Even Minorities have minorities.
That’s what the second annual Brown & Out Festival at Casa 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights is all about. Its about a gay couple who have to get their traditional Latino parents to accept the new baby they have adopted. It’s about an intimate Lesbian encounter in which jalapeno juice gets in a very private part. It’s about suicide, Charlie Brown, and a whole lot more.
If you’ve seen one Hamlet, don’t think you’ve seen them all.
The play, perhaps the greatest tragedy in English, is a complex story of oedipal guilt, revenge and murder, and it is, in what we know of it, more than 4 hours long, filled with complex characters and enough quotes to fill a book.
Following the success of last year’s production ofYeomen of the Guardby Gilbert and Sullivan, the Sierra Madre Playhouse has revivedRuddigore or The Witch’s Curse, the English duo’s wonderfully satiric look at 19th century melodrama.
ThoughRuddigoreis not one of G and S’s best-known works, it should be. Filled with a dozen or so memorable songs, entertaining characters and a wonderfully Gilbertian ending, it has been reset to Morro Bay circa 1950 in this production, apparently because surfer costumes are cheap. But that doesn’t make much difference, though having a bad Baronet in California is a bit of a stretch.
Kevin Walker, Long Beach ReporterLong Beach City Attorney Robert Shannon blocked a request by the city council for an independent investigation of Harbor Commissioner Doug Drummond’s charges of cronyism and bribery amongst two of his commission colleagues.
Drummond made the allegation during a closed session of the Harbor Commission on Aug. 20 and came to public attention when a letter written by Commissioner Thomas Fields to Mayor Bob Foster and City Attorney Shannon was leaked to the Long Beach Press Telegram.
In what appears to be a move to cut losses on an 8-date concert tour, the Railroad Revival Tour featuring country music star Willie Nelson is officially cancelled. The bottom line is that there’s no money to fund these concerts across the United States. Without large investors and major sponsor participation, it is very hard to stage an event of this scale. Depending on ticket sale exclusively is not something that works very well in most cases.
Editorial Note: The online edition corrects an error made in the print edition of Random Lengths regarding the outcome of the vote. We regret the confusion.
By Kevin Walker, Contributing Writer
A three month old ban on dispensaries selling medical marijuana in the city of Los Angeles was repealed in an 11-2 vote on Tuesday Oct.2 by the City Council. Councilman Joe Buscaino’s vote was one of the minority. The council’s move will keep a referendum on the now defunct ban off the March 5 ballot when Angeleno’s will head to the polls to vote on, among other things, who will replace Antonio Villaraigosa as the city’s next mayor.
Every Four Years the Bolts Seem to Come off the Wheels of the Republican Go-cart
By James Preston Allen, Publisher
I know that you’ve all seen the emails and Facebook postings proclaiming Obama to be a socialist, a closet Muslim or even still from the “birthers” that he wasn’t even born here! It seems like the closer it appears that he might actually win re-election the more irate the screams from the Republican balcony become. You will note that I print the occasional rant from my right-wing critics in our letters column. I do so relishing the idea that I’m both providing a space for them to exercise their rights to free speech and exposing Random Lengths readers to the fact that not all of our neighbors are left leaning card carrying unionists.
If you want to see Johann Sebastian Bach in action, then you probably don’t want to see Bach at Leipzig, the enormously informative and entertaining slapstick farce that is currently at the Little Fish Theatre on the weekends through October 14.
You’d be surprised by just how many laughs you can get with a plate of sardines.
Then again, maybe you wouldn’t, because thousands of people have laughed at Michael Frayn’s Noises Off since it first premiered in London 30 years ago. If you’ve seen it, you’ll want to see it again at the Norris Theater in Rolling Hills Estates, where it is playing weekends through October 7. And if you haven’t seen it, do yourself the favor of going and discovering just how funny sardines and actors can be.
On Sept. 24, Lee Marie Anderson, widow of former congressman and California Lt. Gov. Glenn Anderson (1959 – 1967), died from from complications of melanoma at the age of 87.
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