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  The Last Day of Marilyn Monroe

  Alice Toohey as Marilyn Monroe Outside the Pieter Performance Space is industrial, modern-day Cypress Park, but inside it's Brentwood on the morning of Aug. 4, 1962. A small crowd sitting on folding chairs quietly watches Marilyn Monroe in bed, h...

  @ Public Spectacle by Siran Babayan on August 29, 2013 @ 5:00 am

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  #LAWebAwards: @80sDonDraper Wins Best Parody Twitter in L.A.

  John McNamee, aka @80sDonDraper The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. The sideburns on Mad Men got a lot bushier last season as Don Draper and his cohorts began meandering out...

  @ Public Spectacle by Ali Trachta on August 28, 2013 @ 11:00 pm

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  #LAWebAwards: Eastsiders Wins Best Web Series Drama in L.A.

  Kit Williams of EastSiders The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. Kit Williamson is the ultimate 21st-century L.A. success story. He moved to Hollywood with fame in his eyes ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amanda Lewis on August 28, 2013 @ 11:00 pm

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  #LAWebAwards: Cinefamily Wins Best KickStarter Campaign in L.A.

  Cinefamily The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. In the middle of Cinefamily's monthlong Kickstarter campaign last December, Robert Downey Jr. made the oddball movie theater a...

  @ Public Spectacle by Amy Nicholson on August 28, 2013 @ 11:00 pm

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  #LAWebAwards: 'Shift It' Wins Funniest YouTube Video in L.A.

  The L.A. Weekly's 2013 Web Awards honor the best of what's online. Check out the complete list of winners. What's the secret to turning a low-budget commercial into a YouTube phenomenon? Full-time YouTube producers and self-proclaimed "Internetain...

  @ Public Spectacle by Jennifer Swann on August 28, 2013 @ 11:00 pm

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  The History of Motorcycles as Art

  Indian Larry's Daddy-O When the Guggenheim Museum in New York announced its ambitious Art of the Motorcycle show in 1998, people freaked out, and mostly not in a good way. Skeptics and purists were up in arms that motorcycles should be given the ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Shana Nys Dambrot on August 28, 2013 @ 12:45 pm

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  Music Docs, Rushmore and a Burbank Film Fest: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

  See also: More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, Aug. 30 The film and music festival Don't Knock the Rock returns to Cinefamily with a lineup of music documentaries, live performances and DJs. Nearly all the films will feature a postscreening Q&A w...

  @ Public Spectacle by Sherrie Li on August 28, 2013 @ 11:20 am

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including an Evening of Soothecore Music

  Ben White's painting Ned Kelly Heals the Sick With his Shadow This week, artists stage a festival in Joshua Tree and a painter turns historical figures into funny present-day phantoms. 5. The puppetmaster Joel Kyack, whose paintings and sc...

  @ Public Spectacle by Catherine Wagley on August 28, 2013 @ 8:00 am

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  Can 'Mobile Queueing' Revolutionize the Theme Park Experience?

  Why stand in line when you can enjoy the park? "If you think about a theme park, you spend most of your day standing in line," says Alex Bcker. "The ability to completely eliminate those lines, or reduce them to a short duration, it's really revo...

  @ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on August 27, 2013 @ 3:56 pm

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  Westwood's Crest Theatre Rises Again

  If the above photo doesn't tip you off, the Crest Theatre in Westwood is gorgeous. So much so, in fact, that upon touring it last Tuesday I was both shocked and embarrassed to have never been there before. Opened in 1940 as a stage venue called the ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Michael Nordine on August 27, 2013 @ 12:15 pm

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  Hello, I Am a Taiwanese Octogenarian Motorcyclist

  Six years ago, a group of 17 people set out to tour Taiwan by motorcycle and scooter. Their average age was 81. The trip was carefully coordinated by the Hondao Senior Citizens Welfare Foundation. A van followed the group so that riders could take b...

  @ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on August 26, 2013 @ 1:26 pm

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  James Franco's Comedy Central Roast: The Highlights

  James Franco Last night, James Franco was the guest of dishonor at the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco (airing Labor Day) at Culver Studios in Culver City. The network normally roasts celebs who've become pop culture punch lines, like Charlie...

  @ Public Spectacle by Siran Babayan on August 26, 2013 @ 11:03 am

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  4 Great Free Things to Do in L.A. This Week

  Sunset Strip Market 4. Beach Balls At 53 years old, the Manhattan Beach Open now is older and more established than the dozens of players battling in it for their chance to win a piece of the $200,000 kitty. (For those paying attention at home, ...

  @ Public Spectacle by LA Weekly on August 23, 2013 @ 11:15 am

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  Move Over, Oprah: A Guide to L.A.'s Public Book Clubs

  "This is not your Mom's book club," declared Diana Gettinger. "We drink. It's noisy." Gettinger, an actress and writer, is also the director of the Spare Room Book Club, which takes place at the Spare Room bar in the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. The ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Abdi Nazemian on August 23, 2013 @ 7:00 am

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  Five Dance Shows to See in L.A. This Week, Including Ballet Celebrating the British Invasion

  Dancers in the MixMatch Dance Festival This week's dance events also include a festival that mixes things up and a celebration of the British musical invasion. 5. It's for arts presenters, but the public can come too. The Western Arts Alliance,...

  @ Public Spectacle by Ann Haskins on August 22, 2013 @ 3:27 pm

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  GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach

  A gas-fueled fire ring, held up by specially built scaffolding that rises over Santa Monica sand, will light up on Sept. 28 at sunset, as if capturing and keeping sunlight even after dark. Directly below it will be a corridor of sand-covered shippin...

  by Catherine Wagley on September 19, 2013

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  Questioning Authority in Ah, Wilderness! and Prometheus Bound

  In his program note to his elegant and fervent staging of the 5th-century Greek tragedy, Prometheus Bound director Travis Preston writes, "The dramaturgy of Prometheus Bound asks us to question common assumptions of theater practice -- assumptions r...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on September 19, 2013

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  Yes, Please Put Hooks Through My Body and I'll Swing Back and Forth

  Suspension in the forest with A.G.R.O. When the hooks go into his body, Cameron Bameron doesn't flinch. "Deep breath," says Sarah Conforti. Bameron inhales. On his exhale, she plunges a sharp, massive piece of metal through the skin just above ...

  @ Public Spectacle by Jessica P. Ogilvie on August 22, 2013 @ 6:00 am

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  The Curious World of Voice Actors

  Futurama, center John DiMaggio's voice will give you dj vu. You won't recognize the tall, sandy-haired actor, but his big voice will ring familiar. A conversation with DiMaggio might leave you scratching your head, wondering just who he is. I...

  @ Public Spectacle by Liz Ohanesian on August 22, 2013 @ 5:30 am

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  Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Tim Robbins Directing A Midsummer Night's Dream

  Bob Turton as Nick Bottom, surrounded by the Actors' Gang ensemble in A Midsummer Night's Dream Faeries and shadows and mortals being fools grab this week's Pick -- yes, another Midsummer Night's Dream, but the Actors Gang version is unu...

  @ Public Spectacle by Steven Leigh Morris on August 22, 2013 @ 5:00 am