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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When I pull up in front of Pio Pico State Historic Park — the eponymous home of the famed Californio and two-time governor of Mexican California — a tan, wood
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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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It’s sunny at the Greyhound bus station in downtown Los Angeles. Dressed in his service alphas (khaki shirt, olive-green service coat), Private First Class Rogelio
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Well, it's been a quiet few days, involving mainly indigestion and a marathon L Word viewing session (seven episodes, back to back). So here's a funny story
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Cold cliques of black-swathed art snobs sipping wine and expounding esoteric about the hidden meaning of a $10,000 paint-splattered canvas in a sterile, white room .
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A WEEK BEFORE ELECTION DAY, Inglewood Mayor Roosevelt Dorn called one of his community town-hall meetings on the ground floor of City Hall. Your typical civic-minded
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Watching ruffle-shirted fops in Louis XIV wigs and white face powder march through a 99-cent-store parking lot in East Hollywood, scaring the bejezus out of the loca
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Deep Waters Flow Still
Invited to a party among humans last month, I blundered into a quietly alert gentleman who spoke with urgent patience. This was a lifelong jaz
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Patrick Chamusso didn’t set out to become a terrorist, but the times in which he lived made him into one. An oil-refinery worker in the South African town of Secun
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