The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language has five definitions for "entropy" [ěn′ trә-pē]. Four of the five could aptly be applied to Bill Robens' play of the same name currently bouncing off the walls at Theatre of Note. Myself now, I think I'll go
WHEN TO WATCH: Pick a broadcast network and watch the nightly news. Any day. Or pick a cable network opinion-veiled-as-news show. Watch any minute. Political Survivor continuously—and all too often in a short, closed loop. Speaking of short: campaign news seems to happen in bursts, so
Forever Flamenco is back at the Fountain Theatre, which is cause for celebration. I am a self admitted aficionado, whose been beating the drum for Deborah Lawlor's program which brings the world's most talented performers of Flamenco to Los Angeles, and after seeing the offering of
Okay, a quick side bar. My mother came to Los Angeles in the early '50s as a single parent. She was a raven haired beauty, and my mom, how to phrase this
On second thought, don't flash that cash—I'll get ill. The Koch brothers have reportedly committed $900 million, give-or-take, to Republican 2016 campaigns—and are currently auditioning candidates that they can buy with it. (More on that later—word is that they've already brought Scott Walker to the
At one point in the production of Lauren Gunderson's I and You at the Fountain Theatre, the main character's bedroom falls apart. Unfortunately, the play had fallen apart long before that moment. Now, I make it a rule not to write reviews of bad plays. What's the
First a bit of Irish history. The Black and Tans were a force of mostly former soldiers enrolled in the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish War of Independence. They were mostly British ex-service men, veterans of the vicious front of Western Europe, but a
Political Survivor: USA. This show plays almost continuously, with an ever-changing cast, on many shows and many networks. I discovered the first season of Survivor (summer 2000) in its fourth episode, when they caught and ate rats, and I was hooked instantly by the elemental nature
People are funny. In the way we keep making the same mistakes. Even when we're conscious of our tendency to run with fallacious reasoning, or a certain set of logical blinders we're apt to don, or the fact that we're suckers for a redhead or a
