Articles in the “arts” category

Rattle your bones at the grooviest Halloween parties in Los Angeles!

"Making movies for me has always been like punching underwater, or trying to communicate in Spain when I only took two years of Spanish in high school."

Halloween season is in full force and plenty of events to prime you for the big day.

They thought Donald Trump's election was a national emergency. Now they're trying to fight back and get voters engaged.

Fake Theme Park lovingly takes down Disney, Universal, and all the rest -- and now it's a book.

Peter Dinklage and Sacha Gervasi worked on a movie about 'Fantasy Island's' Hervé Villechaize for more than 14 years. Now it's on HBO.

He doesn't just write for Veronica Mars -- he was also a legendary basketball player.

Fall festivals featuring food, fun, families, fantastical art and Lebron James fill the weekend agenda.

Never forget.

The Queen of Funk is taking over Pasadena this New Year's Day.

Alexander Elliott Miller wanted to take pieces of L.A.'s history and turn them into sound.

Can upstart URadio capitalize on shifting demographics to unseat behemoth KAZN?

In an alternate world, comics of all races, genders and orientations would get the adulation they deserve. "Everything Is Fine!" is making that universe a reality -- right now.

Don't let the FOMO you got from missing Hamilton happen again.

"Dear Evan Hansen" arrives in L.A. while film lovers have lots of cool and creepy picks, including a cocktail series to go with "Inception."

Watts residents have joined forces with the Collaborative Arts Bloc in creating a play that sheds light on police brutality and gun violence in predominantly black communities

For secular folk interested in the community benefits of religion, Secret City offers Sunday worship of the arts and all things creative.

Have you ever listened really intently to someone playing acoustic emotional punk rock while letting your eyes well up? Then you might be the target audience for Emo Nite Day.

"I would never have made this piece today. I was just so excited about America back then," the artist said about his Obama-era musical installation.

"First Man" is about the failures and sacrifices behind one of the world's most famous success stories.

VR video games aren't all the medium has to offer.

This weekend, there's a festival for everyone. Female filmmakers, indie gamers, beer drinkers, ukulele players, oyster eaters, comedy lovers and David Lynch fans.

The dodginess of the movie's geography is its own work of art.

He was recruited from South Central to play football for Beverly Hills, and he eventually made it to the NFL. Now his story's a CW teen drama.

Wicked Lit's 2018 one-act plays are streamlining to give more guests a frightening theatrical experience.

L.A. throws its first celebration for Indigenous Peoples Day and you've got your pick of mezcal dinners, cult movie celebrations and comedy.

Forty women were invited to submit concepts that would showcase Los Angeles's diversity, and it was narrowed down to these seven -- five solo directors and one team.

For lovers of festivals, there's a seafood fest, a mole fest, an inflatable run-fest, two comedy festivals, a Greek fest, an Oktoberfest and a medieval feast (close enough).

"Life Cycle," Ai Weiwei's new work on display now at the Marciano Art Foundation in Los Angeles, was shipped out of China just days before Chinese authorities razed Ai's studio without warning.

Here's where you CAN learn more about the Supreme Court's Ruth Bader Ginsburg in Los Angeles.

Kavanaugh's a woman and his accuser Dr. Christine Blasey Ford's a man in this gender-swapped production.

They're going mobile before moving to a new permanent location.

What happens when an all-female society meets toxic masculinity?

Sarah Jones' futuristic show at the L.A. LGBT Center wants to start an empowering conversation about sexuality and sex work.

There's a major pairing of tacos and vodka for National Taco Day. Plus, the Halloween season is in full swing.

We've got maps, photos, and everything else you need to know about both the real and slightly fictionalized locations from the show.

Holofcener also wishes she didn't have to release her latest on Netflix -- but mainstream studios don't want to do movies like hers.

Performers, street closures, maps! Here's everything you need to know about Celebrate L.A., happening this Sunday.

A major Ai Weiei show, a massive CicLAvia, an exhibition of sandwich art, several Oktoberfests, a queer literary fest and Halloween haunts.

How Fox's old Wurlitzer was brought back to life.

It's true, we promise.

Climber Alex Honnold is the first person to ever scale the face of Yosemite's El Capitan without ropes. "Free Solo" documents it.

He thinks art is definitely in the eye of the beholder -- or, in the case of selfies, behind them.

Yes, the fall TV season is still a thing. Check out five shows shining a light on pieces of L.A. life.

After a 15-year absence from acting, Wiseau returns to the screen playing a quirky mortician. Could he play any other kind?

California soul, a confab of bicyclists, music by Childish Gambino, a pizza pop-up and stories about sisterhood under a harvest moon.

The L.A. Film Festival has had trouble getting movie execs to care.

Stan Lai's first English-language play delivers an immersive time-travel experience.

She graduated from USC with a degree in biology but went into acting and comedy instead.

Goonies never say die -- and now a new generation of gender-swapped, race-swapped actors are taking on that challenge for a live reading.

Filled with fall festivals and fun stuff to do in the fresh air, this weekend features the Frogtown Art Walk, a Moon Festival, a craft fair and Tarfest.

"Seventy-Six Cities," which has spent decades in relative obscurity, has ties to an evangelical organization that saw itself on the front lines of an ideological war.

From dinner parties set among carnivorous plants to a twisted cabaret that changes based on your choices, these haunts will transport you to grittier, gothier worlds.

The Sartorialist brought street-style fashion photography to the masses. Now it's at the Getty.

How do you ensure that your red carpet walk gets covered? Get the photo service's name printed on your bag.

But with over 100 people nominated in 27 categories for tonight's 70th Emmy Awards, how can you really tell which shows are the best of the best? And, more importantly, how do you win your office Emmys ballot?

From beers and bites to cheese and paella, the week ahead has some tasty offerings. Cinephiles also have a lot to choose from.

Mike Rylander joined thousands of others in the open call to become the host of the rebooted "Blue's Clues" -- and he got a callback.

Music supervisors are the ones in charge of choosing the right songs to make you feel things, and "This Is Us" nails that every time -- thanks to Jennifer Pyken.

New Netflix documentary, "Reversing Roe," wants you to see how abortion got politicized in the first place.

For both nature and history lovers, White Point and Royal Palms has something to offer from tidepools to Nike missiles.

From a Golden Globe to props from Williams' movies, it's all up for auction.

iO West shut down earlier this year. Today: an early morning raid on the building that once housed it -- and a barrage of jokes from former students.

It's time to face the deep, blood-curling horror of... oops, got that mixed up with what SoCal's other theme parks are doing. It's Halloween at Disneyland! Fun!

Artist Robert Vargas hopes his current project, dubbed "Angelus," represents the ethnic, cultural and gender diversity that Los Angeles has to offer.

Katy Perry's playing the Ace Hotel, but the only way into this sold-out teenage dream was with a Citi card.

There's magic in the air -- or are those the scents wafting from the Institute of Art & Olfaction?

Songwriter Mark Rivers found a dead-on soundalike for Freddie Mercury, then made magic happen for the show "Big Mouth."

The Strip may be one of the most iconic spots in the L.A. area, but there's still plenty to discover.

The Void combines virtual reality with actual physical objects to make you a Ghostbuster, a 19th century magician, and more.

It's not a complete about-face, but they say the popular film category needs "further study."

Get ready to rock out with your yacht out. Or lift a stein while enjoying Oktoberfest. For outdoorsy types, we found plenty of urban walks, hikes and bike rides.

It's about racism near the border, starting at a new school, and supernatural Mexican horror.

Get your fall TV shows, fresh out of the editing room -- sometimes before they're even fully completed.

After the 2016 election, Kahane left his cell phone and the daily news cycle behind, boarding a train. Now it's an album.

When did L.A. first feel like home?

"It was Southern California at its most dynamic self."

Whether you just got back from Burning Man or spent the weekend chilling and Netflixing, we have your event options for this short, post-Labor Day week.

We've got the highlights of what you need to know to appreciate that pivotal scene.

It's not entirely clear how this tradition started, but here are three major theories: practicality, taste-making and good ole fashion classism.

Take advantage of a city free from traffic and filled with festivals to check out Fleet Week, a food fest and the return of the L.A. County Fair.

After more than two decades, extinction has arrived. But life finds a way.

The annual celebration of the military's Sea Services, aka the Navy, the Marines and the Coast Guard, returns to the Port Of L.A.

Competitors are self-funded, but the challenge, inclusivity and community make it an attractive sport to women like team captain Tui Lyon.

Jeff Daniels is an Emmy winner, and he's nominated for two more this year. He explained the tactics that got him here.

Tick tock, tick tock. It's been four years. When they say it's gonna happen "soon," when exactly do they mean?

Choreographer Chloe Arnold has to get her host, actors, and dancers in and out of that crosswalk in 30 seconds.

It all comes down to a fight over where Jonas will stand while painting the mural.

Play bingo with bourbon. Check out an Afro-Punk documentary. Rock out at a free concert by punk legend Alice Bag. Get dishy with your dog. Lots to do on this SoCal weekend.

The Saturday celebration will include musical tributes, a screening of La Bamba and the unveiling of signs for the new Ritchie Valens Memorial Highway.

It was the 1980s, an era of large shoulder pads and conspicuous consumption, an age utterly unlike our own.

The new play seats theatergoers at a horse ranch outside L.A., confronting them with the problems caused by climate change -- from drought to fire.

L.A.'s museums are rocking after dark, Halloween comes early, pedestrians take over the streets of Long Beach and Jonathan Gold gets a tribute.

The co-star and Emmy nominee says she isn't daunted by challenges being faced by the cast.

Neighbors accuse the family -- who have more than 6.5 million YouTube subscribers -- of profiting off a crisis they never experienced.

Escape rooms, high-tech game shows, a laser maze and a robot bartender. Take a sneak peek at Two Bit Circus -- and try not to get distracted.

Sarah Paulson told us all about her work on the gut-wrenching AHS season 7 and its real-world resonance, with a character turn sparked by Donald Trump's election.

This is no monsters-dancing-in-the-street horror movie-esque interlude -- this is real life.

This week, we've got several events to file under "P:": a puppet presentation, a pro/con debate and a party with Sasheer Zamata.

"This is not a partisan event. I don't care who you vote for -- I just want you to have a good time, and to register to vote." And she's using Ed Helms, Bradley Whitford, Jon Cryer and many more to get you to do it.