benefits will likely terminate for 2 million people by th ... More >>

Meg Whitman And Jerry Brown First Debate Smackdown; Their Goal: Don't Say Anything Stoopid

​As Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman debate for the first time tonight at 6 on ABC 7 in Los Angeles, advisers are no doubt deep in fear, hoping their candidates avoid: 1)Saying something stupid that can be used in an advertisement, ala, Gerald Ford's gaffe in a 1976 debate that Poland wasn't under th ... More >>

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Klaxons, Sebastien Tellier, Black Lips, Tokyo Police Club Confirmed for Filter Mag's 'Culture Collide' Fest

Squid Ink Special: Army Brand Chopped Pork Pattie Loaf

We happened into Karpaty Meat Shop, a Russian market on Santa Monica Boulevard, and found it to be a rather charming and inexpensive place to do some interesting shopping. They have organic fruits and vegetables, and as the name implies, a good selection of raw meat. On the other end of the deli are ... More >>

Recession Be Damned: Best Theater of 2009

A thriving year for stage in L.A.

Movie Reviews: Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Creation, Sherlock Holmes

Also, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

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: Pasolini on Stage

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on producer Sir Cameron MackintoshNEW REVIEW T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. ​Photo by Stefan OkolowiczThis riveting production from Poland's TR Warszawa theater troupe, presented as part of the UCLA Live Eighth International Theater Festival, is ada ... More >>

In the Land Where Theater Is Hip

Two Polish productions coming to UCLA

Stage Raw: Comedies About the End of the World

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsCOMEDIES ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD​Poland's Theatre ZAR rehearsing Gospels of Childhood at the Barbican in London, where they performed last month. That piece is the first third of the ... More >>

Polish Theater, Unmasked

West Meets East, On Stage and Off

Stage Raw: Introducing Mr. Merkin

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSBreaking News: Actor Karl Malden has died at the age of 97. INTRODUCING MR. MERKINMr. Merkin, writing his theater review of a production in Chicago, from the vantage of Wroclaw, PolandStage Raw is happy to welcome ... More >>

Stage Raw: Spirits of Michael Jackson and Jerzy Grotowski

THE LATEST NEW THEATER REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSCheck back here Monday afternoon for NEW THEATER REVIEWS of Shakespeare Unscripted at Impro Theatre; Insanity at NoHo Arts Center; Farragut North at the Geffen Playhouse; The Voisey Inheritance at Theatre 40; Te ... More >>

Stage Raw: Coming Home

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSFor the latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS and an update from the Grotowski Festival in Wroclaw, Poland, press the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. NEW REVIEW THEATER PICK COMING HOME Photo by Ed KriegerA sequel to his 1995 post apartheid play Valley Song, ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pilgrimage

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSFor local productions scheduled to be reviewed this weekend, press the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section.PILGRIMAGELurching towards oblivion? Sculpture on Swidnicska Street, Wroclaw Po ... More >>

Stage Raw: Angels in Poland

The latest NEW THEATER REVIEWS are embedded in this coming week's COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on Oleanna at the TaperANGELS IN POLANDMadonna and child in Wroclaw, Poland, where L.A.'s theater directors are making a strong showing as "core participan ... More >>

The Wages of Greed

Tov ponders the will to survive

Borrowed Time and High Hopes at Annual Polish Film Survey

Best Last Dances

Vivo Dancesport

David Poland

A fan's notes

Eighth Annual Polish Film Festival Los Angeles

Ask Mr. Gold: Favorite Cookbooks

The Conversation

The Seventh Annual Polish Film Festival

Young at Heart

Future: Last chance for our theater

The Haunted Stage

A journey through Poland reveals ghosts of the past and hopes for the future

Living and Dying in L.A. - Part 2

In the shadow of Michael Ritchie’s new CTG, local artists look for sunlight

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