Culture

LA County Library to Expand Digital Library Access

Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the expansion of the digital library card from just LA County residents to…

2 years ago

Memento Mori and The Macabre

Artist receptions will happen Oct. 14 and 15. A brief opening ceremony will take place within the first hour of…

2 years ago

KO’d by Eggplant

The Turkish phrase means, “the Imam fainted,” and the implication is that the decadent and aromatic experience of eating this…

2 years ago

LA County Library Joins National Books Unbanned Initiative, Digital Library Card for Teens Launches

LA County Library has partnered with Brooklyn Public Library and Seattle Public Library to join the Books Unbanned initiative, a…

2 years ago

Burning Man and the Lack of Suffering (Even in the Muck)

To enumerate all the joyful wonders on offer at Burning Man (which is to say, the libertarian, quasi-socialist, quasi-anarchist, judgment-free,…

2 years ago

“Frankenstein 1930” Is More Melodrama Than Mary Shelley

Don’t ask me to explain the title of Frankenstein 1930. Yes, it’s based on the 1931 film. But 1930? There’s…

2 years ago

“Seminar” Marries Nice Writing to Excellent Acting

Nominally, Theresa Rebeck’s Seminar is about writing, with four young New Yorkers paying $5,000 apiece for a 10-week seminar with…

2 years ago

Random Happening: Make it Cultural Weekend at the Watts Towers Day of the Drum and Simon Rodia Watts Towers Jazz Festivals

Get ready, because in just over a week the Department of Cultural Affairs or DCA and the Friends of Watts…

2 years ago

Men’s Central Jail Visiting Center Unveils New Children’s Library

This reading area can be the beginning of newly formed bonds of children and their family members, despite their hard…

2 years ago

Perfectly Performed “Thom Pain” Perhaps Too Reminiscent of Beckett

Peruse playwright Will Eno’s bookcase and no doubt you’ll come across not only the usual Samuel Beckett suspects but also…

2 years ago