Culture

Champagne, Sparkling Wine, and the Stories in the Glass

By Lynn NIshimura, Columnist   Champagne has a fascinating relationship with popular culture. One of the most famous—and certainly one…

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Discover 12,000 Years of Culture at San Pedro’s AKM Cultural Fair

  San Pedro is an established destination for art, and starting on November’s First Thursday ArtWalk, through the weekend, the…

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Dutch Painter Wim van Aken Works Make U.S. Debut at LA Harbor Arts Gallery

  Visiting Los Angeles Harbor Arts main Gallery during October’s First Thursday ArtWalk, we were met with a beautiful collection…

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Public Works Improvisational Theater Presents 50th Anniversary Celebration, Confessions of a Pulpiteer with Lee Boek

  A foot stompin’ hallelujah show about life at the crossroads of politics, religion and liberation. Lee Boek was a…

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Take Part in the Día de los Muertos Community Altar at Angels Gate

Angels Gate Cultural Center is creating a Día de los Muertos Community Altar with the help of many hands to…

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“A Man of No Importance” bets on emotional payoff, wins with restraint

“I am the love that dare not speak its name.”                    …

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LA County: Applications Now Available for Expanded Vending Program: New Raw-to-Cooked Carts and Grants

The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity or DEO Oct. 16 announced that applications are now open for new…

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Energy and loving attention to detail make kitschy “Reefer Madness: The Musical” funnier than expected

In the United States, Schedule I substances are illegal supposedly because they are categorically unsafe, with no accepted medicinal use…

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The Renaissance of Mata Ortiz: How a Piece of Pottery Saved  the town of  Mata Ortiz in Chihuahua, Mexico

Spencer MacCallum was a slender, well-educated  man who, for reasons I was never quite sure of, ended up in San…

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Hundreds Attend AltaSea’s Blue Hour Celebration

   ~ Editors note: an earlier version of this story read: Attendees contributed more than $50,000 to support AltaSea’s Ocean…

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