Happening this weekend " beginning Thursday " is the Rising Tohoku Food Fair, a fun event for the whole family that celebrates the charms and cultural diversity of the Tohoku region of Ja…
Festival report by Kurt Gardner. Of the many films I saw at the San Antonio Film Festival, which took place July 28th through August 2nd, a standout for me was a feature entitled Mome…
An exciting music biopic, with solid storytelling and charismatic young leads, Straight Outta Compton proves surprisingly gripping fare. Whether or not you remember the groundbreaking and co…
The LA Philharmonic stages an opera performance in concert at the Hollywood Bowl every summer. This year, that opera was Giuseppe Verdi's La Traviata ("The Fallen Woman"). Based on Alexa…
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles introduces storefront:, a new project that invites artists and artist collectives to inhabit the anteroom space of The Marcia Simon Weisman Works …
Each summer REDCAT celebrates the vitality of Los Angeles’ vibrant and growing community of artists making work for the stage. They transform our theater into an artist-driven creative…
Hello #LAThtr fans and aficionadi, Here follows my latest theater review for the critical website Stage Raw " which contains current arts and theater coverage from our intrepid team o…
Of the dozens of shorts screened at this year's San Antonio Film Festival, some really stood out in terms of execution, creative vision, and dramatic heft. Here's another selection of compel…
A silver-tongued convict on the run from the cops meets a young man trying to escape his past, and together they form an unlikely alliance on the highways of Texas. The year is 1980, and Jak…
JAZZ AT THE BOWL at the Hollywood Bowl continues this summer. New Orleans native Trombone Shorty fronts one of the hottest funk/jazz/rock/hip-hop bands and never fails to bring the party atm…
A variety of entertaining and provocative short films are being screened at this year's San Antonio Film Festival from filmmakers all over the world. So far, I've had the opportunity to see …
Dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of 'vlogs' or video reviews. Here's the newest Exit Review for the play No Homo, which opened Saturday n…
Action-packed, but mostly risible, Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation is probably the most disappointing offering of the five-movie spy thriller franchise starring Tom Cruise. It doesn't help …
The Australian Theatre Company (ATC), dedicated to telling Australian stories to L.A. audiences, was recently awarded non-profit status. The ATC is committed to sharing the best of Au…
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year, Antoine Fuqua's Southpaw arrives with Jake Gyllenhaal bulked up and ready to spar, but alas " Kurt Sutter's cliché-ridden screenplay ad…
Director David Zucker, actor Sean Young, and stuntman Corey Eubanks are all scheduled to attend the San Antonio Film Festival, which takes place July 28th through August 2nd at the Tobin Cen…
WEEKEND SPECTACULARS at the Hollywood Bowl continue this summer. For 25 hilarity-filled years, Bugs Bunny and his Looney Tunes pals have teamed up with live orchestras playing those phenomen…
World class ballet dancers, top flight wines, seasoned jazz musicians, divine fare from fine restaurants — even on this, its final weekend, the Napa Valley Festival del Sole 2015, cont…
A mini festival of food and wine events, Taste our Terroir, is happening today and this weekend in Livermore Valley. One of Northern Cali's best-kept secrets is Tri-Valley, a triangle…
For Sean Longstreet's new album Reflections, producer Tim Flores was determined to achieve an intimate and warm live sound that harked back to the the way jazz was recorded during the 1950's…
Modern forms, mathematical precision and unconventional materials " a key figure of the Bauhaus art and design movement, László Moholy-Nagy was a champion of abstract art, belie…
WEEKEND SPECTACULARS at the Hollywood Bowl continue this summer. Nine-time Grammy®-winning singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow performs with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra for an evening of good-…
TreePeople and the Actors Conservatory Ensemble are excited to announce the return of the summer entertainment series "Once Upon A Canyon Night" – back for its 13th season and ru…
I actually feel lucky to have survived a recent visit to the film set of Straight Outta Compton. The upcoming biopic dramatizes the mid-to-late eighties rise of the groundbreaking rap group …
Hello dear #LAThtr fans! Pauline Adamek from ArtsBeatLA.com presents Exit Reviews, a series of 'vlogs' or video reviews. Here's the newest Exit Review for the powerful musical play Th…