There’s a YouTube video of the literary critic James Wood in his kitchen, drumming merrily on the tabletop, a coffee mug, and a plastic bucket of chocolates while
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A memorable 1968 photo shows Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama ringmastering a troupe of masked, naked, polka dot–painted revelers in New York’s Central Park surround
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Whoever decided that the L.A. Marathon XXIV should be moved to late May instead of February is in for a world of hate if this turns out to be a hot weekend. And the
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Remember that guy who put a jar of “celebrity air” up for sale on eBay that contained actual air trapped near the breathing orifices of Angelina Jolie an
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Breaking up is hard to do, especially if you're postwar Germany. LACMA's survey “Torn Curtain: The Two Germanys on Film” enters its closing weeke
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His face watches us from the gallery wall, a grim black-and-white visage with a shaved head and a large beetle crawling across his hard, fleshy dome. The subject of
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Surviving Sex is a pretty good, facile sitcom by David Landsberg about the plight of romantic nebbish accountant Stan (Jeff Marlowe), trying to steer his battered li
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Though standup comedy and incarceration have had their connections (I'm talking to you, Andy Dick), Felon O'Reilly may time on the West Coast when I wasn'
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Sometimes, it’s all about the bathrooms. Or, at least partly about the bathrooms, and those at the L.A. Convention Center, says Kim Martindale, are real.” Martin
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What might happen if, say, Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie were stuck in a bomb shelter after a nuclear holocaust and ruminated on the dismal effect of the war on the
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If you’ve ever been to soprano Julia Migenes’ “Diva on the Verge,” her deliciously irreverent one-woman show exploring the humorous life of a
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Eight bucks is a pretty good bargain for a show that promises to answer “What's This Life For?” Mary Lynn Rajskub, who's a new mom, shares her li
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