Nicole Campos

Mike Judge has something to live up to with his new comedy Extract, if the testimonial of an audience member during Saturday night's Q&A following a preview screening at the American Cinematheque at the Aero was anything to go by. Without naming the expert in question, the fellow pointed out......

Any night is a bad night to do road work in front of Amoeba Records, but Thursday night in particular made for bad rush-hour congestion on a date where the Hollywood record mecca was about to play host to Quentin Tarantino, signing the soundtrack to Inglourious Basterds -- available on......

There's something about zombies - something innately unifying, a sense of shambling, blood-dribbling community - that brings people together. Especially at a time when the horror genre has turned tide toward mopey emo vampires and the latest bad seed child of the week, those with an affinity for the shuffling......

Saturday, a sunny afternoon in August on the Sunset Strip -- before the cruisers started to prowl, when you could still get lucky finding parking on a block that isn't permit only -- was a good time for the cineaste crowd to converge on Book Soup as filmmaker Werner Herzog......

View more photos in the "Ink-N-Iron: Tattoo & Kustom Culture Festival '09" slideshow. The bitchin' wheels and badass ink returned to the Long Beach waterfront with a vengeance last weekend as the Ink-N-Iron festival brought scores of tattoo enthusiasts and custom car aficionados together to celebrate the counterculture that combines......

Even amongst the Hollyweird crowd, staying up past the witching hour on a Monday night for a book signing at Meltdown Comics takes dedication. Then again, one has to take into account context, or in this case subject: writer-director Guillermo Del Toro, who is promoting his first foray into novelization......

View a full gallery of photos in the "Battlestar Galactica Props: Going Once, Twice... Frakkin' SOLD!" slideshow. Tucked away in fairly quiet downtown Pasadena on Sunday morning, the final stretch of the coolest yard sale in the galaxy began. Probably because it was Mother's Day -- and because the big......

View more photos in the Lebowski Fest '09 slideshow. It's a balmy Friday and just north of the Long Beach Airport, the Lebowski Fest 2009 crew has landed, ready to launch into the second night of their all-stops The Big Lebowski celebration by bowling the night away at Lakewood's Cal......

View more photos in the Lebowski Fest '09 slideshow. The Dude abides. And so does that Dude over there.... and that Dude, with the really natty bathrobe... and that Dude, who looks a lot more Duderiffic when he's standing next to the guy dressed as Walter. There are a lot......