WARNING: SPOILER ALERT WARNING: SPOILER ALERT WARNING: SPOILER ALERT Do not watch these videos if you do not want to see the new attraction updates at the Disneyland Resort. Indiana Jones Adventure- Opening Doors Effect Matterhorn- Full Ride Through The Haunted Mansion- Hatbox Ghost New Magic- Interview with Imagineer Jeff […]
By Charly SHELTON Last week, we delved into the new nighttime spectaculars at Disneyland park to see some new takes on old favorites. Now we head over to Disney California Adventure park to see the other new nighttime show which is an old take on a new favorite – World of Color: Celebrate! The World […]
The summer season opener of California Philharmonic’s 2015 is, as the song goes, “guaranteed to raise a smile” (and undoubtedly a lot of singing and dancing as well) when Beatlemania Now, hailed as “the best tribute band on the planet,” joins the world-class orchestra in Beatles & Beethoven. Marking the first time that the world-renowned […]
By Ted AYALA Is it a coincidence that the rise of opera coincided with that of nationalism? There was no musical genre more praised, more beloved in the 19th century than opera. Even across international borders, with the sundry political and linguistic divisions they embodied, opera spoke to audiences far and wide, from the […]
By Susan JAMES They’re back, they’re bad and they’re bigger than ever. ‘Jurassic World’, Universal Studio’s new excursion into the wonderful world of dinosaurs, is fast and furious, with a body count courtesy of rampaging lizards the size of skyscrapers. Director Colin Trevorrow offers a screen full of CGI thrills and spills that are exciting […]
By Charly SHELTON It’s finally summer! Time for relaxing, hanging out with friends and sleeping in. With all this free time, activities need to be planned. And one activity that is always sure to bring delight is a trip to Disneyland! Now celebrating its 60th anniversary, it’s time for a diamond celebration full of new […]
Paint the Night- Electrical Parade Disneyland Forever fireworks- ‘Step In Time’ and ‘I See the Light’ Disneyland Forever fireworks- ‘Circle of Life’
By Susan JAMES Australian writer-director George Miller, best known over the last decade as the producer of “Happy Feet” and “Babe,” has left the feel-good animal kingdom to revisit the dystopian world of human animals he helped create nearly 40 years ago. Those years have not been good to Miller’s vision. His new take on […]
By Ted AYALA A little old Russian lady and her husband happened to share the elevator with me after last Sunday’s Le Salon de Musiques program of cello and piano works by Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff. With the impression of cellist John Walz and pianist Steven Vanhauwaert still fresh in my ears, I was trying to […]