Half of the word "typecast" is "cast." Versatility may be prized at Juilliard, but selling your brand is the real key to Hollywood success. Case in point: Fast-talking, tanned and toned Jersey natives Jeremy Luke and Joey Russo began filming short videos based on their lives as struggling actors in ... More >>
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the NBA's all-time leading scorer. As both a Bruin and a Laker, he is a pillar of Los Angeles basketball. On Friday, Nov. 16, he will have his jersey number retired, and a statue of him will be unveiled outside Staples Center. That's fine and all, but we wanted to talk to him ... More >>
Monday, November 5 Leonard Cohen NOKIA THEATRE Well-dressed man Leonard Cohen is often referred to as a ladykiller; no doubt, the gifted songwriter, musician and poet is effortlessly suave, with a quiet charisma that surely aids in conveying the pointedly poignant words and hues of his music and po ... More >>
​Miguel Pinero's 1970s prison play Short Eyes nabs this week's Pick of the Week.​ Good notices also for Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatre Group; Rene Rivera's King of the Desert at Casa 0101 in East L.A.; and Molly Smith Metzer's new play, Elemeno Pea at South ... More >>
Also, The Aggrolites, Kris Bowers, Chasing Kings, Asher Roth and others
Also, Departures, Drag Me to Hell, Dance Flick
Meredith Monk raises her voice
Meredith Monk lifts spirits with Songs of Ascension
The Iceman cometh
The Calder Quartet and the Kronos Quartet downtown
Ahn Trio shines under the night sky
Unmasking Nathan Baesel
New Otis study details economic impact of the arts
Reviews of What to Wear, Tonight at 11! and Sides: The Fear is Real
Anthony Mackie turns heads from New York to Hollywood
The Old Testament superstar looks remarkably like Val Kilmer
A new Yi dynasty arrives
The art of Kraft
An afternoon with the other Bernstein
Charlie Parker’s bebop nativity, unabridged
