By Ted AYALA The concerts forming Los Angeles’ “Britten 100” – a celebration of the centenary of Benjamin Britten – will be winding to a close next month with Ruslan Biryukov, the charismatic cellist and founder of the Glendale Philharmonic. At the centerpiece of a program to be presented at the Los Angeles County Museum […]
Pacific Ballet Dance Theatre (PBDT), formerly known as the Media City Ballet Company, brings “A Holiday Nutcracker Festival” to the Alex Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 1. PBDT is kicking off the holiday season with an all day festival open to the public. Sponsored in part by the Glendale Downtown Merchants Association, the festivities will include […]
Featuring the ice skating debut of Merida from Disney•Pixar’s ‘Brave.’ Get ready to rock out with some of the most magical idols of all in Disney On Ice presents “Rockin’ Ever After,” an all-new live production coming to the Southland! A cast of world-class skaters brings your favorite moments from Disney•Pixar’s “Brave,” “Tangled,” “The Little […]
By Ted AYALA Members of the La Cañada Flintridge Chamber of Commerce (LCFCC) were hoping to channel some of the thunder of the hammer-wielding Norse god Thor – all for a good cause. The chamber held a movie premiere night on Nov. 7 at the UA La Cañada 8 on Verdugo Boulevard organized around the […]
By Charly SHELTON It may be beginning to look a lot like Christmas. But despite the plastic snowmen on every lawn and mall Santas in full swing, the 95-degree weather forbids it from feeling even a little bit like Christmas. Perhaps more like Independence Day. Regardless, Disney has put up Christmas decorations and brought out […]
By Ted AYALA Confronted with the music of Beethoven leaves one with the temptation to paraphrase Herbert von Karajan’s remarks about the symphonies of Jean Sibelius being like erratic glacial blocks: It is there, it is colossal, it is of another age and nobody knows how it got there. Thorny, wild, endlessly inventive, strange, cryptic […]
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 […]