From military-themed beefcake bashes to mega-DJ all-nighters, there is, as always, a plethora of pumpin’ dance parties to choose from this Memorial weekend (see l
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In the decade since he took over as artistic director of the Pasadena Playhouse, Sheldon Epps has accomplished what most said could never be done — turning a mori
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Thursday March 6th to Saturday March 8th, cult singer-songwriter Phil Elverum is playing a handful of California shows. We've used this as an opportunity to talk
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Think you already know the epic tale? Not this version, you don’t. Having apparently decided that the Christian monks who transcribed the oldest known version of B
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{mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t register. Goillen was wo
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One day in 1973, Ellen Flanagan, an exemplary stay-at-home Berkeley mom who sewed and cooked and cleaned on demand, packed her husband and two daughters off to work
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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a $14 hamburger. And not just a hamburger: Frequently, t
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Robot battles, mentalists and Emo Philips.
This doesn’t sound like the upcoming season at the Ahmanson or even the Groundlings.
In two years, the Steve Allen Theat
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Illustrations by Joel Kimmel
To read the first part of Beheading
on Mount Baldy, click here.
As Marcia subsequently explained, when she and Judy first moved i
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Photos by Saeed Adyani
The word “homage” is hardly ever used
these days without a sneer. We infer pretension, thinly disguised plagiarism,
lack of
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Marry me a little Love me just enough Cry but not too often Play but not too rough Keep a tender distance So we’ll both be free That’s the way it ought t
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I can’t remember the last time I so thoroughly enjoyed
reading a series of articles in the L.A. Times as this week’s Pulitzer-class
five-parter on the ho
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