World War II

Uwe Boll, Worst Director Alive, to Wall Street Execs: "Don't Think You're Safe"

The perennial worst director is gunning for the bastards -- and respect

RIP Jeff Hanneman: Slayer Guitarist Is Dead

Slayer guitarist Jeff Hanneman has died. The cause was liver failure; he passed at an area hospital near his home this morning. He was 49. Hanneman has not been active in Slayer for the last few years, since suffering a flesh-eating bacteria from a spider bite. No word yet if that caused any c ... More >>

76: Pork Chop at Salt's Cure

Leading up to this year's Best of L.A. issue (due out Oct. 4), we'll be counting down, in no particular order, 100 of our favorite dishes. 76: Pork Chop at Salt's Cure. I didn't like pork chops as a kid. Growing up in a home where pigs were raised in the backyard, this was often a point of content ... More >>

Death-ship comedy

Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

The Big Red Restoration

The Unbelievable Genius of Andrzej Zulawski

Cinefamily hosts retrospective

Alina Szapocznikow at the Hammer Museum: Sexy Sculptures of a Forgotten Polish Genius

Safety in Rubbers

Gil Cates dies at 77

Craig SchwartzA Noise Within cuts open a new path in Pasadena​GIL CATES DIES: The Geffen Playhouse's artistic director, and Academy Awards producer, was found in a UCLA parking lot Monday night, having died of natural causes. More on this story to come. A Noise Within opened it's new Pasadena digs ... More >>

'Blue Sky Metropolis' at the Huntington Library Shows How Aerospace Shaped L.A., From Surfing to Marilyn Monroe

Nasa photoNASA pilot Bill Dana watches a Boeing NB-52B carrier aircraft fly overhead after a successful test flight of the Northrop HL-10 lifting body at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1969. Fellow pilot John Reeves can be seen at the cockpit of the lifting body.​ At a new exhibition at ... More >>

Pick of the Week: Way to Heaven (Himmelweg)

'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know About Alan Turing?

​​​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have made invaluable contributions to many different societies. One such person is Alan Turing, widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. "Everyone who taps at a keyboard, opening a spreadsheet or a wo ... More >>

Way to Heaven

Congressman Peter Kings' Congressional Hearings on Muslim Radicals Kickstarts Racial Profiling Debate

Congressman Peter King​New York congressman Peter King, who once claimed that more than 80 percent of Mosques in the United States are controlled by fundamentalists, "an enemy living amongst us," is catching a lot of heat as he gets ready to conduct congressional hearings later this week on radica ... More >>

Remembering the Battle of Los Angeles: UFOs or Enemy Attack?

ColumbiaBattle: Los Angeles.​Sixty-nine years ago tonight the air raid sirens wailed across Los Angeles as frightened residents looked to the western skies. It was nearly three months after Pearl Harbor and the start of World War II for the United States so, needless to say, people on the lef ... More >>

Los Angeles Battles Bay Area for Right to Host USS Iowa Battleship

Will the USS Iowa rest in the City of Angels?​The age-old battle between L.A. and "the Bay" might be getting a little more tense this year as the two metropolitan areas duke it out over the retired battleship USS Iowa, a.k.a. "the Big Stick." The Historic Ships Memorial at Pacific Square in t ... More >>

Talking Books Keep Visually Impaired Veterans Happy and Engaged

World War II veteran Peter Hobbs has listened to 630 talking books​ Vision impairment have become an increasingly common health problem among US military troops, 158,000 of whom are currently visually impaired or have poor vision. Such eye ailments make it close to impossible to enjoy activi ... More >>

All My Sons

'Hetalia' Draws Legions of Fans at Anime Expo

Hetalia was everywhere at this year's Anime Expo, from cosplay gatherings to artist alley booths to panel sessions. A satire that started out as a web comic and soon became a series of five-minute anime episodes, this relatively new franchise is a phenomenon within the fandom. When Funimation annou ... More >>

Nurse In Iconic Times Square Kiss Photograph Dies

​Edith Shain, who claimed to be the white-clad nurse in the famous V-J Day photo died Sunday at the age of 91 in her Los Angeles home, according reports. The iconic photograph, which shows a nurse being dipped and kissed by a soldier, was snapped by Life magazine photographer Alfred Eisenstadt ... More >>

Arizona Boycott: L.A. City Leaders Compared To French Surrender Monkeys

​A conservative columnist this week compared Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council to the surrendering French in World War II because the L.A. city leaders depend on Arizona's energy and water like Parisians depended on American troops. It's a stretch of a metaphor and maybe even a l ... More >>

L.A. Groups Sue Arizona Over Immigration Law

​A coalition of civil rights groups, including Los Angeles-based Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) and Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), filed suit in Phoenix federal court challenging Arizona's controversial immigration law, the organizations announced Mo ... More >>

Holy Ghost

Stage Raw: Holy Ghost

COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSCURRENT STAGE FEATURE ON THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD and THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO NEW REVIEW GO HOLY GHOST ​ Photo by Darrett Sanders The ghosts in Jon Tuttle's play  -- in a glorious production at Theatre of NOTE, directed by Michael Roth ... More >>

DANCE OF THE WILD HORSES

Kataki

Wheels of History: The Bicycle Thief returns in a new 35mm print

Panic, Despair and Revolution

Yet from industry turmoil, great films arose

Full of Craft

Bartender Angelo Cammarata Retires: Mixologists Have Nothing on This Guy

ABCNews.comAngelo Cammarata behind the bar​Angelo Cammarata, the longest-serving bartender on record, is retiring after 77 years of cocktail shaking. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the bartender has sold his family business, in part due to health complications suffered by one of his ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Bob Baker!

La Passion de Simone

Valkyrie: The Man Who Nearly Killed Hitler

An interview with the movie's star and director, Tom Cruise and Bryan Singer

Can You Hear Tommy?

New Daedelus Video for "Make It So" is One of the Best Things You'll Watch Today

Sometimes something arrives that, while small on the surface -- "What, another YouTube clip to watch?" -- manages to overjoy your heart and eyes with its magic. One such thing is the new video for LA-based Daedelus's new "Make It So." From his forthcoming Love To Make Music To, which comes out on Ni ... More >>

Lefsetz vs. Hilton?

A new odd couple is born.

Back to War

PBS’ marathon man Ken Burns returns

We'll Always Have Paris

... or something like it at the 94th Aero Squadron

Women Reading Vonnegut

The Crescent Moon Is Down

Suggested reading for the president

The Storyteller

Ed Meese on the Gipper and Gitmo

Flag Raiser

Adam Beach enters the spotlight

Y'all Don't Come Back

Country music, aerospace manufacturing and the white working class leave town

No New Taxes

Except on students

Nisei Narratives

Killer Games

The return of World War II

A Man Without an Army

Revisionist Dreams

Lary May’s Hollywood rewrite

Dark Victory

Steven Spielberg's good war

My Own Private Nuremberg

C.P. Taylor looks at the evil of banality