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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 Bird and the Bee by Autumn De Wilde It’s the first Friday of the month, meaning that the First Fridays series continues at the Natural History Museum tonight. It’s a little gathering where you learn a little and party a whole lot more. First up at 5:30 (and 6) pm is a tour of the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection with NHM Curator Dr. Lawrence Barnes. At 6:30 pm, there’s a discussion and book signing...
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Photo courtesy jcolton via Flickr. For all of you Dane Cook fans out there, it's time to put down your retainers and ask mom and dad if it's OK to stay out late this weekend, as Dane himself will be filming a new Comedy Central piece at the Laugh Factory. This is great news for all four people who watched every episode of Tourgasm (you know who you are). Dane will be taking over...
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Niyaz's album "Nine Heavens" Who: Niyaz Where: The El Rey When: Saturday, February 7th @ 9:00pm Last year the exotic electro-central-Asian trio, Niyaz, released their double disk, Nine Heavens on Six Degrees Records to much acclaim. One disk is a triptacular and clubbed out journey through devotional Sufi music and the other disk is a much more traditional, acoustic take on several of the same songs on disk one. Hear "Ishq - Love and...
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Zabowski/Flickr The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) is part of 15 museums and cultural institutions nation-wide contributing to the Wikipedia Loves Art program, which kicked off yesterday and runs all February long. "Here’s how it works: for the month of February, LACMA and other museums welcome the public to photograph permanent collection objects to help Wikipedia illustrate its articles. Think of it as an art scavenger hunt," explains LACMA's Unframed blog. Of...
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Dennis Hathaway, the activist behind BanBillboardBlight.org, saw this guerilla looking public art and snapped a photo to share with us. It's on North Madison Avenue, just east of Los Angeles City College and Vermont Avenue. Anyone know the story behind this? Do you ever random and fun things around LA? Feel free to share with us via our tips@laist.com inbox or by joining our LAist Featured Photos group on Flickr!...
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Okay, this picture is from 'The Fog' but Maggie looks hotter here. | Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures The Liam Neeson thriller Taken ended the box office stranglehold of Paul Blart: Loser at Life this weekend by scoring a big win on Super Bowl weekend. Taken pulled in $24.6M to easily outpace the Kevin James non-laugher ($14M/$83.3M) and restore some semblance of sanity to the universe. Crappy re-make The Uninvited tallied up $10.5M in...
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LAPD Chief William Bratton appears at Zócalo event tonight to talk about the past, present and future of the department in LA. / Photo by digitalshay via LAist's flickr pool. It’s a little quiet on the event front tonight. But people probably still need to recover from all their Super Bowl parties yesterday anyway. FILM Romantic film classics are playing at the ArcLight Theaters all month long. The original Sabrina with Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey...
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Your sleepless nights of anxiously awaiting an official announcement are over. After a plethora of postponements, swirling rumors and premature prattle, the 2009 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival roster is finally here. At approximately 12:26 AM, festival organizers divulged one of the most highly anticipated line-ups of the year via their website. And this year's bill boasts an eclectic array of 120 some-odd acts, spanning both old and new. Prominent headliners from times...
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The internet just let out a big sigh of relief at 5:02 p.m. when KROQ updated their twitter saying that they will announce Coachella's lineup tomorrow morning sometime during Kevin & Bean. Safe to say, it's been a long week for those who were expecting the announcement on Monday or Tuesday. Just for fun: "In a novel move, Goldenvoice has decided to announce this year's lineup at the end of the [festival] weekend. The...
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Layoff the "refresh" button kids, and close your browsers...The much-anticipated Coachella lineup will not be announced today. Why? Well, the LA Times spoke to Coachella organizer Paul Tollett, who said: “I know everybody is going crazy, but we’re not stalling, we’re still working on the show. Everything we do is in service of the show, not in service of the announcement of the show. Believe me, we’re excited to tell everybody and we want...
