It’s Monday again, but don’t let that get you down. A new week means a new opportunity to enjoy all the music, film, and other fun things to do in Los Angeles. America Adjacent Monday, March 18 In Skylight Theater Company’s staging of this powerful new play by Boni B. Alvarez, six pregnant women from […]
A Christian Film Fest in Bakersfield Is Churning Out the Next Gen of Faithful Filmmakers
On a folding table in the wings of a darkened theater, a dozenish Oscar-like statuettes—their nameplates as of yet unengraved—glimmer in the faint green lights of a mixing console. Best Picture. Best Actress. Best Screenplay. Best Application of Scripture. Music swells. Applause erupts. Onstage a spotlight comes up, and a thoroughly unglamorous man in a […]
The Best Things to Do This Week in L.A.
It’s Monday again, but don’t let that get you down. A new week means a new opportunity to enjoy all the music, film, and other fun things to do in Los Angeles. The New York Times Presents: Chief Film Critic A.O. Scott Monday, March 11 Longtime NYT critic A.O. Scott pops up at UCLA for a […]
Take a Stroll Down Colonial Street, Film and TV’s Most Iconic Suburban Set
In the summer of 1988, my family went on a vacation to Los Angeles. As an eager 7-year-old movie fan whose internal clock was set to East Coast time, I woke up much too early and asked my mom and dad when we were going to Universal Studios. We had visited L.A. once before and […]
The Best Things to Do This Week in L.A.
It’s Monday again, but don’t let that get you down. A new week means a new opportunity to enjoy all the music, film, and other fun things to do in Los Angeles. ArcLight Presents: When Harry Met Sally Monday, March 4 Throw it back to 1989 with a screening of this rom com classic. The Rob […]
L.A.’s Arts District Has Become an Around-the-Clock Movie Set—and Not Everyone’s a Fan
A black matte Porsche Cayenne carrying a giant swooping camera is purring alongside a red-brick condo that looks like Gentrified Anytown, USA. On the corner, two harried production assistants shoo an impatient crowd of pedestrians away from their prized shot: a sedan that’s been so thoroughly shellacked it could cook an egg. It’s another day […]