After hearing the report over his police radio, Weegee would race to the scene of the crime and get to work. But his work didn’t involve arresting suspects or holding gangsters at gunpoint. Read more...

While Los Angeles may be known for its flagship theaters such as the Ahmanson and Mark Taper Forum, good drama also exists elsewhere; it just needs to be searched out. Read more...

Fiona Apple “Extraordinary Machine” Sony Records Fiona Apple’s first two albums presented the singer as an angry, emotional, waifish imp ready to explode anywhere, be it on her album or on stage. Read more...

Photographs of transvestites, call girls and murder victims have long graced the covers of tabloids, but the new exhibition at the Getty Center thrusts those images from their placement under newspaper headlines to the walls of a respected art museum. Read more...

At a recent family dinner, I was lamenting the challenge of writing a weekly entertainment column. “How about something on “˜Desperate Housewives’?” my mother suggested. “Maybe about how women love the show because it portrays females in control over the men in their lives,” she added, as my dad continued quietly eating his mashed potatoes. Read more...

Sometimes brevity is impossible. Anyone seeking to summarize Noah Baumbach’s new film, “The Squid and the Whale,” quickly becomes acquainted with this fact. Above all, complexity prevails. Read more...

For documentary filmmaker Marc Levin, ignorance isn’t quite bliss. It’s inspiration. Shortly after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Levin stepped into a cab in New York City where, to his surprise, the driver revealed his steadfast belief that the Jews were in part, or even entirely, responsible for the attacks that September. Read more...