LA Times

L.A. movie openings, Feb. 23

8 years ago Lily Garner
Feb. 23 Annihilation Natalie Portman stars as a biologist on a mission to learn her husband's fate in a mutated coastal sector of the U.S. With Oscar Isaac, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Tessa Thompson, Gina Rodriguez, Tuva Novotny. Written and directed by Alex Garland, based on novels by Jeff VanderM..

Kendrick Lamar owes himself more than lifeless corporate gigs

8 years ago Lily Garner
On tour last year behind his hit album “Damn,” Kendrick Lamar performed every night on a stage largely swept free of distractions. The bare-bones production was designed to focus attention on the Compton rapper’s densely worded songs about race, identity and the alienating effect of success, and...

Cue the mermaids, it’s Esa-Pekka Salonen’s ‘Wing on Wing’

8 years ago Lily Garner
When invited to become music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in spring 1989, Esa-Pekka Salonen reminisced Friday night onstage after conducting a program in tribute to Frank Gehry at Walt Disney Concert Hall, the bait was that he would be given the opportunity to create the orchestra of...