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Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor, has died.
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Photos from LA Times photojournalists at tonight's Art Walk. (Photo: Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times ©2000) FARMERS MARKET The Toyota Farm to Table Tour visits the South Pasadena Farmers Market today from 4-8 pm. Nine chefs will be paired with market farmers to highlight the best of local produce and products. The chefs—including Susan Feniger of Street, Tim Guiltinan of The Raymond Restaurant, Erica Lins of Mike & Anne’s Restaurant and Bar, Kyu Yi of Gus’s...
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Gabriel Liebeskind, Dee Amerio Sudik, Alex Smith, Jonathan CK Williams, and Daniel Getzoff in 'Wallowa: The Vanishing of Maude LeRay.' Photo by Matthew McCray. Son of Semele Ensemble's new collaboration project, Wallowa: The Vanishing of Maude LeRay, is an eerie and ominous dramatization of the real-life disappearance of a 76 year old woman in Oregon's bodingly dangerous Wallowa Mountains. Oliver Mayer's script tells LeRay's story through a constantly revolving spectrum of perspectives through action-oriented...
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(Photo by Lisa Brenner, Used with permission) Less than two days remain until the quiet fields of Indio will be the filled with the sounds of electronic, rock, punk, metal, hip hop, math rock, gypsy punk, synth-pop, rock en espanol, ambient, trip-hop, big beat, dance, funk and oodles of other sub-genres. Yesterday we gave you the Top 10 Bands Not To Miss during Day 1 of Coachella. Today, we present our picks for Day...
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We are very happy to see the return of Casey Wilson to television with tonight's premiere of "Happy Endings" on ABC. She's a great comedic actor and "SNL" made a huge mistake when they dropped her a couple years ago. --- Don't miss "Justified" on FX at 10pm which is building to a spectacular finish. --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for tonight and the listings.
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Barak Marshall's "Monger" in UCLA Live's Royce Hall Fri.-Sat. April 15-16, 2011 Photo by Gadi Dagon Oft labeled a rising star in contemporary dance, Los Angeles-bred and European/Israeli infused choreographer Barak Marshall and UCLA Live bring a company of ten dancers to Royce Hall for two shows this weekend. Presenting the evening length physical theater work Monger, its sound score includes excerpts of Gypsy, Balkan, classical and rock music and a narrative drawn from...
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Coordinating set times for nearly 200 bands over three days on six stages is no simple task. It's one aspect of Coachella that always creates tension among festival-goers who've had fingers-crossed that none of their favorite acts would have conflicting set times ever since the nonspecific daily schedules were released in February. And you only get 48 hours to figure out what band is playing at what time and on what stage.
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You are in control of the patterns and designs you encounter (at least within the confines of the cubicle or office). Instead of zoning out on the desktop wallpaper that you never change or the series of cacti that has occupied prime real estate on your desk for years without requiring much water, perhaps it's time for action. Today is the day for discourse -- if not action -- according to design advocacy organization AIGA's One Day for Design campaign.
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(Photo by Joey Maloney, Used with permission) It's that time again, kids. Pack your skinny jeans, sun hats, ironic sunglasses and questionable footwear because the annual migration to the Empire Polo Grounds is upon us. We have rocked through the 150+ bands playing over the next three days to present to you a few choice selections not to miss during the Big Carrot Festival Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. These are just, like,...
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Tadhg Murphy and Clare Dunne in "The Cripple of Inishmaan" (Photo by Craig Schwartz.) Largely, the world that Martin McDonagh writes about is one of cruelty and dark humor fitfully illuminated by explosions of sudden violence, from the steady accumulation of hatefulness in The Beauty Queen of Leenane to the poor bastard hung upside down from a cord and tortured in The Lieutenant of Inishmore. There is no lack of unkindness and mockery in...
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HBO will be broadcasting the premiere episode of "Game of Thrones" 11 times across 6 channels within about a day and we think that's too much. --- "24" movie is a 'go' with 2012 release date. --- "Deadliest Catch" returns to Discovery tonight at 9pm. Check out the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
