Michael Anderson is an architect and developer who has lived under a great gray cloud of disappointment ever since I‘ve known him. We met in 1993, shortly afte
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Sheldon Epps may be the quietest man in the Pasadena Playhouse‘s green room this morning, but it’s a room he knows how to play to great effect with a few
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“This theater is not about dicks — the text is what is important!”
So says Frederique Michel, artistic director of Santa Monica‘s City G
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ASK DEREK CHARLES LIVINGSTON HOW, IN 2000 at the age of 32, he came to head L.A.'s premiere gay and lesbian theater, and he'll tell y
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The city’s Police Commission had the opportunity to decide the future of Chief Bernard Parks on its merits, and its members, to a person, insist that they did
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In the Brentwood patio of Dutton‘s Books last weekend, under appropriately foreboding gray skies, I gathered with friends and admirers of author A.J. ”Ja
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The signs on the house speakers facing the dance floor at the Roxy say no stage diving: “If you dive, you go home.” This rule generally applies t
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WASHINGTON — In one of the most important cases of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court last week considered whether it is cruel and unusual punishment for the sta
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Is the oil-field site of the Belmont Learning Complex, the nation’s most expensive and notorious high school construction project, safe for a school? The answe
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Were there not a wider world out there, Earl Krugel and Irv Rubin would just as likely inspire snickers and pity as federal prosecution for terrorism. To the greater
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Contrary to Hiram Johnson’s famous aphorism, the first casualty of war is not truth but tourism. Hotels from Cancun to County Cork sit half empty, and here in
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The lack of U.S. readiness for a war on terrorism is underscored by reading the nation‘s principal military strategy document, the Quadrennial Defense Review.
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