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From old-school nightclub veterans to alt-comedy legends, Patton Oswalt to Pryor, our picks for the greatest to ever grab a mic… Cavemen whacked one another in the nuts for cheap yuks, and Medieval fools jabbered in a flop sweat to keep from being beheaded...

We are sitting at La Pintoresca Park in north Pasadena, where Jasmine Richards is the city’s Black Lives Matter chapter leader. Browline glasses rest on her high cheekbones, and her hair is pulled into a tight, low bun held in place by a backward baseball...

Film listings are edited by Cheryl Eddy. Reviewers are Kimberly Chun, Max Goldberg, Dennis Harvey, and Lynn Rapoport. For rep house showtimes, see Rep Clock. OPENING The Awakening In 1921 England Florence Cathcart (Rebecca Hall) is a best-selling author...

WHAT’S NEW IN LOS ANGELES With spring approaching, Los Angeles seems to be blooming from all different facets. The buzz about hotel development will come full circle as seven highly anticipated properties open between April and May 2017. Los Angeles...

The way Pourandokht Banayan tells it, she and her husband built the very first "Persian Palace" in Beverly Hills. The boxy yellow house bears the telltale mark of the now-outlawed style: four of those two-story columns out front. It was erected on this...