Salvador Dali

Pericles and The Miss Julie Dream Project: Sort-of Shakespeare, and Sort-of Strindberg

Open House, a Play That Merges the Real Estate Crisis With Salvador Dali

Japanese Flower Arranging: Live Onstage!

See also: *Takashi Murakami's New Culver City Show *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *5 Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week The North American Sogetsu Seminar is like the Olympics of flower arranging (though, of course, only for North America). Held once every four years in a different North ... More >>

Lorca in a Green Dress

Sex-Change Comedy (Missing Dick), in the Latest New Theater Reviews, Plus New Works Festivals Bustin' Out

REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's, Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwri ... More >>

Body Art Expo: At the World's Biggest Tattoo Convention, Roving Artists Charge by the Limb

See also: 10 Awesome Tattoo Artists in L.A. Welcome to my life, tattoo I'm a man now, thanks to you I expect I'll regret you But the skin graft man won't get you You'll be there when I die -"Tattoo" by The Who People with tattoos are sentimental. Most of them, anyway. No one gets a ... More >>

Alex Prager Is Photography's Queen Voyeur

Top 6 Weekend Food Events: Cooking Crazy, Street Vendor Fundraiser, Abeja Winery Tasting, Orchestral Maneuvers, Tour de Taste, Hudson House Birthday

Cooking Crazy Learn about Futurism, Surrealism and the development of French and Italian art in the 19th and 20th centuries by touring LACMA's collection, then heading to Surfas to sip wine and prepare a meal inspired by Salvador Dali's Les Diners de Gala and Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Coo ... More >>

Fred Halsted's Experimental Porn L.A. Plays Itself: Even DalĂ­ Thought It Was Freaky

This guy got away with some crazy shit. ​Porn and experimental cinema. Natural bedfellows. Unfortunately, at a certain point the porn world starting cranking out a standard set of scenes for all occasions. But before porn was an industry, notorious experimental filmmaker Fred Halsted got away ... More >>

Adanowsky Leaves A Trail Of Fluttery-Eyed Females In His Musky Wake

​Like a latter-day Serge Gainsbourg, the singer Adanowsky emanates cosmic sensuality, leaving a trail of fluttery-eyed females in his musky, potent wake. Such was the case as he glided through Harvard and Stone last week, all furrowed brow and crumpled shirt, looking like a broken-hearted mari ... More >>

Alternative Projections Preview

Pacific Standard Time collaboration offers a massive survey of postwar experimental moviemaking in L.A.

Chuck D, RZA, Shavo Odadjian, Page Hamilton, Angelo Moore and SceneFour "Come Together" at Andrew Weiss Gallery

Keith PlocekShavo Odadjian stands in front of Shavo Odadjian in Nocturnal Art​"They put me next to Dali, and I'm like, Yeah!" said System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian, standing between Salvador Dali's Triumphant Elephant and his own Nocturnal Art. Odadjian's work featured the Armenian genocide o ... More >>

Marilyn Manson and Shia LeBeouf are Friends: Duo Sign Their Book Campaign at Space 15 Twenty

Paul T. BradleyWhere's Manson? ​ Some days you wake up and decide to put on your best slutty nurse uniform and hitchhike across the country. Perhaps you just got that timeless itch to pull an old Halloween costume out of the attic where it has been picking up dust, throw it on, and head for H ... More >>

Q & A With Red Medicine's Jordan Kahn: Food as Art, Abstract Oddities Why Vietnamese Food

A. FrougChef Jordan Kahn plating a dessert at Red Medicine​ To the outside observer, Jordan Kahn's career doesn't make a lot of sense. He worked at some of the most prestigious restaurants in the country (The French Laundry, Alinea, XIV), the kind of places that become pilgrimage sites for the ... More >>

Robert Pattinson Gets One Step Closer to Playing Jeff Buckley in Biopic

​Back in January, we published a post headlined "Should Robert Pattinson Play Jeff Buckley or Should He Play Kurt Cobain?". This is what we said back then: This generation's Robert Redford, Robert Pattinson, is periodically rumored to star in every movie pitched in Hollywood with a young hear ... More >>

The Other Nirvana

Should Robert Pattinson Play Jeff Buckley or Should He Play Kurt Cobain?

​This generation's Robert Redford, Robert Pattinson, is periodically rumored to star in every movie pitched in Hollywood with a young heartthrob leading part. Batman Reloaded? Get me Pattinson! The Salvador Dali story (featuring gay stuff with Federico Garcia Lorca)? Get me Pattinson! (actuall ... More >>

Did You Know Salvador Dali Once Made a Hologram of Alice Cooper's Brain? Wanna See It?

Dali Cooper: Not a photoshop​Today's WTF news comes from Atlanta, where a museum (the High Museum of Art--we are not making this up) is hosting a major exhibit called "Dali: The Late Work." The museum got Alice Cooper to "to lend his voice and recollections and observations of "the great and ... More >>

Alice Cooper Gets All Funny When He Thinks About Erykah Badu's Tight Naked Body

This morning, Alice Cooper went on CBS's The Early Show where he talked about that video where Erykah Badu gets nekkid in the Dallas square where the Freemasons, the CIA, disgruntled Cubans, Lee Harvey Oswald and the Illuminati shot JFK. The CBS lady interviewing him really thinks Erykah has been a ... More >>

A Q & A With LOU Chef D.J. Olsen, Part 2: Life in Strip Malls & Why He's Not a Fan of Spittle on a Plate

In the first part of our interview with LOU chef D.J. Olsen yesterday, Olsen talked about life in the small kitchen of the Hollywood wine bar. Today, he discusses the relative happiness of strip mall food, the problem of culinary foams and the occasional hazards of eating in Taipei. And check back l ... More >>

Got Brains? They'll Settle For Pie: Hollywood Outdoor Cinema's 'Shaun of the Dead' Night

Nicole CamposStick that in your corpse pipe and smoke it.There's something about zombies - something innately unifying, a sense of shambling, blood-dribbling community - that brings people together. Especially at a time when the horror genre has turned tide toward mopey emo vampires and the latest ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

Duking It Out at Patrick Painter With Jim and Peter and Glenn

Agree to dis

DIY MTV: Music Videos Struggle to Keep Up With YouTube

Theater Reviews: References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot, Yes Is a Long Time

Also, The Importance of Being Earnest, Emergency and more

2007: Outta Sight

Falling, spinning, shining stars and the year's most stellar parties

Daliwood

And anarchy on Sunset

A Scary Home Companion

What to do in Los Angeles this week

This Is Not a Very Large Train Engine Hanging From a Crane at LACMA

Not yet, anyway

Leaps of Faith

Shared hopes, private hells

Theater Reviews

Including this week's picks, Jerker and The Tina Dance.

Partying Like It's 1425

Love’s Labor’s Lost at Actors’ Gang, plus Hamlet al fresco

Ecstasy of Influence

Soul Mates

Eurythmics are back, with reissues, new songs — and a still-ferocious stage attack

Pictures From the Unibrow Revolution

Or, how outlaw art went mainstream

Ribs

Eyes Opened Eyes Closed

Two CalArts-sponsored mash-ups celebrated MOCA's "Visual Music" exhibit

What To Eat Now: The Year's Best Dishes

Disney Primeval

Fish and Fox Tales

Bon Ton and Beyond

Living Dreams of Visions

Occasionally Lovely, Always Amazing

Highlights of the 2002 Silver Lake Film Festival

Homer and Ray

Illustration as social sculpture

The Night Salvador Dali Stole the Moon

An appeal from the asylum

Do As You’re Told

Shockheaded Peter’s “Kindersehnen”

As Time Goes Bye-Bye

Circle X Theater Company and Pacific Resident Theater get metaphysical

The Great Masturbator

Salvador Dali: onanist, Surrealist, careerist

Study for a Portrait of a Studio Memo

Playing Himself

Peter Brook reflects on a life in theater