Cranes fly into Santa Monica, a choreography carnival moves downtown, flamenco marks an anniversary in Echo Park, a genius heads to Long Beach, a contemporary dance fest continues in West L.A., celebrated L.A. dance troupe brings it in Beverly Hills, and more SoCal dance this week. 5. Trafficking to OC The inventive L.A. contemporary troupe …
If you’re looking for the perfect venue to host a VIP-level special occasion, the AAA rated Five-Diamond Belvedere restaurant situated in the Peninsula Hotel should be on your short list. Besides being located in one of the most elegant hotels in Los Angeles, the cuisine is first rate and the service impeccable. Prior to my …
In the dead of night in 1969, a man entered a paper factory in Southwest China. The factory hid banned books, arranged in mounds, waiting to be shredded into fine ribbons. But why should the books be destroyed and who gave the order? Chairman Mao Zedong officially ended the Cultural Revolution in 1969, but its …
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A 3rd-generation Los Angeles native, an admired poet, journalist, historian, tour guide and teacher, Mike Sonksen, a.k.a Mike the PoeT has developed a series of nonfiction essays and poetry in his book from Writ Large Press, Letters to My City. It is truly important to understand his vision as a current creator because of his …
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre, the falcon cannot hear the falconer,” wrote Yeats. As we begin a new decade, independent films simultaneously fly aloft, one wing high above the tectonic shifts of the Media Industrial Complex, another wing tethered to the Practical Order of streamers and theatres, pre-buys and vanishing back-ends. Sundance and …
Welcome to our annual Sundance Film Festival infographic, a visualization of data that provides insight into today’s independent filmmaking landscape. Be sure to read Adam Leipzig’s related article, Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre Share this Image On Your Site — Copy and Paste the Code Below Please include attribution to https://www.culturalweekly.com/ with this graphic.
Welcome to our annual Slamdance Film Festival infographic, in which we visualize data that provides insight into the current landscape of the independent film industry. Be sure to read Adam Leipzig’s related article, Independent Films 2020: The Widening Gyre Share this Image On Your Site — Copy and Paste the Code Below<p><strong>Please include attribution …
How appropriate it is to have Heidi Schreck’s New York hit, What the Constitution Means To Me, play out on the Music Center’s Mark Taper stage against the backdrop of the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump. History has rarely been so present or theatre so prescient. And how about this timing for a refresher course …
Sam For Sam Sax The new generation of penis loving poets whose tongues do push-ups on the floor of my mind, say welcome to the gym of love as linguistics where bad boys with brains pump iron into Twinkies. This locker room is for florists who bleed, for married men crippled on the treadmill …
The release of The Irishman directed by Martin Scorsese and of Il traditore (The Traitor) directed by Marco Bellocchio inspires me to reflect on the depiction of the Sicilian mafia and the Italian-American mafia in Italian and American movies. The Godfather (1972) by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the 1969 novel by Mario Puzo, is the …
The “fabulous” 2017 Cirque du Soleil spectacle called Volta opened January 18, 2020 at Dodger Stadium, right here in my hood, Echo Park. Been there, done that, except as one of Cirque’s MANY touring shows, this is its first stop in insatiable-for-Cirque, LA. We neighbors were given free tix to the night-before dress rehearsal by …
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