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5 Awesome Nostalgic Things to Do in L.A. This Week

It's good to step back from the present-day and look back on the city's -- or your own -- history once a while and this week lets you do just that with events ranging from bizarre to nostalgic. Check out a mid-career retrospective from artist Gary Baseman, an Esoutoric program exploring Tom Waits' ... More >>

Best Costumes on Display

Justin Willman, Alternative Magician, Mixes the Dark Arts With Irony

It's Tuesday night in the loftlike performance area semi-hidden behind Meltdown Comics' retail floor, and a crowd of more than 60 in neatly arranged chairs intently watches the show's youthful host, Justin Willman. He disappears behind a large black cloth, then asks an audience member to name a ... More >>

Top Ten Musicals for People Who Don't Know Shit About Showtunes

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Stuff I Eat: Going Vegan in Inglewood

If vegan and animal rights activists really want to change the way the majority of people eat, they might want to forget those PETA protests where half-naked women dress like tigers and sit in cages all day or those really depressing humane society commercials where slow motion footage of abused dog ... More >>

10 Best Reasons to Visit Palm Springs and the Coachella Valley (Besides Coachella)

The Coachella Valley was once known as a fantastic spot for a getaway from L.A., especially during its high season in winter, when it features almost-certain sunshine and better temperatures. In recent years, Coachella has become synonymous with just one thing: Coachella. But this year, the music f ... More >>

Seth Grahame-Smith's New Book Unholy Night Asks: What the Hell Were the Three Wise Doing There?

After mixing the Victorian era with the world of the undead in Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Seth Grahame-Smith has become the highly profitable king of literature's mash-up genre. Lionsgate is developing P&P&Z into a movie, while the film version of ALVH, prod ... More >>

Alice in Wonderland on Film Through the Ages, at LACMA

WonderCon's Big Hollywood Movie Panels: Did Fans Fall for the Prometheus Hype?

Last weekend was WonderCon, the large, three-day pop culture convention organized by the same people who bring us San Diego Comic-Con every year. Normally, WonderCon takes place in San Francisco. Due to remodeling at their hometown convention center, however, this year's event moved to Anaheim. It ... More >>

816 Pacific Avenue, Venice: The Bad Haircut

Did you ever go to a Supercuts and ask for the cheapest haircut? 816 Pacific Avenue in Venice is the building equivalent of that bad decision. Or maybe you've been the lucky recipient of one of those free do's from a local beauty school that leave you considering a wig? This apartment building is l ... More >>

El Bordello Alexandra: How a Venice Goth House Came to Be

Wendy GilmartinEl Bordello Alexandra​When Tony and Brittany Stevenson bought the apartment at 20 Westminster Ave. in Venice ten years ago, the place was a heroin den with a slumlord owner who never fixed things. The front was covered with decaying wood shingles, grimy linoleum hid the historic ... More >>

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Halloween Horror Flick Crunch

7 Must-See L.A. Halloween Events This Weekend

Nanette Gonzales​ No plans for Halloween? Not looking forward to trying to park in WeHo for the parade Monday night? Check out these seven other weekend events. We won't say they're spook-tacular. If we did you'd have to shoot us.

LACMA's 'Living In a Modern Way' Evokes Star Trek and Other Revelations of 'Insane' Free Museum Day

Sam BlochResnick Pavilion, LACMA​This Sunday, the folks behind Pacific Standard Time leaned in close and said those three words we love to hear: free museum day! More than twenty-five Southern California art museums offered free admission yesterday. The heavy hitters and their lucky friends ... More >>

Top 5 Weekend Food Events: Oktoberfest, Taste of Taiwan, GOOD Food Festival, KCRW Pie Contest, Pig Parts and Beer

Guzzle & NoshIt's always a party when you bring out the pig's head.​ Farid Zadi's 2nd annual couscous festival, originally scheduled for Sunday, was cancelled (of cous, it was) as the chef is in the process of opening his first restaurant, but you can still head out to Arcadia for the Greek F ... More >>

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Club Cliques Get Wet n' Wild at Summertramp's Downtown Kick-off

Lina Lecaro Swigging and jiggling at Summertramp​ "LA clubs can be kind of clique-ish ... this party is like Switzerland," says Andres Rigal, the creator of Summertramp, the monthly blow-up toy dec'd blowout that brings together clubbers and rubbers from LA's most popular, often competing, po ... More >>

Film at LACMA is Dead. Long Live LACMA Film?

Not a portrait of Michael Govan, but a still from Edward Scissorhands, from LACMA's upcoming Tim Burton series.​ BY RICHARD NATALE Two years ago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art director Michael Govan proposed suspending the then-41-year-old weekend film program because it was losing money ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: 2010

2010's Top 10 Fashion Trends In LA: Tranimals, Feathered Femmes, Wonderland Wares, And More

Lina LecaroWe Heart 2010 Fashion. Well, some of it...​ For many, 2010 was a year for dressing to express, often in excess. Blending in, for the most part, was not an option when out on the town in LA. Inspired by everything from music and movies to retro style and well, we don't know what, her ... More >>

Cahiers du Cinema: The New Wave in a New World

Legendary French film mag brings its auteurist project to the States via a new book imprint

HOW DARK IS YOUR LOVE?

Dead Man's Bones Schedules an Encore 'Sock Hop' at Eagle Rock's Center for the Arts

Dead Man's Bones (Erin Broadley)​West Coast Sound was there for Dead Man's Bones' two-night, all-ages stint at the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts last weekend. Quoth reviewer Erin Broadley: Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields took the stage as Dead Man's Bones Saturday, June 26, for the first of t ... More >>

Top 10: Fictional Movie Food and Drink

Sometimes you watch a movie like Tampopo or Chocolat and can't help but want to eat everything on the screen. But there is another type of movie food too, the kind that doesn't actually exist. Some of these are from the future, some are disgusting, and some could potentially destroy the planet. With ... More >>

It's a Beautiful World

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: More Haiti Fundraisers Around Town

TiGeorges'​Chefs and restaurant employees around the city are generously donating their time to raise money for Haiti. Here is a list of places you can donate while you dine. The Edison will donate all door proceeds this week to the Haiti relief fund. On Friday, Jan. 22th from 5pm-8pm, the b ... More >>

Dirty Projectors Celebrate Halloween at Echo Park Rec Cen

"The new feelings will rise up like fake blood in crisp October/ From the cracks and the edges of the graves of our proudest moments/ Because that's not a monument it's a grave." Dirty Projectors' lead singer, Dave Longstreth, started his second set at the Echo Park Rec Cen on the last night of Oc ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Alien Trespass, Paris 36, Sugar

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Coraline Director Henry Selick Makes Horror Movies for Kids, Keeps His Distance From Hollywood

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Over the Weekend: Pee-wee's Big Adventure at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Paul Reubens Unveils Plans for Next Herman Film

Before there was Beetle Juice, Batman or Edward Scissor Hands, there was Pee-wee Herman. Yes, the original guy you didn’t want to get mixed up with. The loner. The rebel. In 1985, Pee-wee's Big Adventure premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and marked the breakthrough collaboration for director ... More >>

Sweeney Todd

It's a Wu-Tang Life

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Hark! the Harry Shearer Sings

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Clint Catalyst

Front and center

Running With Scissorhands

Matthew Bourne’s very odd man out

Paws for Effect

What to do in L.A. this week

Hey – Anybody Got Pogues Tickets for Sale?

What to do in LA from October 13 - 19

Best Anachronistic Bird Watching

The Bird Man of Elysian Park

Worst in Show

Oscar Morning Howlers

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Keanu Reeves in Constantine

A Defense of Missile Defense . . .

. . . is enough to torpedo your appetite

Harvest Time

For sale: Eric Roberts’ liver — and heart and spleen and gall bladder. Plus, the killer bugs of They Nest and the ratboys of Ratz

Comic Belief

The soul in two dimensions

Study for a Portrait of a Studio Memo

Cosmic Things

The return of the B-52's

The Six-Strings Mystique

Better living through metal