By Charly SHELTON You know what’s nice? Getting away. Vacations are nice, too, but sometimes you just need to get away. The difference is that vacations usually include an agenda. Folks are scrambling around with things to do, they spend little time in the hotel room that they paid for, they go walking about all […]
By Michael BRUER On a crisp autumn morning last week, amidst the hustle and bustle of the residents and business owners of Montrose, a line of people wrapped around the block on Honolulu Avenue, eagerly awaiting the man of the hour. Just as the sun pierced through the nearby trees, the excited crowd spotted the […]
Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights presents a new production of the Tony Award-winning and Pulitzer Prize-nominated musical, “In The Heights.” Set over the course of three days, the story involves an ensemble cast of characters in the Dominican-American neighborhood of Washington Heights in New York City. The production is helmed by director Rigo Tejeda […]
By Michael WORKMAN If you spent the majority of your time in history class catching up on sleep, you’re in luck! Paradox Development Studio has rolled out a game that deals with four centuries of human history. Well, truth be told, it’s up to the player how history unfolds in the game, so it’s not […]
The Glendale Youth Orchestra conducted by Brad Keimach opens its 25th season with a flourish on Sunday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. at the historic Alex Theatre in Glendale. In addition to symphonies by Mozart and Beethoven, Hillary Lin Santoso (senior, San Marino High School) will perform the first movement of a Rachmaninoff piano concerto. […]
Ruslan Biryukov, Elayne Boozler, and friends ring in the return of the Positive Motions concert series in Glendale. By Ted AYALA If you’ve been paying attention to the news, it wasn’t such a great week recently for American classical music fans. New York City Opera, the Big Apple’s “people’s” alternative to the posh Metropolitan Opera, […]
By Ted AYALA The Pasadena Symphony has been navigating some choppy waters since its management and long-time music director Jorge Mester parted ways less than amicably in 2010. Choppy waters not because the orchestra has faltered technically in the three seasons. (Its excellence and polish remained, thankfully, intact.) Nor has it exactly been hurting for […]
By Ted AYALA Even 130 years after his death, Richard Wagner is a person that for many music-lovers—and especially for those who have never heard a single note of his music and know him only by his (bad) reputation—remains difficult to love. His vanity, his shrill self-promoting, and the ease with which he stooped to […]
By Susan JAMES Thor and his mighty hammer return in this sequel to the successful 2011 Marvel comic book based movie. It’s richer, darker and even more breathtakingly CGI’ed than the original. And once again Chris Hemsworth as Thor looks hunky, with or without armor, and as rigid as his hammer while Tom Hiddleston’s Loki […]
By Sabrina WALENTYNOWICZ There are some people who run errands on Saturdays. There are some who take it easy around the house. And then there are those who go on cemetery tours. On Saturday, the Historical Society of the Crescenta Valley joined storyteller Nick Smith in offering a free walking tour of the Mountain View […]