By Susan JAMES With her new work, “My Name Is Salt,” Indian filmmaker Farida Pacha used the documentary format to create a masterwork of minimalist storytelling. Thought provoking and visually stunning, with cinematography by Lutz Konermann, this official selection of the 2014 Los Angeles Film Festival reaches beyond its sumptuous images to mine the […]
By Charly SHELTON Comedian Martin Short is a man of many faces. Jiminy Glick, Hollywood celebrity interviewer. Irving Cohen, writer of over 28,000 songs. Ned Nederlander, fastest trick gun in the west. And all of them made appearances at the Alex Theatre last Saturday night to celebrate the grand reopening after massive renovation to the […]
By Marissa GOULD, intern The Alex Theater has been a Glendale landmark since 1925. It was even granted national historic landmark status in the ’90s. With the passing of time, though, the grand venue needed updating and, beginning in July 2013, the Alex has been undergoing major renovations. Now, nearly a year later, the work […]
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By Isiah REYES The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust and the Beverly Hills Temple of the Arts presented “Bestemming,” a cello and orchestra concerto composed by Sharon Farber honoring 89-year-old actor and Holocaust survivor Curt Lowens at the Shaban Theatre in Beverly Hills on June 13. Lowens is perhaps most notably known for saving […]
By Ted AYALA Local music lovers may best know Maksim Velichkin as a cellist. His performances – broadly expressive and always gauzed in a rich, oaken tone – are known well. He can be seen at the front desk of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra’s cello section one afternoon. Next thing, he is at a solo […]
One would never suspect that the black and chrome Harley-Davidson Softail Deuce parked in front of California DanceArts in La Cañada belonged to the composer of a new ballet. And when Dwight Bernard Mikkelsen walks into a rehearsal with long hair, tattoos, an earring, jeans, leather boots and a denim vest covered with patches, he […]
Glendale Arts will celebrate the completion of the landmark Alex Theatre’s multi-million dollar expansion and renovation with Emmy and Tony award-winning performer Martin Short. Short joins artistic director and conductor Matt Catingub and the Glendale Pops Orchestra for a special evening of comedy, music, song and dance at the Theatre’s grand reopening on Saturday, June […]
By Susan JAMES A new exhibition of costume sketches from the Golden Age of Hollywood in the collection of Christian Esquevin has just opened at the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. Running through Nov. 1, over 100 original sketches of costumes from the late 1920s through the ‘60s created by such […]