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Tim Burton

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2013

    Estonian Dance Pop Singer Kerli Talks Bubble Goth and Moon Children

    L.A.-based pop artist Kerli is spreading love. She calls her latest EP, Utopia, "a collection of positive energy" and via collaborations with artists like Switch and "musical soulmates" SeventyEight, she creates big beat laden synth dance soundtracks for big nights out. Raised in Estonia, Kerli ha ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    February 28, 2013

    Stoker Review: In the Hotly Anticipated Sundance Film, Girlhood Blooms Into Violence

    L.A.-based pop artist Kerli is spreading love. She calls her latest EP, Utopia, "a collection of positive energy" and via collaborations with artists like Switch and "musical soulmates" SeventyEight, she creates big beat laden synth dance soundtracks for big nights out. Raised in Estonia, Kerli ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 27, 2012

    Top 10 Geek Heroes of 2012

    In 2012, Stan Lee got his own comic book convention, Akira creator Katsuhiro Otomo came to town, web sensations like the comic Homestuck and series Dick Figures had wild success on Kickstarter and Lloyd Kaufman put a whole ton of Troma films on YouTube. Sure, there's plenty more that happened in 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2012

    Christmas Films, From Romantic to Bloody: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Our weekly list of special event films to see: Friday, Dec. 14 What would make 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life even more wonderful? Seeing it on ice! Put those ice-skating moves to work while the Echo Park Film Center Filmmobile plays the movie (Christmas cake is promised). Keep an eye on its Tw ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 25, 2012

    Best Costumes on Display

    Our weekly list of special event films to see: Friday, Dec. 14 What would make 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life even more wonderful? Seeing it on ice! Put those ice-skating moves to work while the Echo Park Film Center Filmmobile plays the movie (Christmas cake is promised). Keep an eye on its Tw ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 4, 2012

    Frankenweenie Review: The Tim Burton You Like Is Back

    Our weekly list of special event films to see: Friday, Dec. 14 What would make 1946 classic It's a Wonderful Life even more wonderful? Seeing it on ice! Put those ice-skating moves to work while the Echo Park Film Center Filmmobile plays the movie (Christmas cake is promised). Keep an eye on its Tw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 2, 2012

    Frankenweenie: The Ultimate Tim Burton Passion Project?

    According to Tim Burton lore, Frankenweenie, the live action short he made for Disney back in 1984, was intended to be a stop motion animation film. Nearly 30 years later, that original vision has come to life with the feature-length Frankenweenie, out this Friday. Buzz has been surrounding the fil ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 19, 2012

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Baseball, Bikes and Body Snatchers

  • Film+TV

    May 17, 2012

    Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

    Rock Hudson, Robert Bresson and all-night avant-garde

  • Film+TV

    May 10, 2012

    Dark Shadows and God Bless America Reviewed

    The latest from Tim Burton and Bobcat Goldthwait

  • Calendar

    May 3, 2012

    Burton's Bacharach

    The latest from Tim Burton and Bobcat Goldthwait

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    Top 10 Badass L.A. Parties of 2011

    Also see 10 Ways to Get Past a Bouncer and Top 10 L.A. Club Nights of 2011. At the risk of referencing LMFAO again, LA knows its party rockin' and we do it bigger and better than any other city in the world. New York may beat us at chic soirees, Miami might be sultrier and Vegas gaudier, but Los A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 31, 2011

    LACMA Muse Dead Man's Costume Ball Puts Tim Burton Show in the Ground, With Costumes From Jack and Sally to Beetlejuice

    She Wants Revenge performs at LACMA costume ball​The LACMA Muse Costume Ball is one of Los Angeles's hottest Halloween tickets, and with the wildly popular Tim Burton exhibit in its final days and KROQ jumping on board, Saturday's sold out Dead Man's Ball came with an especially large amount o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 22, 2011

    Danny Elfman, Is That You?

    She Wants Revenge performs at LACMA costume ball​The LACMA Muse Costume Ball is one of Los Angeles's hottest Halloween tickets, and with the wildly popular Tim Burton exhibit in its final days and KROQ jumping on board, Saturday's sold out Dead Man's Ball came with an especially large amount o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2011

    LinA In LA Club/Party Picks: Muse Til Midnight, Sander Kleinenberg, The Lot

    Check out the Tim Burton exhibit and hear Dublab DJs at LACMA; see Sat. ​For those who like to party, Summer's soiree schedule still shines pretty bright even as the seasonal shift begins. This week offers plenty of opportunities to get down 'ti' the leaves turn brown. It's in fact a very colo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Cirque du Soleil's Iris Preview at the Kodak Theater: Upcoming Show Will Be Porn for Tim Burton Fans

    Zachary Pincus-Roth​ The most striking aspect of the press preview of Cirque Du Soleil's upcoming film-themed L.A. show Iris yesterday was the timeliness show's aesthetic: the costumes and production design generally were strikingly similar to that of Tim Burton, whose exhibit at LACMA just op ... More >>

  • Art+Books

    June 9, 2011

    Tim Burton at LACMA

    How a Hollywood director became a counterculture hero

  • Blogs

    June 9, 2011

    Tim Burton Sociology, in LA Weekly's New Cover Story

    Corpse Bride​ In LA Weekly's new cover story on the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA, Liz Ohanesian takes a sociological approach to the director's work, showing how his aesthetic dovetails with various subcultures, from goth to Victorian to Lolita. She writes: it's what Burton doesn't do that mak ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2011

    An Evening with Danny Elfman

    Corpse Bride​ In LA Weekly's new cover story on the Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA, Liz Ohanesian takes a sociological approach to the director's work, showing how his aesthetic dovetails with various subcultures, from goth to Victorian to Lolita. She writes: it's what Burton doesn't do that mak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2011

    Jane's Addiction at Tim Burton's LACMA Bash, plus Some of Burton's Best Movie Music

    Lina Lecaro LACMA CEO Michael Govan, Tim Burton and Slash​ There is seemingly no rest for the wicked mind of Tim Burton. With current/recent projects ranging from the film version of Dark Shadows to a reworking of his stop-motion short Frankenweenie to Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty (sadly, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Tim Burton's Top 5 Lady Badasses

    ​ Sure, Tim Burton's reigning muse might be Helena Bonham Carter, but what about the director's less-lauded heroines? Prepare for the Tim Burton exhibition opening up at the LACMA this weekend (May 29-Oct. 31) by reacquainting yourself with these great Burton female leads of the past.

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2011

    Tim Burton at LACMA: Burbank Goth Boy Makes Good

    LACMA.org​Overheard last night at the members' preview of the Tim Burton Retrospective at LACMA: (Two women are gazing upwards at the rear end of a pedestal-high display of Edward Scissorhands' buckled, tight-fitting black leather costume.) Woman #1: Ahh, Johnny Depp. Sexy even without a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    Tim Burton's Been Busy

    LACMA.org​Overheard last night at the members' preview of the Tim Burton Retrospective at LACMA: (Two women are gazing upwards at the rear end of a pedestal-high display of Edward Scissorhands' buckled, tight-fitting black leather costume.) Woman #1: Ahh, Johnny Depp. Sexy even without a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 26, 2011

    Tim Burton Book Signing

    LACMA.org​Overheard last night at the members' preview of the Tim Burton Retrospective at LACMA: (Two women are gazing upwards at the rear end of a pedestal-high display of Edward Scissorhands' buckled, tight-fitting black leather costume.) Woman #1: Ahh, Johnny Depp. Sexy even without a ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 26, 2011

    Tim Burton and Ed Wood at LACMA

    LACMA.org​Overheard last night at the members' preview of the Tim Burton Retrospective at LACMA: (Two women are gazing upwards at the rear end of a pedestal-high display of Edward Scissorhands' buckled, tight-fitting black leather costume.) Woman #1: Ahh, Johnny Depp. Sexy even without a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2011

    Taschen's Big Penis Book in 3D Launches in Beverly Hills (NSFW)

    Carri Faber​ This wasn't your mother's Beverly Hills. First, this writer felt compelled to visit the Beverly Hills Cheese Store, where she discussed Bollywood music production, politics and mutants with Marky Ramone, protopunk percussionist and purveyor of his own pasta sauce, before making he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Tim Burton Screening Schedule at LACMA Announced, Burton to Introduce Ed Wood

    Alice in Wonderland​ The schedule for the screening series tied to the upcoming Tim Burton exhibit at LACMA has been announced: Edward Scissorhands, May 27, 7:30 pm (70mm print) Ed Wood, May 28, 7 pm (introduction by Burton himself, and preceded by Vincent, Burton's 1982 short) Beetlejuice, J ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Want Tickets for Tim Burton at LACMA? Here's How.

    ​We're only a few short weeks away from the May 29 opening of Tim Burton at LACMA, a retrospective of the famed director's work that features over 700 pieces, including puppets, storyboards, costumes and much more. Today is the day that you can start purchasing tickets for the exhibit. Genera ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 15, 2010

    The Monkey's Paw: Dapper Cadaver Oddity

    ​ If you go to a store called Dapper Cadaver in Sun Valley here in Los Angeles, you will see many weird things. Of the weird things, this monkey's paw is perhaps one of the weirdest. The monkey's paw, of course, is infamous for bringing bad luck to those who use it to make their wishes come t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2010

    The Nightmare Before Christmas: In 4-D

    ​ If you go to a store called Dapper Cadaver in Sun Valley here in Los Angeles, you will see many weird things. Of the weird things, this monkey's paw is perhaps one of the weirdest. The monkey's paw, of course, is infamous for bringing bad luck to those who use it to make their wishes come t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2010

    Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/27-10/1

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

  • Music

    March 11, 2010

    Nightranger: Boogie Wonderland

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 6, 2010

    Movie Reviews: Liverpool, Dreamkiller, Brooklyn's Finest, Alice in Wonderland

    In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Just the way we like it, really, a restaurant that doesn't really exist stuffed like pureed huitlacoche into a favorite restaurant that does..." First Bite: Test Run, or Supper Liberation Front & Pablo Moix Invade Guelaguet ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 6, 2010

    Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land

    "I'm misperceived as a dark person: I'm not dark"

  • Stage

    January 14, 2010

    Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

    18 years after a bruising fall, Paul Reubens returns to an L.A. stage

  • Film+TV

    September 10, 2009

    Thingamabob vs. Machine in 9

    WALL-E would never get out alive in director Shane Acker's postapocalyptic hellscape

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2009

    Butchery on the Rise & Julie Powell Takes Up the Cleaver: Does Tim Burton Cook?

    According to an article this past weekend in The Independent, butchery is on the rise. That would be the traditional trade of meat-cutting, not anything more macabre. "Butchers, farmers and catering schools are all increasing the number and variety of courses they offer, to cater for a spike in inte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Alice in Wonderland Fashion Battle: Tim Burton's New School vs. Cartoon Disney Old School

    Tim Burton's film adaptation of Alice In Wonderland isn't out until next year, but if the promo photos are any indication, it's going to be the most visually arresting, luxurious Alice yet. Here's a look at how new Alice stacks up against older Alices from a fashion perspective. 1. Alice The new ... More >>

  • Stage

    March 20, 2008

    John Doyle's Sweeney Todd

    Who's your barber?

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2008

    Bitter Sweet

    Psych... The slide show of Project Runway's final five designer collections at Bryant Park on Bravo.com may have led us to believe there were 5 finalists up for the grand prize this year, but apparently it was some kind of runway ruse. Former LA Weekly staffer and Club Fuck/Sin-a-matic doorgirl Swe ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 20, 2007

    Burton and Depp Give New Blood to Movie Musicals

    Meat is murder

  • Music

    October 19, 2006

    Deaf & Dead

    Meat is murder

  • Film+TV

    July 14, 2005

    More Dahl, Less Depp

    And bring on the Oompa-Loompas!

  • Film+TV

    June 9, 2005

    Who Was That Masked Man?

    Christopher Nolan’s Batman begins with flesh and bone

  • News

    April 21, 2005

    Creation Myths

    Theater in time of cell-phone cameras

  • Columns

    March 17, 2005

    Give PEACE® a Chance

    Theater in time of cell-phone cameras

  • News

    January 8, 2004

    Letters

    Theater in time of cell-phone cameras

  • News

    December 18, 2003

    You Ain’t From Around Here, Are Ya, Boy?

    Tim Burton on Alabama roadkill, Brother Zontar and the all-time best double bill at the Van Nuys Drive-in

  • News

    August 16, 2001

    A Defense of Missile Defense . . .

    . . . is enough to torpedo your appetite

  • Film+TV

    November 25, 1999

    It's a Small, Small World

    From Liberty Heights to Sleepy Hollow

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