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Leave It to Beaver

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Los Angeles Crime Was Down in 2011, But Comparisons to 1957 Are Yanking Your Chain

    This bustling, global metropolis, with its Thaitown and Koreatown, Little Armenia and Oaxacan Westside, surely isn't the Leave it to Beaver burg it was in 1957. But L.A. city leaders, somewhat bullshittingly, continue to compare present day crime to that of the "Mr. Sandman" era. The latest stats ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    The Donna Reed Show Reunion at Paley Center: Shelley Fabares, Paul Petersen and Others on the Perfect TV Family That Really Was

    Kevin Parry for Paley CenterThe Donna Reed Show kids: Shelley Fabares (Mary Stone, left), Paul Petersen (Jeff Stone) and Patti Petersen (Trisha Stone)​Despite later starring in three movies alongside Elvis Presley and having a #1 hit single, "Johnny Angel," Shelley Fabares, who played oldest c ... More >>

  • News

    December 1, 2011

    Bud Bundy, Original Gangsta

    David Faustino parlayed his Married ... With Children fame into a hugely influential hip-hop party. Now he wants back into the scene.

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Stage Raw: Furious Theatre Company and Pasadena Playhouse part ways

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON SPIDER-MAN, ON BROADWAYFURIOUS AND PASADENA PLAYHOUSE PART WAYSFor reasons having to do with Pasadena Playhouse's needs to lease its second space, The Carrie Hamilton Theater, and the need of Furious Theatre Company for a space with h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Stage Raw: Shadow Anthropology

    NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO SHADOW ANTHROPOLOGY ​Photo by Nigel DookhooTen years after 9/11, the plight of rural Afghanis caught in the crossfire between American forces and the T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2010

    Stage Raw: Sweet Mama String Bean

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festSWEET MAMA STRING BEAN​Ethel Waters is celebrated in the "two-person, one-woman show" Sweet Mama String Bean: A Celebration of Blues Woman Ethel Waters, opening this weekend ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 17, 2010

    WHEN THINGS WERE SWELL

    COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW THEATER REVIEWSStage FEATURE on Randy Newman's Harps and Angels, and NET's L.A. Micro-festSWEET MAMA STRING BEAN​Ethel Waters is celebrated in the "two-person, one-woman show" Sweet Mama String Bean: A Celebration of Blues Woman Ethel Waters, opening this weekend ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 2010

    Mad Men's Allison Leach Designs Gorgeous Uniforms for First & Hope; Local Designer Martin Zepeda Creates LBD for Tar Pit

    First & HopeStaff at First & Hope model their uniforms (L to R): A dining room assistant/runner uniform, a floor-length hostess gown, a bartender/server uniform, a cocktail server mini-dress, another bartender/server uniform, a server dress and a female bartender dress.​ Remember when bagels w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    White Children Now A Minority In California, States Report (UPDATED)

    ​(UPDATED with Valley stats after the jump). Don't tell the produces of The Hills or any of the other youth-oriented television shows that seem to portray people of color as background noise in California, but for the Golden State's under-18 population whites are now a minority. This accordin ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2009

    Eddie Haskell, We Hardly Knew Ye

    Wikipedia​Those of us of a certain age can never get enough of Eddie Haskell -- even if, as Ralph Keyes wrote earlier this year in Editor & Publisher, "Journalists who lace their copy with such retro terms or names risk alienating those who are too young to get the allusions." (Keyes was refer ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 18, 2009

    DAD TO THE BONE

    Wikipedia​Those of us of a certain age can never get enough of Eddie Haskell -- even if, as Ralph Keyes wrote earlier this year in Editor & Publisher, "Journalists who lace their copy with such retro terms or names risk alienating those who are too young to get the allusions." (Keyes was refer ... More >>

  • News

    April 30, 2009

    Bratton: L.A. Is as Safe as 1956

    Except the chief is manipulating numbers and acting like a politician

  • Film+TV

    March 13, 2008

    Michael Haneke Will Be Your Mirror

    Don't blame him if you don't like what you see

  • News

    July 19, 2007

    Matt Groening: Life Is Swell

    The possible Nobel laureate on his dreams, his alt-weekly past and, oh yeah, The Simpsons Movie

  • News

    May 3, 2007

    Double-Cross at the WGA

    If you write for TV or film in Hollywood, your check might never be in the mail

  • News

    January 25, 2007

    The End Of Murder

    If New York can slash homicide by 76 percent, can Los Angeles contemplate a vanishing point?

  • LA Life

    November 9, 2006

    People Who Need People

    What to do in LA this week

  • News

    October 5, 2006

    Best Smoky Tinder Box

    What to do in LA this week

  • Film+TV

    September 7, 2006

    Man and Superman

    An American hero shows his dark side in Hollywoodland

  • Film+TV

    May 4, 2006

    The Sci-Fi Boys

    An American hero shows his dark side in Hollywoodland

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Family Viewing

    At the movies and on TV, the changing face of American domestic life

  • Columns

    December 16, 2004

    The Short Fake Life of Charles Hampton

    At the movies and on TV, the changing face of American domestic life

  • News

    September 25, 2003

    A Day With The Locust

    On the road with the world’s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, “hardcore,” millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra

  • Stage

    August 10, 2000

    Beaver Cleaver in Hell

    On the road with the world’s most dangerous band. Also, an investigation of death metal, “hardcore,” millionaire punks and the mysterious Tijuana zebra

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