How’s Your Truthiness?
When Stephen Colbert coined the word "truthiness" in 2005, he meant "
Echo Theater Company Scores with ‘Row After Row’ and ‘A Small Fire’
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
Groovin’ It With ‘The Wrecking Crew’
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
Rebuilding the Music Business
For the first decade of this century I didn't pay much attention to the music business. After close to 30 years in the business – both publishing and records – I was strictly a consumer. I bought my CDs, reluctantly got used to the fact
‘Sense8′ Trailer of the Wachowskis’ Newest Thriller
Friday, June 5 we will discover what it means to be "reborn" as a "Sensate." That's the day Netflix unveils from writer/creators Lana and Andy Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski a daring new 12 episode dramatic thriller: Sense8. The basic plot goes like this: Eight ordinary
Dominique Morisseau’s ‘Sunset Baby’ at The Odyssey
Sunset Baby is an intelligently written play with a superb cast that positively gleams from those benefits which blesses any play if either worthy of or lucky enough to get a production at the Odyssey Theatre. Playwright Dominique Morisseau comes bearing a bucket full of honors
Steven Fechter’s ‘The Woodsman’
Not only will I tip my hat to The Coeurage Theatre Company, but if you don't tip your hat as well, I'll be inclined to knock it off your head myself. I say again, not for the first time, not the last, Los Angeles has the
Sense8 Expands our Belief System
Check the trailer for Sense8 from the creative minds of the Wachowskis, Grant Hill and J. Michael Straczynski. Streaming everywhere Netflix June 5.
B.B. King—Two-Part Tribute
"There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done." B.B. King The summer of 1995, while visiting my sister and her husband in France, I heard that the Blues-meister himself, Mr. King was playing up north, just cross the
Bring on the Crazy
We're back on the boat deck filled with potential Survivor contestants, waiting to see who will commit by jumping into the water and swimming to shore. The action has picked up considerably since I last wrote. The water in front of us is now churning