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 […]
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 Charly SHELTON Valentine’s Day is coming up. Fast. Ralph’s has had its Valentine display up for a week already. I know it’s still a month off, but it is time to make preparations so you don’t find yourself on Feb. 13 standing in an hour-long line at Sees Candies and rushing to every flower […]
Emotionally Charged ‘The Walking Dead: Season Two’ By Michael WORKMAN Shambling back onto gamers’ PCs and consoles alike, Telltales’s point and click adventure, “The Walking Dead: Season Two” has arrived. Has Telltale once again created an engaging narrative that mercilessly pulls at our heartstrings like in season one? It gives me great pleasure to say […]
By Charly SHELTON Many war movies have been made that depict the horrors of the situation overseas in whichever conflict the soldiers may be involved in. Fire fights, lack of supplies, in fighting among the ranks, the atrocities committed against civilian and soldier alike. “Lone Survivor” has all these aspects of a war movie. But […]
By Isiah REYES Now in its 25th year, the Comedy Sportz improvisation competition continues at Crescenta Valley High School on Jan. 17 at 7 p.m. when the varsity team takes on the alumni team. In January each year, the Crescenta Valley alumni are invited to compete against the high school team. This year marks the […]