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The 10 Best Bars in Culver City

As we all know, Culver City has gotten very trendy in recent years. Home to famous spots like The Culver Hotel and Sony Studios, Culver City has developed a unique niche, according to one bartender we talked to: "It's where the hipsters go to hang out when they're not on." Whether or not that's true ... More >>

Gael Garcia Bernal Stars in No, About a Political Campaign in Pinochet's Chile

Ryan Cleary Indicted in L.A. For Alleged LulzSec Hacking of X-Factor, Sony, PBS

The FBI today announced it has indicted one Ryan Cleary, an alleged hacker it says was part of the Anonymous spin-off called LulzSec. He's a 20-year-old Brit living in England, so why is the long arm of the U.S. law reaching out to him from Los Angeles? Authorities say he hacked into our Hollywood ... More >>

Black Is the New Fugly: 2727 W. Olympic Blvd., Koreatown

L.A.'s got a lot of buildings coated with black glass bleck -- like the horrendous eyesore at Sony Pictures Plaza in Culver City, the Olympia Medical Plaza near San Vicente and Olympic and this newly reopened BBCN bank (formerly the Nara bank, which merged last fall with Center Bank to create BBCN) ... More >>

Occupy L.A. Graphic Design: Six Awesome Signs From the Downtown Protest

Last weekend, along with thousands of other cyclists, I clambered off my bicycle at the intersection of 1st and Main, and joined the crowds surging through the Occupy Los Angeles campsite in a public park off City Hall. Occupy L.A. was just one stop on the CicLAvia route, so demonstrators, perhaps ... More >>

Cody Kretsinger, Alleged 'LulzSec' Hacker From Arizona, on Way to L.A. for Sony Hacking Trial

LulzSec does L.A.​The summer storm of hacks carried out by Anonymous offshoot LulzSec -- beginning with Fox News in May, and ending with News Corp. in July -- may have gone quiet, but the FBI is just now nabbing some of its alleged masterminds. (If you consider giggly, self-satisfied techies t ... More >>

Kate and Wills Do Los Angeles: The Royal Itinerary

As if the July 4 forecast wasn't hot enough!​Might as well just get this out of the way now. You either want to follow the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, formerly known as Prince William and Kate Middleton, around L.A. like creepy red-coat sympathizers (the weekend after Independence Day, no l ... More >>

Obama in L.A: Hope is High That Presidential Visit Won't Repeat Traffic Nightmare of August

We hope traffic is not so bad.​Updated after the jump: Obama jams up L.A. streets, inspires the Twitter hashtag #obamatraffic. Obama's in L.A. today. And authorities are being pretty mum about exactly where his traffic-clogging entourage will be. Security reasons. Really, we just want to kno ... More >>

Where NOT to Go To Dinner Tonight: President Obama Has Booked Tavern

Tavern's websitethe dining room at Tavern​ As you probably know already -- hopefully, if you're going to be in a car anywhere on the Westside later today -- President Obama is in town. Why? Why do you think: the man is fundraising in a place that has historically been very kind to him. So, the ... More >>

President Obama Headed to Los Angeles For Fund-Raiser: You Can Attend For $100 if You're Under 40

He wants you.​President Obama, do you really love us? Or are you just using us? You've been here five times since you moved to Washington. You used to live here. Remember those college days at Occidental? How come you don't visit more often? Only when an election's coming up, huh? And wh ... More >>

300 Beers In Three-Hour Shifts: LA Beer Fest is This Weekend

LA Beer Fest 2010 screengrab​In its third year, Drink: Eat: Play's LA Beer Fest, on Saturday, April 9th at Sony Studios, is "a lot bigger, with more distributors and food trucks," says event producer Dan Silberstein. If you've never been, this isn't like your typical wine or liquor tasting wit ... More >>

"Hardcore Is a Complete, Legitimate California-born Music Form": An Interview with "American Hardcore" Author Steven Blush, Who Speaks Today at Book Soup with Keith Morris and Others

​ In his 2001 compendium, American Hardcore: A Tribal History, New York writer and former promoter Steven Blush all but dispensed with your dad's glamorized spit-scabs-and-safety-pin punk, instead focusing on hundreds of DIY, anarchic hardcore bands from the scene's peak between 1980 and 198 ... More >>

All You (Or Somebody Else) Can Eat: Competitive Pizza Eating Contest

If your idea of a good time is watching two grown men see how many slices of pizza they can eat in 10 minutes, then you have someplace to be tomorrow afternoon. At 3 p.m. this Saturday in Culver City -- at Sony Pictures Studios of all places -- the Pizza Hut Chow-lenge will pit food contest veterans ... More >>

What Do 'Bud Bundy' and the Streamy Awards Have in Common? Everything!

​Hi, I'm David Faustino, and this is what happens when I drink (so drunk right now): You may remember me from a little show STILL ON TELEVISION called Married... with Children. It's generated over a biiiiiiiillion dollars for... Well, I don't really know who gets all the money... But anywa ... More >>

Sony Scrambling on Spidey

How a badly troubled script doomed Spider-Man 4

Council Puts Off Jackson Memorial Inquisition

Sony Pictures​Inquiring minds want to know who approved the city's involvement -- police, street closures, clean-up -- in the Michael Jackson memorial, but those minds are just going to have to wait. The City Council's Public Safety on Monday postponed its look into the memorial costs. We're ... More >>

Spider-Man Entagled By Superheroes In Blue

Spider-Man was arrested today based on two warrants for allegedly jumping the metaphorical Metro subway turn-styles without paying, police tell LA Weekly, but it was apparently his fist that got him in real trouble.Sony Pictures​Actually it was a man portraying the comic hero who was nabbed by cop ... More >>

Salt (The Movie) Coming Out Next Year: No, It's Not the Kurlansky Book

If you've been web-surfing recently, you may have seen the trailer for the new movie from Sony Pictures titled Salt. No, sadly, the studios have not seen fit to make Mark Kurlansky's epic book Salt: A World History into a movie. Although it would make a fantastic film--if you're a CAA agent reading ... More >>

This Is It Almost Wasn't

The strange, surprising story behind this ghoulish Michael Jackson movie

Michael Jackson's This Is It Premieres for the Press in Hollywood

If you're a MIcheal Jackson diehard, prepare to be thrilled -- and heartbroken yet again. This Is It, the new documentary created from film footage of Michael Jackson's rehearsals at the Staples Center and Culver Studios in advance of what was supposed to be his final 50-show run in London, provides ... More >>

Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

You're Late to the Game, Hollywood: A Social Network for Zombies? Movie Promotion '09 Style

Gendy AlimurungThe entertainment business is toughEarlier this morning while driving I heard a radio advertisement actually refer to the Vampire Diaries as "the TV show the Internet is buzzing about." Really. It's positioning like this that underscores how crucial it is to master what industry anal ... More >>

Funny People, Funny Business

What's no laughing matter in movies and media this week

Your Movie Ad Here_________: Just Go Watch PBS

Tired of the relentless, dispiriting PR juggernaut which means (finally, mercifully) the imminent release of Julie & Julia? Consider sidestepping the entire matter and just watch the real thing. If you go to pbs.org, you can watch 26 episodes of Child's shows--a vintage episode of "The French Chef," ... More >>

Drink:Eat:Play:Chug -- It's a Beer Festival

Beer madness comes to town at Drink:Eat:Play's Beer Festival this Saturday and Sunday April 4 and 5 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Sony Studios in Culver City. Live music and unlimited four-ounce servings of more than 50 beers. Advance ticket purchase only, $40 each. 10202 Washington Blvd., Culver City, (310) ... More >>

Get the Party Started

Frozen River: A Hard-Knock Life

Struggling single mom skates on thin ice in Sundance prizewinner

Step Brothers: Blended Family Values

Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly Get Relational

The Return of Square Pegs

When Sarah Jessica Parker didn't fit in

Movie Reviews: College Road Trip, CJ7

Also Girls Rock!, My Name is Albert Ayler and more

Married Life: Far From Heaven

Clearly inspired by Todd Haynes, Ira Sachs' film doesn't quite compare

The Counterfeiters: Blood Money

A morally ambiguous Holocaust tale of survival and collusion

Movie Reviews: Just Sex and Nothing Else, Vince Vaughn's Wild West Comedy Show and more

Plus this week's film pick: The Band's Visit

Middle East and Adjacent at AFI Fest

New Films from Israel and Its Neighbors Shine

Strike Happy

The writers want it, the moguls want it... what a bunch of idiots

Israeli Film Grows Up

Just how far the relationship between tech-toys and journalistic self-importance has progressed might be measured by the man loudly working two cell phones and a laptop right down to the wire at my first Toronto Film Festival screening. At least he had the grace to power down once the movie started, ... More >>

Film Reviews: Diggers, Next and Banished

Also Sing Now or Forever Hold Your Peace and more

Across an Alternate Universe

A Beatles cover-music movie needs straitjackets for all involved

Along Came Scary

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Real to Reel

Visions of lives less traveled at Toronto 2006

Miles From Home

Zhang Yimou’s sentimental journey

The Passion of the Cash

Da Vinci Cannes the world

What Lies Beneath

Michael Haneke wakes the comfortably numb

Romance and Resistance

Head in the Clouds sexes up war; Zelary brings it back to real life

Eight-Legged Freaks

New York trembles as Spidey, Doc Ock play patty-cake

Driven

In Hollywood, your car is who you are

Hollywood's Dude

Keeping an eye on the ball

The Black Hole of Z-Boydom

Hollow Promise

iJunkets furnishes virtual face time with stars — but on whose terms?

Obscure Objects of Desire

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