By CHARLES ANDREWS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: TONIGHT! – VERDI “FALSTAFF,” L.A. OPERA – Drink it in, the incomparable Romantic Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi borrows a really good story from the British Bard. Expect comic mayhem, […]

By Charles Andrews FRIDAY, MAY 1, A NATIONAL STRIKE, TO RESTORE SANITY You know what to do…nothing. No work, no school, no patronizing of corporations, shop if you must at mom & pop businesses (and […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS BUT FIRST! THIS IMPORTANT MESSAGE – If you care about the arts. And free speech, free media, free libraries – then please participate in the next protest against the insane clown posse […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS WELCOME into the world, JULIAN! My newly minted next-door neighbor, now is the third Beautiful Boy in our small complex. While there are little ones running around trying to get us to […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: “BLUE KISS,” Ruskin Group Theatre – How can I highly recommend something I haven’t seen yet? See Library Girl. See Jazz Bakery. Track record and integrity. More next week, but […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS NO KINGS!! Organizers estimated about 8,000,000 people took to the streets Saturday for this one. The previous one was pegged at 7M. Those seem like big numbers, but considering the U.S. population […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS GOT LUNCH PLANS FOR SATURDAY? Do they include saving our democracy, maybe the entire planet? (Never forget, he’s got the nuclear codes.) Standing up for immigrants, in this nation built on immigration? […]

By CHARLES ANDREWS VERY IMPORTANT REMINDER A week from Saturday, March 28, is the second NO KINGS PROTEST, and it almost feels larely like this might be our last shot, to show overwhelmingly, millions and […]