Statue of Liberty

Somehow, "Gangnam Style (Diplo Remix)" With 2 Chainz And Tyga Ain't So Great

If, for the next few moments, we may be entirely liberal with the application of the term, I've remixed a fair amount of things in my short, trivial life. When I was a pup, several friends and I remixed the skateboard. We made something called a MEGA SKATEBOARD, wherein we took two four-foot-by-fo ... More >>

10 Political Things to Do in L.A. Before (and After) the Election

This year's election has the public voting for everyone from Roseanne Barr to Hello Kitty, with Mitt Romney's Binders of Women the projected costume-winner for Halloween. While the 2012 presidential election is the biggest reason people are hitting the polls, we all know that local campaigns can be ... More >>

Whole Lotta Lens

Ba-Freaking Humbug

Culture Clash Enterprise: Will Anyone Buy a T-Shirt That Shows Images of Gay Sex?

​"To put these images on a t-shirt seems taboo, but tomorrow it's going to be completely normal," says 26 year old native Minnesotan Melissa DeBlieck, one half of business venture Culture Clash Enterprise, which she started with her boyfriend. Recently the company launched the very racy "S Co ... More >>

Venice Art Walls, Living Canvases on the Beach, Turn 50

A cross-section of the wall​ It takes a lot to call attention to yourself at Venice Beach. Then again, sometimes all you have to do is stand around for half a century. This year, the iconic art walls of Venice Beach -- 3,120 square feet of concrete canvas that beckon to the artist like a si ... More >>

Statue of Liberty on U.S. Postage Stamp Is Actually Newer, Hotter Vegas Version From 'New York-New York'

​​Everything's sexier in Vegas! Even New York's world-famous Statue of Liberty, apparently. Her likeness stands over the Las Vegas strip, torch raised...

Theater Reviews: In Mother Words, The Fix-Up Show, Love Sucks

Also The Adventures of Pinocchio, Cabaret Idol and more

Meg Whitman, Jerry Brown Will Not Be Shelving Their Negative Ads, No Matter What Matt Lauer Thinks

Matt Lauer: Why can't political campaigns be as soft and fluffy as the fourth hour of the "Today Show"?​At today's Women's Conference down in Long Beach, Matt Lauer asked Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman to take down their negative ads. Why? Because negative ads are mean, and they make the Statue of Li ... More >>

'The Vader Project': 100 Different Renditions of Darth Vader's Helmet

See more photos in Shannon Cottrell's slideshow. It's hard not to notice "The Vader Project" as you walk down Melrose Avenue. The display window is a traffic-stopper. There's Darth Vader as a samurai, Darth Vader with rainbow flags and, if you strain your eyes just a bit, there are rows and rows of ... More >>

This Ain't Your Dad's Sid and Nancy: Film Maverick Abel Ferrara Brings his Chelsea Hotel Documentary to LA

​About a year ago, cult NYC film director Abel Ferrara (Driller Killer, Ms. 45, the OG Bad Lieutenant, The Addiction, etc.) wrapped his indiepunk documentary on the legendary Chelsea Hotel. The film premiered at Cannes last year and is now being gradually unrolled across the US. Ferrara is com ... More >>

GOD BLESS OUR PARKS

City Council Extends Billboard Moratorium

The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously yesterday to extend its citywide billboard moratorium until June 24. The council's 12-0 vote (members Weiss, Wesson and Reyes were absent) came one day after a federal judge issued a temporary injunction barring the city from taking action against 18 un ... More >>

The $850,000 Crosswalk, a.k.a. the Island of Dr. LaBonge

Your Los Angeles City Council at work

British Invasion: A LACMA Retrospective

One more step toward recolonization?

The Visitor: The New McCarthyism

Different faces, same condescension from Station Agent director

"And the Award [for Worst Oscars Ever] Goes To ..."

Academy needs a face-lift, not just Botox

Cloverfield Is a Horror

Monster mash

Across the Universe: Help!

Julie Taymor’s ’60s-set musical is a bust

Paint It Black

Artists reimagine the Star Wars villain for The Vader Project

Losing the War at Home

And “Burnout” fades to black

The Premiere Frank Capra Collection

Yearning to Breathe Free

John Cameron Mitchell and the huddled masses of Shortbus

The Cardboard Scalawag's Guide to Pirate's Cove

Best nudie masquerade

Kansas Shitty Woman

A very odd evening of jazz with Mr. James Brown

Theater Reviews

August Wilson's Fences, Buddy and this week's pick, Because They Have No Words

Freedom of Information

Copyright and its discontents

Sisyphus in Little Rock (or How Drinking on an airplane sucks)

Who knows if it means anything?  The parallels suggest that it deserves at least some mention:  I am a twin and when I was two-years-old I had a lousy president who was publicly singing the praises of a war that America couldn’t possibly win and now my twin daughters are two-years-old an ... More >>

Line-Cutters and Illegals

All the World’s a Stage

What to do from February 24 to March 2

Burial in the Sky

Hunter S. Thompson goes up in smoke

Live in LA

Gonorrhea Gorgonzola

System of a Down’s fourth album, Mezmerize, is some crazy-ass bring-your-own-bong-style shit

What If?

Sinister scenarios in Philip Roth’s latest novel

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

University of Fear

How the Department of Homeland Security is becoming a big man on campus

Two Sides of JFK

The arrival of the reckless and cautious John Kerry

An Anthem Reclaimed

New York Stories

In America and The Triplets of Belleville

Partying With America’s Boers

The fantasy world of a right-wing fund-raiser

London Calling

The American Embassy, plus Andy Richter and Bernie Mac

A Wintry Discontent

New York's global warning

Cash, Class and Cool

New books from David Brancaccio, Gerald Horne and Lewis MacAdams

Hallelujah

In praise of Liz Lerman

Imperfect Pitch

Online screenplay ideas underwhelm Sundance

E*A*T

Do U Know Us?

Armand Van Helden, Mos Def: A masculine equation

Signs of Change

'Supergraphics' transform the cityscape

Daughter of the American Revolution

Karen Finley goes to the beach

ASK Theater Projects' 1998 Common Ground Festival