Comedy can be a lot of things, but sometimes it’s just plain silly. Moliere’s reputation as the classic playwright of France has modern Americans thinking that Moliere plays are really deep. Truth is, Moliere wrote […]
The Bourgeois Gentilhomme, by Moliere, translated and adapted by Frederique Michel and Charles Duncombe, through December 21, 8pm Fridays-Saturdays, 5:30pm Sundays, $10-$20, Sundays are pay-what-you-can, City Garage, 13401/2 4th St., citygarage.org. Desperate Writers, play about […]
Becoming American: Teenagers and Immigration, through January 25, Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., LA, 310.440. 4500. Bettina Brendel, art exhibit, through December 13, Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery, SMC Performing Arts Center, […]
Last Chance Stephen Berkman, Chamber Pieces, through November 23, Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University, 1 LMU Drive, LA, http://cfa.lmu.edu/laband. Crimes of the Heart, play by Beth Henley, through November 23, 8pm Fridays-Saturdays, 2pm Sundays, […]
Fierce and Fabulous Fight Against Breast Cancer November 23, 10am-6pm, LuxeLab and ArtLab Salons, 1408-1410 Montana Ave., 1.800.luxelab LuxeLab hair stylist Tracy Manzanares has been fighting breast cancer; her fiance Joey has also been in […]
The reasons to see this new French film, written and directed by Philippe Claudel, are the performances of Kristin Scott Thomas and Elsa Zylberstein, who play sisters torn apart from each other for 15 years […]
California State Assemblymember Julia Brownley, whose district includes Santa Monica, warned that our state school system is facing over $2 billion in cuts due to the woeful state of California’s fiscal health. At a recent […]
Veterans for Peace (National) organized a Day of Action calling for the arrest of George Bush andDick Cheney for war crimes on Saturday, November 15. According to a VFP press release, members took an oath […]
Few people whose names were not on this month’s ballot had as much at stake in the vote as Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who pinned a lot of his credibility to the narrowly successful Proposition 11 […]
In a recent essay in the LA Times – the paper now heralded as “America’s Skinniest Newspaper!” – UC Irvine business professor Peter Navarro successfully argues that a proposal by Governor Scwarzenegger to add a […]
