David Lynch News

Sultry chanteuse Chrysta Bell will perform in San Francisco and Los Angeles at concerts presented by David Lynch this May. She begins on Thursday, May 9 at Bimbos 365 Club (1025 Columbus Ave, San Francisco) and then lands Sunday, May 12 in Los Angeles in a show sponsored by 89.9 KCRW at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever (6000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles). "The first time I saw her perform, I thought she was like an alien. The most beautiful alien ever," Lynch says.

Los Angeles-based artist and designer Morrisa Maltz will curate a unique performance event at MOCA Grand Avenue, in conjunction with the public opening of the Urs Fischer exhibition, to celebrate the marriage between art and technology, as demonstrated by her "Mofones" on April 21 from 2:00-5:00 p.m. A line of iPhone holders designed exclusively by local artists, Mofones are contemporary art pieces for your iPhone that are fun, funky and sometimes completely ironic.

Breakout stars in their native Australia, Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes --who fuse a unique blend of soul, blues, doo-wop, jazz and R&B with Clairy's powerful vocals at the forefront--wrapped up a brief U.S. show and promo tour last Friday.

Channeling a little bit of horror, a little bit of fear, The Other Theatre returns to its creative roots with a new collective work inspired by the weirdness of H.P. Lovecraft, directed by Stacey Christodoulou. Playing in English and French at Bain St. Michel from tonight, April 16-20, in collaboration with Infinitheatre.

To paraphrase an old saying, you can't swing a dead cat in a Rhode Island theater without hitting a graduate of either Rhode Island College or University of Rhode Island. But don't worry, that's a good thing. RIC and URI have been consistently producing highly talented young theater professionals for a number of years. Local theaters, both on stage and behind the scenes, are teeming with these talented, enthusiastic, capable artists. And while there are other schools in the area producing similar talent, it seems that RIC and URI appear most frequently in the playbills of local productions. In the case of Daydream Theatre Company's current show, Higher Methods, talented young actors from the aforementioned schools happen to be the highlight of the evening. Rather than a daydream, the play is more of a fever dream, bordering on a nightmare. It is the tale of a young actor who travels to Los Angeles, Hollywood specifically, to find his long lost sister. In his efforts to hunt her down, he traces her steps, trying to experience everything she did. Along the way, he becomes lost in a strange world where little makes sense and nothing is what it seems.

Minnie D'Moocha (Rockabilly Burlesque) & Francine 'The Lucid Dream' (The Pink Room Burlesque) bring Take Back the 80's Burlesque to Parkside Lounge. The second Today of every month will be filled with 80s pop culture, music, comedy, games, go-go and of course striptease. Tonight, April 12th, there will be no reason to sit at home trying to figure out that Rubik's Cube & hopelessly fixing that total eclipse of your heart. Take Back the 80s Burlesque is going to be so... VERY.

Tune in tonight (Thursday, April 11 8pm PT/11pm ET) to watch CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN' RACKETTES--who fuse soul, blues, doo-wop and R&B with Clairy's powerful vocals and a pop-twist--perform “Yellow Bird,” “Far Too Late” and “Love Letter” LIVE on AXSLive.

Access Theater & The Dirty Blondes' present award-winning director Alexandra Siladi (Outstanding Director, Planet Connections Festivity 2012) and actor/filmmaker Shane Jensen's production of PASSING THROUGH: Room 603, tonight, April 10-14.

David Lynch and Russell Brand joined forces to help bring Transcendental Meditation to 1,000,000 at-risk youth at the U.S. premiere of Meditation Creativity Peace at the Hammer Museum's Billy Wilder Theater in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 2. The premiere marked the launch of the "Meditation in Education" global outreach campaign.

CLAIRY BROWNE & THE BANGIN' RACKETTES have signed with the U.S. label Vanguard Records and will release their debut album Baby Caught The Bus on May 21. Their first single “Love Letter” is now #1 Most Added at Triple A Radio this week, while Baby Caught The Bus climbs to #15 Most Added.

Minnie D'Moocha (Rockabilly Burlesque) & Francine 'The Lucid Dream' (The Pink Room Burlesque) bring Take Back the 80's Burlesque to Parkside Lounge. The second Friday of every month will be filled with 80s pop culture, music, comedy, games, go-go and of course striptease. On April 12th, there will be no reason to sit at home trying to figure out that Rubik's Cube & hopelessly fixing that total eclipse of your heart. Take Back the 80s Burlesque is going to be so... VERY.

Started in Chicago in 2009 as a way to release 7's with perfect pop songs, this year Trouble in Mind have curated a stage at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia set to occur September 27-28. Trouble in Mind bring some of their most exciting artists to Liverpool, including Fuzz, The Limiñanas , Jacco Gardner, Maston, MMOSS, The Paperhead and The Resonars.

Access Theater & The Dirty Blondes' present award-winning director Alexandra Siladi (Outstanding Director, Planet Connections Festivity 2012) and actor/filmmaker Shane Jensen's production of PASSING THROUGH: Room 603, April 10-14. The show features the theatrical premiere of plays from Hotel Room (a miniseries produced by David Lynch & Monty Montgomery) including two works by Barry Gifford and a third developed from Jay McInerney's teleplay. This year marks the 20th anniversary of its original air date.

Pegi Young, Charlotte Church, Pascal Schumacher, Tecla Esposito, Bill Kirchen, NY Theremin Society, Abigail Washburn, Slavic Soul Party!, Aputumpu Festival 2013, Justin Vivian Bond, Kenyon Phillips, Scream Along with Billy and Jomama Jones are featured in the lineup at Joe's Pub at the Public this week, March 25-31, 2013.

Channeling a little bit of horror, a little bit of fear, The Other Theatre returns to its creative roots with a new collective work inspired by the weirdness of H.P. Lovecraft, directed by Stacey Christodoulou. Playing in English and French at Bain St. Michel from April 16-20, in collaboration with Infinitheatre.

A familiar face to daytime audiences, Ian Buchanan has been a regular on Days of Our Lives, All My Children, Port Charles, and won an Emmy for his turn on Bold and the Beautiful. He's also appeared in prime time (most memorably in David Lynch's Twin Peaks) and on the big screen (notably, opposite Jodie Foster in Panic Room). But today, the show-business veteran debuts in virgin territory: as a recurring special guest star in the hit comedy web TV series Old Dogs & New Tricks, playing 'Christoph,' a Hollywood photographer who focuses in on one of the Old Dogs.

The Film Society of Lincoln Center today announced the departure of Robert Koehler, and the appointment of critic and programmer Dennis Lim as Director of Cinematheque Programming. Koehler will step down immediately and return to Los Angeles to focus on personal matters and requests that his family's privacy be respected.

After a 28 year hiatus, SueAnne Lucius returns to the stage in MCC's presentation of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance playing February 28 - March 9, 2013 in MCC's newly renovated Theatre Outback.

The American photographer William Eggleston (born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. Now, 50 years later, he is arguably its greatest exemplar.At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the work of this idiosyncratic artist, whose influences are drawn from disparate if surprisingly complementary sources-from Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson in photography to Bach and late Baroque music. Many of Eggleston's most recognized photographs are lush studies of the social and physical landscape found in the Mississippi delta region that is his home. From this base, the artist explores the awesome and, at times, the raw visual poetics of the American vernacular.

The American photographer William Eggleston (born 1939) emerged in the early 1960s as a pioneer of modern color photography. Now, 50 years later, he is arguably its greatest exemplar. At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the work of this idiosyncratic artist, whose influences are drawn from disparate if surprisingly complementary sources-from Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson in photography to Bach and late Baroque music. Many of Eggleston's most recognized photographs are lush studies of the social and physical landscape found in the Mississippi delta region that is his home. From this base, the artist explores the awesome and, at times, the raw visual poetics of the American vernacular.