Local independent dance artist Liz Hoefner has directed and choreographed Fear of Drowning/Fear of Flying and will present its premiere this Friday through Sunday at the Diavolo Dance Space in the Brewery Arts Complex. According to her, the new dance theater work is a collection of stories, dialogues and dances that relate to actual and metaphorical fears of traveling, flying, drowning and dying in a post 9/11, tsunami, and Hurricane Katrina world. The cast of eight dancers, five actors and two musicians will explore the origins of fear in comic and tragic dance theater. more ›

Love it or hate it, tonight's New Year's Eve. And while half of the city has vacated for NYE's in Vegas, there's plenty to do right here in LA to welcome '08. more ›

Not sure what to buy your environmentally conscious friend or family member for the holidays? Opting to make this holiday season's giving more earth-friendly? more ›

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is scheduled to make a stop in Los Angeles Monday at the Gibson Amphitheatre at Universal City Walk. more ›

Tonight marks the return of John Schneider & Just Strings playing the music, and custom-built microtonal instruments of Harry Partch at the Redcat. The event is part of MicroFest 2005, an annual event "devoted to the beauty that lies 'between the keys' of the piano." This year marks the 9th anniversary of the festival, which involves seven separate events in LA and surrounding communities. Last year's performance of Bitter Music was a sell-out event, and, much like last year, tonight's show will employ the eccentric composer's marvelously crafted instrument inventions, such as the Chromelodeon, Kithara (pictured), Adapted Viola, Diamond Marimba, Harmonic Canon (pictured), and Adapted Guitars. This evening this quirky musical ensemble will play Partch’s Castor & Pollux, Intrusions, San Francisco, Barstow: Eight Hitchhiker Inscriptions from a Highway, and "includes a rare film of Partch in his 1958 Chicago studio, demonstrating his microtonal instruments, and overdubbing sections of his composition Daphne of the Dunes." MicroFest is co-directed by KPFK personality John Schneider and composers Bill Alves and Kraig Grady. Tickets for tonight's show are $24.00 (General Admission) and $12 (Students/CalArts Faculty, Staff and Students). more ›

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While a few scenesters and industry folk ventured out into the city last night for some post new year's revelry at the house that Justin Timberlake built, Chi, we don't expect that many are going to brave the heavy rain and lightning storms this evening unless they are going to The Grove or the Arclight to finally catch The Life Aquatic or Million Dollar Baby or sneaking into their local multiplex in disguise to catch the horrible White Noise. more ›