To kick off the new year a family-friendly musical fantasy set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah will come to life on the Main Stage of CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights as a beloved Disney princess finds true love with a commoner boy with a magic carpet in a land inhabited with […]
By Charly SHELTON GBK, the company behind all the amazing gift bag lounges for The Oscars, The Emmys, The Grammys and more, have outdone themselves. They give back through donations to charities all year long and this year they decided to put on a gifting lounge independent of any awards show and donate everything […]
Well the holidays are over, but you can still have some fun at one of our local theatres enjoying productions such as: “The Roommate” The story is set in Iowa and follows Sharon. She’s sensible, an empty-nester, curious and very, very talkative. For the first time in her life, at age 54, she takes in […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE A veritable Shostakovich renaissance has swept the musical world in the past 25 years, his reputation – built on fame as well as notoriety in Russia and the West, often for extra-musical reasons – now hoisted aloft by public and not a few critics on a level that even exceeds such important […]
This article first appeared in the online Dec. 30 issue of True Believer (true-believer.net). By Mary O’KEEFE Those in the sci-fi world are still nursing broken hearts from the loss of Mr. Spock last year and now the galaxy is in shock again over the sudden death of Princess Leia … and of her mother […]
By Charly SHELTON 2016 has been an impressive year for CVW’s Leisure section. New theme park rides and lands, incredibly successful movies, cool new TV shows, the return of fan favorites like Harry Potter (in a new play), Darth Vader (in “Rogue One”) and “Ghostbusters” (not that anyone really wanted it back), and the beginning […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE It’s easy to lose track of the fact that beneath the encrustations that have disfigured the Christmas season — the avarice, the sentimentality, and above all the sales, sales, sales — there remain the holiday’s roots, perhaps looking worn, but still plunging deep into the soil of religious rite. Music, Beethoven once […]
By Charly SHELTON All that glitters is not gold. Sometimes its rubies, sapphires, kunzite, iron pyrite or diamonds. The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles is hosting a new mini-exhibit on glittery, shiny, sparkly diamonds. We all know diamonds – they are tiny, clear and super hard. According to De Beers Diamonds, they are the […]
By Susan JAMES While the male superhero world of Marvel debates the pros and cons of a solo Natasha Romanoff (aka the Black Widow) film and the universe of Harry Potter replaces the brilliant and irritating Hermione with the passive and colorless Porpentina, the “Star Wars” franchise, home to Princess Leia, Queen Amidala and the […]
By Charly SHELTON The holidays are full of laughter and cheer, giving and gathering, eggnog and gingerbread. And each year, local theme parks pull out all the stops to bring holiday cheer to those who visit them. This week, we head over to the theme park closest to the Crescenta Valley – Universal Studios Hollywood. […]