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Bringing People Together Through the Arts
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Grand Performances is one of the more remarkable public arts projects in the city of Los Angeles.
Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:51 PM PDTO’Hurley So Good
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - Actor John O’Hurley is a veritable jack-of-all-trades. Perhaps best known as the wry and quirky catalogue tycoon J. Peterman on “Seinfeld” or as the winner of the first season of “Dancing With the Stars,” O’Hurley has credits in television (including hosting “Family Feud”), film and on Broadway. He’s also a musician, author and businessman.
Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:51 PM PDT
The Bard Is Back
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - William Shakespeare’s play As You Like It, a tale of returning to a simpler time, not to mention escaping persecution by hiding out in the woods, included one of the most famous theatrical quotes of all time: “All the world’s a stage.”
Thursday, July 2, 2009 4:36 PM PDTLast Chance for Last Remaining Seats
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - If you have not yet made it to the Los Angeles Conservancy’s 23rd season of the classic film and live entertainment series Last Remaining Seats, your time is up as of today, July 1.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 12:28 PM PDTUn B-lievable
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - It’s sometime in the mid-1950s and Chicago is being threatened by a seriously mean swarm of gigantic grasshoppers, enlarged by exposure to radiation. They’re big, they’re green and they have an insatiable hunger for human flesh.
Friday, June 26, 2009 4:37 PM PDTTheater of the People
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - When the white cargo van pulled into the Home Depot parking lot on Wilshire Boulevard in City West last week, several day laborers approached. As the back doors opened, they gathered closer, hoping the driver was looking for workers.
Friday, June 19, 2009 4:32 PM PDTSigns of the Times
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - They’re just about everywhere in Los Angeles — on streets as you walk, near freeways as you zoom by, on buildings as you look up. Billboards are omnipresent, selling or promoting just about anything you need and a lot that you don’t.
Friday, June 19, 2009 4:32 PM PDTA Different Kind of Fight Club
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - David Mamet strolled the Mark Taper Forum audience on the opening night of Oleanna, shaking hands and looking not much different than he did 17 years ago when his much-celebrated battle of the sexes and examination of the social power structure premiered on Broadway.
Friday, June 12, 2009 3:09 PM PDTNine Things About the Paper Yacht Challenge
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - On Thursday, June 18, the fountain in front of City National Plaza will transform from a plain old water feature into a race course. During the second annual Psomas Paper Yacht Challenge, dozens of Downtowners will fashion (hopefully) waterproof crafts in a fundraiser for charity. Here are nine facts about the event.
Friday, June 12, 2009 4:59 PM PDT
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