Zachary Pincus-Roth

When the book Matilda came out in 1988, when I was in elementary school, it was a brand new Roald Dahl book at the height of my Dahl phase — the first (and probably the last) time I felt like I had my hand on the pulse of literature. The......

I couldn't go a week in high school without seeing one of those orange The Who's Tommy t-shirts. In the early 90s, songwriter Pete Townshend and his co-book writer Des McAnuff turned Townshend's legendary album into a breakthrough convergence of Broadway musical, classic rock and Baby Boomer nostalgia. Plus the......

If you notice something amiss on our home page, that means it's time for L.A. Weekly's annual April Fools Day issue. This year's stories are: With Head Start on Senate, Kamala Harris Will Run for President Too L.A. Votes to Move Santa Monica “Closer” New Art Walk Consists Entirely of Food Trucks......

Amidst the recent controversy over whether to pay L.A.’s theater actors minimum wage, a new faction has entered the fray: L.A. actors’ friends sitting in the audience. “Everyone’s talking about the issue of L.A.’s 99-seat theaters,” said 26-year-old West Hollywood resident Joey Mueller, who has many actor friends. “We’re the......

With her campaign for the U.S. Senate under way, and with no major challengers, Kamala Harris has announced she will run for president, too. “Too many people in California struggle to make ends meet and pay their bills, and I want to go to Washington to help find solutions,” she......

A new UCLA study has concluded you would have been late even if there had been no traffic, a finding that could upend conventional wisdom about the nature of why you were late. “Your mind is conditioned to perceive that traffic made you late,” said UCLA urban planning professor James......

Midway through The Night Alive, after the main three characters' spontaneous sing-along to Marvin Gaye's “What's Going On” in a Dublin apartment, Tommy pauses to really consider the song's hook: “What is going on?” he speaks, softly. “What the fuck is going on?” It's a poignant moment that encapsulates a life......