By Charly SHELTON Town Kitchen and Grill has fast become a staple of the Montrose diet. Though it has been only open since 2015, it has a loyal following of regulars and locals who visit the restaurant and bar, while attracting visitors from all over LA. The menu features fan favorites like the Brussels sprouts, […]
By Charly SHELTON When you think of a candy store, maybe you think of old soda fountain stores like in the opening of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Maybe you think of the candy tubs priced per ¼ lb. in the mall between the cookie place and the lotion store. No matter what version […]
“The present day composer refuses to die,” was the dictum from Edgard Varèse that was printed on every Frank Zappa album. Not only does the living composer refuse to die but the past week demonstrated that in Southern California he thrives. It certainly helps to have musicians like Mark Robson in their corner. “An amalgam […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE n Tuesday, Jan. 17, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will celebrate the 80th birthday of composer Steve Reich, one of the great living musical masters. The Green Umbrella program will consist of two classics from the composer’s catalog bookending a West Coast premiere. Reich’s art, which crackles with that peculiarly American sense of […]
2016 was the annus horribilis of our still young 21st century, if one is to believe the cacophony of op-eds that bid last year farewell. I tend to be skeptical of hyperbole myself – especially of the sort projected and magnified to apocalyptic proportions by the internet. (After all, nothing generates page clicks and ad […]
To kick off the new year a family-friendly musical fantasy set in the fictional Middle Eastern city of Agrabah will come to life on the Main Stage of CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights as a beloved Disney princess finds true love with a commoner boy with a magic carpet in a land inhabited with […]
By Charly SHELTON GBK, the company behind all the amazing gift bag lounges for The Oscars, The Emmys, The Grammys and more, have outdone themselves. They give back through donations to charities all year long and this year they decided to put on a gifting lounge independent of any awards show and donate everything […]
Well the holidays are over, but you can still have some fun at one of our local theatres enjoying productions such as: “The Roommate” The story is set in Iowa and follows Sharon. She’s sensible, an empty-nester, curious and very, very talkative. For the first time in her life, at age 54, she takes in […]
By Nestor CASTIGLIONE A veritable Shostakovich renaissance has swept the musical world in the past 25 years, his reputation – built on fame as well as notoriety in Russia and the West, often for extra-musical reasons – now hoisted aloft by public and not a few critics on a level that even exceeds such important […]
This article first appeared in the online Dec. 30 issue of True Believer (true-believer.net). By Mary O’KEEFE Those in the sci-fi world are still nursing broken hearts from the loss of Mr. Spock last year and now the galaxy is in shock again over the sudden death of Princess Leia … and of her mother […]