ARTS Pick: A Tribute to Waltz
Waltz with me:Wes Swing says the intention behind his Fern Hill concert series is to present beautiful music in beautiful spaces, offering “qualities I’d like to see more of in […]
Creative space: Second Street show reveals painters in their natural habitats
Art in a white-walled gallery can take on an aura of total separation from the person who made it, and the context in which that person worked. For that matter, […]
Almost awesome: The Lego Movie 2 stacks up well to its predecessor
There’s been a quiet revolution happening in family entertainment for the last few years, where movies with broad popular appeal strive to be more than a way to distract your […]
ARTS Pick: Pretty Things Vaudeville Show
Hollywood offscreen: In a throwback to the pre-pixel days of entertainment, the Pretty Things Vaudeville Show wows from the stage with sword swallowers, contortionists, and traditional magic. The Hollywood-based ensemble features the mind-reading […]
Album reviews: DAWN, Steve Gunn, Mono, Sneaks, Tim Presley’s White Fence, and TOY
DAWN New Breed (Young Action) Danity Kane veteran Dawn Richard has forged a reputation as an R&B iconoclast, collaborating with Dirty Projectors and working on Adult Swim. Here she puts […]
ARTS Pick: David Bromberg Quintet
Based in blues: Musically prolific multi-instrumentalist David Bromberg has gigged with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, and Jerry Garcia, but he owes his eclecticism to blues and gospel singer Reverend Gary Davis. […]
ARTS Pick: Whose Live Anyway?
Keeping it real: Big smiles all around with Whose Live Anyway?, a tour event starring actors from the Emmy-nominated improv comedy show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?.” Greg Proops, Chip Esten, […]
Status update: Dawes scrolls past the SoCal sound on new album Passwords
The age of social media is rife with oversharing; dominated by a virtual playground where foodstagrams and political Facebook fights abound—and any semblance of privacy is tenuously maintained by CAPTCHAs […]
Action flameout: Nicole Kidman’s gritty performance can’t save Destroyer
Director Karyn Kusama is one of the most interesting directors working today who is not a household name. Her most well-known movies—the groundbreaking Girlfight, the misunderstood Jennifer’s Body and the […]
Cups up, blades out: Self-governed actors make their own rules in ASC’s Henry IV, Part 1
To a lay audience member who hasn’t been involved in a theater production since fifth grade, directors seem as essential to any play’s success as a script. They’re the boss […]