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Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 9/6-9/9

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "The restaurant occupies one of the best spots in Little Tokyo, right next to the perpetually megacrowded ramen shop Daikokuya, and is as bright and modern as its blaring 1970s rock is not -- I'm no ... More >>

Stage Raw: As You Like It

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSAlso see this week's STAGE FEATURE on Polish theater unmaskedNEW REVIEW GO AS YOU LIKE ITAs You Like It Photo courtesy of Aquila TheatreSummer is in full heat across the Southland, which brings out amphitheater producti ... More >>

Stage Raw: Clowntown City Limits

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THIS WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK CLOWNTOWN CITY LIMITSPhoto by Ed RachlesImagine a personable, grimy, makeup-smeared, cigar-chomping guy in a tank top, not unlike Tommy Lee Jones, playing cards outdoors on the porch of some tra ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Facing East, Insanity, Farragut North

Also, St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses, The Voysey Inheritance and more

Stage Raw: Pigs' Life (St. Joan of the Slaughterhouses)

THE LATEST NEW REVIEWS ARE EMBEDDED IN THE COMING WEEK'S COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW THEATER PICK ST JOAN OF THE SLAUGHTERHOUSESPhoto by Vitor MartinsFor a lucid analysis of the malfunctioning global financial markets, one could do worse than Bertolt Brecht. And it's hard to imagine doi ... More >>

Film reviews: Summercamp!, Self-Medicated, The Nines and More

Also Halloween, Death Sentence and this week's pick, Manda Bala

L.A. People 2006

Who we are: An introduction and index of the profiles.

The Gray Rat

Blame the governor for no books, no desks, no toilet paper

Barbie's Revenge

Out and About Food

Tasteful summer adventures that redefine Saturday afternoons at the ballpark

MOVIN' ON UP

How Lee Baca bought a $750,000 house with no money down

Looking for a Fight (page 1)

Lucia Rijker and the changing face of women's boxing