• Bureaucracy Beats All in “The Consul”

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]As far as opera’s go, The Consul qualifies as modern. First performed in 1950, Gian Carlo Menotti’s bleaker-than-bleak tale of one woman’s struggle to escape her poor police state of a country

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  • Hell Is the Modern World in “Machinal”

    Sophie Treadwell’s expressionistic telling of one woman’s struggle to find her way in a world she experiences as mechanistically cold and condemningly absurd seems to spring from Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, and David Lynch. The fact that MachinalRead More

  • Grand Annex Showcases Electrifying Hispanic Beats in October

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Melina Paris, Music Columnist One of Spain’s finest guitarists and an all-female salsa band are slated to get all feet on the dance floor this month at the Grand Annex in San Pedro. Spanish guitarist El Twanguero performs Oct. 13 and Las Chik

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  • El Twanguero

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    Oct 13 El Twanguero Back by popular demand! Once called a "fire-breathing guitar hero" by U.S. press, the Grammy and Goya award-winning guitarist, Diego Garcia, puts a Spanish twist on American rock ’n’ roll stylings of Chet Atkins, Carl Perkins and Les Paul. Time:

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  • El Twanguero

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    Oct 13 El Twanguero Back b

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  • Everyday Outlaw

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    Sept. 30 Everyday Outlaw Down from the High Sierras, this Tahoe-based country band kicks up the best of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and George Jones with a traditional honky-tonk lineup of acoustic guitar, telecaster, pedal steel, bass and drums. Time: 8

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  • Beh

    [vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]By Greggory Moore, Contributing Writer On a temperate October night in 2013, the artist and curatorial collective called FLOOD transformed Long Beach’s East Village Arts District into an indoor and outdoor gallery of sound-art installations. Four square blocks of downtown were con

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  • Arsenio Rodriguez Project

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      Sept. 23 The Arsenio Rodrigu

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  • Hancock and Washington Break through New Dimensions at the Bowl

    [vc_row content_placement="top" el_class="frontpagetop"][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_separator border_width="2"][vc_column_text]Seeing Herbie Hancock and Kamasi Washington share the stage would be way too powerful. The masters must be taken in synchronized doses to let us take in the magic. Read More

  • The Creation of Man and La Muerte

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