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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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Photo by Lord Jim via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr Billboard, no doubht, are a controversial issue in Los Angeles. Lawsuits against the city are piled up in the courts, ordinances are being passed and new digital billboards and supergraphics envelope the city. So it's only appropriate that the MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House are taking 23 billboards and 23 artists for a large-scale art project up and down...
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We just got a heads up that the comedy event, The Wong Sans Wheel Chronicles, happens tonight at 7 pm at the 18th Street Gallery in Santa Monica. Irreverent comic Kristina Wong takes the audience on her carless journeys of LA (by foot, bus, and piggyback) after her vegetable oil-run Mercedes catches fire on the 405. The performance is in conjunction with Diane Meyer's photography exhibit Without A Car In The World that features...
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Yes, New York City has amazing theatre. And lots of it, too. But what about the West Coast? We heard this one years ago: Seattle has more theatre than Los Angeles. And it's that little rumored morsel of "fact" that reared its ugly head again, which peeved LA Times' theatre critic Charles McNulty a bit. In a New York Times article, a former Pasadena Playhouse employee opines that Seattle "probably" has as much theatre as Los Angeles, despite being one-sixth the size.
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Uber music-technology-film festival, SXSW, is coming in March, but the list of 230 bands has been released. Here are the bands and artists that list themselves as from the Los Angeles area: B-Real of Cypress Hill, The Crystal Method, The Daylights, DJ Revolution, The 88, Princeton, Robert Francis, The Funeral Pyre, Audra Mae, Mariachi El Bronx, Mumiy Troll, of Verona (Mandi Perkins) and Warpaint....
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Photo by ccharmon via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr LA's a-glut with foodbloggers, and many of them will put their fingers to work in their kitchens, not their keyboards, next Saturday to take part in the first ever Blogger Bake Sale. The event, dubbed "Eat My Blog," happens on December 5th at the WeHo location of Zeke's Smokehouse [LAist Review], and was put together by Gastronomy Blog's Cathy Danh. Expect to have...
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Photo by stephenfalk via LAist's flickr pool. SHOPPING Moods of Norway on Robertson has treats planned for Black Friday shoppers today: Complimentary champagne and waffles and 15% off purchases. FILM This is the final weekend for Hitchcock: The British Thrillers series at LACMA. Tonight’s double feature includes The 39 Steps and Number 17. The films in the series were directed by Hitchcock between 1930 and 1939, the year he went to Hollywood to make...
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Clever and crafty! (Photo by uccloud9 via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr) Forget this week's corporate bonanza shopping blitz known as "Black Friday." Show your support for local artists and crafters by shopping at Unique Los Angeles, an occasional showcase of local talent that you'll want to buy for the loved ones on your holiday gift lists. The 2nd Annual Unique Los Angeles Holiday show is the largest independent design show on...
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TC Boyle at the WTF!? Festival tonight. LIT TALK As part of the Actors’ Gang WTF!? Festival, PEN Center USA hosts a conversation with author TC Boyle. He’s written 20 books of fiction and more than 60 short stories and won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. Bar opens at 7PM. Show at 8 pm. Tickets: $20. ART The Getty Center...
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OctopusHat/Flickr If you're free tomorrow morning and want to try something fun for free, check out KTLA's "Free Ice Skating Party to Kick Off The Holidays" which happens 7-11 tomorrow morning at the Downtown on Ice rink at Pershing Square, according to Blogdowntown. "The station's Morning News will be doing a live show from the Downtown park," so you'll have a chance to fall on your rear on the local morning show. Hitting up...
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Pacific Wheel VIII by el daverino via LAist's flickr pool. ART The exhibit Melting Point opens today at the El Camino College Art Gallery in Torrance featuring the art of Marshall Astor, Angie Bray, Bill Brody, Richard Carter, Michael Davis, Daniel Du Plessis, Mineko Grimmer, Rebeca Mendez, Tom McMillin and George Geyer (collaboration), Margaret Pezalla, Victor Raphael, Greta Waller and Tal Yizrael. Each of the 14 Southern California artists approach “melting point” from a...
