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Today on FilmWeek, we revisit Larry Mantle’s 2023 conversation with Patrick Stewart in memory of the late actor who died at the age of 86 this week.
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The Chinese community in Los Angeles is preparing the usher in the Year of the Rabbit tomorrow, and the festivities begin tonight and carry on for several days. Midnight temple ceremony, the Golden Dragon Parade, a two-day festival in Chinatown, a big fancy feast, special cupcakes and more can be a part of your Lunar New Year celebration in Los Angeles.
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The first ever postage stamp to showcase neon art was designed by L.A. artist Michael Flechtner, and the Museum of Neon Art is practically beaming with the news. The theme of the stamp is "Celebrate!" and "features a brilliantly colored design crafted out of neon and glass that adds a spark to greeting cards, invitations, and gift-bearing envelopes and packages," says the USPS. Flechtner's work includes his landmark “neon aquarium” at Olympic and Sawtelle...
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Tongue and Groove, the monthly reading and music series, teams up with the newish quarterly print magazine Slake: LA, for an evening of essay, fiction and poetry tonight at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood this evening. Readers tonight are contributors to the upcoming second issue of Slake—founded last year by former LA Weekly editors Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly as a paean to the printed page and long-form writing.
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Senior citizens, hipsters, and high-schoolers rustled among the crowded conference room of UCLA's Hammer Museum, waiting for the Jennifer Knox and Sarah Manguso reading to commence. The event was part of the Hammer’s New American Writing Series, which showcases notable contemporary writers. David Foster Wallace, John D’Agata, and Mary Gaitskill are among past participants. Curated by Benjamin Weissman, the series is hailed as one of the best in Los Angeles.
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Lucky Dragons at Ooga Booga Booth / Picture via Art Los Angeles Contemporary website. At the peak of the January art fair agenda, Art Los Angeles Contemporary promises a greater outcome for it’s second year of programming. This year the fair has abandoned the blue whale we call The Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood for The Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Art Los Angeles Contemporary gained a following instantly when the director, Tim...
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Big Windmill by Christian Moeller / Photo by Koonisutra via Flickr TANGIBLE CARTOONS Christian Moeller, known for his large robotic sculptures in public spaces, will be sharing his perspective on how cinema, music and physical space collide to create art at a SCI-ARC lecture tonight at 7:00 p.m. The lecture is free and if you can't make it downtown tonight for what promises to be an excellent art/sci chat, you can watch the livestream....
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One week after music die-hards make the annual pilgrimage to Indio for The Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival, a new fest will rock the Empire Polo Grounds. This gathering, however, will be a decidedly heavier affair. And by heavy I mean, pure, face-melting, metal destruction. On April 23rd, the Big 4 Festival, featuring Anthrax, Megadeath, Slayer and headlined by Metallica, will make its first and only American stop. After 7 European dates last...
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Photo by pareeerica via Flickr One of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world, see what all the fuss is about this Tuesday at the OC Performing Arts Center when Lang Lang performs Prokofiev's 3rd piano concerto. The concert starts at 8, and includes Shostakovich's Festive Overture and Tchaikovsky's Suite from "Swan Lake" (you know, like that movie). If you're looking for something a little more current, USC has it's annual concert...
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Los Angeles is home to many things "unliterary." Hollywood celebrities, the porn industry, and paparazzi perpetuate this fact. So, when held against definitive bookish cities Seattle, New York, and San Francisco, LA’s literary credibility falls understandably short. But Central Connecticut State University’s recent list of 75 national literary cities banished Los Angeles to number 61. LA’s literary rating fell behind those of Miami, Phoenix, and Las Vegas. No offense intended toward Sin City, but this can’t be right.
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From "Noises Off" (Courtesy A Noise Within) THEATRE A Noise Within have reprised their hilarious and critically acclaimed production of the joyfully out-of control British farce Noises Off, with shows today at 2 and 7 p.m. Company Co-Founders/Co-Artistic Directors Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott co-direct the production, in which Elliott also performs, which was presented last season for the first time in the company's history and garnered rave reviews. [Tickets] ART Four new exhibits...
