Skirball Center for the Performing Arts

Best of L.A. 2013

Medicare Fraud and Skirball's Values: Readers Chime In

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, February 22 Kurt Rosenwinkel KIRK DOUGLAS THEATRE Kurt Rosenwinkel's playing is richly complex and challenging, and while he is smarter than most of us, smart people also feel. Thus, to label this guitarist as "intellectual" or "cerebral" does him a disservice. He is more poet than scientis ... More >>

Music Picks: Lloyd Price, Leni Stern, Amon Tobin and The Residents

Gentlemen, Start Your Soapbox

Alex Church Returns to L.A. and His Band Sea Wolf Dives In

Richie Sambora Is Putting Out an Indie Rock Album on Dangerbird. No, Seriously Open Fields! Alleys! The Five Most Overused Backdrops for Band Promo Photos Since his 2007 debut as Sea Wolf, Los Angeles native Alex Church has been compared to no fewer than 5 million other singer-songwriters with guit ... More >>

Seven Ways You Can Celebrate People in L.A. This Week, From Bob Dylan to Steve Earle to Red Stodolsky

Max Maven​ In honor of LA Weekly's new People Issue, here are seven events you can attend to celebrate people in L.A. this week, from the writers in our Calendar section: 7. Ryan McGinness Work on display at Country Club L.A. from Fri., May 20 until Sat., July 2 "To the list of adjectives de ... More >>

The Real Mentalist

Seven Habits of Highly Effective Magicians: Marketing Lessons (and Lots of Handcuffs) from the Era of Houdini

Collection of Ken Trombly, Bethesda, Maryland. Photo by Dean A. Beasom.​ You wouldn't think, in an era before movies, TV, or even radio, that it would take much convincing to get people to a magic show. Even the cups and balls routine must have been a thrilling alternative to singing in rounds ... More >>

Music Picks: Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea, Teebs, Los Amigos Invisibles, Rare Grooves

Also Parkway Drive, Martha Wainwright, Anna Tijoux, the Deadbeats and others

Everything That's Wrong With the Valley

Los Angeles Freeway FUBAR Part II: I-405 Closed All Night. Stay Away From Westside, Get To Know The Kids

​ By Jill Stewart Big-time 405 FUBAR nightmare, a full-on freeway closure this evening. So stay away from the Westside of Los Angeles tonight because they are tearing down the Skirball Bridge near Getty Center. As we reported last December, there's going to be a lot of congestion for about three ... More >>

Tonight: Betty LaVette, Jews on Vinyl Revue, Eastern Conference Champions, Wallpaper, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Jets Overhead

Elizabeth FladunBetty LaVette​One of the best Betty LaVette stories came out of the veteran soul singer's performance a couple years ago at the Kennedy Center Honors in Washington, D.C. In a nod to one of the year's honorees, the Who, LaVette delivered a show-stopping rendition of "Love Reign ... More >>

Tonight: Nite Jewel, Here We Go Magic, Natacha Atlas, Heavy Young Heathens

Justin LoyNite Jewel​There seems to be a lot on Ramona Gonzalez's mind these days, at least judging from the title track to Nite Jewel's new EP, Am I Real? "How did it get so wrong with me?" she asks at the outset, moving on through a spandex-worthy web of bass, beats and synth to wonder "Wha ... More >>

Fire Breaks Out In Sepulveda Pass Next To 405 Freeway [Updated]

​[Updated throughout]: In what seems to have become a spring-and-summer tradition in Los Angeles, a two-acre fire broke out Monday in the Sepulveda Pass along the 405 freeway near Skirball Center Drive, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department. About 110 firefighters and three helicopter- ... More >>

Tell Me What You Tweet, and I Will Tell You What You Are

Tuesday night, Zócalo hosted a tribute to Gourmet Magazine at the Skirball Center, with Laurie Ochoa, Jonathan Gold and Ruth Reichl in discussion with Evan Kleiman. Bloggers sat braced with their phones, calculating the perfect 140 character report. Their tweets, after the jump. Zocalo ​

Ruth Reichl Talks Gourmet: A Zocalo 'Celebration'

For all of you who've been crying over your old copies of Gourmet since the magazine folded in October, get an umbrella and get out of the house this evening. Evan Kleiman is moderating a Zócalo-sponsored talk celebrating Gourmet at the Skirball Center tonight at 7:30 p.m. Former Gourmet editor Rut ... More >>

Los Angeles Freeway FUBAR: I-405 closures hitting Westside and Valley; expect an ugly three years

If you live in the roughly 50 Southern California communities sprinkled between Granada Hills and the South Bay, or anywhere west of La Cienega Boulevard in L.A., you are about to live through the worst traffic nightmare ever along the most nightmarish stretch of freeway in the U.S.​I'm talking ab ... More >>

Tweet to Live. Don't Live to Tweet

L.A. — THE FREE-CONCERT CAPITAL OF THE WORLD?

Charlie Don't Surf