The love between a suicidal 20-year-old man and a septuagenarian woman doesn’t seem like it would make for one of L.A.’s most popular Valentine’s Day movies. Read more...

Missy flinches as she receives the question. The customer, a man wearing a suit with a red tie who looks like he went to college, can’t see the cafe menu in huge letters right in front of him. Read more...

Beth Orton “Comfort of Strangers” Astralwerks Records In 1996, Beth Orton was canonized into the genre of trip-hop with her debut “Trailer Park,” which established her as the woman who brought folk-rock sensibility to the burgeoning electronic generation. Read more...

Most would argue that Japanese anime and the American theater have little to do with each other. The Los Angeles Theatre Ensemble’s production of Adam Rapp’s “Stone Cold Dead Serious,” however, manages to fuse the two together, albeit not seamlessly. Read more...

“Neil Young: Heart of Gold” Directed by Jonathan Demme Paramount Classics Perhaps the most famous quote in the history of rock ‘n’ roll is written in Kurt Cobain’s suicide note: “It’s better to burn out than fade away.” Yet Neil Young, that line’s aging author, has done neither. Read more...

A man who looks Middle Eastern walks into the salon Sunday afternoon with his pretty 9-year-old daughter. Amalia sits him down and begins to chat with him and trim his graying hair. Read more...

Belle and Sebastian “The Life Pursuit” Matador Records Belle and Sebastian’s newest effort, “The Life Pursuit,” will do a fair amount to turn the heads of hipster hordes expecting yet another sequel to the band’s 1996 classic, “If You’re Feeling Sinister.” This time around, the Scottish sensations are ““ musically speaking ““ all over the place. Read more...