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Lee Morris, Pilot Whose Body Was Found Near Burbank Freeway, Died Of Heart Attack

The investigation into the strange death of Lee Morris, an Alaska Airlines pilot whose freeway-adjacent body was found during a layover in Burbank in October, is today a closed case, police said. The L.A. County Coroner's office says he died of natural causes, Burbank police announced today. Corone ... More >>

Gas Prices Could Reach All-Time High in L.A. as Some Stations Expected to Shut Down

Southern California is an island of gas-price hell this week. One station in Calabasas is charging nearly $6 ($5.89 to be exact) a gallon for high-octane fuel, the Costco in Simi Valley has run out of regular-grade gas (with other stations expected to follow suit), and one expert tells us that all-t ... More >>

Richmond Refinery Fire Could Push L.A. Gas Prices Back Over $4

Goddammit. Just when we were beginning to get used to this summertime dip in gas prices -- they've fallen from over $4.30 in March to about $3.90 today -- the largest refinery in NorCal has to go and screw everything up. According to reports, a series of explosions at the Chevron oil refinery in Ri ... More >>

Lil B's Manager Sebastian Demian Is Calmer Than You Are

Nanette Gonzales Sebastian Demian with Lee "Scratch" Perry painting​Sebastian Demian is the director of Dem Passwords, an oddly-named art gallery-cum-music venue that is difficult to find. It's located beneath a West Hollywood hydroponics store, but it's not accessible from the street, so you ... More >>

Bill Gallegos: Cooling Dante's Inferno

Sharon Renee Higgins and Otis Lee Hall -- SoCal 20-Year-Olds -- Killed by Semi on Shoulder of Pomona Freeway

Twitter20-year-old freeway victim Sharon Renee Higgins​A brutal accident at 3:15 a.m. this morning took the lives of two young victims and backed up traffic on the 60 East for more than three hours. Sharon Renee Higgins, a 20-year-old UC Riverside student, and Otis Lee Hall, a 20-year-old Upl ... More >>

Stage Raw: New Golden Age of British Theater?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Bill Cain's Equivocation and Burglars of Hamm's Land of the Tigers NEW GOLDEN AGE OF BRITISH THEATRE In today's The Guardian, Mark Lawson writes at some length on a new Golden Age of British theater. Among the more salient quotatio ... More >>

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: Impacted Wednesday

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSTHEATER NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Charles Duncombe's The Trojan Women and Julie Hebert's TreeIMPACTED WEDNESDAY​ Equivocation: Photo by Michael Lamont Three big openings on Wednesday: The  U.S. premiere of TR Warszawa's T.E.O.R.E.M.A.T. (Polish director Grzego ... More >>

Turkey Dinners Around Town: A Thanksgiving Round-Up

While Thanksgiving should be a time of celebration and unrepentant gluttony, if you're the one stuck in the kitchen burning your fingers and mopping bread crumbs and eggs off the floor, maybe you'd be happier just going out or ordering in. From a $10 holiday tasting menu at Akasha to a $68 buffet a ... More >>

Stage Raw: Does Your Acting Career Have That Sinking Feeling?

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83DOES YOUR ACTING CAREER HAVE THAT SINKING FEELING?​Captain Smith looks out over oceans of opportunity There's still hope of a rescue! Titanic Museum in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, seeks an actor to play the Titani ... More >>

Stage Raw: Getting Intimate With Michael Kearns

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83MICHAEL KEARNS GETS INTIMATE​L.A. Weekly's 2007 "Queen of the Angels" Michael Kearns performs his solo performance piece, Intimacies, at the drkrm Gallery and Performance Space in Eagle Rock, 2121 San Fernando ... More >>

Stage Raw: Rachel Rosenthal at 83

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Poland, where theater is hipRACHEL ROSENTHAL AT 83 ​The Rachel Rosenthal Company (founded in 1989) is throwing a fundraiser to help celebrate the performance artist's 83rd birthday, past achievements and the upcoming publication o ... More >>

Stage Raw: L.A. shows NYC-bound

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leonard Nimoy and Company of AngelsL.A. SHOWS HEADING EAST ​SoulArt Productions presentation of Alex Lyras' The Common Air - a nominee in last year's L.A. Weekly Theatre Awards solo performance award for its 2008 run at the Asylu ... More >>

Geoff Muldaur: The Zelig of American Folk Music

The performer has called L.A. home for a decade, but he seems to live everywhere

Theater Reviews: How Katrina Plays, Mom’s the Word, Elections and Erections, To Kill a Mockingbird

Also, Secrets of a Soccer Mom, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Illusion, and more

Stage Raw: Pieter-Dirk Uys and Charlize Theron at UCLA

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSLATEST NEW REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Annette Bening in Medea at UCLAINTERVIEW with Medea's director, Lenka Udovicki, and UCLA's David SeftonPIETER-DIRK UYS AND CHARLIZE THERON AT UCLA​One of Uys' belles, giving a "blow job" to the ashes of her late Nazi husband. Photo b ... More >>

DNA Deep Freeze

Why Los Angeles crime-fighters fell years behind on rape testing, and may never catch up

SXSW Flashback: Interview With Del Tha Funky Homosapien

It was my third night in Austin. Devin had just blazed through an epic set that had been celebrated in the appropriate fashion , El-P was currently on-stage and I was wandering around the Def Jux party with four cups of Jack in my stomach, a head full of smoke and the strange desire to approach p ... More >>

Sibelius Unfound

Esa-Pekka Salonen wraps up “Sibelius Unbound”

Theater Reviews: Ray Bradbury's Green Town, Last Call at Moby Dick's and More

Also reviews of Zombie Joe's Victims, Richard III and Malcolm-Jamal Warner's Love and Other Social Issues

Dancing on Live Grenades

How David LaChapelle’s Rize beat the odds — and MTV — to bring us the ghetto art of krumping

The Perfect Storm

Remember me to Herald Square

Don’t Get High Without It

The Vaults of Erowid supplies the ultimate trip buddy: information

Who's Unafraid of Virginia Woolf?

Kidman, Streep and Moore in The Hours

Up a Creek

The Band that rings like a bell

Back to Bataan

A brief history of one of the thousands of DIY singles released in 1979

California Country

It ain't what it used to be

Mr. Booth Goes to Washington

An actor prepares for hell