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Nick Stewart, 1910–2000

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Photo courtesy Associated PressWhen he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 1994 L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, Nick Stewart gave an acceptance speech in which he spoke of his dedication to the theater and to the craft of acting, and of what it was like working at a time when......
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Soldier of Misfortune

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A few reflections in the wake of actor Anthony Dwain Lee‘s funeral last week (Lee was killed at a Halloween party in Benedict Canyon, at the hands of LAPD officer Tarriel Hopper. Hopper, lurking outside a window, says he thought Lee, inside and possessing a fake pistol, was aiming a......
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David Dukes

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Photo by I.C. Rapoport The heart attack that, earlier this month, claimed the life of actor David Dukes at age 55 was a jolt that stunned theater watchers across the country, leaving a painful void. After training at San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater in the late ’60s, Dukes could be......

Small City, Big Plans

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Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov West Hollywood has long been a microcosmic theater of cultural, social and spiritual evolution, where the dynamic play of past, present and future blend into a city-community with an inscrutable flair for reinvention. Travel the sinuous western span of Sunset Boulevard and you’ll see some of......

L.A.’s Playful pastimes

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Illustration by TL Ary . . . It’s a bright, breezeless afternoon, when, miraculously, the usually hazy Los Angeles sky is purely clear, like a childhood-remembered Texas sky. —John Rechy, referring to a summer day in Santa Monica, City of Night Hot, hot, hot. What to do, what to do,......

Wholly L.A.

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Art by Loretta Weeks “The millennium is a state and stage of mental advancement going on since ever time was. Its impetus, accelerated by the advent of Christian Science, is marked, and will increase till all men shall know Him (divine Love) from the least to the greatest, and one......