Adam Gropman

It's a warm, bright Saturday down at the intersection of Pico Boulevard and Western Avenue, just below the bottom edge of Koreatown, and a kind of joyous street party erupts on all four corners of the major crossing. The crowd features people across a spectrum of ages, but with an......

Up onstage in the Los Feliz Elementary School auditorium, a group of third-graders literally runs through an improvisational acting exercise, the instructor having directed them to scurry at each other from opposing wings, uttering such exchanges as "Are you late for school?" "I'm late for school!" as they cross paths......