Tuesday Table Talk On Tuesday, Feb. 4, Bethel Church in Sun Valley will show the film “Kit Kittredge: An American Girl.” This Depression-era drama follows aspiring young journalist Kit Kittredge whose ingenuity and courage help save her family’s house when their savings are stolen during a series of robberies. Appropriate for the whole family. […]
QUESTION: Our son is an enigma. He is a 34-year-old bachelor, has a successful career and a condo that is totally cluttered. We don’t understand because he wasn’t raised this way. His personal health is excellent and he dresses cleanly and neatly. If you saw him on the street, you’d never think his living quarters […]
By Ted AYALA Pacific Opera Project, or POP as its known to fans, has emerged in recent years as one of Southern California’s most exciting opera companies. Not the very least because of its irreverent and often outrageous productions of repertory classics. A “La Bohème” set among Highland Park hipsters? Check. “The Marriage of Figaro” […]
»Video Game Review By Michael WORKMAN Every year game companies tout better graphics and more realism for some of the game industries biggest releases. Better textures, higher resolutions or smoother shading are enough to grab the attention of many gamers on titles they are excited about. Heavy weights like “Skyrim” and “Portal 2” boast impressive […]
By Ted AYALA The local festivities for composer Tigran Mansurian’s 75th birthday, which Dilijan Chamber Series kicked off earlier this month, continues this Sunday at UCLA. Beginning at 2 p.m. at the school’s Schoenberg Hall, the Lark Music School Choir of Glendale will be joined by the VEM String Quartet and other performers in a […]
Water Polo By Brandon HENSLEY Crescenta Valley High School girls’ water polo Coach Brent Danna wasn’t sure how to describe his team’s success midway through the season. So far, though, it appears the Lady Falcons’ play in the water has done most of the talking for him. “I don’t know if I […]
By Ted AYALA Pacific Opera Project, or POP as they’re known to their fans, has emerged in recent years as one of Southern California’s most exciting opera companies. Not the very least because of their irreverent and often outrageous productions of repertory classics. A La Bohème set among Highland Park hipsters? Check. The Marriage of […]
By Ted Ayala I used to be among those that believed that the day of the capital G Great conductors—the likes of Beecham, Furtwängler, Mengelberg, et al—was something that had gone the way of Quadraphonic sound, Dynagroove, and bell-bottom pants. OK, there might be just a handful of conductors—literally only about five or less—alive today […]
By Ted Ayala The word “rebel” brings to mind connotations of the aggressive, the confrontational, even of rudeness; of a lonely, brash, and, perhaps, not quite likeable anti-social figure willfully cocking a sneer at his audience. None of those qualities would seem to apply to Tigran Mansurian, whose 75th birthday Dilijan Chamber Series celebrated Sunday […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The Colby Fire that started early this morning darkened skies and showered the southland with ash. The fire began at 5:52 a.m. Thursday in the Angeles National Forest. It quickly moved into the area of Glendora and as of 3 p.m. Thursday, 1,709 acres have been burned and three suspects have […]