William Shatner

George Takei: He Boldly Goes

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. At 76, George Takei is in the prime of his life: The Star Trek actor and L.A. native is now a social media maven, a theatrical producer and, with his husband, the former Brad Al ... More >>

Little Bummer Boy

Awake & Shakin'

Kevin Pollak on His New Autobiography and How He Convinced Steve Martin to Tweet

Revered standup and actor Kevin Pollak's new autobiography, How I Slept My Way to the Middle: Secrets and Stories from Stage, Screen, and Interwebs , fulfills precisely what its subtitle promises, chronicling his rise as an formidable impressionist and standout player in The Usual Suspects, A Few Go ... More >>

Big Rig Crash on the 5 Causes Nightmare Traffic Jam for Friday Drive Home

Could the big rig that just smashed through the concrete divider on the 5 freeway in Burbank have picked a worse possible time to bring traffic to a standstill? Just after 5 p.m. this afternoon -- smack-dab in the middle of the Friday rush -- a big rig heading southbound somehow lodged itself into ... More >>

Hooray for Larry Edmunds

William Shatner Interview Outtakes: Star Trek Star on His Solo Show, Horses and Starbucks

William Shatner, as you can imagine, has a lot to say. Now 80, the Star Trek legend opens his one-man show, Shatner's World: We Just Live in It, on Broadway Feb. 16, before launching the national tour at the Pantages on March 10. Here are some outtakes from our William Shatner interview we feature ... More >>

William Shatner on His New Solo Show, on Broadway and at the Pantages

Short Eyes, King of the Desert, The Lonesome West, and more New Stage Reviews . . .

​Miguel Pinero's 1970s prison play Short Eyes nabs this week's Pick of the Week.​ Good notices also for Martin McDonagh's The Lonesome West at Santa Monica's Ruskin Theatre Group; Rene Rivera's King of the Desert at Casa 0101 in East L.A.; and Molly Smith Metzer's new play, Elemeno Pea at South ... More >>

Let's Be Honest: Concerts Are Too Fucking Loud

Chris Reed​By Gabrielle Canon Everyone likes to argue about which bands are the best. But there's one thing everyone agrees on - louder is better. At the end of the day, we all seem to want amps that go to 11. Concerts these days are louder than just about anything else in daily life, unless ... More >>

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 11/14-11/18

Flickr/Lauren Manning​ In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "At the end of 2011, the year that the gastropub finally wrestled formal dining into a bathtub to drown, we pretty much know what a good, new restaurant is going to look like." Cooks County: A Perf ... More >>

Dragon*Con vs. San Diego Comic-Con: Which Convention Should You Attend?

Shannon CottrellSan Diego Comic-Con 2011​For the past three years that I've been covering conventions for LA Weekly, people have been telling me to go to Atlanta for Dragon*Con. I've heard it from commenters, friends and professional contacts. There are many who believe that Dragon*Con is the ... More >>

William Shatner's New Album Of Sci-Fi Covers? Not Bad! He's At Amoeba Today

​See also: William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details William Shatner's first foray into music was 1968's The Transformed Man, a novelty of Shakespeare and Cyrano de Bergerac passages paired with a couple of pop tunes, "Mr. Tambourine Man," "Lucy in the ... More >>

Interview: Thundercat, Brainfeeder's Bass Master General

​ Thundercat - Daylight by BRAINFEEDER When L.A.'s world-class beat/electronica crew Brainfeeder takes over the Fonda later this week, you'll spot one guy up there making music the (comparatively) old-fashioned way. Him with the extraterrestrial sense of style and supernatural ability ... More >>

William Shatner Reveals Song Lineup for His Upcoming "Metal Album"

​Back in February, we broke the news that William Shatner was working on a star-studded new album with some of LA's most prominent metal session musicians (Read "William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details"). Well, now WilliamShatner.com (of course there' ... More >>

William Shatner Is Recording Star-Studded Metal Album in L.A.: We Got the Details

William Shatner is back in the studio working on yet another great big pile of Shat-mazing, Incredibly Strange music.  It's been over a week since Shatner first formally proclaimed Zakk Wylde's mad skills via Twitter( http://twitter.com/WilliamShatner/status/30113065924034560 "Best, Bill"), but o ... More >>

Bristol Palin's Last Supper: Thank You, TMZ

We owe TMZ so much. News of what William Shatner is wearing. The details of Charlie Sheen's $20,000 text messages. Pictures of Ryan Seacrest doing pretty much everything, from exiting Mozza to walking around Paris with his parents. Now we know exactly what Bristol Palin and the rest of the Dancing w ... More >>

Jimmy Kimmel's 'National Unfriend Day' Is Almost Over -- But You've Still Got Time!

NNDBOnce mere "friends," Beer and Jimmy are now close without quotation marks​If you don't watch "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", and you wouldn't be the only one, you probably had no clue that today was the unofficial (or official, if you ask him) house-cleaning day for Facebook hoarders everywhere. Ki ... More >>

Nightranger: Star Bright

THE SHIT HITS THE FAN

Gwyneth Paltrow Sings!: Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird

​ Gwyneth Paltrow sings! (see #10). In celebration of this amazing revelation, we've compiled this handy list of Ten Notable Screen Stars Gone Songbird, starting, of course with: 1. William Shatner. Who can forget Shatner's much-parodied musical career, especially after Rhino Records' inclu ... More >>

A KOJAK MOMENT

Star Trek: The Motion Pictures

Reevaluating the Enterprise enterprise, midnights at the Royal

DADS SAY THE DARNDEST THINGS

William Shatner & Taiwanese Bowl-Cut Boy, "Total Eclipse of the Heart"

That Taiwanese boy with the bowl-cut, Lin Yu Chun, dubbed by the Internet meme-makers "the Asian Susan Boyle." William Shatner. "Total Eclipse of the Heart." 'Nuff said? Some things are best kept simple: [Thanks to Liz Ohanesian for the tip.]

TWILIGHT HERO

A KOJAK MOMENT

When Fandoms Collide: Nine Great Pop Culture Mash-Ups

Just because we seem to be constantly listening to music and hitting up concerts here at West Coast Sound doesn't mean that we aren't also reading comic books or taking nights off to re-watch Star Wars Episodes IV-VI. So, when our interests collide, be it in song or on the small screen, we get a lit ... More >>

Movie Reviews: Adoration, Julia, Little Ashes, Revanche

Also, Next Day Air, Our City Dreams and more

Lost in Space: J.J. Abrams' Younger, Buffer Star Trek

GO LA: Mort Sahl, Ziggy Marley and Everything In Between

What to do in L.A., May 1-7

Around the World in 80 Days

Theater Reviews: You, Nero, Hangin' Out, La Ronde

Also, Around the World in 80 Days, Far From an Angel's Gaze, and more

Heroes of the Final Frontier: Top 5 Space Cowboys from TV and Film

William Shatner said it best at the beginning of every Star Trek episode, "Space, the final frontier." For decades since, life amongst the stars has unfolded on screens big and small like western epics, with bounty hunters, gunslingers and the losers of grand wars wandering through lawless lands, th ... More >>

LA People: Wil Wheaton — Child Star, Adult Geek

Talking science fiction over drinks with the guy who calls William Shatner WFS

Sensuous Woman, Mean Men, Dancing Swans

ELECTION NIGHT AT PINKS

Six Inches of Soul

Ice Follies

Film Reviews: King of California, Mr. Woodcock, Shadow Company

Also I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With, Ira & Abby, December Boys and more

Film Reviews

For the week of April 14 - 20

Call me Nostradamus

10 signs of the apocalypse

Captain, My Captain

William Shatner on life, love, horses and making a record with Ben Folds

Vampire Diaries: Getting Geeked on Buffy and Spike at the Sci-Fi Summit

Boozers and Schmoozers

Big Bad Love good, Jaglom better than usual

Every Woman Can: Backstage with Velvet Hammer

The Familiar Hour

Enterprise, Smallville and “Adult Swim”

Whip It

Whip it good

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