It’s a New Year, stimulate your mind with smart talk, challenging art and a unique music event.
But first, while we remember all the big names that we lost
By Sarah A. Spitz
For the fifth time in just over a century, Christmas and Chanukah (my preferred spelling; start the debate now!) fall on the same day this year.
By Sarah A. Spitz
Mark Stewart (aka Stew), a black kid from the Fairfax neighborhood, formed an award-winning indie rock band in the 1990s ironically called Stew and The Negro
By Sarah A. Spitz
If you’re anything like me, in these post-election weeks you’ve been bouncing between seeking ways to take positive action and hiding your head in
By Sarah A. Spitz
Stay local for your holiday entertainment. Enjoy “A Christmas Carol” at Miles Memorial Playhouse, Impro Theater at The Broad Stage, and at Bergamot Art Station view
Jeanne Field occupies a niche all her own; no single description defines her. She’s been a nanny, a caterer, a restaurateur, a clothing designer, a camera assistant, an editor,
By Sarah A. Spitz
Some of our smaller local theatres put on reliably good entertainment much of the time. Today a quick look at three of them.
The Ruskin Group
By Sarah A. Spitz
This weekend, the WestEdge Design Fair sets up shop in Barker Hangar at Santa Monica Airport. This annual event showcases every item you could possibly imagine
What lies beneath — beneath the ground, behind the mask, below the surface of superficial appearance?
That’s what the astonishing Irish performer Pat Kinevane, back in town for a very
I had a profound experience watching the documentary “The True Cost” last week at a Sustainable Works screening at the Aero Theatre.
“The True Cost” is about consumerism at its
On the off-chance you haven’t had enough of election year politics, tonight (Thursday, 9/29) Mike Daisey presents “The Trump Card,” his one-man take on what makes Republican presidential
When I was training to become a Master Gardener, I remember the first time I looked at a seed under a microscope at the Huntington Library and Gardens Laboratory. A
