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ARTS REVIEW: 'AN ITALIAN AMERICAN INDIAN'Gripping Stage Production Captivates Native American Experience, Modern Personal Struggle'An Italian American Indian,' despite its misnomer, may not have all the answers but does attempt to provide the proper tonic and perspective of how to endure through the |
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ARTS REVIEW: COMMEMORATING THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIREArt Created to Further Social Justice and Changes in the LawThe birth of the labor movement, details of the fire and its legal aftermath, its memorials, and the art that was spawned by its memory is the subject of a thoughtful new |
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ARTS REVIEW: THE PAJAMA MEN - 'THE LAST STAND TO REASON'The Talent of Sketch Comedy Duo Shenoah Allen & Mark Chavez Blew Me AwayIt's apt that the duo performed onstage in pajamas because the show certainly struck me as surreal, with sketches transitioning seamlessly by route of a dreamlike logic. |
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ARTS REVIEW: GET-LIT AT THE ACTORS' GANGAn Amazing Display of Wonderful Original Poetry Elegantly DeliveredAt that moment, a 17-year-old who lived in a world I could never truly understand touched the heart of an 85-year-old writer who had read that same poem at 17... |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'SPRING AWAKENING' AT THE PANTAGES THEATERI've Seen a Lot of Musicals In My Day, But It's Truly Something to See a Good One...The applause after "Totally F*cked" ... was among the longest and most sincere I've ever heard, to the point where the cast was struggling to hold their poses and not bre |
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ARTS REVIEW: ¡SATIRISTAS! LIVEDuring White Guilt History Month, Laughing Can Be LearningIf you think comedy's cool, if you think laughing's fun...then come on down to the Ivy Theater in Culver City, and cut Tim Robbins and his peeps a break to watch some com |
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ARTS REVIEW: '33 VARIATIONS'Jane Fonda a Remarkable Woman Who Seems to Have Outfoxed Time'33 Variations' is a good night of theater--a solid, engrossing play ingeniously weaving two parallel stories and displaying the talents of a remarkable woman... |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'LOVING REPEATING'Lyrical, Musical Stage Production of Gertrude Stein a Heartfelt Love StoryQuite the love story, 'Loving Repeating' is part narrative and part retrospective. |
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MUSIC REVIEW: JOE LOVANO - 'BIRD SONGS'New Album Gives Us a Jazz Passport to the Past, Present & FutureThe sound on “Loverman” has a tone timbre all its own. It has a certain fresh and youthful quality without the familiar overtones associated with the other two saxes. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'HAIR'The Cast Will Throw You Their Pants and Mess with Your HairSo there I was, front right, surrounded by hippies, kids from the cheap seats, and fancy-clothes boomers shouting at the top of our lungs that that shine keep on shining. |
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ARTS REVIEW: DISNEY ON ICEAlmost Every Disney Princess Came Out, with Tricks Worthy of the Winter OlympicsIn the middle of an LA December, if Disney can make snow fall, corn dogs free, pigs skate, and Billy Bob Thorton cool with hanging out with me, magic must be able to happ |
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ARTS REVIEW: MARK DANIELEWSKI'S 'THE FIFTY YEAR SWORD'REDCAT Presents Original Illustrated Ghost Story on Halloween NightThe reading was enacted by the lost art of shadow painting and executed by shadow casters, which, in itself, sounds intriguingly ominous. |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'TRAIN DRIVER'Ninety Powerful Minutes Offering a Brief but Potent Look Into the Human SoulFor a brief but potent look into the human soul, its sudden awakening, and the dreadful realities that follow the lifting of apartheid, 'Train Driver' is 90 powerful min |
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ARTS REVIEW: THE HOT CLUB OF DETROIT - LIVE AT THE METROPOLAn Eclectic Mix Of Reinhardt, Beneke, Brecht, Weill & Stravinsky DissonanceIt was just that kind of an evening – no one missed a beat – we were all in it together. When it was said to Perri, “It’s true that any kind of music can be suited to yo |
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ART REVIEW: BENISE - 'THE SPANISH GUITAR'A Wonderfully Inspiring Theatrical ExtravaganzaA story of hope through music which takes us to places both faraway and thought provoking... |
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ARTS REVIEW: MUSIC ICONS OF THE 20TH CENTURY EXHIBITIONPop Easel Artist Stanley Ralph Maurer Captures Hendrix, Bowie & The BeatlesThe private opening reception of the latest collection from pop easel artist Stanley Ralph Maurer was created of almost as many layers of wonderful stories as it was by |
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ARTS REVIEW: 'NEIGHBORS' AT THE MATRIX THEATERNew, Original & Hilariously Entertaining, Yet Disturbing In Its SubjectWarning: if you are squeamish, there is one bit of action (and nothing to do with black-white America. I think the author was having a bit of scatological fun) that is so |
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ARTS REVIEW: GALLERY 19883G Installation of the Three Big Gs of '80s Movies: 'Ghostbusters,' 'Goonies,' 'Gremlins'Having just opened in 2004, the gallery has experienced fast and broad success. Kevin Smith hangs out there, Samuel L. Jackson, Swizz Beats, and Jessica Alba have all bee |
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ARTS REVIEW: DOUG HUTCHISON'S 'THE ART OF STILLNESS' ACTING CLASSESVeteran Actor of 'Green Mile', 'Equus' & 'Lost' Fame Creates Safe Haven in HollywoodIn Still acting, one is far from passive. In fact, it’s the most subtle yet strong way in which to command a scene... |
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ARTS REVIEW: RIFFTRAX LIVE: 'REEFER MADNESS'One Whiff and You'll Be Hooked on Laughter!What makes these dated stillborn efforts watchable is the hysterical commentary that ensues between the three. |