129 min. • Dir. Martin Scorsese • Rated R
The story of a barely-articulate lug (played by Robert DeNiro) who’s a brutal genius inside the boxing ring and merely brutal outside it, Scorsese takes a type—the B-boxing picture of the ‘40s and ‘50s—and glosses it with the French New Wave, the realistic violence of the ‘70s [...]

Celebrating its 40th anniversary, Cal State Long Beach’s Pow Wow returns to the campus this weekend for two days of American Indian dancing, arts, crafts and food. (Trivia: the event also marks the 41st year of the university’s American Indian Studies program—the oldest of its kind west of the Mississippi.) There will be contests and [...]

Once upon a time, I handled the theater listings for OC Weekly. It was mostly silly BS that I wrote mostly to entertain myself—especially when it came time to write about Shakespeare (ugggggh), whom I loathe despite my English degree (save it, haters). However, unlike the rest of the dude’s crimes against entertainment, Macbeth rules. [...]

Seen the previews for Jamie Oliver’s new show where he tries to get kids to eat healthier—only to face adults like the dude who’s all, “We don’t eat no salads”? Anyway, look—even if you think you already eat well, teaching the young’uns to cook properly is a fantastic way to not screw up their lives. [...]

Events like the LBMA’s “After Dark” series go a long way toward making our town feel like a proper city—props to the Aquarium for following suit with its “Night Dive” events—and this latest installment is no different. Celebrating the opening of four new exhibitions—surveying works from the museum’s collection—there’ll be performances by Familiar Trees (featuring [...]

The beauty of David Bazan’s music isn’t just the music (though it is amazing) or his vocals (though they are haunting), but in the conflict of a believer-turned-non-believer faced with the task of examining his faith. Lucky for the listener, he puts that search into his songs and creates an uneasy journey on which we [...]

If you can’t get enough Derrick Brown and Mindy Nettifee—dig our music feature on the duo’s live variety show at the Basement Lounge, the Lightbulb Mouth Radio Hour—head to the Found Saturday evening, where Brown, Rick Lupert and Brendan Constantine will support five women—including Nettifee—and their voices in the name of Women’s History Month. Also [...]

Tonight’s MondoCeulloid.com screening of the 1981 cult classic Mommie Dearest is extra special—and not just because if you bring an article of clothing on a hanger (preferably wire), Mondo founder Logan Crow and co. will donate it to Out of the Closet (although that is awesome). It also marks the West Coast debut of MuVChat, [...]

Manhattan • 96 min. • Dir. Woody Allen • Rated R
Woody Allen (in his Woody Allen persona) plays a 42-year-old comedy writer dating an angelic high-school girl he temporarily abandons for someone more age-appropriate, the “pithy but degenerate” Mary, played with loquacious ditziness by Diane Keaton. New York, shot in a light-drenched black-and-white, is a [...]

Harold and Maude • 91 min. • Dir. Hal Ashby • Rated PG
A great triple-bill would be The Graduate, this movie and Rushmore. Each centers on directionless young men in the flower of insolence who fall for older women; and is set to a soundtrack (acting like a Greek chorus) of iconic ‘60s and ‘70s folk [...]