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Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Theater Reviews: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mr. Kolpert, Aftermath

Also Stealing Buffalo, Firehouse and more

Stage Raw: Mr. Kolpert

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYNEW REVIEW GO MR. KOLPERT ​Photo by Charlie Fonville What to do when you're settled, successful and sociopathic? For bored couple Sarah (Lauren Olipra) and Ralf (Tommy French), the answer is, terrorize Sa ... More >>

Battle of the Year: Deep Inside the World Cup of Breakdancing

Dov RudnickHow do you say it, "le breakdancing"?​Report by Dov Rudnick, Exclusive for LA Weekly "Hip-hop is about a party, its not about a competition," DJ Skeme Richards says over breakfast. We are sitting in the lobby of the Citadines hotel in Montpellier, France, on November 20, the mornin ... More >>

Do Not Adjust Your iPod

Sleigh Bells, the band everyone's talking about, is meant to sound messed up. Roll with it

Where There’s a Will: 25th Asian Pacific Film Festival

Portraits of poverty and social change color this year's event

In the Beginning: Hip-Hop at the Movies

Rapper's delight

Will Scat-Porn Trial Bring Down Powerful Judge Alex Kozinski?

Shock and art

Shit Happened: Scat Porn Trial Begins

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a jury.” So said Chief U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski at 4:55 p.m. today, and not a minute too soon. Over the last two days court clerks had sent up three batches of 50 potential jurors apiece to Room 1600 of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown ... More >>

Must See Art

“Ladies and gentlemen, we have a jury.” So said Chief U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex Kozinski at 4:55 p.m. today, and not a minute too soon. Over the last two days court clerks had sent up three batches of 50 potential jurors apiece to Room 1600 of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown ... More >>

Freaky Kinky Nation

The weird-ass, beautiful history of �80s hip-hop, as curated by Tommy Boy records

Film Reviews

For the week of April 14 - 20

Film Reviews

For the week of April 7-13

Live in LA

For the week of April 7-13

Before Bling

Hip-hop�s storied past

�Lowest Grade of Ignorance�

George Bush and his influence on the Republic

A Small New Future

ALEC HANLEY BEMIS on the casualties and survivors in the war between the Cynics and the True Believers

Eazy Does It

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

Beyond Ghetto Fabulous

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

Letters

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

A Vision for the City: Participant Profiles

Gangsta rap hits L.A.

True Grit

To be young, gifted and a senior at Crenshaw High

Between the Lines

Filling in the rap gap

Master of the Game

Kool Keith of the no-rule school

What is a Photograph

Lewis Baltz ponders that and other questions of life in the Corporate State