When I pull up in front of Pio Pico State Historic Park — the eponymous home of the famed Californio and two-time governor of Mexican California — a tan, wood
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Think you already know the epic tale? Not this version, you don’t. Having apparently decided that the Christian monks who transcribed the oldest known version of B
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{mosimage}For Gabriel Goillen, night manager of Mel’s Drive-in on Highland Avenue in Hollywood, the events of May 13 still don’t register. Goillen was wo
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Now that we can’t move a muscle without signaling lifestyle, the literary ground lies thick with parenting memoirs, a dreary subgenre practiced by midlife boo
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In the past, revolutionary Beat poet and black-power-movement activist Amiri Baraka wrote to shock, as evidenced by Dutchman , the play he is best known for, in whic
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Los Angeles Opera’s production of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s delightfully subversive political satire about three criminals who create a city where lawlessn
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IT’S A LOT LIKE those grainy tokusatsu kaiju, sci-fi horror films where the gigantic mutant dinosaurs — or, in this case, newsosaurs” — spend most of their s
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One morning, Gary Walkow was suddenly transformed into a successful Hollywood filmmaker. Gone were the hat-in-hand searches for financing, the deferred salaries, the
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Journey sing-alongs are normally reserved for moments alone in your car or an a cappella rock block in the shower. But at Spaceland Friday night, we screeched throug
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I’ve never been much of a believer in miracles, despite the fact that on the CBS 2 News program I co-anchor every morning, we often do stories about the image of t
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How does that phrase from the playground go again? Quitters never win, and winners never quit, right? It’s a good concept to keep in mind when following Los Angele
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One night, a chartered bus picked us up and drove to Century City, where a special surprise awaited us. As we pulled up in front of the Shubert Theatre, exclamations
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