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Paul Reiser is doing stand up in Brea, Mike MacDonald needs a new liver and Eddie Izzard wants some feedback tonight. Let's GOOOOOOO! If you've got a show coming up in a few weeks that you'd like to see listed here, email me and we can discuss.
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This week's edition of Overheard in L.A. features bits of overheard conversation from auditions, a Grimes concert and the West Hollywood Target. Our Overheard in L.A. feature relies on you to send us the strange conversations you overhear in this city. Send them our way at tips@laist.com.
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If you can't stand the heat, come Saturday you'll have 48 more options for taking a cooling dip. The City of Los Angeles' seasonal swimming pools will be open for the summer starting June 23.
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Get out so you can eat chili, catch a movie or go on a bike tour.
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After checking into rehab about a month ago, Nick Stahl has checked out—against the wishes of his doctor.
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Get out so you can go to one (or two) film festivals, watch some kick-ass choreography or check out Princess Di's formal gowns or up-and-comer musical acts.
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Contemporary artists are always trying to get their work out there and in front of people other than their friends and family. It's a challenge in this busy, high home entertainment, car culture of a society we live in here in Los Angeles. Local modern dance choreographer Keith Glassman, with roots in New York City, is doing his best to attack this virus.
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The Hollywood Fringe Festival is upon us, with hundreds of shows going up from now until June 24. We wanted to get a little more information about the background of the festival, the creative forces behind it and what it means for Los Angeles, so we tracked down festival director Ben Hill and outreach director Meghan McCauley, and picked their brains.
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The plight of the woman pushing middle age and trapped in crippling domesticity has been explored before, but rarely in such explosive abstraction as “If Water Were Present, It Would Be Called Drowning.” John Sinner’s one-hour play, part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, stars Betsy Moore as Lolly, a 30-something mom bursting to break free of her three kids and husband, all of whom she professes to hate.
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According to a new report by the Milken Institute, California can point the finger at no one but itself for the recent decline in local TV and movie production. The report, issued Thursday, says that over the past decade or so, the Golden State has seen a decrease in local production while other states have seen an increase.
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