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As of early August 2024, there are 12 performances remaining in the Santa Fe Opera season for this year.
Attending the Santa Fe Opera can be a wonderful experience! Here's what you need t…
Arts Bridging the Gap presents a Community Paint Day " happening on SATURDAY, August 10. Join the crew and do your part to help paint their mural designed by the sixth graders at Grant…
Fans of history can't help but wish they were there for private, unrecorded conversations between famed historical figures, to be the proverbial fly on the wall and gain insight into what th…
Did you ever see a show that left your cheeks aching from too much laughter? The smash-hit, home-grown comedy musical Reefer Madness just got extended for another month, so now's the time to…
Welcome to Watching the Dark, a regular column featuring essays, articles and reviews about horror films. Written by Terry Morgan.
Longlegs in cinemas
This is the third piece of a thr…
Currently on view at The Hammer Museum in Westwood are four summer modern art exhibitions. My review will focus on two of those.
"Refashioning: CFGNY & Wataru Tominaga" on view from J…
The first time I read Jon Robin Baitz's 1991 play, The Substance of Fire, and later saw the film made from it, I liked it. I wasn't alone " the success of that play catapulted Baitz into the…
Old California is known for its retro-style lighting fixtures and fine home goods. The company look to the past for inspiration, and so their product design is informed by giants in the anna…
The illegitimate daughter of a farmer, Eva (Evita) Perón concealed her shameful past as she rose to be Argentina's First Lady. Her work as an activist for Argentina's women and working-cl…
Beautifully written by Philip W. Chung, Unbroken Blossoms is a new play that drops us into Hollywood during the late teens. Still wounded from the criticism and accusations of racism for his…
Hollywood Chamber Orchestra presents Grammy-award winning conductor Lucas Richman and 13-year-old piano prodigy Yuze Lee who will both make their Walt Disney Concert Hal…
It may be less well known now, but back in the 1960s, the character of surfer girl Gidget was popular and influential, the subject of novels, films and TV series starring the likes of Sandra…
Last night in L.A., the place to be was the Hollywood Bowl. Legendary hip hop outfit The Roots hosted a concert celebrating decades of hip hop music and the resulting collab was an event tha…
Welcome to Watching the Dark, a regular column featuring essays and articles about horror films. Written by Terry Morgan.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House from Netflix
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Tiny Father, written by Mike Lew, feels like one of those plays based on real events that the playwright feels compelled to illuminate. The story begins in a low-lit but sterile-looking hosp…
The Santa Fe Opera presents its 19th World Premiere opening on July 13: The Righteous from collaborators composer Gregory Spears and librettist Tracy K. Smith.
The piece explores the int…
A high point of every Summer, the Santa Fe Opera season is hugely anticipated each year. This year's season reflects the Santa Fe Opera's commitment to a diverse repertoire and promises a ri…
On Saturday July 6th, Beck teams up with the Los Angeles Philharmonic (Steven Reineke, conducting) to deliver a one-of-a-kind live performance at the Hollywood Bowl.
Beck Hansen, known…
An inspired mash-up between two works, The Comet / Poppea is a new opera from The Industry, conceived by company founder and co-artistic director, Yuval Sharon, and composed by George Lew…
In D.W. Griffith's 1919 feature film Broken Blossoms, a young girl, Lucy Burrows, is abused by her alcoholic prizefighting father, Battling Burrows. She meets Cheng Huan, a kind-hearted Chin…
Suave, sensual and elegant, The Batette Follies of 1939Â is the newest show from Australian film, TV, theatre, and publishing maverick, Russall S. Beattie"the visionary who brought us The…
Giacomo Puccini's lush and exotic Turandot is widely considered to be one of the grandest of grand operas. An opera in three acts, it was composed by Puccini to a libretto in Italian by Gius…
Welcome to Watching the Dark, a new regular column featuring reviews and articles about horror films. Written by Terry Morgan.
The Blackcoat's Daughter from A24
The Angels, They Forg…
This WeHo Pride, be on the lookout for typewriters. LGBTQ+ poetry group Pride Poets will be standing by waiting to listen to your story and turn it into poetry, on the spot, for you to take …
Coming to the Hollywood Bowl in June is the Roots Picnic: Hip-Hop is the Love of My Life. The legendary Roots crew invites their musical heroes and peers to celebrate the first five decades …
