Before the new millennium brought us the Hollywood trend of cannibalizing classic (and not so classic) films to rehash them for a new audience, the film industry relied on sequels to keep a franchise alive – especially horror movies. Not every film became a box office franchise, though, even if they really deserved it. Strange Kids Club is trying to change that with a new art print series dedicated to fake horror sequels that don’t, but should exist including The Burning 2, Cujo 2 and the yet-to-be-released Bride of Dr. Phibes.

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This month has seen the opening of James Franco’s ode to James Dean and young, lost Hollywood in the heart of its city. Drawing some of the biggest names in contemporary art, the exhibition holds Terry Richardson’s original portraits of Madame Franco, the McCarthy brothers’ infamous cinema style, canvases by Ed Ruscha, and more. Not to be missed, the exhibition runs through to June 23.

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People come to Hollywood to see celebrities, enjoy the great weather, and go to Malibu. Now there’s an even more compelling reason to visit the land of stars. The Sexy Sax Man!

He shows up in the most unlikely places and gives unsuspecting people an impromptu performance that they are sure to remember. What makes the Sexy Sax Man even better, if you don’t want to just hope you’ll see him perform, you can hire him for your own personal show.

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Martin Kreloff is a second generation pop artist living and working in Las Vegas. His work features iconic stars of Hollywood and Broadway juxtaposed with traditional Japanese Ukiyo-e art. Much like East Meets Mae West.

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‘We’re all a little mad here’, say the owners of Hollywood’s Laurel Avenue Bakery (aka Bakelab), an outfit that makes handcrafted goodies inspired by that fantastical childhood classic, Alice in Wonderland. The bake shop’s Tea Party Curio Box is packed with a delectable array of trippy treats: ‘curiously sweet’ blue meringue mushrooms, Cheshire Cat Macarons, ‘Taste Me’ cookies, and even a couple of unbirthday cupcakes — candles included.

The Alice-inspired pack of goodies is only available through April 5, but the California confectioners also make (and ship) more traditional treats like ginger-molasses cookies, peanut butter brownies, lemon sugar cookies, and of course the classic chocolate chip. (Who says everyone in L.A. lives on rice cakes and Diet Coke?) The bakery – which has only recently launched its line of retail products — says it specializes in American classics spiced up with a dose of ‘a modern irreverence’. We say that’s a mad idea.

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More timeless than current’. But I recently finished a long and complicated novel about Hollywood in the 60s, 70s and 80s, and am just now buckling down to write a short nonfiction book about this film, part of a series for Soft Skull Press. A little peremptorily written off as a mere ‘entertainment’, and also overshadowed by the in-fact-not-quite-as-good Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, this is a pretty dazzling effort: a coded Watergate-conspiracy narrative, a comment on the perils and pleasures of being fooled that’s also twice as much fun to watch as you remember. Which was pretty fun to begin with.

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Fantasyland Hotel is located in the West Edmonton Shopping Mall, Alberta, Canada. It first opened in 1986 and the main characteristic of the complex is its original themed-room styles, which include Hollywood, Roman, Polynesian, Truck, Victorian Coach, Canadian Rail, Arabian, African, Igloo, Western and Waterpark. All up, the hotel has a total of 120 theme rooms in eleven different styles.

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Giving teenage pregnancy the Hollywood treatment could have easily resulted in sickly sweet, sentimental rubbish. Instead, a sharp script and excellent lead performances backed up by a stellar supporting cast have produced a film that manages to be both pro-life and liberal. With its honest, insightful and at times hilarious dialogue, along with a simple but compelling plot, Juno is the antidote we needed to Knocked Up. While more popular, Knocked Up occupied a neverland where models sleep with dorks, then screw their careers to raise the bastard offspring, all among a mire of tired jokes and bad acting. All that’s needed now, for balance, is a film where a middle-class, financially-stable married couple chose abortion because, while their situation is ideal and all their friends already have children, they’re just not ready.

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