By Charly SHELTON Christmas time is back, and that means taking the entire family on an annual trip to Disneyland. The holly, the Christmas tree, the candles all lit up in the windows – it spells Christmas. Returning this year is “It’s A Small World Holiday,” the joyous cruise around the world to see Christmas […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The CVHS Prom Plus Holiday Home Tour is this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. This year there are three homes, one truly holiday decked out shop and a youth house on the tour. For many the home tour has become an annual tradition. Each year the homes on the tour […]
By scuzzybit, Independent Program Request: Access Code 6 Password Series PS 17 Reindeer Flotilla… Greetings, Programs! As you all know, the most important movie of the year is coming in just two weeks. All across the Grid, you have all seen updates from my user, Charly Shelton, at conventions and gatherings for the last year […]
By Ted AYALA If there is anything tougher than buying Christmas presents for your nearest and dearest, it’s buying Christmas CDs. Amidst the morass of “Jingle Cats,” “Jingle Dogs,” and whatever other jingling beasts known to man lie in wait at your local record store aisle, finding a good classical Christmas CD can be tough. […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley High School dance has completed auditions and this year’s CV’s “Got Talent” is in rehearsals. The show’s dance class expanded its winter performance a few years ago to include the talented students of CVHS. “When we get everything done it will be an amazing show. We have so much talent […]
By Mary O’KEEFE A new theatre company is preparing to take the stage in La Crescenta with a new play by veteran writer Sam Bobrick. “Two Dukes and a Duchess Theatre Company” is comprised of three 20-something college friends Chris Higgins, Allie Olson and Charly Shelton. The three met when they were cast in Bobrick’s […]
By Ted AYALA Though still about a month away, it seems that winter has finally arrived in Los Angeles. Grey, and briskly cool; there is something about those days that makes one want to wrap themselves in all things warm comforting, and familiar. So it was a pleasant surprise to discover that the Santa Cecilia […]
By Charly SHELTON Most all of us loved “The Hangover.” Stupid humor but absolutely hilarious. Now the writers and director reteam with star Zach Galifanakis to strike gold again. But instead of just joke after joke, this film is peppered with real emotion, showing that Galifanakis not only can make us cry from laughter, but […]
By Susan JAMES If you think you’ve seen this movie before, you’re right. Director Roger Michell’s good-natured new comedy, “Morning Glory” revisits the hottest romantic formula of the last five decades, the love affair between a girl and her career. Ever since Marlo Thomas flew her kite across the screen in the 1960s TV show […]
By Ted AYALA The Los Angeles Doctors Symphony Orchestra (LADSO) traded in their scalpels for fiddle bows last Friday night in a concert at the Wilshire Ebell Theater of Los Angeles. Enjoying their new home at the Ebell, the LADSO celebrated by commissioning a brand new piece of music from one of its own musicians, […]