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Dodgers Sink to New Depths in Mile High City, Turn to Rookie for a Hand Up

The 2013 Los Angeles Dodgers are a monumental flop. They're a steaming-on-the-asphalt big fat flop. In fact, there's so much flopping going on here that if this were basketball, L.A.'s club would be fined out of existence by the NBA. But no such luck. This is baseball, and our team has laid a dud, ... More >>

5 Awesome Free Things To Do in L.A. This Week

See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week Fans of a good laugh, Tom Sizemore and the realm of the fantastic need not break their wallets this week. Check out these free offerings that make even the dullest weekday interesting, f ... More >>

5 Essential Japanese Restaurants in Los Angeles

Our 99 Essential L.A. Restaurants issue came out recently, and we're highlighting a few categories drawing from the list. Today: Japanese restaurants. This is not a definitive list of the best Japanese restaurants in L.A., but it is a sampling of five that we think are each essential in their own w ... More >>

Silver Linings Playbook Review: Where Is the David O. Russell in This David O. Russell Movie?

18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi

Celebrating this year's Best of L.A. issue -- now out in print and online -- we're counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 18: Matsuhisa's Yellowtail Scallion Donburi. You may be able to eat chef Nobu Matsuhisa's stunning Peruvian-influenced Japanese cuisine at one of hi ... More >>

Seminar at the Ahmanson and Creation at Boston Court, Reviewed

Danny and the Deep Blue Sea at Crown City Theatre, Reviewed

Jane Fonda in the Court of Public Opinion, Terry Jastrow's Play at Edgemar Center

Cannes Wrap: Melancholia's Battle With The Tree of Life Overwhelms the Festival

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Machete: Blades of Gory

When it's not LOL-funny, Robert Rodriguez's latest is downright dull

Does Hollywood Film 'Machete' Depict Arizona's 'Sheriff Joe' As Racist Fetus Killer?

Fox / vivamachete.comDon Johnson as Sheriff Joe?​Maricopa County's controversial "Sheriff Joe" Arpaio, the man who for many personifies Arizona's anti-immigration stance, is mad at Hollywood and, in particular, the Hollywood Reporter, for suggesting a fetus-killing racist cop in the new grindh ... More >>

Tarantino's Angst

Jackie Brown and its worried-man blues

Nerds Own Largo! The Nerdist Podcast Goes Live with Mythbuster Adam Savage

Erin Broadley(L-R) Nerdists Chris Hardwick, Adam Savage, Matt Mira and Jonah Ray at Largo​That venerable 21st century form of entertainment known as the podcast can be as wonderful (so much variety... and usually, free!) as it is frustrating. With hundreds upon hundreds of podcasts available o ... More >>

Let the Golden Globes (and etc.) bad-mouthing begin!

Because it's awards season and there's no holiday cheer

Theater Reviews: La Posada Magica, Women Behind Bars, Peep This

Also, Palestine, New Mexico, A Very Merry Happy Kosher Christmas and more

AFI Fest 2009: What if Movies Were Free?

A changing film world — and hard times — means comp tickets

LA People 2009: Social Chemists — Miguel Nelson and Sherry Walsh

The Gayest Oscars Ever

Singing, dancing, politicizing — and still the ratings rose

Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

Foundas on Film: Sundance, R.I.P.?

"Will everyone be wearing black?" a friend asked over dinner the other night when the subject arose of my imminent departure for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. "I'm so glad I'm not going to Sundance," confided one longtime film publicist at this week's Los Angeles Film Critics awards dinner, as if ... More >>

AFI Fest: Showcase on Argentina

Championship Season

Movie Reviews: Max Payne, Sex Drive, What Just Happened?

Also, Morning Light, Secrecy and more

Theater Reviews: Hamlet, Razorback, The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Also, Earth Sucks, Kiss of the Spiderwoman, Politico!

Mickey Rourke Returns as The Wrestler

Year of the ram

The Downtown LA Film Fest: grand opening, shaky day 2

Brian De Palma: Eyes Wide Open

De Palma’s Iraq movie never flinches from the casualties of war. Will you?

Hollywood Schmoozer Meets Internet Geek

Agents 2.0: The new generation of dealmakers at UTA Online

Unmasking the Essential American Soul

Director Neil Jordan on revenge, forbidden hate and the making of a killer

Up Your You Tubes

“Overlooked and Underrated” reminds us why we love the American Cinematheque

Cops and Robbers

Martin Scorsese's greatest hits

Low Rent

Jonathan Larson’s Broadway smash hits the screen — with a thud

From the Depths of Hell to Hollywood

A new documentary charts the remarkable rise of actor Danny Trejo

Step Lively

Stage Beauty’s light-footed Restoration drag versus Shall We Dance?’s not-so-smooth moves

Pretty Baby

Sister acts, guy fantasies

Death in the Afternoon

Before AIDS got its name

The True Believer

Righteous inquisitor Paul Schrader casts a baleful eye on celebrity and the perils of absolute selfishness

Letters

A Gaucho on Foot

Duck, in Patagonia

Watching the Detectives

How a couple of middle-aged P.I.'s and world-class raconteurs survived the DEA, the mob and the tabloid wars to take on their most elusive target yet -- Hollywood

Museum Piece

The enduring virtues of Jennifer Connelly

Walk Like a Man

Collateral Damage

Shadow People

“Devices of Wonder, ”Patty Wickman, Tim Noble & Sue Webster

Landmarks

Beached

DiCaprio finds trouble in Paradise

Guy, Interrupted

Writer-director James Mangold

Smokin'

Michael Mann's The Insider

Real Cartoon World

The I'm All Like Whatever Generation of MTV's Downtown, plus Random Play and Lenny Bruce

Going to Hell for Fun and Profit

A primer