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The 15 Most Ridiculous Band Photos

By Daniel Hill Here at West Coast Sound we see literally one shitload of press photos every week. Many of them stick to a template: Gather all band members together, shoulder to shoulder. Make sure no one smiles, ever. Have the artists try to look thoughtful, but also like they are not trying to l ... More >>

Trannyshack L.A. Returns With A Bang (And Wang) for July 4th Weekend

Lina LecaroSF's Heklina messes up the stage. ​Saturday at the Echoplex offered an explosive evening of pocket rockets, piccolo peters, hot snakes, and (eye) poppers ... and there wasn't a firework to be seen. Yes, we're talking about another kind of banger all together, friends. It was Trannys ... More >>

Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Flaming Lips Stir Souls (Living and Dead) at The Hollywood Forever Cemetery

Q & A With Ming Tsai: His New Book, PBS The NASCAR of Food Television

A. ScattergoodMing Tsai poolside at The Standard in Hollywood​ If you spend any time watching cooking shows on PBS, you'll know who Ming Tsai is. Or if you've read any of his cookbooks -- the fourth, Simply Ming: One-Pot Meals, has just come out -- or watched old Food Network television. Or s ... More >>

Stage Raw: Photograph 51

THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY AWARDS, HOSTED BY JAKE BRODER AND VANESSA CLAIRE SMITH (OF LOUIS & KEELY: LIVE AT THE SAHARA) IS HAPPENING  AT THE EL REY ONE WEEK FROM TODAY, MONDAY NIGHT MARCH 30. DOORS OPEN AT 6:30 P.M.,  AND NO IT'S NOT TOO LATE TO RSVP OR BUY TICKETS.BRODER AND SMITH ... More >>

Stage Raw: Grease

L.A.DRAMA CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS TONIGHT AT EL PORTALL.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS TWO WEEKS FROM TONIGHT AT THE EL REYPURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES GREASE at the PantagesGrease Photo by Joan MarcusNEW REVIEW GREASE Born of NBC's re ... More >>

Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

Laws of Sympathy

Theater Reviews: Bruising for Besos, Dracula, Burn This

The Threepenny Opera, Laws of Sympathy, and more

Stage Raw: Getting Physical

DRACULADracula is this week's Pick. See review by pressing the Continue Reading tab at the bottom of this section. (All New Reviews are embedded within the Comprehensive Theater Listings.) Photo by Michael Lamont GETTING PHYSICAL Two bills of physical comedy are being performed at Sacred Fool ... More >>

Preschool Confidential

Season two of seminal kids’ show Yo Gabba Gabba! has arrived. DJ Lance Rock and others attempt to explain its allure

A Scary Home Companion

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Gnarls Barkley, the Beauty of Being Blunt, and the Poppy Lips Battle the Apocalypse

Oil On Ice

The Ultimate Reality Show

Scenes from the first days of war coverage

Out From (Down) Under

Women's liberations in Rabbit Proof Fence and Rebecca Miller's Personal Velocity

Gut Feeling

Edited by Kateri Butler

Odd Couples

Cruise meets Cruz in Vanilla Sky; Bayley mourns Murdoch in Iris

Letters

Road Movies

Susan Sarandon in Anne Tyler's Earthly Possessions, Kirsten Dunst in The Devil's Arithmetic, plus Strange World

The Graying of West Hollywood

Election could chart course as city matures

Cracks in the Screen

And a little light shone in