By John FarrellThe concert that opened the Long Beach Symphony Orchestra’s 2012-2013 was predictably glorious, with Music Director Enrique Arturo Diemecke, starting his 12th season with the orchestra, leading his charges in Prokofiev’s exciting Piano Concerto No. 3 with Haochen Zhang as soloist and the Tchaikovsky Fifth Symphony to finish the evening.
It was also very different.
Just when you have had enough serious campaigning, lies and spin control to last you through two or three presidential elections, the Torrance Theatre Company comes to your rescue.
You don’t have to listen to politicians tell you what may be half-truths and lies. Instead, you can see The Complete History of America (Abridged) and let professional actors, who have actual experience, do all the lying. They, after all, have plenty of experience.
By Lyn Jensen, Contributing Writer
On weekend of Oct. 12 through 14, the fan-driven comics convention known as Yaoi-Con will be taking place in Long Beach for the first time.
Event organizers are calling it a “celebration of male beauty and passion.”
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Marriage Equality Phone Banking
Come out and work for Marriage Equality, from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays, at The Center in Long Beach. Marriage Equality, ACLU, and The Center in Long Beach are partnering in this phone banking effort to support the referendum on same-sex marriage in Washington State.
Details:porterg@centerlb.org
Venue: The Center in Long Beach
Location: 2017 E. 4TH Street, Long Beach
Dancing Your Shame into Joy
Attend “Dancing Your Shame into Joy: Re-Claiming Your Noble Gifts,” a free expressive arts workshop led by social worker Claudia Gold, from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Oct. 14, at Building “H” of Angels Gate in San Pedro.
The workshop will include some expressive arts including visual art and body-mind exercises.
Gold is standing for the 90 percent of women, who in a study by researcher
Brene Brown, said they felt ashamed of their bodies. Women have been put into straight-jackets about their appearance, few of them fit, and then women are persuaded that being in them is their agenda. For whose benefit?
As a social worker who has taught 30 college classes locally and worked for 12 years at Long Beach Memorial, she is also offering tools for these women.
Details: (310) 707-6306; ShameIntoJoy.com
OnNov. 8, Los Angeles voters will be faced with 11 statewide ballot measures and 3 local ballot measures.
To help voters better understand the issues, Los Angeles Harbor College, Harbor City Neighborhood Council, Harbor City/Harbor Gateway Chamber of Commerce, Northwest San Pedro Neighborhood Council, San Pedro Chamber of Commerce, San Pedro Democratic Club, San Pedro Republican Club, Wilmington Chamber of Commerce, and Wilmington Neighborhood Council are co-sponsoring a community forum from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday, October 13 at the Music Recital Hall at Los Angeles Harbor College, 1111 Figueroa Place, Wilmington (on Figueroa Place just north of Anaheim Street and south of Pacific Coast Highway). Parking is free.
By Lionel Rolfe
Until I saw him in the debate, I hadn’t really thought much about why Mitt Romney gets on my nerves so badly. He obviously gets on other people’s nerves as well, even including some conservatives, and even other Mormons like Jon Huntsman and Harry Reid.
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.
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