Sloane Berrent

Have you ever gone to a play and felt like your whole life could change? It might sound dramatic, but this is the theater after all, so maybe this kind of grandstanding and overwhelming support can be justified. Wounded, which opened this past weekend for the second year in a row at the Powerhouse Theater is Santa Monica is just such a production and being billed as "more timely than ever." Created by the...

City Year is coming to Los Angeles this fall and is hosting their first annual "Alumni and Friends Fundraiser" Tuesday night in the Foundation Room at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip. So what exactly is City Year? Founded in 1988, City Year's signature program, the City Year youth corps, unites young adults ages 17 to 24 in a year of full-time rigorous service during which they work in diverse teams to...

Cati Jean's stunning creation of L'Effleur Des Sens was one of LAist's highlights last year. French Cabaret, King King, Limited Engagement - it doesn't get much better than that. Therefore, it comes as quite a pleasant surprise that by popular demand the show is returning this year and kicking things off tonight. One of LA's best kept secret, L'EFFLEUR DES SENS features international and critically acclaimed dancers in musical numbers that are visually stunning...

Any band whose Wikipedia entry has both a fictional history and an actual history is worth a little digging, right? Valient Thorr - a band we had the opportunity to see at their kick ass Spaceland show before the blew the roof off SXSW - definitely raises an eyebrow or two. Not the prettiest looking or sounding, but something about these North Carolina rockers struck a cord with us. Maybe it was their "whatever...

The BR!CK Awards celebrate young people making our world better and is the first award show if its kind to be televised on national television. Tune in to The CW tonight at 9pm or set your Tivo to see for yourself! The show is only one-hour long and is claiming limited-commercial interruption. Hey man, whatever floats your boat. Both citizen activists and celebrities will be there. The list of winners can be seen here....

Jill Cuniff brought all of her lusciousness (and an old band mate) with her to the Hotel Cafe this past Thursday night. Jill, the ex-singer of the alternative rock group, Luscious Jackson, has recently released her debut solo album, City Beach, and it is wise and poetic and fresh. It has the kind of sound you'd listen to in your apartment and wish you could be driving up the PCH. And if you're driving...

Yours for under $1,300! In today's terms that would be a 10-inch iMac, or 3 iPods with 30GB! We especially love the disk drive segment -- oh, how we loved floppy disks. The Apple IIc changed our life, for many it was first computer in our household and our first experience with computer games. Winter Games -- with the Communist countries excluded -- awesome....

Starbucks, oh Starbucks. You're everywhere, around every corner and so cookie-cutter. All the same. And while we have nothing against you, we don't frequest you very much ourselves. We like the small independent coffee shops, always have too, since our days as an misguided teen in a town nowhere near here. But we have no problem taking advantage of you, especially if you want to give us something for free. That's why tomorrow we're...

Set your Tivo's. One of the mid-season pickups that we have been hearing great buzz over premiers tomorrow night and stars Andy Richter, the one-time sidekick of Conan O'Brien, in his very own sitcom called "Andy Barker P.I." Replacing "30 Rock" in the 9:30 time slot on NBC, this show does have to battle March Madness, but hello, that's what Tivo is for! Conan O'Brien is the series co-creator and executive producer and Andy...

LAist is itching to get our hands on the new iPhone to check it out. We hope they create a commercial on TV that shows the difference between an iPhone and another generic-brand phone...which leads us to wonder, has Apple always acted with a touch of superiority? Take a look at this commercial from 1989 and see for yourself -- and enjoy this week's Lunch Time Video Break Series, which will feature Apple vs....