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Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor, has died.
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Are you Spring Cleaning? Those old blankets, towels or sheets you’re tossing can find a new life at your neighborhood animal care center! They’ll also take newspapers, dog and cat toys, treats and food, so when you're buying food for your pet, think about getting an extra bag or can to donate to the homeless pets of Los Angeles. These LAist Pets of the Week are from Los Angeles Animal Services with six facilities...
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If you love old Jews telling jokes, you'll like the first act of Goodbye, Louie...Hello, the late TV comedy writer Allan Manings's play about a pair of old-time comics. Back in the golden age of live television, Louie (Alan Freeman) was a big star and Benjy (an excellent Steve Franken) was his frequent sidekick. Now that they're...
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Chalk Repertory's latest unconventionally contextualized theatrical offering, Hell Money, is currently running at Agenda Loft. Ruth McKee's hilarious and touching script follows two nineteen year old veterans of the Los Angeles foster care system as they try to navigate through life with very limited means of social and financial support.
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Rolling Stone has finally weighed in on some of the podcasts we've been pushing at you for the last couple years, and they got some right for a change. --- "Bob's Burgers" renewed? --- Alec Baldwin can't seem to make up his mind about when "30 Rock" will end, perhaps he should SFTU? --- All this and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan.
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Photo by Steve Cisneros, courtesy of Phantom Projects The Bluest Eye is coming to Santa Monica for a three week run at the Miles Memorial Playhouse this Friday. The Toni Morrison book, adapted for the stage by Lydia Diamond, tells the story of an African-American girl facing an identity crisis in 1940s Ohio. Protagonist Pecola equates whiteness (and blue eyes) with beauty, an unreachable standard that drives the story's narrative and Pecola to madness....
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There's been musings about whether or not Stephen Colbert really offered James Franco (another) job on last night's "Colbert Report" - we don't think so. --- Amy Poehler has been invited to speak to Harvard's graduating class in May, congrats to the Boston College grad! --- All this and tonight's TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan & the listings.
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Dia de Los Muertos 2008 at Hollywood Forever Cemetery / photo by jtstrathdee via LAist Featured Photo Pool. Explosions in the Sky's new album Take Care, Take Care, Take Care won't be available until April 26th but a unique multimedia installation on the grounds of Hollywood Forever will allow fans to experience the inevitable sensory overload of the epic post-rock quartet's latest creation for free, on April 23rd. Taking Care: 6 Visual Interpretations is...
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Exene Cervenka performing at SXSW on March 16, 2011 (photo by nickmickolas via flickr) Exene Cervenka cancelled the remaining dates on her solo tour citing health concerns, according to a statement by her label, Bloodshot Records. The 55-year-old singer, songwriter and artist has continued touring with her bandmates of 35 years in X and in support of her latest solo album in spite of being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2009. She discussed her...
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An L.A.-based street artist known as 2wenty can't seem to get enough of the social network that he's related to metaphorically as cancer sticks in his work. But Facebook has already gotten the relative street art newbie into local gallery shows as well as attention from across the pond. “I make pieces about what’s bothering me,” said 2wenty, who is actually turning 30 this month and is employed in the media industry, according to...
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Photo by millerm217 via LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Legoland is really making a go of it. First Star Wars and now the Hollywood Bowl. And Star Wars in Concert is PLAYING at the Hollywood Bowl! Whoa. I think the Legos are trying to tell us something. And I think that something is that we're only two months away from the official opening night of the Hollywood Bowl season (June 17). Of course...
