The City of Redondo Beach hosted its first-ever BeachLife Festival with an eclectic lineup of 40 bands on three stages spread over three days from Friday May 3rd to Sunday May 5th. The festival promoters chose well with an impressive roster of headliners which included Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, Bob Weir, Willie Nelson, …
We are proud to publish Hollywood Lens Z, a series of student essays written in partial fulfillment of Dr. Kathleen Tarr’s first-year course taught in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric at Stanford University, “That’s Entertainment! The Rhetoric of Hollywood’s Inequities.” “Women, poor people, people of color, people with disabilities, immigrants, gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, …
Giancarlo Giannini, the Italian actor who became famous in the 1970s as the star of several movies directed by Lina Wertmüller, is still working at age 76 (he was born in La Spezia on August 1, 1942). Last year he played a police inspector in Tulipani, a Dutch movie set in Puglia; this year he …
“Women at the Frontline of Violence World Wide,” an exhibition at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, documents the oral testimonies of nineteen women survivors of mass violence in four regions of the world: “Jewish female survivors of the Holocaust by Bullets in Eastern Europe; Roma female survivors of the Porajmos, the genocide against the …
Musicals based on hit movies have become a staple on Broadway. The creative teams of most of these shows such as Pretty Woman, School of Rock and Kinky Boots, take the established screenplay and insert some songs, and call it a day. But Tootsie, derived from the 1982 comedy starring Dustin Hoffman as struggling actor …
Screen to Stage and a Sequel: Tootsie, Beetlejuice, Gary Read More »
Street dance closes a Glendale library series, masculinity from a trans perspective in Santa Monica, contemporary dance in Irvine, Brazilian dance downtown, ballet in Burbank, gaga in Highland Park, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. They have magic to do, just for you With the current tv series tracking the relationship of dancer Gwen …
While We Agreed Finally, it stopped raining. It had been a windy rain and the wind and the rain kept coming through the windows. It seemed that the small table where we ate was always wet. I remember drizzly rain falling on our eggs. For some reason, it was especially noticeable on the yolks. Eating …
When it comes to interesting board games or video games that were inspired by traditional games, newer is not necessarily better. In fact, there are a lot of ancient games that we humans have been playing for a long time. And, it’s not just the culture, they are really good and that’s why people play …
Backgammon: A Game of Kings That Lives on Through the Ages Read More »
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