St. Petersburg

L.A. City Hall's Super Gay Photo Has a Serious Point

In case you were unaware that new city councilmen Mike Bonin and Mitch O'Farrell are gay, they released this photo today. Which is like a Latino posing in front of a lowrider. Or an African American man raising the "black power" fist. As in, super gay. Not that there's anything wrong with that:

Two Plays on Politics and Frivolity in Europe

Reviews of Neva, About Chekhov's Widow, and Yes, Prime Minister, a British Satire

St. Petersburg's Anti-Gay Attacks On Gaga, Madonna Could End L.A. Sister City Status

The ACLU wants L.A. City Hall to cut its ties with St. Pertersburg, Russia, an official sister city. Why? The Russian metropolis hasn't exactly been gay-friendly. After passing a law last year making pro-gay "propagandizing" around youth a crime, St. Pertersburg targeted Lady Gaga with an investiga ... More >>

Dostoevsky's Notes From the Underground

From Russia With Feathers

UCLA Video Game Art Festival Features Caine's Arcade Made by a 9-Year-Old, and More

A homeless seven-year-old in Russia named Pjotr is addicted to cigarettes. He must navigate the streets of St. Petersburg, doing whatever he can for a smoke -- steal liquor to give to his prostitute mother for a few bucks and trade Mercedes hood ornaments to black market dealers for a spare stoge. I ... More >>

Life After Death

Nance Klehm, Founder of Weedeater Street Medicine, Exploring L.A.'s Edible and Medicinal Plants (No, Not That Kind)

Eden BaktiNance Klehm searches for chickweed (yes, that's a real thing, and no, it's probably not whatever you think it is)​ "I'm not just out here foraging because it's free," promises Nance Klehm on this sunny Sunday morning wander through the wilds of Echo Park. She's the founder of the r ... More >>

Radar L.A. Festival

People Read Books! 80 Percent of Californians Have Read One in the Last Month

Flickr/GoodSquadSarah​ This just in from the "humanity isn't as screwed as we think" department: people read books. A new USC Dornsife College/Los Angeles Times Poll says 80 percent of Californians surveyed have read at least one book in the last month, and 40 percent have read three. Here at ... More >>

Music Picks: Roseanne Cash, Theophilus London, Acid Mothers Temple

Also, George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic, Raphael Saadiq, Wu Man and others

Notes From a Bunker in New York City

A Free Man of Color, Notes From Underground and two Pinter one-acts

Stage Raw: Lobby Hero

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Leap of Faith and God's FavoriteBREUER ON THE VOLGA ​View from the Volga River -- Russia's answer to the Mighty Mississippi -- the longest waterway in Europe, stretching from the Valdai Hills, between Moscow and St. Petersburg, to the Caspian Sea. The city of S ... More >>

Won Ju Lim at Patrick Painter Inc.

A playground for the mind

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Persian Setar Hero Sahba Motallebi Shreds at the Museum of Jurassic Technology

Stage Raw: Kharmful Charms of Daniil Kharms

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEWSTHEATER FEATURE On The Subject Was Roses and The Ballad of Emmett Till THE 31ST ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDSNEW REVIEW KHARMFUL CHARMS OF DANIIL KHARMS ​Photo by Taso PapadakisHere's a fascinating oddity:  A series of short works by a now almost ... More >>

MAY BE KHARMFUL TO YOUR HEALTH

Little Big Man: Chris Fuller on His Microbudget Loren Cass

“It’s not about adolescence — it is adolescence.”

Movie Reviews: American Violet, Crank: High Voltage, Sleep Dealer

Also, Every Little Step, Lymelife and more

Election '08: The Palin Power Girls

Film Reviews: Get Smart, Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg

Also, Never Forever, Viva, Brick Lane

Crime and Punishment

Bollywood Bohème

Indian cinema’s past meets its present in the lavish Saawariya

Sound and Silence

Stockhausen’s Stimmung and the new book Horizons Touched: The Music of ECM

Small Things Considered

Enchanted Evenings – and Not

Esa-Pekka Salonen's music, Bill Viola's visuals and Peter Sellars' staging of Tristan und Isolde is no perfect marriage

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Distracted, Sam Shepard’s Seduced, The Serpent and more

Imperfect Wagnerites

The Ring wrongly rung

Best Dispatches From Captain's Quarters

Looking on the Dark Side

Supergrass and Pilotdrift

SUPERGRASS, PILOTDRIFT at the Avalon, February 22

Some Very Excellent Books

15 writers share their must-reads

Dirty Work Afoot

International Menu

Rocket From Russia

Time-traveling with an American in Moscow

An Emotive Othello

Director Declan Donnellan crawls behind Shakespeare’s words

East Comes West

Magical History Tour

Sokurov’s Russian Ark

Take One . . . It’s a Wrap!

Tilman Büttner on photographing Russian Ark

Letters

The Passion According to Sofia

Five Not-So-Easy Pieces

Taco Shell Hell

Plácidalia: The Empire Strikes Ahead

Forgive and Forget

The Battle in Seattle

World-class protest at trade summit may be turning point in fight against right-wing economics

Soviet Blocks

A story of getting lost -- and found -- in pre-glasnost Kiev

My Other, Myself

Donna Minkowitz searches for love in all the right-wing places

De Palma

- all camera, no content

Moscow on the Rhine

A German's homage to the Russian masters