By Ted AYALA Toys, coloring books, cartoons, play. For most of us, our lives as first-graders revolved around these and other innocuous pastimes. It’s only later – for some of us beginning in our teens, for others later still – when our minds turned to the study and contemplation of those facets of life that […]
By Ted AYALA Before I begin this review, let’s just get one thing straight. As of the moment I’m typing this, only two opera companies in all of the Greater Los Angeles area dare to perform opera as a living art: Long Beach Opera and the up-and-coming Pacific Opera Project. With all due respect to […]
By Ted AYALA Toys, coloring books, cartoons, play. For most of us, our lives as first-graders revolved around these and other innocuous pastimes. It’s only later – for some of us beginning in our teens, for others later still – when our minds turned to the study and contemplation of those facets of life that […]
By Charly SHELTON “Jurassic Park” is one of the best movies ever made – from a technical viewpoint, an audience viewpoint, a critic viewpoint and a science viewpoint. It is a very well done film. And now, 20 years after its initial release, it is back on the big screen looking as good as ever. […]
By Michael J. ARVIZU St. George’s Episcopal Church in La Cañada hosts a Music for Charity concert at 7:30 p.m. on April 20 benefitting the Red Shirt Project, a nonprofit organization that each summer sends young adult volunteers on a mission and work camp to support the Oglala Lakota tribe at Pine Ridge Reservation in […]
By Charly SHELTON “Greetings, True Believers!” Stan Lee wrote to his readers in the back of his comic books every week and always began by saying this, addressing his fans. It became synonymous with those fans who were real comic book nerds, worn as a badge of honor that only other nerds knew about. I […]
By Charly SHELTON I have a friend at Disneyland. He is a fellow pin trader and I have known him through that shared hobby for several years. He is a very nice guy and one heck of a trader but, if given the chance, he will talk till your ear falls off. For years he […]
By Charly SHELTON Bond. James Bond. Two words that conjure to mind adventure, espionage, gadgets, guns and girls. The quintessential series of spy films is celebrating its 50th anniversary and what better way to do so than by screening some of the best Bond films made? The Alex Theatre in Glendale is doing just that. […]