Every minute, 10 hours of videos are uploaded onto YouTube, so proclaims the next big thing, Steve Grove, on CitizenTube, a blog and YouTube site that offers political and news-related videos. What Citizen Tube does […]

For the past 30 years, jazz, blues, and world music aficionados have looked forward each year to spending a grand weekend at the Hollywood Bowl for the Playboy Jazz Festival (PJF). This year’s festival, hosted […]

June 6 Ditty Bops @ McCabe’s June 7 Freedy Johnston @ McCabe’s Horny Toad, The Untouchables @ Good Hurt June 8 Jazz Vespers @ Mt. Olive Lutheran Church Santa Monica College Emeritus College Band @ […]

As You Like It, Shakespeare’s romantic comedy set mostly in a forest, through September 28, 3pm Sundays, $20-$28, The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, 1419 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd., Topanga, 310.455.3723, theatricum.com. I Gelosi, play about […]

And Then Again: Printed Series, 1500-2007, exhibit of serial print imagery, through July 13, Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd., WW, 310.443.7020. Brian Asher, art exhibit, through August 2, Sunset Grill, 1701 Ocean Park Blvd., 310.450.7546. […]

Stephen K. Hayes, the legendary martial artist who brought the once-secretive art of the Ninja to the West, once took a group of eager American students on a trip to Japan. Early one morning, dressed […]

Grassroots Acoustica #12: The Pride Edition, June 7 8pm, free, UnUrban Coffeehouse 3301 Pico Blvd., 310.315.0056. Musical maestro Mark Islam has been running this music/variety series in Culver City for some time. This event, coinciding […]

There is something startling about seeing a film with a room full of women. There haven’t been too many occasions to experience this. Most movies have crossover appeal and, thus, would draw a salad of […]

A grassroots association of parents, community members, and education advocates have announced the formation of a new group called LEAD (Leadership • Effectiveness • Accountability • Direction), committed to bringing about a new era of […]

1. A spectacular fireworks show lit up the evening sky during the Pacific Wheel dedication ceremony on Wednesday at Pacific Park. The new Ferris wheel cost $1.5 million and is the only solar-powered Ferris wheel […]