Sophie Duvernoy

Pee Wee Herman is back in full swing, with an appearance last weekend at San Diego's Comic-Con, a show here in L.A. that moved to Broadway, a voice part in the new Smurfs movie and a reported movie project involving Judd Apatow. It would seem that we're witnessing a Pee......

Tech geeks and street art fans, take note: a Banksy iPhone app has just hit the virtual racks of the Apple Store. It's a beautifully-crafted gallery tool that allows you to immerse yourself in the World of Banksy -- and maybe soon, it'll even allow you to catch him in......

Japanese art superstar Takashi Murakami is at it again, with a new show at the Gagosian Gallery in London. While his last show for Gagosian centered around death and memento mori, Murakami has gone in a completely different direction this time, and focused on an ever-present theme: the sexual complexes......

With the impending shutdown of the 405, everyone's unsure of what to do this weekend. Quoth a friend: "Should I leave? Should I stay? And if I stay, what should I do?" Have no fear, we've got you covered. Here's a list of our top picks for the weekend, sorted......

Los Angeles is a wide, sprawling city in which five-lane roads are considered small. But what if it were suddenly made narrower? People dream of the charming streets of Paris, which barely allow two cars to pass each other yet seem a lot more peaceful -- precisely because they are......

At LA Weekly, we've always liked Corey Helford's mix of high/low art, from cute to cool to downright creepy. As the gallery celebrates its fifth anniversary with its current show "Zero to Sixty," which closes today, we thought we'd look back at six standout shows......

"All right! Is everyone ready for the Great Bonaventure Adventure?" asks an unusually cheery man clad in all-khaki. The resounding answer from the forty plus adventurers is yes, followed by slightly embarrassed laughter. We are in Bunker Hill, on one of Thursday night's Urban Rangers hikes organized by the Museum......

George Herms: beat legend, assemblage artist, free jazz enthusiast, Mexican marijuana fan. At a sprightly 75, he's still producing vast amounts of work in his Topanga Canyon studio. He's also the focus of a new show that opened last Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art in the Pacific Design......

It's a universally acknowledged fact that parking sucks, and Los Angeles is one of the worst cities in the U.S. to park in -- too few spaces, lots of bad drivers and let's not even talk about parallel parking. But last Thursday, Warren Neidich and Elena Bajo kicked off a......

L.A. cartoonist Tom Neely is perhaps best known for his role as founding father of Igloo Tornado, the crazy comic collective who published the hilarious mini comic Henry + Glenn Forever, which reimagined the friendship between hardcore punk musicians Henry Rollins and Glenn Danzig as a going-to-Pottery-Barn-on-Sundays gay romance. He......