The Black Version's badass promo poster In this presumably enlightened modern era, people of color are often invisible in films beyond being portrayed with ...
“Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined,” the late Toni Morrison wrote in Beloved, her 1987 novel about a mother who escapes slavery. The line hold...
In a striking visual presentation that blends inventive imagery with live dance and angular new music, Japanese artist Tabaimo conjures Fruits borne out of rust...
“Escape whatever clouds we may be living under with great literature and conviviality,” essayist Julia Ingalls invites in a Facebook post about one of the “It’s...
“Welcome to the smallest circus in the world,” Isabella Rossellini declares proudly at the outset of Link Link Circus. She uncovers the missing links connecting...
Lucha VaVoom is such an outrageous, nonstop three-ring circus of distractions that it’s really turned into its own genre. Sure, the long-running spectacle encom...
Crissy Van Meter discovers — or, more accurately, dreams up — an exotic island off the coast of Southern California where strangely surreal events occur with mu...
“My chariot is a silver blue Cadillac, with/a horn like a fleet choir that scalds/ears even before it’s blown,” Peggy Dobreer announced to the world in her poem...
Amid the vast expanses of the L.A. Convention Center, the 25th annual L.A. Art Show, is touted as “the largest lineup of art programming in the city’s history.”...
In many ways, the Green Umbrella series is one of this city’s best bargains. Not only are ticket prices much cheaper than at L.A. Philharmonic’s performances of...
