You can almost feel the grit coming off this picture | Photo courtesy of Lionsgate Entertainment I've always thought it was a shame that Jason Statham got stuck in the ghetto of glossy, empty action flicks. You'd never guess it by watching The Transporter 2 or Crank but Statham can be a legitimately good actor. I'm glad to see him in The Bank Job, a re-telling of the 1971 Baker Street bank robbery. Director......

The folks at Farmlab are hosting another free Friday-at-noon event. Representatives of the Surfrider Foundation and the Ballona Network will present their progress on developing a plan for cleaning-up and restoring the habitat in Ballona Creek. Here’s what we can vouch for: - A good turnout of interesting people to chat with before & after the presentation - Excellent food & lots of it - Protecting this fragile habitat is vital (think An Inconvenient......

Mark Allen, the man who brought you the recent Fry-B-Q 2, will be at Farmlab Salon today at noon to talk about recent Machine Project events including: fried food, transdimensional art galleries, solar robotics, creating communities based on intellectual and social life, and a lot of other complicated-but-cool sounding stuff. If you aren’t familiar with Machine Project’s work, consider it your lucky day. If you’ve seen their stuff before, color yourself lucky twice. It’s......