In recent weeks, we've covered our fair share of festivals. This Father's Day, make room for the daddy of them all: the Los Angeles Film Festival. It's an epic reminder that LA is the best movie city in the world, as Hollywood industry, independent film makers & reel fans come together for a ten day celebration of all things cinema. more ›

Phony romance New Moon reigned over the box-office for a second consecutive weekend ($42.5M | $230.6M), though feel-gooder The Blind Side almost nipped it in the end ($40.1M | $100.2). Disaster-fu disaster 2012 held onto third place ($18M | $138.7M), just nosing out awful newcomer Old Dogs ($16.8M) and the sturdy A Christmas Carol ($16M | $105.3M). Ninja Assassin debuted to a solid $13.1M ($21M), topping mediocre kiddy flick Planet 51 ($10.2M | $28.4M) and the superb Precious ($7M | $32.4M). more ›

We leaf through various calendars so you don't have to. more ›

Looking to go to a music festival? Coachella is sold out, so instead, you should mosey out to Austin, Texas (Mar. 14-18) for this music spectacular, which features 1,300 acts from around the world. Walking from venue to venue is like putting your radio tuner on seek -- every style of music is represented. Besides performances, musicians like Pete Townshend, Iggy Pop, David Byrne, Emmylou Harris, Gilberto Gil, and Booker T. Jones are giving... more ›

Thursday Night Lights Can you believe the powers-that-be let Emmitt take the disco ball last night? Awesome. "College Football" (PRIME 42, 4:00 p.m.) Oregon @ USC "NHL Hockey" (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.) Flyers @ Kings "College Basketball (PRIME 42, 7:30 p.m.) South Carolina @ USC "Once Were Warriors" (IFC, 7:50 p.m.) Dysfunctional Maori family in this award-winner "Survivor: Cook Islands" (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) Survivor flirtations raise the ire of "the Others", oops, am suffering... more ›

Torontoist immediately wins our heart by using the word "Jackass" in a headline. In fact, we love their use of it so much that we're going to use it as much as possible throughout this post. For example, it looks like there are Toronto-area jackasses besides those who misuse the sidewalk: look at the crap on sale on Toronto's craigslist. But it looks like Toronto doesn't contain the kind of jackasses who pee in public pools, as the issue never came up when they interviewed the creators of art installations in their public wading pools. more ›

SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines. more ›

THURSDAY more ›

LAist and our friends at RES Magazine would like to send you and a friend to see Prefuse 73 perform with DJ Nobody on Saturday night as part of RESFest LA. more ›