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6 Other Boxing One-Man Shows We'd Like to See

See also: *Mike Tyson's One-Man Show at the Pantages Theater Is Surprisingly Good Mike Tyson's much-hyped one man Broadway show (and Spike Lee joint) Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth came to L.A. for just a few performances this past weekend. In it he apparently comes clean about his past by admitting ... More >>

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, February 4 Gliss LOS GLOBOS Gliss is one of L.A.'s more unusual bands. All three members -- Martin Klingman, Victoria Cecilia and David Reiss -- switch off on instruments and vocals. Yet no matter who's on the mic, their sound is always dreamy, packed in cottony layers of shoegazer guitars ... More >>

Bad 25 Review: Spike Lee's Michael Jackson Documentary

10 Comedy Events We're Looking Forward to This Fall

The leaves are turning, the pumpkin lattes are over-caffeinating and the comedy calendar is packing in shows and releases like snot-nosed children onto the back of a hayride wagon. Here are a few of the upcoming highlights.

Red Hook Summer Review: Spike Lee Returns to the Brooklyn Panorama

Spike Lee Returns to the Brooklyn Panorama

The Five Best Concerts in L.A. This Week

Monday, August 13 Grandaddy THE FONDA In the year 2000, a group of schlubs from the California meth- and cow-town of Modesto released the perfect record to ring in the new millennium. It was called The Sophtware Slump, and its sun-dappled, spacey, sad-faced robot-pop seemed to capture so much about ... More >>

Music Picks: As Blood Runs Black, Kelly Hogan, Regina Spektor

Also, Agalloch, Antibalas, Power of the Riff and others

Spike Lee on Shooting in His Favorite Borough for Red Hook Summer

Lee talks making the very indie Red Hook Summer

Judith Hill: Why Just About Everyone Is Falling for Her

Before she was picked to sing back-up for Michael Jackson's ill-fated 2009 London shows, Judith Hill was a relatively unknown perfomer from Pasadena. When Hill appeared near the end of Jackson's memorial service to lead the stage in singing "Heal The World," most of the Staples Center audience did ... More >>

Christopher Hitchens, Movie Critic

Dee Rees, Director of Pariah, Interviewed

Her identity struggles as a black lesbian, funneled into her first feature

10 Movies We're Excited About in 2012

Sacha Baron Cohen is The Dictator​We know -- you're excited about The Dark Knight Rises. And The Avengers. And Hunger Games. So are we. We're also excited about a lot of other movies whose marketing campaigns have not inundated us with white noise (yet). Allow us to suggest a few more films to ... More >>

Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Whitewash: "This Is It" Music Video Finally Drops, Looks Like Something Your Aunt Did With iMovie

First things first: we like Spike Lee a lot. He is still one of maybe 10 or 12 real filmmakers left within the CGI-rendered ruins of the studio system. He made some great movies (Do the Right Thing, Jungle Fever), and even when he slipped or went for experimental (Bamboozled), he has always been rel ... More >>

Spike Lee Interviewed at Morton's: ESPN's Lunch with a Legend

Morton's restaurant is known for its juicy steaks and classic martinis. But, Tuesday, November 24, you won't be staring at your filet as much as you will be at Spike Lee, famed film director, producer, writer and actor, as he's interviewed by ESPN radio. The series, Lunch with a Legend, a collabora ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Casi Divas, Post Grad, Shorts

Also, Earth Days, Gotta Dance and more

Today in Photographs: January 20, 1969

Members of Los Angeles' Black Panther Party hold a press conference. (And no, that isn't Spike Lee on the right.)Photo: LA Times/UCLA Digital Collection

Arab Adventures in Hollywood

Hip young actors are refusing roles as terrorists and creating their own material

Spike Lee's Miracle at St. Anna: Cheesy

Buffalo-soldier mozzarella

Last Night: Chuck Klosterman and Spike Lee Double-Header at Book Soup

There were moments when listening to journalist Chuck Klosterman read from his debut novel, Downtown Owl, inside Book Soup felt like watching a performance from the late comedian Mitch Hedberg. It was all in the pacing, with a simple pause and a slight shift in pitch turned simple observations into ... More >>

Miracle Milestone

Spike Lee talks about his first foray into the war-movie genre

Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

When good directors go bad

Randy Newman, Katrina, The Fourth of July and "Louisiana 1927"

Randy Newman, Katrina, The Fourth of July and "Louisiana 1927" By Alex Rawls In April in The New York Times, Geoffrey Himes described Randy Newman’s “Louisiana 1927” as “more than an anthem, ... it’s also a modern-day folk song that gains new lyrics as singers adapt it to new circumstance ... More >>

Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

Roger Guenveur Smith

The improvised gesture

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

Aftermath of the Deluge

Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

Inside Job

Spike Lee puts a new spin on an old formula

Pimping the Ride

Why Hustle & Flow matters � too much

Before Bling

Hip-hop�s storied past

Hollywood OVERHEARD

Hollywood OVERHEARD

The 'Real' Deal

The mockumentaries have it at the Fifth Annual Hollywood Black Film Festival

Police and Thieves

Fernando Meirelles on the dead-end denizens of Rio�s favelas

Traditions: The New Year's Eve Riot You Didn't Hear About

Truth or Consequences

Washington soars, Lee stumbles

First Lady

The queen of comedy gets big laughs

I, Too, Sing Hollywood

Four women on race, art and making movies

Money Talks

A conversation with New Line�s Mike DeLuca

The Rookie

Love & Basketball�s Gina Prince-Bythewood

The Auteur as Gearhead

Notes on the digital video revolution, Part One

Justice

Clarence Thomas and Anita Hill, Dorothy Dandridge and lawman Bill Tilghman

Heat

Summer in the city

Summer of Spike

On Lee's First "White" Film, the Elusive "Black" Audience and Other Gray Areas

Renaissance Man

Spike Lee, an American artist

Public Jocks, Private Dicks

Plus, Eddie Murphy's The PJ's and Scott Adams' Dilbert

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in

Black Like Who?

Notes on black film and the career of F. Gary Gray

Son of Sundance

Redford brings indie film to the airwaves

To Hav and Hav Not

Black film gets real (again)

Survival, Revivalle

Mutants, campers, martyrs . . .