Skylaire Alfvegren

The 1977 television special Bing Crosby's Merry Olde Christmas may live on in infamy, thanks to Bing's famous duet with David Bowie. But it lives on in an evil, parallel universe as well, thanks to the UCBT's Mike Still, who morphs into the star, writing "Christmas songs for the Chinese......

There are certain L.A.-only things that need to be taken back, reclaimed from the eye-rolling urbanites and creepy novelty-record-collector types whose mission has been to take Los Angelenopalooza and make it something else, something unfun, or even worse, academic. I'm talking institutions like Clifton's Cafeteria, Dr. Gene Scott (RIP), and......

There used to be something of a noise/avant-garde experimental music scene in Los Angeles. Japanese men into bondage who electrified fluorescent lighting fixtures we thought were so beyond hep. I'm not sure if the experimental music scene here died with Il Coral or has been relegated to pretentious juke joints......

Here we stand on the edge of 2012, a year rife with tide-shifting portent, and, no, we have no flying cars. We do not eat meals in capsule form. And civilians won't be shot into space for years to come. What went wrong? What happened to the midcentury promises that......

"What social, political, economic and historical forces made and its cultural scene flourish?" Zocalo Public Square asks in this half-day conference, a complement to Pacific Standard Time. "How Los Angeles Invented the World" dissects how and why the world at large has lapped up culture – from home-grown musical acts......

It appears the idea of Halloween worms its way into the collective psyche earlier and earlier each year, and today the Hive Gallery and Studios throws open the gates of Samhain with its October Haunted House Themed Show. Perhaps downtown's most eclectic space, a kind of swap-meet buffet of low-brow......

Over the span of four years, Dr. Paul Koudounaris traversed three continents to photograph and document reliquaries fashioned from human remains. (Some centuries ago, they were all the rage.) Organized around giant, jaw-dropping prints from Koudounaris' one-of-its-kind tome, The Empire of Death: A Cultural History of Ossuaries and Charnel Houses,......

You wouldn't necessarily think a mother's suicide would kick-start a career in comedy, but then Josh di Donato (pictured) isn't your typical standup kinda guy. Eight years and many, many shows later, he has funneled his skewed comedic sense into I'm Going Somewhere With This: A Monthly Storytelling Show. Thanks......