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Known for his sensuous and theatrical dance works, choreographer Robert Moses admits that telling (and no doubt retelling and retelling) fairy tales and fables to his children...
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Mike Watt is very much a Hyphenated-Man, to borrow the title of his fourth solo album. The bassist-singer-poet-photographer-DJ also is the captain of his own mighty ship...
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Danny Elfman has been the ears to Tim Burton's eyes for nearly 30 years, a collaboration that goes back even further than the director's partnership with Johnny Depp. The...
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Ryan O' Neal should have known way back in 1964 when he starred in TV's Peyton Place that life is just one big soap opera. And his has certainly has been no exception. With...
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That's "a modern vaudevillian comedy show with Mo Mandel, Michelle Buteau, award-winning magician Jon Armstrong, Peter Gray, Jason Gillearn, Anne-Marie Symons and Kristin...
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You might think you know Natalie Merchant, but you really don't. Whether you're a diehard fan who's been hanging on every syllable uttered by the Jamestown, New York, singer...
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It's understandable if you think people are talking about video games whenever you hear the word "games" — but the study and pursuit of competition is much more expansive...
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Jimmy Carter was a presidential anomaly. On his watch, departments were set up to fund electric-car development, solar energy, even research on a possible connection with the...
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Ah, love! Ah, lust! Ah, hell. As part of the Michelangelo Antonioni retrospective for the Thursday Night at Cinematheque Series, Cal State Northridge professor Tim Halloran...
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Radiolab, the program produced by New York public radio station WNYC, touches down tonight with Radiolab Live: In the Dark, a multimedia mediation on what it means to truly...
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Patrick Painter Inc.'s poetic little group show includes just five works, each by an artist who tried to express human emotion in a guttural way. The oldest is a laughing...
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"What do you do when someone hands you information that makes you look at the world a little differently?" There's almost a Jerry Maguire feel to Jessica Abrams' funny world...
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Inspired by her father's crucial but clandestine involvement in the U.S.' evacuation of Saigon as it was taken over by the Viet Cong (signaling the failure of the Vietnam...
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At the start of Joss Whedon's long-awaited Marvel superhero supergroup flick, The Avengers, the Tesseract — a powerful, potentially dangerous glowing cube that fell to...
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Three decades as a punk-rock icon has dulled Keith Morris' classic revenge-of-the-nerds wrath, but not much.
"I have a little Napoleonic complex," admits the aptly compact...
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The drink is called the Chin-Up, which seems inadequate as solace, halfhearted as a name. It blends Beefeater's gin and Cynar, a peculiar digestif containing cynarine, the...
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In Henry James' short novel Washington Square, set in 1850 New York, when a homely, awkward and guileless young heiress named Catherine Sloper comes to believe, like her...
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By Tibby Rothman and Jill Stewart Published:
May 3, 2012
Westside Innovative School House, or WISH, had been quietly successful at its small charter grade school near LAX, where it mingles typical and high-achieving students with...
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There exists a body of Hollywood films made in 1932-33 — a narrow window just before and after Franklin Roosevelt's election — that reflected the deep despair of...
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fri 5/4
Claude VonStroke, Justin Martin, Worthy
AVALON
In "The Whistler," one of Claude VonStroke's best-known tracks, the San Francisco–based DJ/producer juxtaposes a...
