It was a touching and exceptional march back through time. Wednesday night at the historic American Legion Hall (Hollywood Post #43 ) just south of the Hollywood Bowl, we attended a marvelous event mixing military veterans...

It doesn't matter that Bert Stern: Original Madman falls short in depicting the hectic life and work of the '60s go-go photographer. The documentary, a first major effort by Shannah Laumeister, is unevenly told, biased toward the actress-turned-director's...

"I never owned one and could care less about guns," said the gentle-spirited Russ Tamblyn before a sold-out house at the Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles on Friday night. The conversation with Shannon Kelley,...

It was not possible to miss HuffPost blogger and actor-director John Cusack hanging out in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion lobby during intermission at the Joffrey Ballet last night. He's quite tall, his broad face is...

Ten thousand dance fans experienced shock and awe, in a good way, last weekend at the Los Angeles Music Center when The Joffrey Ballet performed the vastly influential "The Rite of Spring" (Le Sacre du Printemps) at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Seeing the game-changing ballet one hundred years after its...

Peter Pan's back! He's flying at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood all this month. The screening marks the 60th anniversary of the classic animation film's release in 1953. At an opening-night panel discussion of...

One full generation's cultural history floats in the ether now that the great Rolling Stones are marking a half century of existence. When the blues-steeped rock band launched in 1962, I was seven years...

New kids on the block, L.A. Dance Project, in their highly anticipated company debut, took to the sacred space of Walt Disney Concert Hall in a well prepared and highly professional dance performance this weekend. On a stage where the Los...

"That was so nice," murmured Jerry Lewis, 86, in acknowledgment of the heartfelt standing ovation that erupted when he stepped onto the Samuel Goldwyn Theater stage on Thursday night. The comedian/actor/producer-director and all-around entertainment legend was being honored at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Still emitting zingers...

There's been a flurry of interest, and an upcoming tribute on Turner Classic Movies on September 10, 2012, for a choreographer whose name is not widely known in the general public. It's Jack Cole (1911-1974), a great pioneer of American dance whose tremendous career started with the Denishawn...

A parade of Technicolor-tinged dance sequences enchanted a full house at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater Thursday night. "A Centennial Tribute to Gene Kelly," the first of a two-part event hosted by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored...

It was wild watching Gun Crazy (1950) projected on the humongous screen of the Egyptian Theatre as I did on April 14 at TCM Fest.

Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo's pulpy film noir concerns a couple of newly weds; played by John Dall and...

In a TCM Fest curtain talk with UCLA costume historian Deborah Nadoolman-Landis (she's married to film director John Landis) prior to a screening of Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934), designer Bob Mackie (pictured at right) described an early influence. It was...

In a TCM Fest curtain talk with UCLA costume historian Deborah Nadoolman-Landis (she's married to film director John Landis) prior to a screening of Cecil B. DeMille's Cleopatra (1934), designer Bob Mackie (pictured at right) described an early influence. It was...

Keith Jarrett, the 66 year-old jazz legend, opened his solo concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall Tuesday night by plucking on his Steinway's strings, avant-garde style. He closed the evening with a love letter to Los Angeles: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow,"...

The Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education (MPI), a ten-year-running nonprofit organization that preserves the silent film legacy of producer/actress Mary Pickford and uses her example to teach young children about film history and socially conscious filmmaking, has had its funding yanked by its long-time supporter, the Mary...

Last week was heady for American modern dance in New York. The Martha Graham Dance Company performed historic works from the great one's canon at the Joyce Theater. Further uptown, in both geography and symbolism, the Paul Taylor Dance Company closed...

A joyous event for modern dance takes place at Lincoln Center next Tuesday evening, March 13, when the Paul Taylor Dance Company will plant its collective bare foot onto the hallowed stage of the David H. Koch Theater. A massive...

Clamor filled the central-Los Angeles industrial loft last Thursday evening, when the Russian expatriate painter, Alexey Steele, and his wife Olga, opened their funky-junky, atelier-style home to the music lovers of Los Angeles.

Amidst a clutter of books, art supplies, burning...

Heavy-hitting filmmakers are turning their cameras on dance and it's an honor. It's also a puzzlement, to the dance world. It surprises us. We thought that the only folk attending dance performances were fellow dancers, parents, and dance critics. But clearly...