November 23, 2025
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Theater:

Capture Now, written and performed by Josh Jonas. Ruskin Group Theatre, 3000 Airport Drive, near Santa Monica Airport, Fridays at 8, Sundays at 5. ADMISSION: $20. Students and seniors, $15. (310) 397-3244. Counting for Thunder, […]

Ongoing Events:

A.R.T.S. Anonymous, a support group for creative people, meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Wild Oats Community Room, 500 Wilshire Blvd., (310) 836-1495. Ballroom Dancing every Saturday in the auditorium of the Felicia Mahood Senior […]

Music Highlights:

Rock/Pop Rocky Dawuni at Afro Funké’s Black History Month Concert (Zanzibar), 2/3, 9pm. A “Ghanaian Afro-roots superstar” whose newest release Book of Changes is based on “new philosophical and musical changes going on in Ghana […]

White House Breakfast Hard to Digest:

Last week President Bush invited conservative African American leaders to a White House breakfast where he urged them to revamp social security because black life expectancy is less in America than white life expectancy. The […]

A Preposterous Bit of Crystal Gazing:

The other day my crystal ball became unclouded, and this is what appeared: The year is 2045, and George W. Bush, Jr. (2040-), the first son of GWB’s daughter Jenna, is now in his second […]

Olympic High to the Rescue:

My friend Barry Cowan called me with a “story” about the kids at the school where he works as an instructional assistant. Barry is an artist first, you might say, and I’m a fan of […]

Kids, Say Hi to Your New Secretary of State:

One thing Condi Rice Doesn’t seem to abhor Is torturing Iraqi Prisoners of war. She’s from Alabama Which back in the day Was down big time With the KKK. The Klan used white sheets When […]

Music Highlights:

Rock/Pop Rocky Dawuni at Afro Funké’s Black History Month Concert (Zanzibar), 2/3, 9pm. A “Ghanaian Afro-roots superstar” whose newest release Book of Changes is based on “new philosophical and musical changes going on in Ghana […]

Ongoing Events:

A.R.T.S. Anonymous, a support group for creative people, meets every Sunday at 10:30 a.m. Wild Oats Community Room, 500 Wilshire Blvd., (310) 836-1495. Ballroom Dancing every Saturday in the auditorium of the Felicia Mahood Senior […]