Ugly Betty

The Best Concerts in L.A. This Weekend

Friday, January 18 Femi Kuti EL REY THEATRE In 2009, the Nigerian government forcefully shut down the Shrine, the home base of Afrobeat originator Fela Kuti. By now, however, not only is the Shrine back, it's a government-endorsed museum -- a sign, Femi Kuti told one reporter, that the revolutionar ... More >>

Music Picks: FIDLAR, Muse and Lady Gaga

The Botanist: A New Oscar-Worthy Gin

The Botanist has all the buzzwords of box office gin success. In addition to the typical gin aromatics (juniper berries, cassia bark, orange peel and such), it is distilled with "22 wild native Islay botanicals" (white clover, bog myrtle leaves, creeping thistle). They've been hand-picked by an "exp ... More >>

Stage Raw: Lease Subsidy Program Gets Another Lease

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT FEATURE ON BORN TO BE ALIVE and THE WOMEN OF BREWSTER PLACELEASE SUBSIDY PROGRAM GETS ANOTHER LEASE A recommendation by L.A.'s Chief Administrative Officer Miguel Santana to restructure (eliminate) the city's Lease Subsidy Program for non- ... More >>

THE HISTORY OF CHICO AND THE MAN

L.A.'s Ugliest New Buildings

You've got to hand it to Tony Chavira at the urban living blog FourStory -- he doesn't hold back when slamming L.A.'s failed 21st-century architecture. A case in point comes with his most recent post blasting local new buildings. (His series bears the unambiguous title, "The Ugliest Architecture in ... More >>

On the Road to Burma

Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

Muy Caliente Summer Edition

Finding the Center

Department of lost (and literary) souls

Stage Raw: Lodestone Says Goodnight and Good Luck

Check back here Monday after noon for the upcoming weekend's NEW THEATER REVIEWS of The Little Dog Laughed, Douglas Carter Beane's comedy about being oneself in Hollywood and elsewhere, at the Kirk Douglas Theatre; Deborah Pryor's mystical Appalachian one-act The Love Talker at Son of Semele Ens ... More >>

Dark Knight, Late-Night Wars and More: What a Bunch of Jokers:

But for some in Hollywood, the joke's on them

Capitol Films' Crash and Burn

The company's cash crunch is shutting down indie after indie

What's Hot: Talks Between Actors and Producers Look DOA

Meanwhile, pilots are vibrantly alive

Lipstick Jungle vs. Cashmere Mafia

Battle of the fashionista working gals

Christina Applegate Erases Bundy Past

Samantha Who?

¡Ask a Mexican!

"I’m a minority, and I know we can be overly sensitive sometimes, but I just can’t stand Carlos Mencia."

Mothers, Gangsters and the Usual Boobs at the Emmys

Shout outs and murmurs

Swathed

A designer-fabric store brings couture to your sewing machine

That Zucks!

NBC’s CEO screws up network shakeup

Indie Spin

Are you ready for this jelly?

Gilmore Girls Goodbye

"I actually felt happier talking like The Gilmore Girls. I literally felt my mood lighten."

What's in a Name?

A lot, says Mira Nair’s portrait of a young Indian-American’s identity crisis

¡Ask a Mexican! Pretension Headache

Red Any Good Carpets Lately?

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Sit Up and Watch

The best TV of 2006

An Ugly Truth

The year — in style? Help stop global leg warmers

It's Ugly Out There

Networks throw mad money, but catch only two beauties