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On FX's The Bridge, Serial Killers Are a First-World Problem

Fall TV Preview 2013

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5 L.A. Spots That Inspired the Silver Lake Movie Afternoon Delight

Before production began on Afternoon Delight, writer/director Jill Soloway didn't know where her first feature film would take place. "Maybe this is Chicago," her hometown, she mused at the time. "Maybe this is San Francisco." "When we were getting closer, it was like, if we were going to do this, ... More >>

An L.A. Cult Comedian's Insane Onstage Meta-Sitcom

Two weekends ago, a re-run of cult L.A. comedian Brendon Small's bildungsroman Adult Swim cartoon Home Movies appeared, a reminder for his absurdist, neurotic stylings. But what was Brendon up to nowadays? Small (@_Bredonsmall) arrived in L.A. during the early aughts from Boston, jumpstarting the a ... More >>

Free Coolhaus Ice Cream Sandwiches This Week for Dexter Fans

What do serial killers and ice cream sandwiches have in common? Maybe go watch Michael Shannon's wonderful film The Iceman, in which Chris Evans, minus the superhero outfit, drives an ice cream truck. And maybe also consider the fact that Showtime is celebrating Dexter's eighth season and its Emmy a ... More >>

Weep for David Duchovny's Penis: On the Terribleness of Californication, Season 6

Hammer Museum Examines the Evolution of Graphic Design

Graphic design isn't just about a poster with pretty colors. In today's world of visual media, it affects way we choose our clothes and what food we eat. The Hammer brings out everything from modern gadgets (lots of Mac products) to old-school methods (markers!) in its new exhibit "Graphic Design: ... More >>

Marilyn Manson Rambles, Makes Jokes About the Dark Knight Killer

See also: *Marilyn Manson's Born Villain Tracks: We Heard Them First *Marilyn Manson Threatens to Kill Buddyhead, LA Weekly, Critics Marilyn Manson headlines this weekend's Sunset Strip Music Festival, which caps a crazy summer for him that included promoting his latest release Born Villain and an ... More >>

Meital Dohan Appears in Penthouse, Knocks Guys Out

Meital Dohan bears little resemblance to most pop stars. Unlike, say, Rihanna in Battleship, she can actually act, for one thing. Dohan, who is 32, spent the first 25 years of her life in Israel where she worked as a theater and film actress of some renown. She's since embarked on a music career und ... More >>

Weeds' Wunderkind

Learn How to be a Drug Dealer Via Facebook's 'Weeds Social Club' Game

​So you want to be a weed dealer? You could try to open a shop in L.A. (good luck, following the city's crackdown). And there's always the sidewalk on Alvarado Street in MacArthur Park (if you don't get shot by rivals first). But maybe the most trouble-free way to become a homegrown slanger o ... More >>

Q & A With John Pankow: Showtime's "Episodes," Illicit Guanciale and A Proper English Fry-Up

Eleanore PankowJohn Pankow​ You may remember John Pankow from his role as Paul Reiser's everpresent cousin Ira Buchman on the nineties' sit-com "Mad About You" or perhaps you've been watching him steal scenes as Merc Lapidus, the power-obsessed, manipulative and wholly oblivious television ne ... More >>

Sick of Lady Gaga Yet?: "The Remix" Record Release Party At The Abbey

Her Facebook and Twitter takeover.... Her words about the SB 1070 at her recent Phoenix gig.... Her just announced VMA nomination domination.... We've all got a lot of reasons to be sick of hearing about Lady Gaga at this point. Hell, we're even sick of hearing from her haters. But no matter what, ... More >>

Ever Get the Feeling You've Been Conned?

The search for authenticity at Comic-Con 2010

AMC's 'The Walking Dead' Signs, Seals, Delivers On Hype At Comic-Con 2010

​ With Emmy-winning powerhouses Mad Men and Breaking Bad, AMC is at the forefront of cable TV drama. What fans and geeks have hoped for, this year's Comic-Con audience can attest to, and the rest of the world is about to find out is that the network is poised to break all-new ground in October ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Proof, A Song at Twilight, West

Also, The Pee-wee Herman Show, The Kings of the Kilburn High Road and more

Stage Raw: Getting Our Fringe On

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. GETTING OUR FRINGE ON I've heard it said at numerous receptions and parties that the reason L.A. has so much bad theater is because it has so much bad theater - that less would be more. Fringe Fe ... More >>

Stage Raw: West

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWS This week's Theater Feature on Camelot and Baal. NEW REVIEW GO WEST ​Photo by SpeedgraflexSteven Berkoff's 1983 tale of adrenaline, lust, rage, and violence amongst a group of young thugs in 1960s London is written in modified metrical verse, ... More >>

Weed Takes Root

Marijuana's steady march toward legalization nationwide

61st Emmys: Deja Vu All Over Again

Winner-watching with cynicism and subversion

Seven John Smiths, a Bob and a Bamford

What to do in L.A., May 29-June 4

Movie Reviews: Miss March, Race to Witch Mountain, Sunshine Cleaning

Also, The Cake Eaters, The Secrets and more

Many Faces of Diablo Cody's Modern Housewife; Married Ladies of Big Love

The women

Hollywood's Always-Delicate "Friendships" Feel Even More Strain

Depp's loyal heart and Moonves' disloyal buds

Speed Demons: Breaking Bad

New series traffics meth labs and fatherly love gone awry

Letters: Sunday, @#$%* Sunday

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Californication: Cock and Bull

David Duchovny plays it nude; Bob Saget is kinda blue

Eddie Vedder, Mickey Avalon and Red Hot Chili Peppers at Hullabaloo

Uplifting mofo party

The Tudors: Heads Will Roll

Showtime's portrait of Henry VIII when he was sexy and thin

Among the Squares

Are the upwardly mobile grifters of The Riches TV’s most relevant newfamily icons?

Black Donnellys Kinda Gray

Crash’s Paul Haggis gets his Irish up

Killing Them Softly

Not of This Earth

American Cinematheque fetes Roger Corman at 80

Family Circle

Showtime’s Brotherhood is TV’s newest take on sibling crimes and misdemeanors

TV at the Movies

Brave new series Weeds and Slings & Arrows break into Showtime and Sundance lineups

Goodbye to All That

Former Nightline executive producer Leroy Sievers laments the death of serious TV news

Waiting for Bastards

Tinsel-Town Rebellion

Writers, moguls and Hollywood’s day of reckoning

High Culture, Low-Def

The Ayn Who Shagged Me

Showtime gets serious

To Be Young, Different and/or Black

Looking for a Fight (page 1)

Lucia Rijker and the changing face of women's boxing

Days for Night

Sundance ’98