SACRAMENTO — What Michael Finkel of the New York Times magazine did was contemptible, and he deserved to get fired. No one knows that more than Finkel. Jayson Blair he is not — well, technically, […]

I have the good luck to live in a neighborhood where people walk and where the occasional fruit tree, if it is in reach of the public thoroughfare, is available for gleaning with the home […]

While movies continue to get worse, television keeps getting better. All of the risk-taking is happening on television; none appears to be happening at the multiplex. But as we all know, most of us are […]

At the final Divas of Venice performance at SPARC, on Friday night, Jodie Evans, co-founder of Code Pink, was honored  with a Venus of Venice award for her work in the Peace movement. Just back […]

Santa Monica College’s fall “Environmental Issues” series of lectures, whose topics will range from  biofuel to biodiversity, will begin Thursday, September 8 with   “How to Make Your Life and Business More Efficient & Sustainable.” On […]

The Ruskin Group Theatre, in association with Playwrights 6, will present a workshop production of G. Bruce Smith’s new comedy, The Mitchells, on four Sundays, beginning September 11. The Mitchells will launch Ruskin’s “Something New […]

The Dreamer Examines His Pillow, a play by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winner John Patrick Shanley, opens Wednesday, September 7, at the Flight Theater at the Complex, and runs Wednesdays through Saturdays through September 24. […]

Open Fist Theatre Company and The Powerhouse Theatre Company are co-producing the West Coast premiere of Andrew Bovell’s Speaking in Tongues It will open Friday, September 2, and run Friday and Saturday nights at 8 […]

Now that the dust has settled on The Brothers Grimm, the blame is being divided among those involved – the Harvey and Bob Weinstein meddling, director Terry Gilliam’s thusly thwarted creativity – and what appears […]

Works by Shakespeare, Arthur Miller and some of the era’s leading songwriters, which have been playing all summer at Theatricum Botanicum in Topanga will be augmented on Sundays in September by Peter Alsop’s Kids Koncerts. […]