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Best of L.A. 2013: The Readers Poll Winners

For only the second year ever, we asked you to nominate your favorite places in Los Angeles -- and then vote on the finalists. Here are your picks, along with a link to the staff winner in each category. Best Adult Store The Pleasure Chest 7733 Santa Monica Blvd., W. Hlywd. (323) 650-1022, thepleasu ... More >>

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie: What Happened?

Werewolf on the Harbor Freeway

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including an American Werewolf on the Harbor Freeway

This week, one artist reimagines Michael Jackson's Thriller, another puts the visions of a '70s revolutionary to music and a new film tells the story of a restaurant-running SoCal commune. 5. Panther politics remix Pictures of Huey P. Newton, the activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1 ... More >>

Les Misérables Doesn't Dream Big Enough

Top 10 Facebook Check-Ins For 2012 Shows Southern California On Top

America loves Southern California, at least according to Facebook's end-of-the-year data. Of the social networking site's recently revealed 10 most popular domestic "check-ins" for 2012, three of the locations are in Southern California, beating out any other region. Top spots include:

Fifty Shades Porn Parody Targeted In Big Hollywood Lawsuit

Porn has had a good run parodying box office franchises like Star Wars (Star Wars XXX). Such hijinks are considered constitutionally protected "fair use," so long as you're commenting and not just copying. Superstar adult producer Axel Braun (Star Wars XXX) told us last year that porn parodies attr ... More >>

Universal Studios' Halloween Horror Nights

Inside the L.A. Dominatrix Industry

This piece is part of our series on the L.A. dominatrix industry. See also: *How a Dominatrix Does Her Taxes "Chains and whips excite me," Rihanna sings. "You're a dirty little whore, and I'm going to send you home to your parents covered in cum," Lena Dunham's love interest tells her on "Girls." ... More >>

Snow White and the Huntsman Review

Cannes Film Festival 2012: Highlights and Lowlights

My Morning Jacket and Sharon Jones - Gibson Amphitheatre - 12-01-11

My Morning Jacket and Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings Gibson Ampitheatre 12-01-11 Better than...any ride at Universal Studios. Past the gauntlet of Universal City Walk with its seizure-inducing lights, blaring Christmas pop remixes, and downright oppressive wafts of popcorn and cologne, there was a ... More >>

Douglas Wright, Christine Wilson and Janice Perlin: Three of Hollywood's Copycat Artists

Cowboys & Aliens Review

Carmageddon Survival Guide: 10 Artsy Ways to Salvage Your Weekend

Cult soul singer Evie Sands in the 1960s; Sands is performing at Viva Cantina this Sunday.​ With the impending shutdown of the 405, everyone's unsure of what to do this weekend. Quoth a friend: "Should I leave? Should I stay? And if I stay, what should I do?" Have no fear, we've got you cove ... More >>

Nuremberg: Courtroom Drama or Genocide Porn?

Music Picks: Stiff Little Fingers, CunninLynguists, The Nubians, System of a Down

Houses, Aloe Blacc, Krautrock Nite, The Radio Dept. and others

William and Kate, Royal Couple, Plan Visit to Hollywood This Summer

New York PostWills and Kate to do L.A.?​It's official! Updated after the jump with the royal couple's dates of stay. Paparazzi alert! Y'all can take a break from heckling Paris Hilton and her belligerent stalkers for a couple days this summer, because brand-spankin'-new royal couple Prince Wi ... More >>

NIGHTRANGER: Monster's Ball

Hollywood Backs Harris as Cooley Pulls Away

Why ugly and grumpy Steve is beating smart and beautiful Kamala

Waiting for Lefty

Stage Raw: Waiting for Lefty

NEW THEATER REVIEWSTheater FEATURE on Neighbors, at the MatrixNEW REVIEW GO WAITING FOR LEFTY ​Photo by Thomas MikuszThis dynamic 1935 one-act launched the career of playwright Clifford Odets, became an important social document, and solidified the reputation of the Group Theatre. Seeing it now, ... More >>

King Kong 360 Ride In 3-D Unveiled At Universal Studios

​Universal Studios Hollywood will open "King Kong 360 3-D" to the public on Thursday. The new attraction replaces the original tram tour that was destroyed in a June 2008 fire. Universal hired award winning director Peter Jackson to bring the gorilla back to life. According to the Daily News ... More >>

Why the Comcast/GE/NBCU Deal May Harm Consumers

Does Big Media = Behemoth Media = Bad Media?

Stage Raw: All Cake, No File

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE on Rachel Rosenthal at 83ALL CAKE, NO FILE ​Photo by Jonathan KalanDonna Jo Thorndale's Johnny Cash tribute with live cooking, All Cake, No File, continues this weekend as part of the WTF? Festival at the Actors' Gang/Ivy Substation in ... More >>

Hollywood Is All About Karma

Movie studio moguls (Cook, Ross, Shmuger, Linde, Fogelson, Langley) came and went this week

And You Can Take That to the Burbank

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Scorched Universal Studios Sets Back for Summer Associated Press reports that the tourist destination will have rebuilt its New York streets, seen in Spider-Man 2 and Transformers, in time for midsummer. The N.Y. neighborhood and other movie-set attractions burned during last June's massive backlot ... More >>

Hellboy II: The Golden Army, Devil May Care

Big Red returns in Guillermo Del Toro's mindless, revved-up offering

Flammable Film Sets Blamed for Universal Studios Blaze

Leatherheads: There Will Be Mud

Clooney tackles preglory gridiron

Fox's Tail - Assistants March

“Every place has a completely different personality, like, Sony is kinda angry, Fox is where all the really cool people hang out and [CBS] Radford gets started at, literally, 5 am…” Stephen Scaia said last Wednesday. The Jericho writer was giving picketing pointers to Joshua Jackson (the drea ... More >>

Evan's in Need of a Miracle

Is the big-budget sequel going to hell?

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Season of the Pitch

Labor�s Hollywood summer programming

�Ask a Mexican! Does L.A.

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

Head Trip

Thinking about Deep Throat

Jennifer K. Howell

Party Smarty

Expert Advice: Caterer's Dish

Universal Lifeline

The power of Hollywood keeps lights on

That Championship Season

The Contender rocks, Billy Elliot jet�s

Cinema Tech

Thom Mount and the Los Angeles Film School

The End Is Near!

The last movies of the century

Comic Belief

The soul in two dimensions

The Master Class

Foreign filmmakers invade the Egyptian.

Red Line Blues

Up and down the new Metro Rail stations

It's a Wonderful Half-Life

What�s New!?

eight tips for bursting your bubble