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The skinny, redheaded teenager looks skittish as he approaches a 21-year-old homeless youth we will call Ricky. The pale boy is looking for weed, and passes Ricky $14. This...
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MORE OZORe “On the Road to Burma: Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats,” by Randall Roberts (June 25):As one who has been an activist for human...
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In the nearly six weeks since Los Angeles Police Detective Stephanie Lazarus’ arrest for the 1986 murder of Sherri Rae Rasmussen, LAPD brass have ducked questions about...
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So it looks like there’ll be dueling press releases throughout the summer in the Conan O’Brien versus David Letterman battle for late-night supremacy....
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Bursting on the scene two years ago, AdZoo's Thirsty Thursdays started as a way for Los Angeles' hottest advertising, media and marketing stars to network without the hefty...
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When he was the regular center square on Hollywood Squares (look it up, kids) for 14 seasons, Paul Lynde had boatloads of classic quick-witted zingers. Here's a fave: When...
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Following hard on the ruby-encrusted heels of Broadway’s greatest 21st-century’s phenom Wicked, the Pantages returns to this equally significant Broadway hit from...
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Soccer, er, football -- yeah, yeah, the world's most popular sport. We've heard it before, but we're pretty much unmoved. Cuz football really means helmets, quarterbacks and a...
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This month, Ignite, a Seattle-based organization that presents a series of five-minute talks (each speaker gets 20 slides that auto-advance every 15 seconds) comes to Los...
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Monday night just got a little funnier with the debut of Sister Groundling, a brand-new bag of sketches, improv and other wackiness, all performed by women of the esteemed...
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"By Air, Land & Sea" is this year's theme of the Art Center Car Classic , encompassing vehicles ranging from hot rods and sports cars to motorcycles, aircraft, watercraft and...
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It's been a quarter-century since Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird pooled a tax refund with a family loan and self-published the first issue of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...
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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, gold medal winners Mary Lou Retton, Greg Louganis (pictured) and Edwin Moses will be on hand for...
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If you thought the only needlepoint in baseball involved steroids, this may change your mind: It's the constitutionally bizarre pairing of knitting and Major League Baseball...
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Readings by eight up-and-coming writers — Erika Ayon, John Boucher, Rachelle Cruz, Thi Dao, Parnaz Foroutan, Sylvia Sukop, Marissa Tinloy and Mehnaz Turner — who...
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"A mind-expanding new show from comedian, columnist, author and yogi Beth Lapides. It combines funny stories with big ideas about the current shift in our collective...
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"I caught part of a conversation at the Grove the other day. It was two women talking and one woman said to the other woman "You know what F#@k him if he don't like chicken...
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Watch or participate as Briseyda Zarate from the Fountain Theater's Forever Flamenco series conducts a free introductory flamenco session.
Mon., July 20, 7:30 p.m., 2009
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Like tantalizing appetizers before the real meal, snippets of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet seem to be everywhere. The Hollywood Bowl set off figurative and literal fireworks...
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In a forest of fairies, skater boy Lysander (a nicely slacker-y Rett Nadol) runs off with his sweet fiancée, Hermia (Rachel Emmers, whose Valley Girl–like accents...
