Dance: The Santa Monica Main Library hosted the Korean Classical Music and Dance Company on Thursday. Under the artistic direction of Don Kim, the company performed the ceremonial and social dances that are an integral part of Korean culture. Dances included a “flower crown dance” and country drum
Santa Monica College’s innovative and widely praised Synapse Contemporary Dance Theater, co-directed by Jae Lee and Mark Tomasic, will present a program of new repertory by award-winning faculty artists,
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Local blues legend RAY BAILEY sat in with SOUTHSIDE SLIM at his gig at Harvelle’s Friday night. Proprietor Damian said “he blew the doors off the
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED:
SOUTHSIDE SLIM –Thank you again, Harvelle’s, for bringing back one of the very best bluesmen I’ve heard in years. Decades, maybe. Rare talent and energy (and
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TONIGHT! - CELSO SALIM & DARRYL CARRIERE — I kept writing every week last summer about these two blues masters, holding court in the sunshine and ocean air on
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DAKHABRAKHA – my daughter alerted me some years ago to this fantastic Ukrainian quartet who combine traditional music and instruments with a potpourri of eclectic and modern influences (“an
LYNN ELBER / AP Television Writer
A surprise awaited “black-ish” creator Kenya Barris and his family on a 2016 visit to the newly opened National Museum of African American History and
LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Classic film lovers know the importance of a grand entrance and the folks at Turner Classic Movies are pulling out all the stops for the
ANDREW DALTON, AP Entertainment Writer
Talking trash about the Kardashians is a common pastime for many ordinary Americans. On Monday, a few got to do it to their faces.
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Come visit and explore the last intact shotgun house in Santa Monica, which now serves as an award-winning Preservation Resource Center for our community.
Built in 1897, the little house
Santa Monica College (SMC) continues its Social Justice Lecture Series with a screening of the documentary “Determined: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Avraham Perlmutter” at 7 p.m. on Tuesday,
St. Matthew’s Music Guild presents The Chamber Orchestra at St. Matthew’s under the direction of Dwayne S. Milburn in music of Haydn, Aaron Copland, William Grant Still, and