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  I Am Divine, a New Documentary About the Cult Film Star

  By Chuck Wilson See also: *Outfest 2013 Preview: 10 Films to See *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage She called herself Divine, and for a generation of appalled but delighted cult film fans, the foul-mouthed, dog-poop snacking, gleefully plus-sized dra...

  @ Public Spectacle by LA Weekly on July 12, 2013 @ 7:30 am

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  Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including an Unlikely Oscar Winner

  Kennedy Kabasares and Jon Jon Briones in Sweet Karma Henry Ong's new play Sweet Karma, based on the life of a Khmer Rouge survivor and his tragic death on the streets of L.A., is being performed at Burbank's Grove Theatre Center, and is ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on July 11, 2013 @ 7:30 am

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  Five Dance Events to See in L.A. This Week, Including Pirates Who Swashbuckle

  American Ballet Theatre in Le Corsaire See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week's dance events include two tenth anniversary performan...

  @ Public Spectacle by Ann Haskins on July 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  The Pride of Mar Vista: Sustainable Gardens

  "You can't have a sprinkler," Mar Vista Community Council board member Melissa Stoller said. "You have to be sustainable. Our agenda is to remove the lawn." Roofs, ideally, should create energy with solar panels. Yards should capture water rather t...

  @ Public Spectacle by Gendy Alimurung on July 11, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  L.A. Museum Directors Ask L.A. Times to Bring Back Its Laid-Off Visual Art Reporter

  Recently laid-off L.A. Times arts reporter Jori Finkel is L.A.'s most wanted woman -- by museum directors, at least. After Variety first broke the news that Finkel would be one of 11 employees laid off as the paper looks toward potentially being sol...

  @ Public Spectacle by Kevin O'Keeffe on July 10, 2013 @ 6:00 pm

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  And the Best L.A. Novel Ever Is...

  Click on the image to see the full tournament brackets L.A. Weekly has been holding a tournament to find the best L.A. novel ever, featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups. For further reading: *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Sarah Fenske on July 10, 2013 @ 5:01 pm

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  18 L.A. Literary Figures Pick Their Favorite L.A. Novels

  Luis J. Rodriguez is the author of 15 books, including the legendary memoir Always Running. I know, I know; Ask the Dust by John Fante will inevitably show up on any L.A. writer's list of best books. For me, here's why: The book loomed large as I vis...

  @ Public Spectacle by Joseph Lapin on July 10, 2013 @ 5:00 pm

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  Why Has the Greatest Hollywood Novel Never Been Made Into a Hollywood Movie?

  It was a live television drama in 1949. It was a two-part TV series in 1959. It was even, improbably, turned into a lavish Broadway musical in 1964. But a feature film of What Makes Sammy Run? Never happened. Never gonna happen. See also: And T...

  @ Public Spectacle by Paul Teetor on July 10, 2013 @ 4:59 pm

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  Dazed and Confused and Stories from Psycho: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, July 12 Experience summer heat in the air-conditioned Warner Grand Theatre at 8 p.m. with Under the Tuscan Sun, the romantic comedy-drama about a recently divorced writer (Diane Lane) who, while on ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Sherrie Li on July 10, 2013 @ 1:50 pm

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  What Brought 61,000 People to L.A.'s Anime Expo This Year?

  Anime Expo 2013 See also: *A Fan Convention Through the Eyes of a Single Cosplayer *Geeking Out at Anime Expo 2013 *Swimming in Sailor Moon at Anime Expo Even before the numbers were released, it was obvious that this past weekend's Anime Expo ha...

  @ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on July 10, 2013 @ 12:38 pm

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Fake UFO and a Lot of Lamps

  Chris Johanson's painting Being In My Life #1 (2013) This week, a river made of wood planks runs through a museum and an artist turns severed feet into amusing mascots. 5. Like a chicken with its head cut off "He journeyed from France to the c...

  @ Public Spectacle by Catherine Wagley on July 10, 2013 @ 8:00 am

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  Art About Tuba Thieves

  There are no tubas in artist Alison O'Daniel's in-progress film The Tuba Thieves -- at least none you see in full. You occasionally get glimpses of mostly shrouded instruments, as in the first scene, when two culprits leave a high school in dead of ...

  by Catherine Wagley on August 8, 2013

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  REDCAT'S New Original Works Festival Shows How Visual Innovation Can Make Theater More Relevant

  You'd think it would be a given in a movie town such as ours that, even on our local stages, pictures and moving pictures would be the prevailing language that conveys meaning. But other than dance, most of the stage work originating locally is as l...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on August 8, 2013

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  How Refrigerators Rule Our Lives

  Birds Eye frozen food plant, Darien, Wisconsin. Just stepping into the Center for Land Use Interpretation's space in Culver City gives viewer a little shiver. Is it excitement, or the fact that they have chilled the space and added refrigeration...

  @ Public Spectacle by Katharine Gammon on July 9, 2013 @ 1:23 pm

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  A Fan Convention Through the Eyes of a Single Cosplayer

  Jimmy Sherfy, second from left, as Link with a Legend of Zelda cosplay group See also: *Geeking Out at Anime Expo 2013 *Swimming in Sailor Moon at Anime Expo *Kit Quinn and Tallest Silver: The Great Pretenders *Anime Expo 2012: Cosplayer Yaya Han ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on July 9, 2013 @ 12:45 pm

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  41 Ocean, an Exclusive Santa Monica Social Club, Tries to Gain Ground After a Rocky Start

  41 Ocean, a membership club in Santa Monica opened earlier this year, is approximately 550 members strong. Founder Max Russo hopes to grow that number to 1000 this year. See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. O...

  @ Public Spectacle by Kevin O'Keeffe on July 8, 2013 @ 2:50 pm

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  A Brother's Death Inspired Artist Juan Muniz's Most Famous Character: Felipe the Bunny

  Juan Muniz's Lil Problems From a distance, the bunny looks ordinary. But a closer look reveals that it is actually some sort of human cartoon dressed in a bunny outfit. More often than not, you might see this little caricature holding up a stick...

  @ Public Spectacle by Eva Recinos on July 8, 2013 @ 11:45 am

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  How Mary Tyler Moore Influenced Today's TV Shows

  From Murphy Brown and 30 Rock to Sex and the City, New Girl and The Mindy Project, television shows have depicted women starting over, figuring out their lives and juggling their work-life balance. And for this genre, these ladies can thank Mary Tyle...

  @ Public Spectacle by Whitney Friedlander on July 8, 2013 @ 10:46 am

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  Looney Tunes in 3-D, Film Festivals? in Pasadena and Downtown: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, July 5 What's up, doc? The famously mischievous rabbit graces the screen in the Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II event with live musical accompaniment by the Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood B...

  @ Public Spectacle by Sherrie Li on July 5, 2013 @ 4:01 pm

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  Fred Stoller, Professional TV Guest Star

  Fred Stoller In the foreword to Fred Stoller's new memoir, Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star, Ray Romano recalls being referred to in his early New York stand-up days as "the healthy-looking Fred Stoller." Romano we...

  @ Public Spectacle by Siran Babayan on July 5, 2013 @ 11:45 am