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  Full Circle on DirecTV: In Every Episode, Two Actors Eat Together at an L.A. Restaurant

  Mayhem has broken out at DirecTV's El Segundo headquarters. On this mid-June morning, the small production studio normally reserved for the satellite TV provider's sports-themed Red Zone channel has been temporarily transformed into a Westside L.A....

  @ Public Spectacle by Mindy Farabee on September 4, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

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  The Arsenio Hall Show: After 19 Years, You May Now Resume Fist-Pumping

  It's been 19 years since Arsenio Hall last barked at the camera, and the world has changed. Shoulder pads are pass ("Unless you play football, you can't have them anymore," Hall jokes), hip-hop is mainstream and, after our so-called first black pres...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amy Nicholson on September 4, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

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  Emma Approved: Creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries Try Another Jane Austen Series

  Bernie Su and Hank Green captured the hearts, iPhones, Pinterest pages, Instagram accounts and GetGlue music playlists of teens across America with their 2012 series The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, which updated Pride and Prejudice to modern life through ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Stephanie Carrie on September 4, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

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  Almost Human on Fox: What Does an LAPD Cop Think of an LAPD Cop Show With Robots?

  What will the Los Angeles Police Department look like in 35 years? According to Fox's Almost Human, yet another hourlong sci-fi drama overseen by J.J. Abrams (Alias, Fringe), crime will increase 400 percent and police officers will partner with human...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amanda Lewis on September 4, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

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  We Need Help on Yahoo!: Celebrity Former Celebrity Assistants, Sharing an Assistant

  Cheryl Hines and Rachael Harris are best friends. However, Cheryl Hines and Rachael Harris -- the exaggerations they play on their new Yahoo! online sitcom We Need Help -- are more like best frenemies, two Hollywood divas who compete for work, kvetch...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amy Nicholson on September 4, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

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  Masters of Sex on Showtime: They Revolutionized Sex Before the Sexual Revolution

  In 1957, the same year that The Ed Sullivan Show refused to shoot Elvis below the waist, a gynecologist and a former nightclub singer began hooking strangers up to electrodes and asking them to fuck in the name of science. The research team of Dr. Wi...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amy Nicholson on September 4, 2013 @ 1:00 pm

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  Fall 2013's New Cable Channels: The Quick Guide

  FXX: FX's awkward, 18-to-34-year-old stepson, featuring the network's time-tested comedies The League and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Pivot: Socially conscious Participant Media's (An Inconvenient Truth) bid to engage millennials with shows ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amanda Lewis on September 4, 2013 @ 12:59 pm

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Experimental Baby-sitting

  Father Francesc Caimari Rotger's 1790 painting, Retrat de Fra Junper Serra (Portrait of Fr. Junpero Serra) This week, a pop-up show features cowboys more heart-wrenched and wavering than conventionally macho, and a museum remembers a friar's r...

  @ Public Spectacle by Catherine Wagley on September 4, 2013 @ 8:00 am

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  When Matthew Broderick Almost Started World War III: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  Friday, Sept. 6 Today kicks off the World 3-D Film Expo at the Egyptian, showing films made mostly from 1953 to 1954. See Amy Nicholson's preview of the event (in the Film section), which screens many rarities and oddities in its run through Sept. 1...

  @ Public Spectacle by Sherrie Li on September 4, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  Diavolo's Six-Year, Dance-Theater-Circus Extravaganza at the Hollywood Bowl

  Fluid Infinities in motion "Diavolo is not a modern dance company," declares Jacques Heim, the French founder, artistic director and guiding visionary of the Los Angeles-based troupe that over the last 20 years has staked a serious claim for the ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Bill Raden on September 3, 2013 @ 8:00 am

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  Art Shaped Like Kidney Beans: A History

  Love Your Bean, in West Hollywood West Hollywood just got a lot more colorful. Three shiny, vibrant-hued, kidney-shaped sculptures from local artist Cosimo Cavallaro have been scattered like a giant jelly bean-themed Easter egg hunt across West H...

  @ Public Spectacle by Whitney Friedlander on September 3, 2013 @ 7:30 am

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  Moby Dick in L.A.: Searching for the White Whale with Colin Hanks, Mark Z. Danielewski and, Yes, Moby

  Mark Twain said a classic book is a work that everyone wants to have read but no one actually reads. For many Angelenos, Herman Melville's Moby Dick is just such a classic. It's a book set in New England at a time when whaling was an enterprise and t...

  @ Public Spectacle by Joseph Lapin on August 30, 2013 @ 11:55 am

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  5 L.A. Spots That Inspired the Silver Lake Movie Afternoon Delight

  Jill Soloway Before production began on Afternoon Delight, writer/director Jill Soloway didn't know where her first feature film would take place. "Maybe this is Chicago," her hometown, she mused at the time. "Maybe this is San Francisco." "When...

  @ Public Spectacle by Jennifer Swann on August 30, 2013 @ 8:00 am

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  6 Free Things to Do in L.A. This Week

  South Bay Bliss Twice a year, Hermosa Beach gives adults and their kids a chance to escape work, routine and, if they play their cards right, even one another, for three days of art, live music and street food, all in the downtown blocks of this laid...

  @ Public Spectacle by LA Weekly on August 30, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  The Largest Wheel (With a Human Strapped to It) in L.A.

  Prometheus Bound is not your typical Getty Villa production. A massive steel wheel will serve as the central set piece for the avant-garde version of the ancient Greek classic tragedy. Portraying the tortured Prometheus, Ron Cephas Jones will perfor...

  @ Public Spectacle by Pauline Adamek on August 30, 2013 @ 6:00 am

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  Morgan Spurlock Destroys Documentaries With His One Direction Commercial

  Pop quiz: Define "documentary." It's a film stitched together from actual events. If a cameraman records a clutter of nervous kids at a spelling bee competition, or a pack of fiends stabbing dolphins in Japan, congratulations, that's a documentary. ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amy Nicholson on August 30, 2013 @ 6:00 am

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  In Experimental Opera Invisible Cities, Audience Members Will Wander Union Station Wearing Headphones

  On a blazing Sunday afternoon, the interior of downtown's Union Station provides a cool refuge from an early-September heat wave. But on this particular day, cool takes on its other meaning as, amid the bustle of arriving and departing passengers an...

  by Bill Raden on September 26, 2013

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  Richard II, With Only Three Actors

  Theater @ Boston Court's program to its production of R II -- what might otherwise be called William Shakespeare's Richard II -- makes a point of not referring to the dramatist's work as a play but rather as a text. This is almost as telling as the ...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on September 26, 2013

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  Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Diavolo at the Hollywood Bowl

  Diavolo Dance Theater in Fluid Infinities This week's dance events include the last of the summer dance festivals. 5. Diavolo does the Hollywood Bowl Even the cheapest seats should have a clear view of the fiberglass quarter-sphere that is the la...

  @ Public Spectacle by Ann Haskins on August 29, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a New Production of Sarah Ruhl's The Vibrator Play

  Johanna Strapp and Yael Berkovich seeking new adventures in The Vibrator Play A solid revival of Sarah Ruhl's Victorian-era satire of gender attitudes In the Next Room, Or the Vibrator Play is this week's Pick, as reviewed by Deborah Kl...

  @ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on August 29, 2013 @ 6:00 am