By Charly SHELTON Halloween is about pumpkins, ghosts, black cats and, most of all, witches. The holiday, like so many others, sprung out of a Celtic/Wiccan celebration. Samhain (pronounced SOW-win) is a festival of the harvest, the end of the Celtic year, and a time when the veil between the world of the living and […]
By Charly SHELTON Ireland welcomes visitors in any fashion. For those looking for quick and easy, there are upstairs rooms in pubs all along the island that are comfortable and simple. For those looking for a more opulent stay, there are five-star hotels like Lough Erne Resort that provide every comfort and then some. Most […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE The Santa Cecilia Orchestra is one of those ensembles that have simply got the knack for appealing to all kinds of listeners, delighting both classical neophyte and cognoscenti alike. Its program on Saturday night, held at the Shay Hall located in their Eagle Rock complex, was a fine case in point. Members […]
By Charly SHELTON On Friday, filmmakers from around the world will come together for the Glendale International Film Festival. The annual event, now in its fourth year, will once again celebrate “all creatures great and small in the animal kingdom, especially cats, dogs, and horses.” While the festival doesn’t require all films entered to be […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE Conductor Sonia Marie de León de Vega is excited. Not only because the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the ensemble which she founded and leads, begins its new season in only a matter of days but also because the orchestra will be marking a milestone this Saturday night: It’ll be celebrating its silver anniversary. […]
By Charly SHELTON Halloween is nearly upon us and, to celebrate the spirit of the season, the local theme parks go all out to bring scary fun to boys and ghouls searching for a good fright. So far, we’ve seen all that Knott’s Scary Farm, Universal Studios Halloween Horror Nights and Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE The leaves are turning, the air is crisp, and the days draw shorter. Fall has arrived and with it arrives a new season for music in Los Angeles. A new year for Le Salon de Musiques begins this Sunday, Oct. 15 at 4 p.m. at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Downtown Los […]
By Charly SHELTON Space – the final frontier. Just because humans in the futuristic society of the “Star Trek” universe have headed into the stars doesn’t mean they have escaped grappling with the same issues we Earthbound humans deal with every day. Issues that include what is right, how to behave in certain circumstances and […]
“Architects Of Denial: Genocide Denied Is Genocide Continued” is a documentary that traces the turbulent modern history of the Armenian people from their decimation by Ottoman Turks at the onset of World War I until the present when they are threatened by Turkey as well as its ally, Azerbaijan. It chronicles the Armenian Genocide of […]
By Steve ZALL and Sid FISH October 2017 Here are the new shows opening in our theatres this month: OPENING “THE FACE, Behind the Face, behind the face” A performing artist confronts the ups and downs and struggles of his life and career and is led to the conclusion that his […]