It’s hard to believe in a city that’s largely known for creating the decentralized urban form, but even during Los Angeles’ early years, shared public places w
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End of summer days with the girl next door and end of summer nights with painted club kids. Also, Shepard Fairey's solo exhibit, “The Duality of Humanity,&
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Some people can just see things coming. In 1979, one year before Ronald Reagan was elected president, Frank Zappa wrote a rock opera called Joe’s Garage. It’s a
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One day in 1973, Ellen Flanagan, an exemplary stay-at-home Berkeley mom who sewed and cooked and cleaned on demand, packed her husband and two daughters off to work
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Pine City, Minnesota, sounds like one of those small Midwestern
towns whose very names we’re used to snickering at, thanks to
Hollywood’s painting them
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“Manny from heaven” is how employers and pals of the generous protagonist
in James Christy Jr.’s play, Never Tell (Elephant Theater Co.),
shou
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Photo by Craig SchwartzGeared for a youth audience, Charlayne Woodard’s entrancing, sometimes pedantic, new play, Flight (at Culver City’s Kirk Douglas T
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Swinging from the Chandeliers
Designer Jared Gold is back, and he is going to dress you, light
up your life and maybe even sleep with you, in a manner of speaking. A
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Photo by Richard Termine
The following three plays, which are scheduled to continue into January, are among the best currently appearing in New York’s smaller v
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Courtesy of Wylie O’Hara Doughty
“He is Hubert Ward the movie star,” reads the penultimate sentence of John O’Hara’s 1962 Hollywood no
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Illustration by Mike LeeABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, MY HIGH SCHOOL CIVICS TEACHER (who would later be arrested in front of the class for refusing to pay income tax) invited
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FOR A CERTAIN KIND OF PERSON WHO CAME OF age in the 1930s, the English poet W.H. Auden played a role similar to the one Bob Dylan would play in the 1960s, if for a f
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