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Free events centered around Dia de Los Muertos are coming to MacArthur Park where people can celebrate the memory of their loved ones.
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Halloween isn't for another month, but it's never too early to binge on good horror movies. John Carpenter's The Thing is one of the best. Elsewhere, a long-lost Hitchcock film sees the light of day.
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Based on the true stories of Downtown residents, the slightly seedy and deeply hilarious gentrification fable "The Vault: (Unlocked)" is currently playing at Los Angeles Theatre Center (LATC). Vault Ensemble pokes fun at the hipster colonization of Downtown Los Angeles, bundling social commentary on redevelopment and loss of urban culture into an edgy farce with musical influences.
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North Hollywood will be playing host to what organizers promise will be a totally free, big ass water balloon fight this Saturday.
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It may not have begun with an earthquake, birds, or snakes, and more like some well-timed indie rock perfect for college radio in the 1980s, but now everybody hurts: R.E.M. is breaking up.
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Here at LAist, we like to support local businesses. We like to see them thrive, because we love our city and we want our people to do well. What, then, are we supposed to make of a man who owns a business in Brentwood and spends an entire interview with the Huffington Post trash-talking L.A. residents, judging the very people who allow him to earn a livelihood, and promoting some of the worst stereotypes of Angelenos?
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It's a star-studded Tuesday in LA with Johnny Gill, Matthew Morrison and Joseph Gordon-Levitt at three separate events. Greg Proops also records his podcast The Smartest Man in the World at Meltdown, Em & Co. house a pop-up of local designers and more. Read on for all the details.
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LA Opera kicked off its new season at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion this weekend with a pair of classics. Saturday night delivered a visually odd but musically solid presentation of "Eugene Onegin," Tchaikovsky's take on the romantic tragedy by Pushkin. Sunday's matinee presented a fantastically entertaining performance of Mozart's "Così Fan Tutte," a sophisticated, slightly unsettling comedy of sexual manners.
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If you passed on seeing how Charlie Sheen's character passed away on "Two and a Half Men" in favor of seeing talent like Ricki Lake, Metta World Peace, and Chaz Bono take to the dance floor, you might not have known that there was one well-known would-be hoofer who had to say no to being on the show.
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Actor Steve Martin, a former Oscars host himself, has offered up some unsolicited advice to next year's host, Eddie Murphy, on his blog.
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Check out our Emmys post mortem and contribute your surprises/disappointments. --- Charlie Sheen gets roasted on Comedy Central tonight - are you going to watch? --- Tonight CBS has 3 hour of season & series premieres, check those in the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
