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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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A show last year at the Bowl (Photo by sadjeans via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Live at the Lounge kicked off their new Classical Music LA series, "where premier established and rising young performers can be enjoyed in an attractive and intimate club setting". Think of Le Poisson Rouge for the West Coast. Doors open at 7 PM and the show starts at 8, for the next two Saturdays, and should...
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Just in time for all the iPhone 4 buzz today, an app to guide you through the Hollywood Bowl has been launched. The free app, which can be downloaded beginning today for iPhone or Android, will also be available on Blackberry and mobile web in July. Features includes basics like concert information, videos, photos and how to get there. But some features are especially useful. To name a few: the GPS-enabled map to help...
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After nine years, Orange County's Gay Pride is making a comeback this summer. OC Register columnist Frank Micakdeit says the event fizzled out in 2001, but with the passing of Prop 8, which banned gay marriage in California, the Orange County Equality Coalition has scheduled the event for August 15th. "Gay-pride festivals have a mixed history in O.C. The first, in Santa Ana, in 1989, brought protests..."
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Last year it was Ozzy, this year the Smashing Pumpkins, the Sunset Strip Music Festival announced today for its 3rd annual festival. Billy Corgan, Jeff Schroeder and Mike Byrne will join their new bassist Nicole Fiorentino to headline on Saturday August 28th. This year, again, the event will shut down the Sunset Strip for a day of 50 bands on two outdoor stages and inside The Roxy, Whisky, Viper Room, Key and Cat clubs....
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As Billy Joel asks, "Are you gonna cruise the Miracle Mile?" (Photo by current events via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Today LACMA's Muse is holding their 15th annual ArtWalk, and that means free admission to 5 museums along LA's Miracle Mile: LACMA, George C. Page Museum/La Brea Tar Pits, Petersen Automotive Museum, California Craft & Folk Art Museum, and Architecture+Design Museum. As part of ArtWalk, attendees can also enjoy free music...
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At L.A. Pride 2009 (more photos here) | Photo by Tom Andrews/LAist Just days before closing arguments are to be heard in the federal Prop 8 trial, hundreds of thousands will descend upon West Hollywood for L.A. Pride, now in its 40th year. Events begin tonight with the free Dyke March at West Hollywood Park. On Saturday and Sunday, the main festival takes place with the culminating parade taking place on Sunday at 11...
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Heritage Square Museum (Tales of an LA Addict via LAist Featured Photos) Today is the Lummis Day Festival, which happens to be a fun, free way to get to know Northeast Los Angeles through music, dance, food, and historic locales. Throughout the day you can enjoy live performances from a broad range of styles and genres of entertainment, from salsa to Latin ska reggae to Flamenco dancers to puppets and much, much more. Things...
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Ride your bike to Fiesta Hermosa this weekend (Photo by jakerome via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Need an excuse to head to Hermosa Beach for some fun this weekend? You've got one in the form of the annual Fiesta Hermosa, a nearly four-decades running Memorial Weekend Festival that puts the party right by the shore. Of course you'll find food and live entertainment, but the focus of Fiesta Hermosa is arts...
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UCLA Live Director David Sefton announced this week his resignation after controversy over the program's restructuring. Due to budget cuts the program that is known for having one the top international theatre festivals in Los Angeles is losing the man who made it what it is. UCLA Live had a previous budget of about $9 million annually to bring in the top music, dance, and touring theater companies to the campus. But Dean of...
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The Los Angeles Percussion Quartet (recently awarded a 10,000 dollar grant from the Theodore Presser Foundation) is performing a free concert tonight at 8 PM at Newman Hall on the USC campus. The ensemble-in-residence of the LA Composers Project will perform works by Naidoo, Guinivan, and two works from Jeffrey Holmes. Piano Spheres regular Vicki Ray will also accompany the LAPQ on a few works. For more information, click here....
