Marie Antoinette

'The Great Gatsby': Beautiful, Damned

Baz Luhrmann's sometimes great, but not always good, adaption of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel

The Great Awakening at Steamer's Jazz Club, Our Drink of the Week!

When the Great Awakening arrives at your table sitting in a champagne coupe, all a-glistening in the candlelight, the first thing you should do is smell it. Clean citrus gathers in your schnozz and eventually coalesces into the scent of a wonderful, alcoholic creamsicle. The drink is a pale, canary ... More >>

Cosprops' Material Magic

Bowers Museum spotlights the best of British-made movie dress-up

Anaheim's Tragic Kingdom

Two officer-involved killings ignite the city's long, hot summer that has been years in the making

[UPDATED AGAIN: Event TONIGHT, Now SRO and with New Guests] KPCC's AirTalk With Larry Mantle to Host Special on Santa Ana's Gentrification Wars March 28

​UPDATE: All seating for tonight's event is GONE; there is a waiting list, but the better bet is to show up and stand in the aisles to listen. Show up early--doors open at 6 p.m.Also, there are one-and-a-half replacements. Taking the place of Downtown Inc. is SanTana councilmember Busty Bustamante ... More >>

Evan Kleiman, Gustavo to Host Discussion on Street Food--With Street Food!

Piaggio on Wheels: bad-ass choripán...​Ustedes know about my skepticism to the luxe-lonchera craze, especially the attempt of some to claim they sell honest-to-goodness street food, then charge you Ritz-Carlton prices for a pinche slider. Is it legit, or just Marie Antoinette dressing as a milkma ... More >>

The Feast Days of Summer

And Winter and Fall and Spring! Where to eat, drink and be merry during the most important holidays

[Trendzilla] Who's the Sluttiest of Them All?

[Trendzilla] Fancy mani-pedis (and no gangrene!) at Long Beach's Krème de la Krème Nail Lounge

French Disconnection

David Wilhelm gets crazy with the re-branding

Blade of Flying Sparks

Visually stunning (as always), Zhangs latest is better seen and not heard

Hits!

Music Revolution

New Reviews

Flicka

French Confection

Sofia Coppola pays opulent tribute to the innocent boredom of a teen queen

Fur Is Thicker Than Water

OnDVD: The Fox and the Hound: 25th Anniversary Edition

Sic Transit...

It seem there might be a princess– princess in the sense of being the child of a European royal– somewhere in the Inland Empire. Albert Grimaldi, the ruling prince of Monaco (and one of the least inbred of Europe's royal relics, thanks to the genetic material of Grace Kelly), is reported ... More >>

Shes a Brick . . . Wall

Revisiting a Friendship at LHirondelle

The Hot 14!

Theyre hot! Theyre 14! (Not 14 years old. That would be wrong.)

French for Dummies

Hilary does Versailles

California Art Thats Shallow?!

LBMA kicks LACMAs ass! Kind of!

Eat!

Emil Kazaz makes me want to be really, really fat

CINEMA NON-VERITE

Re-creating Re-creations