Have you been here before?” the waiter at Hiko Sushi asked as I hovered near the back door. Because if you haven’t, I need to explain some rules.”
He furtivel
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Company of Angels is the city’s longest-surviving small theater company — organized in 1959, its alumni include Richard Chamberlain and Leonard Nimoy. L
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I got a call last month from a public-relations exec, pleading on behalf of some producers who wanted, or thought they wanted, some press for their show — a guest
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Camera Obscura
El Rey Theatre, February 17
My, you’re such a polite crowd,” marveled Camera Obscura’s diminutive singer, Tracyanne Campbell, a few songs into t
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{mosimage}Joss Stone: Fifth Dreamgirl?
Though it was billed as “an intimate performance,” Joss Stone’s show at House of Blues two Wednesdays ago wa
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Hip-Hop in Crisis, Pt. 1 Kanye: It’s hard to deny hip-hop is going through a crisis. It’s not a crisis of confidence, mind you — pop’s ascendant genre has mo
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IT’S A LOT LIKE those grainy tokusatsu kaiju, sci-fi horror films where the gigantic mutant dinosaurs — or, in this case, newsosaurs” — spend most of their s
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How does that phrase from the playground go again? Quitters never win, and winners never quit, right? It’s a good concept to keep in mind when following Los Angele
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A black Lincoln Navigator sits abandoned in a dead-end alley off Atlantic Avenue in South Gate, its owner miles away, though not willingly. Across the alley, police
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She’d probably spent the night in bars,” said filmmaker Jean Renoir, remembering Anna Magnani, star of his thrilling valentine to acting and the theater, The Gol
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Oh. My. God. I’m back — I’m home. All the time .?.?. We finally, really did it. You maniacs! You blew it up! God damn you! God damn you all to hell!”
—Colo
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