Pulp Fiction

A Wayne's World Reunion and More: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Friday, April 19 Get an inside look at the process of making a film at the Los Angeles Theatre Foundation's Movies About Making Movies Film Festival at the TCL Chinese Theatre this weekend, starting with a double fea ... More >>

5 Reasons John Travolta is Definitely, Absolutely NOT Gay

Okay -- we know what you're thinking: John Travolta is super friggin' gay: He makes Andy Dick look like a mixed-martial arts heavyweight from Brazil. But hear us out: Some of the allegations against Travolta in recent years seem more like gay fantasies than journalistic reality. We even reported t ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, February 15 Foxygen ECHOPLEX If you add up the ages of Foxygen's 20-something Sam France and Jonathan Rado, then subtract it from the current year, you will verge on the era from which the duo's album, We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic, takes its cues. There isn't a '60s ... More >>

Music Picks: Foxygen, Tomahawk and Nick Cave

Quentin Tarantino Wants a Second Oscar. Will Django Give It to Him?

Quentin Tarantino emerges from a chaotic couple of years with his most ambitious film to date, Django Unchained. Will the Academy really, really like it?

Bondage art

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Dream Drawings to a King Kong Mash-Up

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews This week, artist Jim Shaw pops up in two places, a TV phenomenon loosely inspires an exhibition and a playwright known for breaking the fourth wall breaks it before finishing his new play. 5. Be ... More >>

Moon Rocks: The Best High on Earth

Moon rocks are all the rage. But can any drug be that good?

Seven Psychopaths Review: This Is How You Make a Crime Movie

Mondo Kim's Video Was Shipped from New York to Sicily. Then Things Got Really Strange.

Bunker HIll

4 Perfectly Plausible Explanations for the Needles in the Sandwiches on Delta Flights Leaving Amsterdam

First things first: Do not panic. Yes, there is a needle in your turkey sandwich. Yes, it is poking out from its little temporary home between the mayo and the lettuce. The needle is sharp. It is there. But do not panic. Do not necessarily leap to the conclusion that midflight meals are the terrori ... More >>

EDC 2012: The Underground Has Left The Building

Twenty years after rave culture first entered the American mainstream, the success of a festival like Electric Daisy Carnival begs the question: Can electronic dance music retain its authenticity, warehouse roots and peace, love, unity and respect (PLUR)? EDC, whose organizers claim they sold out t ... More >>

Susan SurfTone Is a Female Guitarist and Was a Gun-Toting FBI Agent. Boys Are Jealous

Watching the Republican debates recently, Susan SurfTone bristled at Newt Gingrich's revisionist history. "He said he and Ronald Reagan took down the Soviet Union," the female guitarist, who plays this Saturday at the Redwood Bar & Grill, says over the phone from her home in Portland. "No. Ronald Re ... More >>

Pulp Shakespeare

9 Circles, blu, Pulp Shakespeare and more new theater reviews . . .

Fresh Frame FotoLOLPERA​LOLPERA at Long Beach's Garage Theater is this week's Pick of the Week, with recommendations for a number of Southland performances, including Pulp Shakespeare at the Asylum Theatre, ​ Henry Murray's Monkey Adored, presented by Rogue Machine, Virginia Grise's lyrical new ... More >>

Pulp Shakespeare

Orson Welles' Moby Dick, a Beatles Cabaret and Romeo and Juliet: Monsters in Love

Craig SchwartzThis​ The Playwrights Horizons production of Melissa James Gibson's domestic comedy, This, opened on Sunday at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (presented by Center Theatre Group). In an excellent production, it's an absorbing soap opera with a metaphysical reach it can't quite grasp. See ex ... More >>

Free Comic Book Day Events in Los Angeles

Liz OhanesianYou can get your Free Comic Book Day Dark Crystal book signed at Meltdown Comics tomorrow.​May 7 is the first Saturday of May and, as many comic book lovers know, that means it's Free Comic Book Day. The annual event encourages people to support their local comic book shop with lo ... More >>

Barely Literate

Thornton Wilder's Our Town and Norm Foster's The Motor Trade

Innocence and damnation

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 3/21-3/25

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "While waiting for Pho Minh to resurface (please, please, let it resurface), try Pho Filet, a couple of blocks away, which also has a delicious pho bac, highlighted by a slab of filet mignon that l ... More >>

Q & A With Romain Vetter of MovieRecipes.net: or, How To Make Your Favorite Film Food At Home

John Christenson/MovieRecipes.netRomain Vetter, with food​You might live in this town because you work in the film industry. Or because you moved here from Topeka to get into it (sorry). Or you might just live here in spite of the vast machinery of the film business. Regardless, we have a spec ... More >>

A Recipe From the Chef: MovieRecipes.net's Pulp Fiction Vanilla Milkshake

Pulp Fiction​ MovieRecipes.net chef John Christenson's recipe for the vanilla milkshake from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction does not come with coke, heroin or adrenaline (sorry), but it is a sublime version of a legal old school shake. Turn the page for the recipe, read our interview with M ... More >>

Oscar Mild

'90s mavericks may have bum-rushed the establishment, but the more the Oscars change, the more they stay the same

13 Badass Bob Cut Girls: Quorra, Aeon Flux & Other Short-Haired Antiheroes

​ Why is it that every time they need an edgy, bad-ass, anti-hero-type chick, they stick her in a skintight bodysuit and a bob cut? Presented here are a baker's dozen of pop-culture's greatest bob cut women. An homage, if you will, to the hairstyle preferred by little girls, dominatrixes and f ... More >>

Godard, American-Style

Richard Gere as hunk-pinup in Jim McBride's '80s remake of Breathless

Tarantino's Angst

Jackie Brown and its worried-man blues

Bloodbaths and Shadows

The Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an Idiot

Outdoor Cinema Food Fest: Food Film = Happy Summer Nights

Photo via Kman999's Flickr stream.​ Are you a food lover or a film buff? But why pigeonhole ourselves. For those of us who refuse categorization, there's the upcoming Outdoor Cinema Food Fest, a summer celebration of both film and food. On eight upcoming Saturday nights, fans of good movies ... More >>

Samuel L. Jackson: Merchant of Cool

With an indie and a megasequel coming out on the same day, the actor asks himself, "How did I get here?"

Samaritan Who Rushed To Aid Of Accident Victim Gets Carjacked

Google Maps​It sounds like a scene out of Pulp Fiction: A car hits a utility pole at South West Avenue and Pico Boulevard near Country Club Park; the pole falls onto a pedestrian, killing him; a nurse filling up on gas nearby runs to the victim's aid; a woman jumps in the nurse's abandoned car ... More >>

Che, Cannes and Hi-Def Video

Steven Soderbergh, 20 years after his Sundance hit

Razorback

Aging Stormtroopers, Bland Blockbusters and Ingénues

Things to chew on this Memorial Day weekend

Plantation Hollywood

Life among the Wannabes

Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

For Erin Aubry Kaplan, coming home has been a labor of tough love

Celebs to the Slaughter

Why Arianna’s Blog Blows

The Sundance Suckers

They've got to be stupid to be smart