Bentley’s Bandstand: Stan Ridgeway, Neon Mirage

September 3, 2010 by Karen  
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BY BILL BENTLEY

Stan Ridgway, Neon Mirage, A440 Records

Take some of the nocturnal knowledge inherent to Los Angeles that Jim Morrison so famously tapped, add a bit of Dean Martin’s way cool swing-a-ding-ding and then drop in a splash…

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This Labor Day “pay-what-you-can” for two stunning productions at the Lonny Chapman Theatre

August 31, 2010 by Karen  
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BY JACKIE HOUCHIN

Two stunning, character-driven plays are running concurrently at the Lonny Chapman Theatre in North Hollywood — “A Walk in the Woods,” directed by Richard Alan Woody and performed by two amazing and skilled actors, and…

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Bentley’s Bandstand: Eli “Paperboy” Reed, Come and Get It

August 24, 2010 by Karen  
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BY BILL BENTLEY

Eli “Paperboy” Reed, Come and Get It

Soul music cannot be contained by time. It is all about expressing emotions that transcend the moment, those feelings which flood the heart and last forever. The music was born…

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A truly swashbuckling staging of The Three Musketeers

BY JACKIE HOUCHIN

The word that most often describes Alexandre Dumas’ “The Three Musketeers” is swashbuckling, and indeed you’d be hard pressed to find three (no, four) more swaggering, vociferous, impetuous, and confident fellows than his Aramis, Athos, Portos and…

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Theater Listings

August 22, 2010 by Karen  
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Room to Improv at the Two Roads Theatre

An all-Asian American theatre troupe that performs and practices the art of short and longer form improvisation. Every performance is unique because the games and scenes that are created are based on…

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A brilliantly staged Amadeus at Chandler Studio

BY AMY LYONS

When fine playwriting meets inspired acting and directing, the result is a show like the Production Company’s “Amadeus.”

It’s about jealousy, it’s about…

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Bentley’s Bandstand: Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

August 18, 2010 by Karen  
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BY BILL BENTLEY

Brian Wilson, Reimagines Gershwin, Walt Disney Records

Winnie the Pooh, another proud member of the Walt Disney stable, would surely be smiling about Brian Wilson’s new album, if for no other reason that it takes a minute…

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Acclaimed Holocaust film advance screening and event at Encino Laemmle

August 12, 2010 by Karen  
Filed under Arts & Culture, Featured, My Daily Find

BY KAREN YOUNG

The Laemmle Town Center 5 in Encino will have an advance screening of the profoundly powerful, award-winning 2010 Holocaust documentary, A Film Unfinished, on August 17,  before its official opening on August 20.

There will be a…

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Truths in sexuality uncovered in coming of age comedy at the Secret Rose

August 10, 2010 by Karen  
Filed under Arts & Culture, Featured, My Daily Find, Theater

BY AMY LYONS

Three high school students in Salem, Oregon, struggle through the teenage years without many friends and even fewer forums for honest self expression. Throw in a sex scandal and these young people are as confused as they…

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Bentley’s Bandstand: Carlou D’s Muzikr

August 10, 2010 by Karen  
Filed under Arts & Culture, Music

BY BILL BENTLEY

Carlou D, Muzikr, World Village Records

So often the best music sounds like nursery rhymes for adults. No matter what language they use, some singers are able to go immediately deep inside us without hardly trying. They…

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