Brace yourselves. It's Hollywood Fringe time. The Hollywood Fringe, for the uninitiated, is a glorious explosion celebrating the arts and artists. If you haven't experienced it in years past you have no idea what you've been missing and this year is certainly not one to be missed: ●
If you follow economic or political news at all, you know there has been a lot of discussion about our national infrastructure and the need to rebuild it: our roads, bridges, airports, train stations, cell towers, internet lines – all those things we need to
Admittedly, I'm not a music streaming customer. While I channel some (but not most) of my entertainment through my computer, I actually prefer watching television on a television, and listening to music via CDs or my iPod. Music streaming had not been on my radar
Periodically in the theatre certain works crop up at the most crucial of times arising in answer to some distinct exigency of their own era or generation. These plays, while varying in tone and style, all fulfill a similar and much needed service: that of delivering
Who wouldn't be excited to see what the producing team, who gifted viewers with the much lauded Entourage, has in store for a show involving the game of good ole' American football? Ballers, the HBO half-hour series kicks off its ten-episode run June 21, 10pm ET/PT. The
Every campaign has at least one noir moment, when (as in film noir) the protagonist tries to do The Right Thing but winds up doing exactly the opposite. That's a powerful plot device in fiction, getting the lead into deeper and deeper trouble, so that
Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa has received its West Coast premiere at Long Beach's International City Theatre. As usual, the production is top quality. caryn desai, the artistic director and firm hand at the helm of ICT, directs with clarity and craft. The set by Christopher Scott Murillo
When Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" in 2005, he meant "
The Echo Theater Company is one of the newer jewels in the crown of Los Angeles theatre, and with their current rep staging of Jessica Dickey's Row After Row and A Small Fire by Adam Bock their gleaming grows more bedazzling. The two short works demonstrate
The Wrecking Crew were a group of uncredited Los Angeles studio musicians who played on and created hundreds of hit records that became the soundtrack to our lives in the '60s and '70s -- and are still on the radio today. The amount of work the
