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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 48 Hour Film Project marks its ninth year in Los Angeles with a kickoff event at Cinespace in Downtown Hollywood tomorrow. The project offers filmmakers the chance to create a quick movie over one hectic weekend and show it to an audience of their peers the next week at Laemmle’s Monica 4-Plex in Santa Monica. According to Jimmy Stewart, producer of the festival in LA, “Most ideas never make it out of your head, never mind actually getting developed, shot and projected onto a big screen. Having this kind of structure and deadline can be very exciting and motivating.”
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Mark your calendar folks, Coachella tonight announced dates for their 2011 festival. They are April 15th, 16th and 17th. Yups, that's 248 days away. Now on to the constant speculation and day dreaming about what the line-up will be. Check out LAist's coverage from this year's festival here, here and here. Rock, out....
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(Photo courtesy of Black Sheep Artist Management) Fans of epic guitar solos and thirteen-minute conceptual songs about Supreme Tri-Mages will get to enjoy a veritable pupu platter of progressive rock on Thursday night, when Coheed and Cambria joins Porcupine Tree and The Dear Hunter at the Wiltern. This is the second leg of Coheed's American tour promoting Year of the Black Rainbow, a "prequel" album that rounds out the group's previous four-album "Neverender" cycle....
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Beyond the Smashing Pumpkins as the Sunset Strip Music Festival's headliner, organizers today released the full line-up for the three day festival. Over 60 of them will play on Saturday, August 28th, when the Sunset Strip will be closed to traffic for the street version of the festival that includes outdoor and indoor stages. Sharing the outdoor stages with the Pumpkins will be Slash (along with guests Myles Kennedy & Fergie), Common, Kid Cudi,...
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Photo by Benjamin Page via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr After two months of reorganization, the famed and historic Pasadena Playhouse has emerged triumphant from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and has just announced plans for their new season, reports the Star-News. Two productions are on tap for the holiday season this year, and tickets for the first show, one-act opera "Amahl and the Night Visitors," go on sale August 20th, for performances in...
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No matter how many years you've lived in Los Angeles, it's hard not to look down at the shoe-scuffed but sparkling star-studded sidewalks of Hollywood to see which celebrity you're walking all over. This coming weekend the Hollywood Walk of Fame's world-famous paving stones hit a major milestone--their 50th anniversary--and everyone is invited to celebrate.
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Just a reminder that tonight is the night to head Downtown to show your support for the folks who ran and worked at The Must, the wine bar that found themselves the subject of a bizarre and surprising eviction over the 4th of July long weekend. From 7-11 p.m. at the Farmers & Merchants Bank [map] enjoy an open wine and beer bar, music from local DJs spinning, and the camaraderie of community. It's...
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Tired of the same old margarita and nachos? Friday night go upscale and raise a glass of California's best wines to toast Mexico's Bicentennial. We're talking wineries the likes of V. Sattui Winery, Maldonado, and Beringer. Union Station will be the location of Altamed's 5th annual East LA Meets Napa Valley Benefit. In addition, this year's event will present some of Baja California’s best wineries from the Valle de Guadalupe region like L.A. Cetto Vineyard and J.C. Bravo
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The Silver Lake Jubilee has come and gone, but Silver Lake's other major music festival is coming in August. The people behind the Sunset Junction Street Fair (now in its 30th year!) have been rolling out their line-up piece by piece and most recently added some bigger name acts, including Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros. Other notables include Fitz and the Tantrums (LAist predicts them as the next up and coming band), Meshell...
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A concert in July 2009 at Pasadena's Levitt Pavilion (Photo by R.E.˜ via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) The vivacious beats of Latin Jazz, the lively notes of Zydeco, the pounding drums of Taiko, and much more can all be heard as part of a series of 78 free concerts sponsored by Los Angeles County this summer and into fall. Concerts get underway July 8th at public sites all over the county,...
