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Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor, has died.
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Good news, gentlemen! PETA is an equal opportunity employer -- you, too, can promote animal rights using only your physical attributes. In a statement released today, the organization famous for enlisting the help of nekkid ladies to draw attention to its protests announced that it had narrowed down the finalists of its "Sexiest Vegetarian Next Door" competition to twenty people -- ten male, and ten female. Two of the men are Angelenos: Ryan Husk, and Nik Talyor.
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Bones cast, including David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel at the Paley Center. (Photo: FOX TV) MUSIC It’s a School Night at Bardot in Hollywood features DJ sets by Dirty Vegas, Isobel Campbell and Frankie Banks with live performances by Brian Wright and Warhorse. 9 pm to 2 am and free with RSVP. The sets stream live, too, if you don’t feel like heading out on a Monday night. TV* The Paley Center hosts An...
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Photo by Loren Javier via Flickr Hats For Bats: Nocturnal? Not today. Born in 1999 of the goth/deathrock/industrial scene, Bats Day In The Park is an outing of and for the highly costumed kind. Picture Mickey ears clipped into bat wings, and so forth. "The annual spooky trip to Disneyland is just a park meet during a normal operating day at Disneyland. Please use discretion regarding the length of shirts and skirts and language...
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Photo by RLHyde via Flickr Free Comic Book Day is exactly what it sounds like. On the first Saturday in May, participating comic book shops across country and around planet Earth will "give away comic books absolutely FREE to anyone who comes into their stores," notes the official site. Enter your zip code here and find the closest participating shops. In LA today, special events abound from the Secret Headquarters in Silver Lake to...
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Photo by i_hate_my_screen_name via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Coming Up Roses: Elliot Smith Documentary will be screening two nights as part of the Los Angeles New Wave International Film Festival (formally the Los Angeles International Film Festival), each followed by a guest panel. Saturday at 2:00 p.m, Sunday at 8:00 p.m. at the Hayworth Theater, 2511 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90057. Tickets. For the Birds: Head to the Audubon Center at...
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Thirty-five years after he took his first shot at directing "Three Sisters" for LA's now-venerable Company of Angels, Pavel Cerny is tackling the classic again at the Whitefire Theatre in Sherman Oaks. This time around, Cerny has shifted the action forward some eight or nine decades to take place in the Perestroika era of the mid- to late...
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Alive Theatre's current production at MADhouse is the silly and deranged Entropy General. The tone of playwright Ryan McClary's hilarious script falls somewhere between M*A*S*H* and the late 1970s satire Soap with its off-color, often physical humor spliced with deep philosophical speculation about the meaning of...
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It's a little quieter on the event front in LA tonight. People must still be recovering from Cinco de Mayo. But if you do venture out, there's free cumbia dance lessons at the Music Center, La Luz de Jesus gallery opens 'Pop-Sequentialism: Comic Art of the Modern Age' and its First Friday on Abbot Kinney.
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We're still reeling after last night's season finale of "Justified." What did you think of the finale? --- If you're not into the Thursday night comedy block then you might be watching "The Vampire Diaries" where big events are afoot before next week's finale. --- We have a new edition of the Channel Zero podcast up with our Brian Unger interview included.
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Lucinda Child's Dance revival--at UCLA Live's Royce Hall Fri.-Sat. May 6-7; Photo by Sally Cohn This weekend, UCLA Live is presenting one of the classic postmodern dances choreographed by Judson Church movement pioneer Lucinda Childs at Royce Hall. Created in collaboration with visual artist Sol Lewitt and (at the time emerging) music composer, Phillip Glass, the full length work for eight dancers premiered in 1979 and was considered to be a “breakthrough” in dance...
