written by Bill Krohn for LAist The American Cinematheque honors Dutch-born filmmaker Paul Verhoeven this weekend (Marc 2-4) with a slate of Verhoeven films from the Netherlands and from Hollywood, where he spent the 80s and the 90s making big-budget studio pictures like Total Recall, Robocop and Basic Instinct. Although he's best known for the latter, Verhoeven was a renowned European filmmaker before he joined the Hollywood ranks, and this weekend is a good... more ›

A few more years and we can go from Dim Sum to Sushi fun. Today marks the day where the Mayor and other MTA officials will have a Total Recall moment, sans the Governor: a 2 million pound tunnel boring machine will breakthrough the earth marking the end of an 1.7 mile eastbound tunnel for the Gold Line extension tunnel burrowing, which goes from First and Boyle to First and Lorena. If you are... more ›

Apparently California voters like that Destiny's Child greatest hits CD and voted No, No No at the polls yesterday. While locally we can look to new City Council members and further funding for LAUSD building needs as victories of voter will, where does our Governor go from here? He's been humbled by the experience and, it seems, crippled as well. He's made enemies of not only the state legislature but of organized labor who now has a villain to motivate its constituency with. His early opponent for the next gubernatorial election, Phil Angelides, is already using the crushing defeat yesterday as a launching point for his campaign. And while Schwarzenegger wasn't exactly contrite last night, his apology to his family for being away and for the attack ads made it seem like he was a little tired of playing politics and maybe wanted to pack it in and head home. more ›