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Here's How AMC Can Get More Millennials in Theaters

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Last Wednesday, Adam Aron, the CEO of AMC Entertainment, made a lot of people in the world want to kill him when he said that the movie theater chain was toying with the notion of allowing texting during certain film screenings in order to appeal to millennials. In an interview......
The L.A. River will be one of many sites for L.A.'s first public art biennial.; Credit: Photo by Nanette Gonzales

Come July, the L.A. River Will Become a Public Art Museum

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At a presser this morning in Marsh Park, Mayor Eric Garcetti took a moment to recognize that the green space, situated on the banks of the L.A. River in Frogtown, used to be a parking lot. Presumably, its current incarnation is a hell of a lot more attractive than its previous......
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The Property Brothers Get Real About Real Estate

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Drew and Jonathan Scott, the energetic Canadian twins better known as the Property Brothers, have helped turn things like real estate transactions and decisions about bathroom tile and countertop materials into must-see TV. They're like the princes of HGTV, a network that's expertly tapped in to our subconscious desire to......
Garry Shandling introduced The King of Comedy in 2012.; Credit: Courtesy Wayne Federman

From Shandling to Oswalt, Five Years of the Wayne Federman Film Fest

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Actor-comedian Wayne Federman is a guy you know. He was Garry Shandling's brother on The Larry Sanders Show and he was Dean Weinstock (the neighbor who really wanted to meet Julia Louis-Dreyfus) on Curb Your Enthusiasm. He's also known for appearing in a single scene in a series high-profile films, a phenomenon he......
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No One Shows Up at Opening of L.A.'s Museum of Broken Plans

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Capitalizing on the excitement generated by L.A.’s forthcoming Museum of Broken Relationships, an institution that collects and displays the objects left behind in the wake of couples’ breakups, a similar facility, the Museum of Broken Plans, opened its doors in Silver Lake last night. But to the dismay of organizers,......
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An L.A. Artist's "Buff Bernie" Sanders Is Whimsical, Disturbing, Hunky

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At this point in the presidential race, Bernie Sanders' supporters have grown used to rejecting all sorts of naysaying: Bernie isn't really electable, what with his being a Democratic Socialist and all. "Wrong." Bernie's proposed economic policies aren't enactable. "Pshaw." Bernie isn't a six-foot-five beefcake with rippling abs and a......