Who's your favorite Australian soul band? Can't name any? Thought so. Now, you can say Hiatus Kaiyote. Except they may become your favorite band, period. Because the only thing that trumps the uncanny likelihood of a Philadelphia-worthy electro soul polyrhythmic sound coming from the Australian desert is the...

While much of the hoopla at the Writers Guild Awards was focused on the film nominees as a ramp up to Oscars, the category most associated with the fastest growing medium on earth went largely unnoticed. And Michael Cyril Creighton was crowned king of that world....

Award-Winning screenwriter and playwright Tom Stoppard, who received the Writers Guild of America, West's 2013 Laurel Award for Film, says he doubts that he would ever adapt any of his own theatrical works for the screen. Having just done Anna Karenina, and working on...

Chris Terrio (right) won Adapted Screenplay for Argo and Mark Boal(left) captured the award for the Original Screenplay Zero Dark Thirty at the 2013 Writers Guild Awards on Sunday Febuary 17, 2013. The win for Argo over Lincoln in the...

Hey look, there's almost a "Best Web Video about blah blah blah" almost every week, right? Even on TV. But only once a year does that title carry the weight of the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

Created three years ago, this category is a reflection not only...

Take note: "Super Tuesday" is this Sunday with the SAG Awards. If DC is simply Hollywood for ugly people, its no surprise to find similarities in how selections get made in those worlds, right? This struck me as I was trying to explain to a political operative how the Oscars...

Too bad Mark de Clive Lowe doesn't own a soul spaceship. He could've used one. It might not have taken him so long to pick up all that he has learned and shared from so many musical places. The good part is that on each album and live performance, this...

Can a film about an immigrant father struggling to start a gardening business be a defining work of 2011? Yes. Who was best at amplifying workers' voices this year? Well, with everyone in pop culture pimping workers issues this year (see Jay-Z "Occupy" T-Shirt for sale but not...

Coldplay comes out swinging in LA with multiple stops in TV and Radio land. Here, they're at KROQ studios in the new boombastic Red Bull Soundspace there on the Kevin and Bean show....

So what exactly is a Trespass Parade, outside of being something blaring and whirring through downtown LA that is associated with the Pacific Standard Time initiative led by a madcap roster of artists, musicians, and dancers melding politics and art? For some, maybe that's all you...

Update 9/14: This concert (and others in the U.S.) has been cancelled, unfortunately, due to issues in processing the band's visas. From their agency: "...we are hopeful that we can bring them for dates next summer. Maybe we can reschedule for that time."

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Art at work? Well, art portraying work or workers' values and struggles has been going on for centuries, but portraying work in dramatic or readily accessible ways has not been fashionable of late. There are very few moments where a Rockefeller is hiring a Diego Rivera these days. But the...

What do they know about work in Hollywood? Good question. So this Labor Day week, we take a look at a listing of nominees for best films, tv shows, and other artistic expressions in what are called the "2011 Workers' Voice Awards" from PopWork USA, a blog dedicated to the...

His stage name should be Gnash Bridges. Because he brings together genres seamlessly with his viola from hip-hop to classical and will have you gnashing or gritting your teeth with his, ahem, mad orchestral skills. This Friday night shouldn't be any different for string man at-large Miguel Atwood...

Know that kid you saw doing a flip of his skateboard on the sidewalk? Okay, now imagine him on it screaming down an 80-foot wooden ramp, flipping his whole body for 50 feet in midair and landing on a 27-foot ramp. While television created ESPN X Games, it's...

It starts to sink in when you hear a gentle roar around Olympic Boulevard in downtown LA just before very tangible collective "oohs" and "aahs." It's ESPN X Games 17. Full of daring and delight, there were hundreds of amazing performances and aerial feats. From California and around the world....

Don't know much about hip-hop but like a good story? While sounding like a baby boomer droning on about how the Beatles were the greatest of all time and everything else an empty shell, I'm brought to that temptation about A Tribe Called...

Couldn't resist the pun in that headline, but in this case the stage is a car, so it works. In fact, the stage is 15 cars. Thats the number that sit in a parking lot you're escorted to as you wait for "The Car Plays" to start as part of...

Can a soapbox race be about creativity, the human spirit and tapping into the zeitgeist in addition to being an ultimate childlike thrill? Apparently so as today, absolute grown-ups participated in the 2011 Red Bull Soapbox Race with some 200,000 people watching in downtown LA. There's a fuller story and...