The West Hollywood Book Fair, now in it's sixth year, will take over West Hollywood Park this Sunday from 10am - 6pm. We like to think of the WeHo book fair as the calmer, cooler cousin to the LA Times Festival of Books - great authors, excellent panels, live readings and good food - but much easier to navigate. As with any festival, planning the who/what/when is key...especially when trying to pack it all into......

Suicide is a place we have all imagined, but it’s not a room any of us have really been in, other than a foot, a glance, a daydream. It’s no stranger to Los Angeles, a city with perhaps more than its fair share of broken dreams. But when not one, but two people die, when they have all that the city appears to offer – fame, success, beauty and each other, that’s when people......

700 extra hours -- yes, you read that correctly -- from David Lynch's Inland Empire have been culled into a documentary about David Lynch that is titled Lynch and is being pimped to international buyers at Cannes by Lynch himself. -Cinematical Comic book author/graphic novelist Frank Miller will write and direct the live-action feature film adaptation of the Will Eisner comic book series "The Spirit" about a man who fakes his own death so he......

OK, so like most of Los Angeles, LAist is watching the Rose Bowl tonight and happened to catch part of the halftime entertainment: The Spirit of Troy: Trojan Marching Band. Here are a few quick thoughts: 1. Sunglasses do not make the marching outfit. Even if you are in LA. 2. It took a while for us to recognize "Beat it" -- but we sure did recognize MJ's patented crotch grab instantly. Even on......

The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History has plenty of events coming up to feed body and soul. On January 25, 2005 at 5:30 PM Art and Ritual Lecture Series: The Spirit of Rice Fowler curator Roy Hamilton will show photographs and video footage from Northern Japan depicting the sacred rice ritual celebrated at the beginning of each year. Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Art and held in the Westwood Kinross Building, room......