On Friday, November 4th, 2005, at 7PM, the Will Rogers Elementary School PTA will host its second annual Comedy Night Benefit at John Adams Middle School Auditorium, 2425 16th Street. Comedian and Will Rogers’ parent […]

Neighborhoods around the country are gripped by a collective cognitive imperative dictating that sanitized, sterile squares of nitrogen-soaked green are necessary for the community’s well-being.  Just look at the mini tanker trucks that ply their […]

In the latest season of the WB’s “Gilmore Girls,” the character Sookie, played by Melissa McCarthy, is trying to guess the best show on television and lists several shows, one after the other, all ending […]

Inspired by news reports of back-channel negotiations between Saddam Hussein’s government and the Bush administration prior to the US invasion of Iraq, a Los Angeles playwright has written a fictional account of these negotiations, featuring […]

The legendary Van Dyke Parks will be among the performers at SAVOR, a benefit for Inside Out Community Arts, co-sponsored by K-JAZZ, at a classic Hollywood haunt, American Legion Post 43, on Saturday, November 5. […]

In looking at the films that have the strongest awards potential at this point (with most of the big ones left to be seen, Munich, Geisha, etc.) an interesting theme is emerging. It may mark […]

Kurt Vonnegut was robbed. The Nobel Prize in Literature was in his grasp and ready for the taking, if only he hadn’t made a fatal flaw in his former life as a car salesman. He’s […]

It was all things Donald Sutherland at American Cinematheque’s Aero Theater in Santa Monica last Friday night at a preview screening of Director Joe Wright’s version of Pride and Prejudice. The sold out screening was […]

The only place where Dubya will Be greeted by friendly faces Is when he’s making speeches At our military bases. At every press conference he holds He makes sure there’s never a chance He’ll ever […]

It was bracing to see the son of a New York doorman open the door on the mendacious Washington lair of the Lord of the Underground. But this Irish priest of the law, Patrick Fitzgerald, […]