The Band: From Woodstock to The Last Waltz chronicles the evolution of one of rock music’s most influential groups through photographs by Elliott Landy and Larry Hulst. Landy’s intimate images capture Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, and Garth Hudson during their formative Woodstock years, while Hulst documents the group’s legendary 1976 farewell […]
National Book Award winner William T. Vollmann discusses A Table for Fortune, his monumental four-volume, 3,000-plus-page novel spanning more than half a century of American politics, war, family, and personal upheaval. Moving from the Cold War through September 11 and the War on Terror, the book blends archival history with an intimate family saga centered […]
Disney’s Halloween favorite Hocus Pocus returns to the El Capitan Theatre, where the Sanderson Sisters once again descend on Salem for a night of magic, mischief, and comic chaos. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy star as three seventeenth-century witches accidentally resurrected by a group of unsuspecting kids, setting off a race to […]
Fahey/Klein Gallery brings together Herb Ritts, Greg Gorman, and Matthew Rolston in The School of Los Angeles, an exhibition examining three photographers who helped redefine glamour and celebrity portraiture in Southern California from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Their images shaped magazines, album covers, advertising, music videos, and film, creating a visual language of […]
Overduin & Co. presents Benjamin Echeverria: Images, a solo exhibition centered on the artist’s restrained and highly considered approach to image-making. The works emphasize repetition, spacing, surface, and formal balance, creating compositions that feel minimal at first glance but reward close attention to subtle shifts in scale, rhythm, and structure. The exhibition’s quiet visual language […]
Ynez Johnston: In Search of the Oracle surveys seven decades of the artist’s richly imaginative practice, bringing together paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics, and mixed-media works shaped by a lifelong fascination with ancient civilizations, myth, travel, and invented worlds. Johnston’s visual language blends influences ranging from Maya glyphs and Tibetan thangkas to Byzantine mosaics, transforming […]
Rising jazz-pop vocalist Emma Nissen brings her distinctive “Jesus and Jazz” sound to Blue Note Los Angeles, blending faith-centered songwriting with jazz phrasing, scat singing, and a warm contemporary pop sensibility. Her breakout came after a video of her scatting on the song “Breathe” went viral, helping introduce her expressive voice to a rapidly growing […]
Washington Post reporter Emily Yahr joins Sarah Rodman to discuss Taylor Swift: The Debut Years, an intimate look at the Nashville chapter that shaped one of the world’s biggest pop stars. The book follows a teenage Swift as she learns to navigate songwriting rooms, record labels, industry gatekeepers, and the competitive country-music world while developing […]
Disney’s Halloween favorite Hocus Pocus returns to the El Capitan Theatre, where the Sanderson Sisters once again descend on Salem for a night of magic, mischief, and comic chaos. Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy star as three seventeenth-century witches accidentally resurrected by a group of unsuspecting kids, setting off a race to […]
Winner of four 2024 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, The Outsiders brings S. E. Hinton’s landmark novel and Francis Ford Coppola’s iconic film to the stage with an emotionally charged story of friendship, family, belonging, and survival. Set against the tensions between rival groups in 1960s Tulsa, the musical follows young people trying to hold […]
Real-life best friends and comedians Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata reunite at Largo for a live edition of their unmistakably warm, candid, and very funny friendship. Their chemistry turns conversations about everyday life, relationships, awkward moments, and whatever happens to be on their minds into the kind of loose, unpredictable comedy that feels like listening […]
In SKZ Centimeter Studies Classroom, artist Dan Levenson expands the fictional world of the State Art Academy, Zürich, an imaginary twentieth-century Swiss art school that he has developed across paintings, furniture, performances, and fabricated archival materials. The exhibition presents paintings supposedly created by students responding to exercises based on the centimeter, alongside classroom furniture designed […]
