The Marx Brothers

Alice in Wonderland on Film Through the Ages, at LACMA

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett and Barry Lyndon

Notes From a Marxist Secretary

Wim Wenders, Charles Burnett and Barry Lyndon

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Sundance Film Festival 2012: The Biggest Disappointment Thus Far, and A Mid-Festival Notebook Drop

​ With Monday marking the midway point of my stay in Park City, here's a notebook dump on a few films I haven't had a chance to write about at length.

Hey, Hey They're the Marx Bros

​ With Monday marking the midway point of my stay in Park City, here's a notebook dump on a few films I haven't had a chance to write about at length.

Stage Raw: Theatrification and Broadway 100

COMPREHENSVIE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Tim Crouch's The Author, and the Belarus Free Theatre L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS NOMINEESTHEATRIFICATION AND BROADWAY 100 ​Broadway and the Vaudeville circuit began in Los Angeles 100 years ago, in the downtown Historical Theater Di ... More >>

Stage Raw: Camino Real

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

'TOONS FOR TWO

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON THE BREAK OF NOON, AND CRACK WHORE GALORE -- LIVE!NEW PARTNERS ​CalArts teams up with the Theater @ Boston Court to present CAMINO REAL  (reviewed here on Tuesday) at the Pasadena theater. Photo by Ed Krieger. Another new pa ... More >>

Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Room Service

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

Theater New Reviews: Ballroom With a Twist, Cologne, Cyclops: A Rock Opera

Also, Room Service, Traces and more

Stage Raw: Room Service

NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Circle Mirror Transformation and Me, As a PenguinCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO ROOM SERVICE ​ Photo by Maia RosenfeldTwenty-two jackals -- I mean, actors -- have run up a $1200 bill at a posh hotel in 1930s Manhattan, and their producer Gor ... More >>

Spain's Rock Star Chefs Descend on L.A., Part 1

What happens when the three indisputable titans of New Basque cuisine come together on the same stage? A performance by a culinary supergroup? A Marx Brothers routine? Perhaps a bit of both. On Monday night, Spain's rock star chefs Ferran Adrià, Juan Mari Arzak and José Andrés made a pit-stop at ... More >>

Vaudeville on Film at UCLA

An economic stimulus from the last Depression

Another Fine Mess: From Chaplin to Bromance

A history of cinematic LOLs in Saul Austerlitz's latest

Stage Raw: Unknown Future, Theater on Seward Closes Its Doors

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Lieutenant of Inishmore and A Tale Told by an IdiotAN UNKNOWN FUTURE: Theater on Seward Closes its Doors John Fleck performs tonight (Thursday), 8 p.m. with his sardonic one-man comedy about Trader Joe's (and points beyond), Side E ... More >>

Stage Raw: Pasadena Playhouse Emerges from Bankruptcy

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Hollywood Fringe Festival

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE on KING LEARCAPTURED AURAL PHANTASY THEATER ​CAPT presents a special event tonight (Friday) night, Hooray for Hollywood Extravaganza, celebrating the legends of Our Fair City, In a style mixing radio and vaudeville. The Galler ... More >>

No Punctuation Necessary in The Informant!

Soderbergh's latest gets cute with massive corporate scandal, blows the story

It Came From Cinecon

Expensive posters, cheap pinups and celluloid curios at Hollywood's annual cinephile summit

Armando Iannucci: Political Satirist

That's How the Scottish Comedy Director Stays in the Loop.

Funny, He Doesn't Look Witty

That's How the Scottish Comedy Director Stays in the Loop.

2008: A News Quiz

By Greg Critser 1. Minor Irritants A certain wearer of these Kawasaki 704 eyeglasses: A. Conjured endless anxiety and concern for the future of the republic B. Got a $6 million book deal for portraying said eyeglass wearer C. Instigated the "hot librarian" movement in American fashion D. Wi ... More >>

2008: A News Quiz

By Greg Critser 1. Minor Irritants A certain wearer of these Kawasaki 704 eyeglasses: A. Conjured endless anxiety and concern for the future of the republic B. Got a $6 million book deal for portraying said eyeglass wearer C. Instigated the "hot librarian" movement in American fashion D. Wi ... More >>

The Decency Chronicles

Filth and parental control, 1960s-style

Woody Allen's European Vacation: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

He lived the young man's dream in Spain; next, he directs Larry David in NYC and Puccini for L.A. Opera

WALL-E: Robots in Love

Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.

I'd Rather Be Right

Movie blasts off to the future by boldly going where every sci-fi film's gone before. And that's a good thing.

Theater Reviews: Hillary Agonistes, Of Mice and Men, Flora the Red Menace

Also Indecent Acts, I'd Rather Be Right and more

Jellyfish's Etgar Keret: The Wizard of Id

Writer/director shoots from the hip about his low-budget movie and his high-budget life

Murder and Madness in Racy Pre-Code Hollywood

Getting away with it on film

The Two Faces of Cannes: Gilles Jacob

Eye of the storm

Save the Gefilte Fish

Darryl Henriques

Mock Court

The injudicious farce of David Mamet

Danger-Humor

The sick, cathartic pleasures of the put-on kid show Wonder Showzen, plus the closet-anarchist boys of Stella

Where Mob Meets Mod

Noir fiction writer Jake Arnott on gangsters, mummies and his Guy Ritchie problem

Hollywood and Kvetch

Is there room for three performing-arts synagogues in L.A.? Apparently not

Deadly Diversions

Is there room for three performing-arts synagogues in L.A.? Apparently not

The Devils Made Me Do It

Dostoyevsky’s novel as commedia

Primary Notes

Dostoyevsky’s novel as commedia

Letters

Dostoyevsky’s novel as commedia

Blinded With Really Big Science

Talking to L.A.'s burning men of comedy

Smut Factory

The corruption of the American television critic

Horsefeathers II

Hollywood ponders the profits of patriotism and war

Screwball Sourpuss

The subversive comedy of Gregory La Cava BY

Sound + Vision

Music and the movies