Alan Mandell is a man of monstrous acting talent and many decades of experience. Now onstage at the Mark Taper Forum, the 87-year-old actor steals the show as an 89-year-old
This was the year of the iPhone at the Sundance Film Festival. "Tangerine," a feature film about transgender prostitutes in Hollywood shot almost entirely on an iPhone 5s,
When the erudite "thinking man's" talk show host Dick Cavett invited sharp-tongued writer Mary McCarthy to appear on his PBS show in 1979, he provoked not
AFROBEAT AT THE BROAD
Irresistibly contagious rhythms, horns, beats and vocals are on tap at The Broad Stage, Feb. 21 for one night only, as the large band Antibalas and
Buddhism, Islamic Art, a City Garage world premiere and free entry to 20 museums are on my local cultural radar.
City Garage Theatre is consistent in one respect only: their
CULTURE WATCH – Back in the 1970s, I worked in the 16mm film rental division of Universal Pictures. Driving through Beverly Hills one day I looked in my rearview mirror
CULTURE WATCH — The Tara Gallery in Santa Monica pursues a rare mission: to show works by contemporary Iranian artists, a tricky business thanks to the sanctions against Iran.
Tara Gallery
CULTURE WATCH — Santa Monica has its own Nutcracker! Westside Ballet of Santa Monica, now in its fifth decade, returns to the Broad Stage, in collaboration with Santa Monica College Symphony,
CULTURE WATCH — Although I'm a three-decade-plus resident of Santa Monica, I hesitate to admit that I've never set foot inside the beautiful and beloved St. Monica&
