At first glance, it’s a rusted tower crane. Perhaps something dredged up from the ocean, an artifact of some lost city in some displaced future, like Mad Max’s Atlantis. Unlike any projection system Los Angeles has ever seen, the Engine Theater is 1,000 pounds of illuminated oxidized-steel sculpture that rotates......
With a voice like Marlboros and whiskey, the salesman tells me, "The barber's not in today," as he peers out from behind a glass case of nicknacks. He then turns away to help another customer, leaving me alone with this old barber's chair that sits outside, its metal hot to......
Well, he may have been kidding about that last part but Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse "Boots Electric" Hughes was dead serious about ensuring tonight's gig at the Mayan will be straight-up, hip-shaking, good time rock and roll for all who attend. The Los Angeles-based band led by Hughes......
I've never welcomed a Monday with more relief. Over the weekend, pre-Emmy parties on Friday and Saturday crowded Hollywood, while the actual ceremony on Sunday at the Nokia made living downtown a pain the ass for anyone like me who wasn't glued to a television. Plus, we got a shock......
Seventeen years in the spotlight as the lead singer of Incubus have made Brandon Boyd understandably private, so when he invited the L.A. Weekly to his West Side, home studio for a glimpse of his creative space, I jumped at the opportunity. Boyd has been a visual artist longer than......
Deep in the heart of Echo Park, surrounded by taco trucks and fruit vendors, cash-only dive bars and my ex-boyfriends, there exists off Sunset Boulevard a Time Travel Mart that supplies an array of collectibles one might need (or want) from the past or future; collectibles like human emotion chips......
Typically, the idea of Medieval Times conjures images of wide-eyed girls dressed in bedazzled cone hats, waving scepters, at their princess party… that, or of a berserk Jim Carrey dragging Matthew Broderick onto the sandy tournament floor for some overly competitive, Cable Guy axe wielding. Medieval Times is probably the......
Before there was Beetle Juice, Batman or Edward Scissor Hands, there was Pee-wee Herman. Yes, the original guy you didn’t want to get mixed up with. The loner. The rebel. In 1985, Pee-wee's Big Adventure premiered at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and marked the breakthrough collaboration for director Tim Burton and......
Los Angeles premiere parties are full of perks like free cocktails, irreverent celebrity commentary and, if you're lucky, a few laughs and plenty of photo opportunities. Wednesday September 10 marked the debut of Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane's new Web series, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, a 10-part independent......
Deep in the heart of Echo Park, surrounded by taco trucks and fruit vendors, cash-only dive bars and my ex-boyfriends, there exists a Time Travel Mart off Sunset Boulevard that supplies an array of collectibles one might need (or want) from the past or future; collectibles like human emotion chips......
