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Gravity Is a Thrilling 3-D Breakthrough

Sandra Bullock and George Clooney star in Alfonso Cuaron's first film since Children of Men

Shoestring sci-fi

Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity is Lightning From the Heavens

Fred Stoller, Professional TV Guest Star

In the foreword to Fred Stoller's new memoir, Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star, Ray Romano recalls being referred to in his early New York stand-up days as "the healthy-looking Fred Stoller." Romano went on to star in his own show and become a household name. Stoller ... More >>

Elon Musk Thinks His Westside Commute Is L.A.'s Top Problem

L.A. has its fair share of problems, from the nation's most torn-up roads to one of the America's worst unemployment rates. Southern California is an epicenter of home foreclosures. The gap between rich and poor here is bigger than the Angeles National Forest. There are Angelenos who are having trou ... More >>

Oblivion Review: Tom Cruise's Grand Sci-Fi Experiment

John Rabe and Julian Bermudez: Radio Host and Art Curator Are a Private Couple in the Public Eye

*Check out our entire 2013 Couples Issue here John Rabe, 46, and Julian Bermudez, 38, met at the close of a sunny day in Malibu in 2001, when separate afternoons spent sunbathing on the shores of El Matador beach led both to the Friendship on West Channel Road. The nautical-themed watering hole, on ... More >>

The Man Behind Amon Tobin's Jaw-Dropping Live Show

When experimental electronic producer Amon Tobin takes the stage at the Greek Theatre tomorrow, his audience will barely be able to see him. He'll be ensconced inside a massive, 2.5-ton structure made up of white, interlocking cubes, stacked Tetris-like atop one another. A sci-fi kaleidoscope of 3 ... More >>

Endeavour Delay For Los Angeles Flyover Means Hour Later Showtime

The Endeavour show over the skies of Los Angeles will be delayed by more than an hour this morning. The Los Angeles Police Department says that instead of the original 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. window, with an 11 landing time at LAX, the space shuttle will get a piggy back ride above Los Angeles more than ... More >>

Space Shuttle Endeavor's Route Through L.A: LAX to Manchester to Crenshaw to the Science Center (Where It Belongs)

The nation's most glamorous space shuttle is coming home! California Science Center President Jeffrey Rudolph just announced that the Endeavor, a gorgeous Palmdale native with a 78-foot wingspan, will be returning to its area of birth on September 20, barring weather or other issues. To give Endeav ... More >>

Bobak Ferdowsi: Meet The NASA Curiosity Mission's 'Mohawk Guy'

As live shots of Mars rover Curiosity's Pasadena-area control room went viral, America was in awe ... over one guy's mohawk or, maybe, fauxhawk, depending on your point of view. Yes, as NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory celebrated the unprecedented move of setting a car-sized rover on the red plan ... More >>

Do the Mexican Rebel Zapatistas Have a Space Program? A New Exhibit Imagines One

In 2000, members of the Zapatista Air Force launched an attack on Mexican soldiers stationed in Chiapas. Before this, no one knew the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, notoriously ill-equipped and mainly made up of indigenous people who lived in self-governed rural communities, even had an air ... More >>

Shedding Light on the Dark Side

Hey You "Homo Superiors" — Go to This!

Kris Keith of Spacecraft: 'I Will Crush You'

Making L.A. interior design a lot more colorful

Pasadena Museum's 'Beneath the Surface' Exhibit by the JPL's Dan Goods Lets You Visualize Jupiter With a Cellphone

Pasadena Museum of California ArtPasadena Museum of Art's Project Room is covered in a layer of fog to make it look like Jupiter​ At the Pasadena Museum of California Art, art lovers can gain a sense of what it might be like searching on the surface of Jupiter -- by using a cellphone. The inst ... More >>

Domino's To Open Pizza Shop on The Moon

Source images from dominos.jpThe Japanese out-innovate America? Yes, they do!​ MEMORANDUM From: Shuji Sakai, LA Weekly To: Scott Oelkers, C.E.O. of Dominos Pizza Japan In re: Your wacky video to build a Domino's on the moon. Dear Mr. Oelkers: We realize you planned and spent the money on y ... More >>

Transformers: Dark of the Moon Review: Michael Bay Destroys Chicago, Abe Lincoln and Our Brain Cells

Hero and his new hottie​ The two hours and 34 minutes of Transformers: Dark of the Moon are loaded with unimaginable violence, but only one spasm left the audience at the theater where I watched it speechless. They cheered the robot-on-robot slugfests, rendered in terabyte-straining slow moti ... More >>

EXCLUSIVE Interview: Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull Talks About Aqualung, His Duet with an Astronaut and Why He Doesn't Attend Concerts

Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull.​In 1967, Ian Anderson traded a Fender Stratocaster that previously belonged to Lemmy from Motorhead for a flute, since he felt he would never be as good of a guitar player as Eric Clapton. The rest is history. We caught up with Anderson to chat about the album Aq ... More >>

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Erika Podest: The Future of Weather

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The Next Wave of Fast Food: The Sushi Popper?

Sushi PopperSushi on a Stick!​ Here's a pop quiz: Name a few items, food or otherwise, that are sold in a tube. Toothpaste? Check. Push Pops? Double check. Yoplait Go-gurt? Yuck (but a check nonetheless). Soon we can add sushi to that list as culinary entrepreneurs Lucas Furst and Evan Kaye a ... More >>

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Advance Warning: David Bowie's Classic 1972 Bootleg, Live Santa Monica '72, To See the Light of Day

David Bowie in Santa Monica in 1972 (photo by Jon Levicke) We just received an advance of the soon to be issued Live in Santa Monica '72 disc, the first legitimate version of a classic David Bowie show recorded during his first U.S. tour in 1972. The gig, recorded for LA radio station KMET ("The ... More >>

State of Delusion Address

Bush is lost in space

8 Reasons Why Going Back to the Moon Is Loony

8 Reasons Why Going Back to the Moon Is Loony

The Back Story

Judith Lewis

The Lunar Shot

The most expensive photographs ever taken

Stanley Kubrick

1928­1999