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  • Blogs

    May 25, 2012

    The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List

    *Top 20 Worst Bands Ever: The Complete List *Top 20 Musicians of All-Time, in Any Genre: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Female Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List *Top 20 Sexiest Male Musicians of All-Time: The Complete List Considering that most all of today's popular music -- be it roc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 5-1

    See also: *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 20-16 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All-Time: 15-11 *The Top 20 Whitest Musicians of All Time: 10-6 *Top 20 Worst Bands of All Time 5. Radiohead Go ahead and turn on VH1 right now. You know those bands playing in the background of your favor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Food Review or Dorothy Parker?

    Inspired by The Awl's fantastic -- and surprisingly somewhat difficult -- "Edith Wharton? Or Girls Review?" pop quiz last week, we created our own little take-home exam that may or may not shed some light into the state of food criticism today. Quotes from current food and restaurant reviewers are ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 8, 2012

    Friends With Kids Review

    Inspired by The Awl's fantastic -- and surprisingly somewhat difficult -- "Edith Wharton? Or Girls Review?" pop quiz last week, we created our own little take-home exam that may or may not shed some light into the state of food criticism today. Quotes from current food and restaurant reviewers are ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    January 26, 2012

    Margaret Review

    The best movie of 2011, at Cinefamily

  • Music

    January 19, 2012
  • Film+TV

    September 29, 2011

    Lonergan's Margaret Finally Makes It to Big Screen

    The best movie of 2011, at Cinefamily

  • News

    July 21, 2011

    Hollywood Faces a Heroin Summer

    A promising Kenyan-American dies amidst a risky Hollywood club scene

  • Film+TV

    July 14, 2011

    Project Nim Review

    A promising Kenyan-American dies amidst a risky Hollywood club scene

  • Film+TV

    December 2, 2010

    Black Swan: Dance Dance Revulsion

    Natalie Portman goes bat-shit in a tutu in Darren Aronofsky's latest

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Over the Weekend: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

    Live Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Palladium

  • Blogs

    May 25, 2010

    Top 10: Fictional TV Food Establishments

    Even though The French Chef premiered in 1963, the rest of American TV land wasn't exactly keeping up with Julia in that decade. Nor would it catch up in the food department any time soon. But that's fine, because restaurants on television don't focus on the food. Until the non-fictional TV world ge ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 6, 2010

    Behind the Burly Q, Breath Made Visible, Mother and Child

    Also, OSS 117: Lost in Rio, Babies, Multiple Sarcasms, The Lightkeepers and more

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2010

    Is 'Prep Rock' the New 'Yacht Rock'?

    It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Best of L.A.: Shopping

    It was but a few weeks ago that we music lovers were treated to a massive ad campaign for Vampire Weekend's Contra, featuring an allegedly mysterious picture of an uberpreppy girl in a yellow polo shirt (a Ralph Lauren Polo© shirt to be more precise) with an upturned collar. Now the indie tastemake ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Sheila Lukins Dies at 66: Author of The New Basics and Silver Palate Cookbooks

    Workman PublishingThe New Basics Cookbook​Sheila Lukins, co-author of the Silver Palate cookbooks, died on Sunday in Manhattan at the age of 66. Lukins was a huge influence on American cooking, and the cookbooks she wrote, many with Julee Russo, sold millions of copies and were instrumental in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    WeHo's Studs: Porn Theater or Revival House?

    Curbed L.A. flags down a tempest in a pornshop by pointing to one West Hollywood resident's ​idea of transforming the Studs Theater (the self-advertised "one-of-a-kind porn multiplex") into an art house cinema. (Hey, wasn't "art film" once shorthand for "porn"?) Writer Werner Haas' recent op-ed pi ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    July 30, 2009

    Dardenne Brothers on Lorna's Silence

    Acclaimed Belgian Filmmakers Take a (Short) Road Trip

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Stage Raw: Before Kirk Douglas Forgets

    PURCHASE TICKETS TO THE 30TH ANNUAL L.A. WEEKLY THEATER AWARDS ON MARCH 30TH AT THE EL REY; HERE ARE THE NOMINEES. BEFORE I FORGETKirk Douglas in Before I Forget. Photo by Craig Schwartz The gift in Kirk Douglas' one-man show, Before I Forget,  that opened over the weekend in the theater name ... More >>

  • Stage

    February 19, 2009

    Theater Reviews: Divorce! The Musical, Grand Motel, The Jazz Age

    Also, Call Me Mister Fry, Blues for Central Avenue and more

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    Stage Raw: Film

    FILM is this week's Pick of the Week. Photo by Darrett Sanders Failing Better The Absurdists' convention Local playwright Patrick McGowan's new play, Film, has no right to be as good as it is. The central character is the late theater director Alan Schneider (Bill Robens) -- known for stagi ... More >>

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