By Charly SHELTON If you’ve ever had cake, you like cake. And pretty much everyone has had cake at some point. So when I say the L.A. Cookie Con and Sweets Show is for everyone, it really is for everyone. Whether you’re sugar-free, vegan, Paleo-diet or no restrictions, this show proved that there is a […]
By Susan JAMES When Hollywood takes on Hollywood the results can be laugh-out-loud funny or a disastrous misfire. Fortunately for audiences, the Coen Brothers’ new journey through the looking glass at the Hollywood of 1951 is the former. Clever production whisks us back to the days when TV was still a gleam in the entertainment […]
By Charly SHELTON Red lanterns, Chinese food and plum blossom trees. It must be Chinese New Year. Monday was the official start of the Year of the Red Fire Monkey in the ancient Chinese lunisolar calendar and Universal Studios Hollywood celebrates it in a big way. The Universal Plaza in the center of the upper […]
By Susan JAMES Go for the action. Skip the romance. Director Craig Gillespie has put a blow-out action film on screen that makes you hold your breath as long as the men being pounded by killer seas. But when the movie cuts to the lame love story, it drags its anchor. Adapted from the 2009 […]
Calling all cookie connoisseurs… all savourers of sweets… all devotees of donuts… it is time to unite at LA Cookie Con and Sweets Show! This coming weekend at the LA Convention Center in Downtown, the second annual convention of all things sweet will be held for professional and enthusiast alike to come taste some candies, […]
Scene In L.A. By Steve ZALL And Sid FISH Feb. 2016 Valentine’s Day is upon us again, and so area host of new productions to take in, including: Opening “Fiddler on the Roof” This beloved musical with music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, and book by […]
Pacific Opera Project opens its sixth season with a rowdy production of Franz Lehar’s “Die lustige Witwe,” set in 1860s Gold Country California via an English book and libretto by Josh & Kelsey Shaw. The production will feature a new arrangement for chamber orchestra written and conducted by music director Stephen Karr. POP will once […]
By Charly SHELTON am no stranger to conventions. I go to several conventions a year for comics, video games, technology and, coming up next weekend, cookies and sweets at Cookie Con. But of all the conventions that I frequent and look forward to, none of them have anything to do with fitness. There are times […]
By Charly SHELTON The city of Glendale is over 100 years old and as such carries with it a history of the people, places and events that have shaped the city into what it is today. By living in the area, residents have been exposed to at least bits and pieces of this history – […]
By Robin GOLDSWORTHY A big band playing as tobacco smoke curled toward the ceiling, the tinkling of glasses and muted laughter, and a cigarette girl making her way among the tables. This was a scene commonly found at the famous Ciro’s nightclub on the Sunset Strip in the ’40s and ’50s. These memories and more […]