Roald Dahl

Happy Roald Dahl Day: Celebrate with a Few Revolting Recipes

It's Roald Dahl Day -- yes, every day really ought to be Roald Dahl Day, but today is his actual birthday -- which is just as good of an excuse as any to dive back into his stories. And while you're recalling how often food (and especially candy) showed up in his books to define character (i.e., th ... More >>

Mozza's Salumi Bar: The Doors Open for Chad Colby's Pig Project

The Mozza compound on the corner of Melrose and Highland is L.A.'s version of Roald Dahl's chocolate factory. People go in and come out all the time, but so do the inventions. Focaccia, budino, porchetta. And starting tomorrow, you can add Chad Colby's salumi bar to the list. (Maybe they can invent ... More >>

Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

The latest from Tim Burton and Bobcat Goldthwait

Top 5 Athlete Diets: Wade Boggs's Chicken-a-Day, Kenyan Ugali Steve Nash's Nuts

Wheaties may be the breakfast of champions, but plenty of athletes don't swear by dry flakes for their daily sustenance. Lakers forward Ron Artest used to drink Hennessey at half-time. His teamate Lamar Odom likes jelly beans and gummy bears. Former Yankees slugger Babe Ruth once inhaled 24 hot d ... More >>

"Pico de Gap" Taco Truck Launches

flickr user atle brunvollJust Add Denim​ It was only a matter of time before the L.A. taco truck craze collided with our penchant for denim. Lucky us. But hey, free jeans and tacos are involved. Sort of. Gap is launching a new nationwide marketing campaign for its 1969 denim line that focuses ... More >>

Are Leg-less Chickens the Future?

Tiggywinkle/FlickrSome day, these may be like dinosaurs​ Due to their prominence in café sandwiches and the pages of health, food, and lifestyle magazines, we've long figured Americans ate more chicken breasts than legs, thighs, and those ragged, slithery bit parts one has to vigorously disen ... More >>

Pseudonymous Bosch: The Name of This Person Is Secret

Top 10 Food Movies: Eat, Drink, Watch

Whether it's dinner and a movie or popcorn to munch on during the previews, your stomach is often tied to the cinematic experience. From the comic relief of Robin Williams cooking dinner dressed as Mrs. Doubtfire to Meg Ryan moaning over apple pie in When Harry met Sally, food can shape the story (J ... More >>

What's Wrong With Wes Anderson?

A decade after Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, Generation Y's anointed auteur tries for a comeback with Fantastic Mr. Fox

21st-Century Fox

ROALD OVER

Total Fox

Bastide Update (or Not): The Doors Remain Closed

Photo credit: Amy ScattergoodThe locked doors at Bastide​Anybody who's ever read Roald Dahl's classic children's book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remembers the defining moment when we learn that the factory is a cypher, the owner absent, the doors perhaps permanently closed. "Nobody eve ... More >>

Al Fresco Screening of the Scrumdiddlyumptious "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory"

TonightKCRW's screening program Matt's Movies, invites you into a world of pure imagination when they kick off their ... More >>

Coraline's Stop-Motion Splendor

Through the looking glass:

Coraline Director Henry Selick Makes Horror Movies for Kids, Keeps His Distance From Hollywood

Henry in wonderland

G'day Sundance

For the first time in its 25-year history, the Sundance Film Festival opened Thursday night with a movie from Australia. It was also the first time the festival has opened with a feature-length animation -- one, I feel confident in saying, that is among the strangest animated films ever made. Writte ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2009: G'day Sundance

For the first time in its 25-year history, the Sundance Film Festival opened Thursday night with a movie from Australia. It was also the first time the festival has opened with a feature-length animation -- one, I feel confident in saying, that is among the strangest animated films ever made. Writte ... More >>

10 Possible Things That May Have “Happened To That Boy” Judging from the Clipse & Birdman Song of the Same Title

10. After noticing a spare copy of Pigeon Racer Digest: the Thinking Person's Journal of Racing Pigeons in the Hot Boys' trailer,* "that boy" decided to join the American Racing Pigeon Union and make a go of it in the wide world of ornithology. 9. Decided to leave Magnolia because hanging out wit ... More >>

Theater Listings

For the week of Nov. 16-22

Michelle Biloon: Dives, Darts and Hecklers

A few laughs with a standup soldier

Rock Picks

for the week of January 25 � February 1

Paws for Effect

What to do in L.A. this week

There's NoHo like NoHo!

More Dahl, Less Depp

And bring on the Oompa-Loompas!

Tales from the Brothers � and Sisters � Grim

Brad Silberling�s Lemony Snicket movie

Zam Zam With Lemony Snicket

Sharing a dangerous drink with author Daniel Handler

Water Water Everywhere

Wes Anderson�s The Life Aquatic, Steven Soderbergh�s Ocean�s Twelve

Optimal Precocity

The decidedly grown-up pleasures of Shrek 2

You Ain�t From Around Here, Are Ya, Boy?

Tim Burton on Alabama roadkill, Brother Zontar and the all-time best double bill at the Van Nuys Drive-in

Talking to the Machine

Finally, software that gets my dichotomy -- or is that dike hot to me?

The Road Wes Traveled

Fourteen hours riding shotgun with the director of Rushmore

Fox Pas

Return to Sender

Hanks and Ryan sleepless again in You've Got Mail