The Sopranos

Theater Issue 2013: Why Be a Playwright in L.A.?

Like Someone in Love Review: An Audacious Romance About a Tokyo Call Girl

The Italian Job

Pasadena’s Trattoria Neapolis aims for the fences, but the food doesn’t live up to the setting

10 Best Seafood Tacos in Los Angeles

It used to be, a dozen years ago or so, that there weren't that many spots in town where you could find a decent seafood taco, much less a great one. Fast forward to 2012, and fish and shrimp tacos have gone through something of an evolution. There are plenty of fish in the sea now; you can barely ... More >>

Breakout Kings and Beauty and the Geek Co-Creator Nick Santora on His New Novel Fifteen Digits

"Good-bye crowbar and ski mask. Hello computer and offshore account." --Nick Santora, Fifteen Digits. Fifteen Digits, Nick Santora's second novel, is one of those stories where you're rooting for the main character, Rich Mauro, to stop falling into a spiral of crime and self-destruction. And you'l ... More >>

Two and a Half Men vs. Mad Men at PaleyFest: Is it Better to Have Ratings or Emmys?

Sometimes on the red carpet, you overhear things. Such was the case on Monday night during the arrivals for PaleyFest's Two and Half Men event, for which the show's stars (sans the glaringly absent Ashton Kutcher, who participated only in the panel) along with its creators walked the red carpet, pra ... More >>

Eric Bauman, L.A. Democratic Party Kingmaker

Elevates the ossified, keeps out L.A. talent

Wavves of Pleasure: Indie Poster Boy Nathan Williams Makes Time For Recreation

Pooneh GhanaNathan Williams​See also: Wavves On How They Managed To Get Kicked Out Of Both The VMAs and Lil Wayne's Afterparty The decor of the Eagle Rock home Nathan Williams shares with his girlfriend, Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino, looks kind of like how his music sounds: fun, a little gr ... More >>

LAFF: the Best of the Fest

30 films to put on your to-do list

Ennio Morricone: The Italian Icon

Legendary composer has still never played L.A.

The Assassination of Deputy Abel Escalante

A young father had nothing to do with LAPD’s killing of Danny Leon. But he was slain for it

Little Big Man: Chris Fuller on His Microbudget Loren Cass

“It’s not about adolescence — it is adolescence.”

Sex, Lies and Videotape

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

Last Night: Guillermo Del Toro Descends on Meltdown to Sign Novel The Strain

Even amongst the Hollyweird crowd, staying up past the witching hour on a Monday night for a book signing at Meltdown Comics takes dedication. Then again, one has to take into account context, or in this case subject: writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, who is promoting his first foray into noveliz ... More >>

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

TV Reviews: Crash and My Own Worst Enemy: When Worlds Collide

Navigating L.A.'s social and racial minefields, plus Christian Slater's mind games

The Bleeders: HBO's True Blood, FX's Sons of Anarchy

Vampires and biker bad blood

Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

Brit sends up the American character in one-actress-fits-all fashion

The Wire's Lance Reddick: He Might Have Been Bubbles

Lieutenant Cedric Daniels meets his fans

Two Paths Diverge on the Campaign Trail

Will Dems move toward darkness or light?

LA Times Seemingly Unfamiliar with "Spoiler Alert" Concept

I'm pretty much caught up on The Wire. After weeks of avoiding Slate's discussion and bickering with David Simon about plot points and cutting out the 12 page New Yorker article that I didn't want to read until after I had finished season four on DVD, I felt pretty good. For the first time since the ... More >>

Speed Demons: Breaking Bad

New series traffics meth labs and fatherly love gone awry

2008’s best new TV shows: A Mad, Mad World

With devil dads, mad men and Larry David’s finest five minutes

No Laffing Matter

Los Angeles Film Festival finally comes of age

Film Reviews: Delta Farce, Hollywood Dreams, Fay Grim and more

Also reviews of Even Money, In Search of Mozart and Paris Je T’aime

The Tudors: Heads Will Roll

Showtime's portrait of Henry VIII when he was sexy and thin

Music Picks

For the week of September 1-7

Family Circle

Showtime’s Brotherhood is TV’s newest take on sibling crimes and misdemeanors

Two Tonys Is One Too Many for Mogul

Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

Two Tonys Is One too Many for Mogul

Brad Grey would rather be in bed with Soprano than Pellicano

Stranger Bedfellows

The revamping of Assault on Precinct 13

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

Bunkum Hill

Over the past 50 years, the city has tried repeatedly to turn Grand Avenue into the living, breathing heart of downtown, and has failed miserably. Now, a public-private group led by Eli Broad is trying again — with the emphasis on private

Vex and Violence

Curb Your Enthusiam’s fourth season, Line of Fire’s first

Cool Times

Hanging with the actor kids at the Oakwood Apartments

Rockie Horoscope

David and Golgotha

Curb your Enthusiasm and the pain of being rich, white, and living in West L.A.

The True Believer

Righteous inquisitor Paul Schrader casts a baleful eye on celebrity and the perils of absolute selfishness

Letters

Mr. Livingston, We Presume

Peter Bogdanovich Doesn't Live Here Anymore

The director reluctantly drives down memory lane

Load Warriors

The A-Team meets Boogie Nights on the Colorado River

Searching for the Inner Meg

Dr. Solomon’s “cinematherapy”

Heavy Traffik

Bigger picture, smaller screen

Shake ’Em On Down

Lonely Planet Boy

With love from Johnny Thunders

American Families

La Boda and Resurrection Boulevard

Too Good and Weird

The Happy Life and Inevitable Death of Freaks and Geeks

Street Crime

New series from Barry Levinson and Tom Fontana -- and Shaun Cassidy

When Bobby Met Billy

De Niro, Crystal and Two Smoking Barrels