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Rihanna - Staples Center - 4/8/13

Rihanna Staples Center 4/8/13 It was a lot of sequins and gyrating last night as pop-star, media provocateur and good girl gone bad Rihanna hit the Staples Center as part of her Diamonds World Tour. RiRi was all hair, lips and hips as she brought an unabashedly sexual swagger. Although a lot of cri ... More >>

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

The Evolution of Melissa McCarthy

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *12 Comedy Acts to Watch in 2013 To watch Melissa McCarthy as lovable chef Sookie St. James on seven seasons of the Gilmore Girls was to see an actress perfect the art of playing a sidekick. As best friend of the show's protagonist, Lorelai Gilmore (Laur ... More >>

10 Great Stores in L.A. For Goth Gifts

See also: *Clockwork Couture, L.A.'s Premiere Steampunk Fashion Spot You've reached the holiday shopping homestretch, but there's one final gift that's driving you mad. Maybe it's for your sibling, or the co-worker whose name you pulled in Secret Santa. Regardless, it's for someone whose known inte ... More >>

The Films of Czech Surrealist Legend Jan Svankmajer Are Totally Nuts in All the Right Ways

If surrealism -- or, more specifically the freakish, fucked up and fantastic kind -- is your thing, then your September is about to get a whole lot better thanks to Cinefamily. This month, they're hosting a full retrospective featuring the works of Jan Å vankmajer, a Czech filmmaker, born in 1934, ... More >>

On the Streets With Hollywood's Autograph Hunters

A sea of screaming faces beckon movie stars to the sidewalk, where they conjure photographs, baseballs and -- when Johnny Depp appears, even a replica Freddie Krueger glove for him to sign. Outside Grauman's Chinese Theater, they downright beg for an autograph, yelling until their voices turn hoarse ... More >>

Vampira and Me: L.A. Film Festival Premieres R. H. Greene's New Documentary

Morgan Spurlock, Art Curator? His 'New Blood' Show Opens at Thinkspace

Morgan Spurlock is best known for his documentary Supersize Me, but is also a prolific creator of other works, such as his reality TV show A Day in the Life. When I spoke to him on a recent Friday morning, Spurlock was wrapping up a busy week of press junkets for his new documentary Comic-Con Episod ... More >>

10 Interpretations of Legendary Monsters at Hyaena Gallery

Hyaena Gallery is a small, Burbank shop dedicated to dark art, outsider art, pop surrealism and other unusual styles. Every year, the gallery hosts an exhibition at the annual horror convention Monsterpalooza. It's a different from the shows you'll normally see at the gallery, "more of a fun show," ... More >>

Music Picks: Lila Downs, Merle Haggard, I See Hawks in L.A., Die Antwoord

Also, Das Racist, Gonjasufi, Roky Erickson and others

Kevin Eastman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Co-Creator, Takes Over Meltdown Comics for 35 Days

Liz OhanesianKevin Eastman inside his Meltdown Comics studio, which features lots of goodies from Eastman's studio that will be sold by auction. ​There has been a lot of activity in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle world lately. Last summer at San Diego Comic-Con, Nickelodeon announced that a n ... More >>

Brian Posehn's Perfect Day In The Valley: Food, Toys More Food

Brian Posehn is a comic, writer, actor, and food-eater. The Comedians of Comedy, Sarah Silverman Program, and Mr. Show alumnus is also a dedicated San Fernando Valleyite and gastronome. Squid Ink recently asked Posehn to describe what his most perfectest day in the Valley with his wife and baby wo ... More >>

Grant Morrison's Supergods: Comic Book Writer Chats About Why We Need Superheroes

Writer Grant Morrison​In the world of comics, writer Grant Morrison is known for mythic grandiosity, narrative complexity, and visionary experimentation. Morrison's prolific work for both Marvel and DC includes defining titles such as Arkham Asylum, All-Star Superman, Batman RIP, the first thr ... More >>

Sex, Death and Pragmatism

Bill Plympton's DIY cartoon cottage industry

Your Berkshire Pig Update, Part 2: McCall's Gets a 2nd Berkshire Pig

A. Scattergooddeconstructed Berkshire pig at McCall's​ Recently we wrote about the magnificent Berkshire pig from ReRide Ranch that Nathan McCall and Karen Yoo had for sale -- or rather, bits of it -- at their Los Feliz butcher shop, McCall's Meat & Fish. Well, the response was so positive, on ... More >>

Picks from San Diego Comic-Con's Saturday Schedule: Futurama, Peter Bagge and Zombies

Check out our picks from Comic-Con's Thursday and Friday schedules. Saturday marks the 36th annual Comic-Con Masquerade, a massive costume contest where contestants will compete in categories like "Most Humorous," "Best Original Design" and "Best Re-creation." If there's anything we learned from ... More >>

Dead Man's Bones at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts: Woody Guthrie Meets Tim Burton

"I've got a disease and the only cure is more piano," Ryan Gosling half-joked into the mic as he raised one eyebrow and took a seat before a vintage, deconstructed piano. The sound-man obliged and the audience cheered for the full-bodied, moody organ sounds that are signature of Dead Man's Bones' se ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Chloe, Hot Tub Time Machine, Waking Sleeping Beauty

Also Sweetgrass, West of Pluto, Vincere and more

Strap-On Rock: Peaches at the Wiltern

It might seem hard to believe, but it's been almost 10 years since somebody in the know hipped you to this amazing electro record called The Teaches of Peaches by some crazy Canadian chick who recorded for German label Kitty-Yo. Since then, of course, Peaches has become recognized as a pop visionary ... More >>

Western Goth vs. Japanese Goth: La Carmina Explains the Difference at M/R/X-Wolfpak

Author and CNNGo contributor La Carmina spends much of her time hopping across the globe, from her hometown of Vancouver to Los Angeles, New York City, Hong Kong and Tokyo, the latter being the focus of her work. While she has explored various aspects of Japanese pop culture, including the cute cook ... More >>

21st-Century Fox

Coraline's Stop-Motion Splendor

Through the looking glass:

Idealist Propaganda: The Raw Power of Glen E. Friedman

Photos by Erin Broadley. Click images for entire Idealist Propaganda slideshow."Search and Destroy" funnels out onto the 10:30 p.m. Saturday Sunset Blvd. sidewalk, violently greeting late-arrivals to Glen E. Friedman's Idealist Propaganda exhibit. Iggy's cocaine cacophony carves up Tymphanic cavitie ... More >>

Rock Picks: Aretha Franklin, Lucinda Williams, Deerhunter

Also, Rodriguez, the Monolators, Nas and more

Brent Green's Brave New Worlds

Brent Green at the Hammer Museum, 7/22/08 By Anna Feuer In Brent Green's fantasy world, Santa Claus is a sickly old alcoholic who shrieks "Ho ho ho!" like a crazed killer. A little girl sticks her toy fire truck through one ear and lodges it in her brain. A mother slips through the floor boards a ... More >>

Film Reviews: Semi-Pro, Summer Palace, A Walk to Beautiful

And other Feb. 29 releases

Theater Listings

For the week of Oct. 19-26

Grey the Transformer

Paramount Pictures’ chief now obeys his DreamWorks masters

Man of Steel

Bryan Singer overcame a path paved with kryptonite to bring back Superman

Art School Rejects

Breakfast with Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes

The Problem With Oscar

First of all, the Academy Awards started at 3, and that means drinking started at 3 and so last night was a very long night. I don't have a television, and I wasn't invited to the Oscars, an oversight on somebody's part I'm sure. But that didn't stop me from inviting all my friends to Stuart's house ... More >>

Exile in Godville

Profile of a postmodern heretic

The Genius, Almost Live

An intermittently inspired Ray falls short of its subject.

What in Tarnation

Will success spoil filmmaker savant Jonathan Caouette?

Do You IMDB?

How a fanatic helped put Hollywood under one big tent

Intolerable?

More cruelty for Coenheads

Not So Blaine

Cool Times

Hanging with the actor kids at the Oakwood Apartments

Distress Signals

Mark Ryden's creepy miniatures, Jonathan Rosen's hybrid monsters

Playing Favorites

Queer and/or peculiar films that have mattered

Bourne Free

A choreographer’s cinematic adventures in dance

Repo Men

Silent Bob and the Woodster

Prince of Darkness

Filmmaker John Carpenter

I, Legend

A morning with Charlton Heston

Beyond Good and Evil

To the utterly adorable ass-kicking superheroics of the Powerpuff Girls!

My So-Called Rotten Life

Susan Tyrrell’s sentimental journey through money, fame, sex and amputation

The Moralist

Neil LaBute, Latter-Day Filmmaker

A Whimper From Venus

Korla Pandit, 35 B.C.?-1998 A.D.

Homage to Korla Pandit

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