Big ass night for Los Angeles music. If you're in from out of town, you picked a good frickin' Monday to be here. Fortify with a big dinner cuz there's n
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You've probably already seen this:
…it seemed a good moment to share it again, though, because it's a meme that has legs. Check out the new video for
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Markie appears to have had a Homer Simpsonian sense of delusion. Had he looked at himself in the mirror? The guy was 30 lbs. overweight, rapped like Corky from Life
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Seventy-five guests from America’s regional theaters converged on Costa Mesa for South Coast Repertory’s 11th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival last week. The
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There is a kind of sound that delivers you back to a place and time that you loved — or that you imagine you would have loved if given the opportunity. Ersi Arviz
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By the third day, we were knocked out, loaded. Hungover, weary, wandering the festival grounds like lethargic lemmings, queuing in lines off instinct, jostled, ag
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Last month, the first installment in Moving Arts Theater’s monthly discussion program, “The War Plays Project,” consisted mostly of local writers who
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The National at Coachella, Day One.
By Chris Martins
Photos by Timothy Norris
The National were off to a strong start, but something wasn't right. The weather w
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Tuesday was Ray Turner’s day in court, although he elected not to take the witness stand on his own behalf. Turner, the phone guy” co-defendant in the Anthony Pe
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Tall, striking, and as piercingly eloquent as ever when addressing throngs of dedicated supporters, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is back at the top of a massive str
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Last night I was “taking a meeting” at the fancy ass Bowery Hotel, just down the street from legendary scum pit venue of punk rock lore, CBGBs. Scratch
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Below: snapshot of Grizzly Bear founder Ed Droste “getting crunk” — yes, that's a quote — in the parking lot prior to their appearance at
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