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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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AP Photo/Paramount Pictures, Francois Duhame The Soloist, set and filmed in LA's Skid Row, opens nation-wide today. We've written about Skid Row many times with hopes that a continued spotlight on the area will raise awareness and motivate individuals to get involved and work for change, beyond serving meals around the holiday season. The Soloist will certainly brighten that spotlight as it confronts issues of homelessness, poverty and mental illness, and the movie's producer,...
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Tom Andrews/LAist On Monday, NPR began a three-day series covering Skid Row. In Part 1, they discussed the history of Skid Row, the missions and how for some, "Skid Row is for beginnings". Yesterday's piece included a discussion about the Safer Cities Initiative with LAPD Senior Lead Officer Deon Joseph and a narrarted slideshow "tour" by community activist and friend of LAist, General Jeff. Part 3 concluded with coverage of the upcoming film, The...
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Yet another hilarious scene! | Photo courtesy of New Line (R.I.P.) Hordes of sexually-confused young girls made Zac Efron and 17 Again this week's box-office champ as it pulled in an impressive $24M. The superb State of Play lagged far behind ($14M), just edging Monsters vs. Aliens ($12.9M/$162.7M), Hannah Montana: The Stupid Movie ($12.6M/$56.1M) and Fast and Furious and Stupid ($12.2M/$136.7M). Crank: High Voltage disappointed in its opening frame ($6.5M) despite the angelic presence...
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Photo by jtstrathdee via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Although Salonen bade farewell to the LA Phil last week, the LA Phil finishes out the rest of the season with guest conductors. This week Lionel Bringuier conducts the LA Phil and Joshua Bell, who will perform Lalo's Symphonie Espagnole. The first concert is on Thursday, with repeat performances on Saturday and Sunday. Also on Sunday, Krystian Zimerman returns to the Mouse House...
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Inside Amoeba in Hollywood. Photo by Lush.i.ous via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr Today is the second annual Record Store Day, and event put together by the Music Monitor Network, the Coalition of Independent Music Stores (CIMS), Alliance of Independent Media Stores (AIMS) and Newbury and sponsored this year by NARM (National Association of Recording Merchandisers). All over the world in over 1,000 independent records stores, people will be celebrating he profound...
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Joseph Girandola exhibit opens at Hope Gallery tonight. / Photo courtesy of the artist. Not headed east for the Coachella Valley this weekend? That's perfectly okay because there's plenty of stuff to do. And most of the stuff tonight doesn't cost nearly as much as a music festival pass. JAZZ LACMA's Friday Night Jazz series returns for its 18th season, celebrating the finest jazz musicians from around LA. The free concert series begins tonight...
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Photo by damon.garrett via Flickr She made Tokyo's Park Hyatt into a character in "Lost in Translation" and now Sofia Coppola is set to film a movie based in Hollywood's Chateau Marmont. "Somewhere" is about "a bad-boy actor stumbling through a life of excess at the Chateau Marmont," describes Variety. "With an unexpected visit from his 11-year-old daughter, he is forced to reexamine his life." Coppola said she wanted to make "an intimate story...
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Photo by Sloane Berrent via LAist Featured Photos on Flickr It's going to get quite hotter this weekend with temperatures reaching into the 90s on Saturday in Coachella and on Sunday in Los Angeles. Los Angeles: For today, expect sunny skies with highs in the mid to upper 60s at the beaches and mid 70s inland. Tonight will be in the low 50s. Saturday will start to get warmer with highs in the 70s...
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As of yesterday, Eddie Izzard has made firm plans to drop in at the Largo tonight and tomorrow! Tickets are $28 and are available at the Largo website but there's only a few left, so get them now! Largo is just killing these great celeb-driven shows as of late, and this one is no exception. If you missed Mike Birbiglia's mind-blowing one man show this week, make the amazing Izzard a priority....
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It's 9 p.m. on Saturday at Coachella and you've got to choose between M.I.A., Band of Horses and Junior Boys. "Ugh," one fan of all three bands wrote in an e-mail to LAist regarding the set times released today by the music festival. Anyone else find any good bands you'll have to choose between?...
