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Director Rama Burshtein on Fill the Void: It's About the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, But Isn't for Them

Fanatics! Updates from D.C. and The Rites of Spring

RADIO BROADCAST #213 04-28-13 See also: Henry Rollins: Pride Getting the Best of Me Fanatics. Presently stationed in Washington DC. I will be here for a few weeks, working on a documentary series. Contractual obligations do not permit me to elaborate at this time but when I can, I will let you kno ... More >>

A Film Showing Grandchildren of Auschwitz Survivors Who Tattoo the Numbers on Themselves

It's been over sixty years since the Holocaust, but time has not faded the memories for those who survived it. And as part of this year's 27th Israel Film Festival, a tribute will be made to the Holocaust survivors and their families with a special screening of the documentary Numbered at the Saban ... More >>

Q & A With Homeland's Abu Nazir: Navid Negahban on Israeli and Persian Cuisine, Looking for Hummus in L.A., Shimon Peres' Facebook Page Getting Detained by the Real Guys

Who is Navid Negahban? If you're a fan of Showtime's Emmy-award winning thriller Homeland, you might know that he is the actor who brings a quiet, composed danger to Abu Nazir, an Al-Qaeda overlord who has violent plans for Damien Lewis' Brody, a U.S. military officer whose trust he gained as a POW. ... More >>

Meital Dohan Appears in Penthouse, Knocks Guys Out

Meital Dohan bears little resemblance to most pop stars. Unlike, say, Rihanna in Battleship, she can actually act, for one thing. Dohan, who is 32, spent the first 25 years of her life in Israel where she worked as a theater and film actress of some renown. She's since embarked on a music career und ... More >>

Meet Speak, Who Co-Wrote Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci"

BrassSpeak​It's an August afternoon in Hollywood, and the shaggy-bearded rapper Speak is snacking on mac 'n' cheese in a recording studio at Atlantic Records. He doesn't seem like he belongs here. For starters, he's wearing beach bum attire: sun-bleached peach board shorts and Sperry Top-Sid ... More >>

Banksy iPhone App Hits the Apple Store

​ Tech geeks and street art fans, take note: a Banksy iPhone app has just hit the virtual racks of the Apple Store. It's a beautifully-crafted gallery tool that allows you to immerse yourself in the World of Banksy -- and maybe soon, it'll even allow you to catch him in the act. Though it see ... More >>

Music Picks: Physical Forms, Kimya Dawson, Madame Recamier, Young Hunting

Also, Lizz Wright, Wanda Jackson, Iron and Wine, Wallpaper. and others

The California International Theatre Festival

Purl's pearl in Calabasas

Music Picks: Goldfrapp, Concrete Blonde, Sally Seltmann, Black Francis

Also, Electric Daisy Carnival, the Adicts, Lou Barlow and others

Movie Reviews: Crazy on the Outside, 44 Inch Chest, The Spy Next Door

Also, Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealt With Nazis

Rock Picks: Rain Machine, Pearl Jam, Wallpaper, Bon Iver, Dodos

Also, Seasons, Brodinski, Autolux and others

Movie Reviews: The End of the Line, The Proposal, Whatever Works

Also, Daytime Drinking, Irene in Time and more

Sex, Lies and Videotape

All at once, if that’s how you like it: What to do June 12-18

Swine Flu: One U.S. Death, One Attempt to Change Flu's Name

As of 8 a.m. this morning one U.S. death, in Texas, has been attributed to the swine flu outbreak. The fatality was a Mexican toddler whose family was visiting the state. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, 14 Californians are confirmed as being stricken by SF, while New York City lea ... More >>

Rock Picks: Leonard Cohen, Wavves, Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Britney Spears

Also, The Henry Clay People, Vetiver, Mad Professor and others

Rock Picks: Acid Mothers Temple, Kate Maki, Marissa Nadler, Mirah

Also, Jesca Hoop, Jerkagram, Puscifer and others

Rock Picks: Pelican, Herman Dune, Rasputina, Bill Frisell, Random Patterns

Also, the Rakes, Cold War Kids, Idan Raichel Project and others

Theater Reviews: Jane Austen Unscripted, A Skull in Connemara, Model Behavior

Also, The Todd and Molly Show, Dai, Stormy Weather and more

Stage Raw: Monsters and Prodigies

Reviewed this week: Pippin at the Mark Taper Forum; Jack Chandlers' new comedy-mystery, Murder on the Bounding Main, at Sierra Madre Playhouse; a dance-rock fusion, Vibrating Sun, at Unknown Theatre; Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble's staging fof Macbeth; Echo One-Act Festival at Stage 52; Furious Th ... More >>

Stage Raw: Unpronouncable

THEATER AWARDS UPDATE Here is the complete list of NOMINEES for the 30th annual L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, being held Monday, March 30 at the El Rey. Admission for nominees is free; nominee RSVPs are now being accepted at (310) 574-7208. Tickets for guests and members of the public go on sale ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Dark Streets, Nothing Like the Holidays, Timecrimes

Also, What Doesn't Kill You, While She Was Out and more

Film Reviews: Antarctica, The First Basket

Plus, Pray the Devil Back to Hell, The Alphabet Killer and more

F Yeah: Frickin' Yes in the Summertime

This weekend's fest offers a glimpse into the future of rock & roll

Tonight in LA: Berlin techno from Apparat, performed with live band

Berlin-based techno artist Sascha Ring, who records under the pseudonym Apparat, has recorded some of the most beguiling and adventuresome electronic music of the 00s. His music, both solo and with fellow Berliner Ellen Allien, contains the hearty four-on-the-floor thump of most techno, but Apparat, ... More >>

Etgar Keret's Jellyfish: An Israeli Movie With Neither Politics nor Religion

Loquat: A Short Story

Sundance Highs and Lows

Moving mountains, growing wings

An Exclusive

Short fiction

Movie Reviews: Day Watch, Mr. Brooks, Paprika

Also reviews of Bamako, The Devil Came on Horseback, Golden Door and more

Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

Also this week's pick, Encounter Point

Pure Energy

The death and life of the beloved Laserium

Darwin's Man in Africa

Documentarian Hubert Sauper fishes for the truth about globalization and its discontents

The Geat Divide

The Great Divide

Brueghel in Bosnia

Kristine McKenna talks with graphic journalist Joe Sacco

The Art of being Civilian

Saying farewell to suicide bombers and victims of war

Letters

Till Peace Do Us Part

A Palestinian woman and her hunted husband

The 'Burbs: When Hate Groups Follow You Home

Why Are We Here?

George’s reasons for wanting to topple Saddam

A Big Threat

A former weapons inspector supervisor says now is the time to act

Georgia on His Mind

An interview with Dover Kosashvili

Skin & Fear

David Grossman and the literature and nakedness

March Madness

Almost Subversive

An interview with Amos Gitai

Out of the Past

Arabs and Jews revive their blood hatreds

Farewell Art

High rents forcing artists out of Santa Monica

Back to the Source

Uncrossing international pop

Lost Generation

Israeli and Palestinian youth share bond