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Gloria Molina Gran Park's Sunday Sessions- "Bring Down The House" w/Free Dance Parties (7/19 & 8/16)

Food: Reviews

The Humble Bird Serves Up One of the Valley's Best Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwiches

Fashion: Fashion Focus

Souls. Partners with Olive & James Café for One-Weekend-Only Matcha Gift With Purchase

Theatre: Musical

Hamilton returns to the Hollywood Pantages Theatre (Through October 13, 2024)

Books: Special Features

Best Books of 2022 (So Far)

Gifts: Holidays

Paramount Home Entertainment's Must-Have DVD Collections and Anniversary Releases

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Coachella 2005

What's better than a few days in the sweltering heat of the California desert with nothing but good music and 60,000 of your...

Christina Johnson

Culture Art

Robinsons-May Pavilion of Wings

Read carefully because I’m about to give away one of my signature moves. Courting a Ms. B_______ (now Mrs. K______ [P.S. My...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

John Puglisi's "The Garden State"

It’s like Zach Braff’s Garden State with the "Look Ma, no hands!" hip soundtrack removed, replaced by Billy Joel tunes a la...

Josh Herman

Culture Special Features

Hollywood Forever

Have you ever thought about treating your date to a picnic in a cemetery? How about watching a movie in a graveyard after...

Talia Hassan

Culture Art

Rauschenberg: Posters

I don’t know about you, but I outgrew vintage French liquor posters – with their black cats and large-hatted woman – in college....

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Time to Pause (The Program): New Works By Poor Al

It’s an irony probably not lost on Poor Al – who claims his most potent inspiration is the animatronic animals and plants of...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

All the Mighty World: The Photographs of Roger Fenton, 1852-1860

At 5 feet 5 inches tall and coming in at just over 105 pounds, the entire world seems mighty to me. The Hollywood Hills are...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Night Conversations 2

As part of First Fridays, the ongoing performance series at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Night Conversations...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Visual Music

In a time when people with KCRW 89.9 bumper stickers on their cars would be glad to tell you that music has become largely a...

Josh Herman

Culture Special Features

Santa Barbara

As one of California’s favorite getaways, Santa Barbara has always had a reputation as a place to go for just the right balance...

Rama Sobhani

Culture Art

Wondertoonel: Paintings by Mark Ryden

Driving down La Brea, I averted my eyes from a homeless man begging for change in the middle of the street to the street lamp...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Conversations

This Conversation is more like an artistic scream. With an idea that should be adopted by every Natural History Museum across...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Outrageous! L.A. Punk Rock Flyers, Handbills And Posters (’77-’83)

As with any musical genre, it’s often hard to pinpoint a time and a place where it actually began, but in the early 1970s a...

Kym Parsons

Culture Art

Thing: New Sculpture From Los Angeles

Early in the film UHF, the cult-classic from Weird Al Yankovic, there's a scene where Al parodies Close Encounters of the Third...

Josh Herman

Culture Pre-2/21/2007

Book Slut

Jessa Crispin has a promiscuous love of literature. The objects of her desire – softcover and hardback books – fill every available...

Robert K. Elder

Culture Special Features

It’s Happy Bunny™: Love Bites

Let Happy Bunny be your guide as you wade through the whole stupid love thing – from crush to crash, from hookup to break-up,...

Christina Johnson

Culture Art

The Garden of Eden on Wheels

With the rising cost of living in Los Angeles, this is an exhibit that I appreciate more as, the Museum Of Jurassic Technology...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Kidspace Children's Museum

It wasn’t the Rose Bowl that had thousands of screaming fans flocking to Pasadena late last month. Well, it was. But it was...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Neon On Tap: A Historical Retrospective Of The Great American Beer Sign

Sure, neon signs may have once been associated with sleazy motels, but that just isn’t the case anymore. Colorful glass tubes...

Kym Parsons

Culture Art

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920: Design for the Modern World

Arts and Crafts – they’re not just for kids at camp anymore. For those whose knowledge of arts and crafts is a faint recollection...

Josh Herman

Culture Pre-2/21/2007

Date My Pet

Wendy Peikes was tired of dating guys who’d vanish when they’d met her housemates – three hairy, energetic dogs....

S.L. Wykes

Culture Special Features

It's Time to Study Abroad!

It’s never too late to study abroad. If you like sunny skies, ocean views and a diverse cultural environment, spending 12 to...

Talia Hassan

Culture Art

The Pizz
The Idiots Abroad: Welcome to the Cartoon Brut Landscape

Traditionally, I’m opposed to anyone who refers to himself as "The [Anything]." Other than "The Dude," from The Big Lebowski,...

Josh Herman

Culture Art

Close to Home: An American Album

Living in Los Angeles, one often forgets what real people look like. To see a picture of anyone less than an Adonis, the photograph...

Josh Herman

Culture Special Features

L.A. Dance Studios

MADONNA GRIMES DANCE & FITNESS THEATRE COMPANY 980 N. La Cienega Blvd., W. Hollywood, (310) 659-4739, madonna-grimes.com ...

Ching Hsieh

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