December 24, 2025
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This Week:

LAST CHANCE Aint We Got Fun, a vaudeville tribute with Ben Hensley and Michael Montiel, through December 19, 3 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, $10, Promenade Playhouse, 1404 Third Street Promenade, www.brownpapertickets.com. Dickens Unscripted, scenes that […]

Music:

December 17 Nicole Davis, Good Creation, James Bond Band, Whitehouse Station @ Rusty’s Surf Ranch Gene Taylor @ Harvelle’s Whiskey Saints, Buck Juan Criz @ Central Social Aid and Pleasure Club December 18 Ghost of […]

Holiday Happenings:

December 16-24 Las Posadas, the annual procession down Olvera Street that reenacts the pilgrimage to Bethlehem and the search for a inn (posada), through Christmas Eve, with a piñata smashing for kids, music, and refreshments […]

Alert: Police Blotter:

The Runaways On Thursday, Dec. 9, at 1:15 p.m., officers went to the 1600 block of Lincoln Boulevard to respond to a report of a man attacking a woman. When they arrived at the scene […]

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Theater Review: Dickens Unscripted:

Nothing in literature says Christmas as much as Charles Dickens, so it is appropriate that the Impro Theatre Company’s production of “Dickens Unscripted” has arrived at the SMC Performing Art Center’s Edye Second Space in […]

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From the sponsor: TB or Not TB:

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Above: A man explains how he lost one of his twin children and the lasting resentment towards other parents with twins.

Steam of Life:

In Finland the social mechanism of the dry-heat sauna is both private and unifying. As a contender for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Best Documentary Feature for Finland, the “Steam of Life” […]

LA Home Show Relocates to Santa Monica:

After 35 years at the Los Angeles Convention Center, the Home Remodeling and Decorating Show will be taking up new quarters at the Santa Monica Civic Center the weekends of March 5-6 and June 25-26. […]