L.A.-area libraries offer much more than books on loan, from yoga classes to art exhibits. Their variety of free events are diverse enough to make you feel like you're making the most of the city, even if you're on a budget. Here are ten of them... 10. Get Your Yoga On......
At 10 a.m. on Saturday morning, March 29, the quaint campus of Chapman University, normally quiet at this hour, swelled with an eager and excitable fandom. They crowded around vendor booths lining Grand Street, and formed a line, 150 people deep, outside the Leatherby Libraries. They'd come to see a......
John O'Kane sits with a small cup of coffee near the front door of Rose Café and Market. It's a busy Tuesday morning and every table is occupied with patrons, the majority of whom appear to be under the age of 35. Each is accompanied with a laptop or a......
"It's a weird combination - feeling sentimental about this place, and wanting to buy things from it," Sharron Evans says as she wanders the auction showroom at the recently closed Hollywood Park racetrack this past Saturday. Within the Player's Club - what was less than a month ago a wagering......
In Old Hollywood -- that glorified era that still occupies the minds of thousands of dream-seeking L.A. newcomers both young and old -- ideas were born, scripts were hatched, romances kindled, careers built or smashed, in bars. Musso & Frank and The Writer's Room, The Dresden and The Brown Derby,......
See also: Hollywood Park is Shutting Down. Will Horse Racing Be Next? On the third floor of the Hollywood Park track, under two grand paintings of horse racing scenes, Nola Ferraro sets up bar. With bouncy blond hair and a warm, red-lipsticked smile, she wears her 61 years well. She......
Los Angeles may be the city of perpetual sun and cheery attitudes, yet it is certainly possible to have a bad day here. And bad days in L.A. really stink, given that it's usually gorgeous outside. Luckily, there are a ton of things to do here, and many of them......
The holidays in L.A. are marked not by snow but by the heavy fall of holiday-themed shows into small theaters across the city. Multitudes of A Christmas Carol, Miracle on 34th Street, and holiday comedy revues grace our stages. Among these is 30 Minute Musical's stage adaptation of Home Alone......
Choreographer Matthew Bourne has a reputation for audaciousness that precedes him. In America, the British choreographer is most well known for his production of Swan Lake. First staged at Sadler's Wells theatre in London in 1995, the production toured to Broadway in 1998, where audiences were shocked by Bourne's recasting......
Steven Leigh Morris, L.A. Weekly's own head theater critic, has brought a Russian literary masterpiece -- Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita -- to Santa Monica with his stage adaptation, Moskva. Bulgakov's novel, written during the darkest period of Stalin's regime, is a satire of Soviet life, woven around a......
