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First off, let me concede that you gotta like Pat Hughes. Hate the Rickettses and what they've done to Rickettsville, hate the Cubs and what... Read full article: Staff Pick: Best sportscaster...→

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Richard L. Buick, 30, was in the driver’s seat of a vehicle about 9:30 a.m. when a gunman approached him and fired shots outside of Moving Everest Charter School in the 400 block of North Laramie Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County m Read full article: Staffers rush to aid man fatally shot ou...→

Tim Bond, who has worked at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and garnered acclaim for theater direction, succeeds Robert Kelley at TheatreWorks. Read full article: TheatreWorks Silicon Valley has found it...→

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Breasts are as much a comedy staple as penis jokes. But The Second City’s Life in Boobs isn’t about perpetuating male fantasies. Created by Jennifer Goodman and directed by Casey Christensen (with music by Rachael Lawrence), the musical comedy mixes monologues and scenes that look at the perky highs and sagging lows of our lady … Read full article: Theater Pick: Examining a Bodacious Life...→

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MOSCOW (AP) — Mark Zakharov, a renowned Russian theater and film director whose productions have been widely acclaimed and loved by several generations of Russians, has died. He was 85. Moscow̵… Read full article: Russian theater and film director Mark Z...→

Biographies on Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, including O’Connor’s own memoirs, can fill shelves, but Linda Hirshman’s 2015 Sisters in Law: How Sandra Day O’Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg Went to the Supreme Court and Changed the World is the only dual biography on the first and second female justice. Hirshman, a lawyer … Read full article: Theater Pick: Exploring the lives of Sis...→

A Charles Phoenix event can be likened to your favorite dessert. It’s colorful, it’s tasty, it’s nostalgic and it’s good old fashioned fun. The launch of the beloved L.A. pop culture king’s latest coffee table book is sure to be no exception. His new book Holiday Jubilee celebrates Halloween, Christmas, Easter and more like only … Read full article: Book Event Pick: Charles Phoenix's Holid...→

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“Sometimes the softest touch is enough to drive you the wildest/Caught in between another sleepless dream,” Pearl Charles coos invitingly on the title track of her 2018 album, Sleepless Dreamer. The native Los Angeles vocalist uses a soft touch as she wanders through a set of original pop, country and soul tunes such as “Long Hair” … Read full article: Music Pick: Pearl Charles - LA Weekly...→

A new dimension in immersive art awaits you when you experience Moving Arts, an initiative of Theater at The Museum that involves the ongoing exhibitions and installations sprinkled throughout the grounds of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Read full article: Theater Pick: Moving Arts at LACMA - LA ...→

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Burgess Clark, a veteran theater educator and playwright, resigned last Tuesday. Read full article: Boston theater director is accused of in...→

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A teacher and theater director at Senn High School in the Edgewater neighborhood stood accused Tuesday of sexually abusing a student at the school for several years. Read full article: Senn High School Teacher, Theater Direct...→

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The head of First Lady Chirlane McCray’s embattled mental health program, ThriveNYC, claimed that it doesn’t have an abnormally high staff turnover rate — even though the plan’s own data says… Read full article: ThriveNYC director downplays program’s a...→

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Louis Vuitton artistic director Nicolas Ghesquière included the hashtags #trumpisajoke and #homophobia. Read full article: After Trump and Ivanka visit, Louis Vuit...→

Hollywood writer-director Larry Charles issued a rallying call to the left on Wednesday and smeared the millions of Americans showing up at President Donald Trump's campaign rallies as paid and "hypnotized." Read full article: Director Larry Charles: Trump Rallies an...→

“Take your broken heart — and turn it into art.” That’s what Carrie Fisher once said about sadness and redemption, and she knew a thing or two about such things — hence the importance of Forbidden Love: A Musical Theater Cabaret. The performers in tonight’s cabaret will take all the ecstatic agonies of thwarted love, … Read full article: Theater Pick: Forbidden Love - LA Weekly...→

Filmmaking siblings Ethan and Joel Cohen have demonstrated a certain elan in their collaborations on such films as Miller’s Crossing and True Grit. While their movies aren’t always as emotionally compelling as they are stylish, Ethan Cohen’s latest project, A Play Is a Poem — which is actually five otherwise unrelated short plays sharing Americana … Read full article: Theater Pick: Ethan Cohen's New American...→

Joel Ewing, who has appeared in productions at several theaters in Chicago, allegedly had inappropriate contact with the girl starting when she was 15, prosecutors said. Read full article: CPS theater director sexually assaulted ...→