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Santa Monica Art Palette October 27, 2006
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It’s the weekend before Halloween. Witches and ghouls everywhere are busy crafting frightening costumes, erecting horrifying haunted houses, robbing fresh graves and stopping by Trader Joe’s for that great deal they’ve got on eye of newt. Around Santa Monica, along with jack-o-lanterns and spider webs, you’ll be seeing altars laden with gifts of sweets and other food and graves decorated with marigolds in preparation for Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 — los Dias de los Muertos (“the Days of the Dead”). In the meantime, we’ve got plenty of things to keep you entertained, stimulated, provoked and occupied while the spirits prepare for their big day.
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 3, 2006
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After duly honoring the dead with all of the Dias de los Muertos events this week, I’m ready to go out this weekend and spend some quality time with the living! And there are some really great ways to do that this weekend.
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 10, 2006
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I’ll bet Clive Barker never expected to see his name in a headline right next to Dancing Penguins, but this is Santa Monica and the unexpected is only to be expected. Last weekend was an arts and culture marathon and I’m still tired, but as you see, there’s more on the horizon. Janis Ian is coming to town. The Virginia Avenue Project kids are doing improv. Laraine Newman and Melanie Chartoff are revealing secrets. And tap dancing penguins.
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Santa Monica Art Palette November 17, 2006
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It’s almost Thanksgiving, which means the Christmas and Chanukah decorations have been up for the past two months, but if you’re like me, you’ve still got lots of shopping to do. I’ve got a great idea for this year, though. Instead of giving people holiday presents, I’ll just jot them a little note telling them that, given the fact that the arts are always in serious need of funding, and they’re doing just fine, I decided to support the arts this year and attended a play or a concert or gallery exhibition in their honor. Do you think that’ll work?
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Santa Monica Art Palette December 1, 2006
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This is one of those extra special weekends in Santa Monica, where we’ve got something for everyone. It starts Friday night with singing animated sea creatures and continues on with Christmas carols, mad musicians, sacrificial lambs, gallery openings and memorial musings, before finishing off on Sunday with a community gathering around a gingerbread city.
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Santa Monica Art Palette December 8, 2006
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In this magical time of the year, Santa Monica offers you the delightful fantasies of The Magic Flute, seductive tones of Sibelius, surreal adventures in forestry and theatrical minuets. We’ve got gallery exhibitions featuring many of Southern California’s most emblematic artists, and even if you’re just out shopping, there’s art to be found in the most commercial (and chic) environs.
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Santa Monica Art Palette December 15, 2006
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Most people look at Santa Monica and see a quiet, gentle seaside community, but not this week. This edition of the Palette rips open the curtains to reveal the Santa Monica you never knew. And lies beneath that calm exterior? Art! We’ll show you what happens when an arrogant fairy queen gets a taste of her own medicine and while other publications dig through celebrity dirty laundry, we’ve got Robert Rauschenberg’s clean shirts. And for the more daring readers, you can explore the underside of our city up close and personal at the Santa Monica Scramble Scavenger Hunt.
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Santa Monica Art Palette January 12, 2007
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With the holidays finally finished, it’s time to start off a whole new year of exciting art and cultural happenings in Santa Monica. And if this month is anything like what the rest of the year will bring us, it’s going to be a great one. January starts off with a Santa Monica Museum of Art opening that will take you on an art trek to Tijuana; the 18th Street Arts Center will serve up a hot dish of Brazilian samba; Highways, the Santa Monica Symphony and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Westside Coalition remind us of the importance of the American Civil Rights Movement; local teens give us a look at their world at the Santa Monica Library and the galleries at Bergamot Station debut their new winter exhibitions.
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The Art Palette
On this third weekend in January, Santa Monica’s cultural scene continues its build to a spectacular crescendo. We’ve got a few old friends back in town, Photo LA at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, local artist Daniel Alonzo goes back to high school and “Pericles” returns to the Miles Playhouse, as do the Los Angeles Chamber Players.
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The Art Palette January 26, 2007
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January wraps up in Santa Monica with two of the biggest art shows in the nation — the 12th Annual Los Angeles Art Show and Art LA. Visual art lovers from around the world will be converging on our hometown this weekend to look at and buy works that include contemporary and modern art, as well as historic works from the old masters. You’ll also find new theatre openings and a retrospective of classic Japanese cinema.
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