By Isiah REYES Crescenta Valley High School students are completing their final rehearsals for the annual CV’s “Got Talent” at the school’s MacDonald Auditorium. There will be a total of 12 dances and seven acts performing. The dance styles will range from jazz to ballet to hip hop while the talents will include singers who […]
By Ted AYALA Few composers experienced the transformation, indeed the kind of second musical youth, that Leoš Janáček experienced. The fire that ignited this fuse was the largely unrequited love he felt for Kamila Stösslová, a married woman 38 years his junior. “My soul and feeling is warmed and comes to a boil only through […]
By Charly SHELTON When first seeing the trailer for Christopher Nolan’s new film “Interstellar,” one might think it is “Gravity” folded into “Inception.” It looks like a very complicated space movie dealing with interstellar travel. But after seeing it, the viewer realizes it is neither “Inception” nor “Gravity.” It is an entity unto itself to […]
By Ted AYALA The 20th century’s greatest innovation in the field of opera is without a doubt the way that this centuries-old art form was infused with flexibility. With the breezy and brief operas of Milhaud & Hindemith, among others composed in the 1920s, the imposing grandiosity then best represented by Wagner was swept away […]
Stan Lee’s Comikaze was held last weekend at the L.A. Convention Center. A comic book and pop culture convention held over the weekend of Halloween, the obvious draw was for cosplayers – fans who create very elaborate costumes to dress up in. Amateurs and professionals alike were called to the con to show off their […]
By Jason KUROSU Craig Johnson, the author behind the highly successful Longmire series, made an appearance in La Crescenta on Oct. 28 at St. Luke’s of the Mountains. Dedicated fans of the Longmire books and the TV show gathered at St. Luke’s to hear from Johnson and ask their burning questions about his inspiration for […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The year is 2025 and California has been in a drought for decades. The once green landscape has turned to dry and dying vegetation, and those who have survived have one purpose – to find water. But sometimes that which we search for, once found, is not our savior but our tormentor… […]
By Charly SHELTON As I sit down to write this article, I have a snack with me. A moist, delicious chocolate and vanilla marble cake. I have been saving this cake for almost a week specifically for when I write this article because I knew it would be so good that it would take me […]