By Lisa PAREDES The last official summer holiday weekend may be over, but there’s still plenty of reason to make the trek out to the coast to enjoy a great beach day. With a drive just over an hour and change westward on the 101 and through one of the canyons to Pacific Coast Highway, […]
By Charly SHELTON If you’ve ever had a Red Bull energy drink, then you know the familiar feeling of wanting to do something reckless right now! Like skydive from a space ship. Or drive 100 miles an hour. Or build a dragon and fly away with it. That is the spirit of Red Bull – […]
By Michael YEGHIAYAN As part of its ongoing tribute to the Melville classic, “What Ever Happened to Moby Dick?” the Los Angeles Public Library and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles teamed up with actor and comedian Patton Oswalt on Saturday in an effort to introduce the novel to 21st century audiences. Oswalt, an avid […]
By Charly SHELTON It’s every parent’s worst nightmare – your child goes missing. But the real question doesn’t lie in how you will handle it. The question is how far would you go to bring your child home. Hugh Jackman stars as a Keller Dover, a father coping with the disappearance of his daughter. Dover’s […]
By Ted AYALA Among the bumper crop of world-class chamber music within a stone’s throw anywhere you step these days in Southern California, Camerata Pacifica manages to carve out its own unique niche in this crowd. How do they do it? Combine one part wildly eclectic and even provocative programs, one part high-energy atmosphere, and […]
By Ted AYALA Are there any Jewel City residents looking to spend the last, lingering hot summer nights of the year with some live music and open-air surroundings? If that’s you, Glendale Arts has just the thing. Every Thursday night through the end of the month, Glendale Arts will be presenting a series of free […]
By Charly SHELTON I emerged from my cave to write this article. The sun glints in my eyes, which have been adjusted only to the light of a television since Aug. 19 – the day I got “Disney Infinity.” I think I actually forgot what the sky looked like. This game is so engrossing that […]
By Susan JAMES Whoever your favorite superhero is – the guy with the bat ears or the cape or the spidey hands – he’s a total wuss compared to our boy Richard Riddick. With his moonglow eyes that see best in the dark and his in-your-face physicality, Vin Diesel’s wanted criminal has been dodging enemies […]