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Review of The Universe of Matt Jenningsnew
Review of The Universe of Matt Jennings at the Long Beach Playhouse. It's stage production that takes Star Trek where it never has been before.
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John Farrell |
04-10-2012 |
Theater
LES & ANNIE CLAYPOOL: Echo Park’s Last And Truest Bohemiansnew
Little more than 50 years ago, a guy named Les Claypool lived with his lovely wife Annie at the top of Echo Park Avenue in what may be the most Bohemian section of Los Angeles. They lived in a home built on the steep hillside out of giant redwood lumber and lots of glass and sunshine. It was a lovely place to wake up in after a great night of partying.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
04-06-2012 |
Commentary
Culture Clash's American Night: The Ballad of Juan Josenew
Culture Clash is back with a new production, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose.
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John Farrell |
03-26-2012 |
Theater
Why I Like My Old Friend Gerald Nicosia So Muchnew
Lionel Rolfe's recollections of his time with Gerald Nicosia and the making of On the Road.
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Lionel Rolfe |
03-23-2012 |
Commentary
Saving Shakespeare From a Thousand Cutsnew
In these lean times of budget cuts and reduced services, Shakespeare by the Sea's Lisa Coffi has had to work much harder to continue the Shakespearian showcase.
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John Farrell |
03-23-2012 |
Theater
The Greatest Music In The Worldnew
You might ask by what right do I have to proclaim what is the greatest music in the world and what isn’t. Who the hell am I? Well, you can judge by what I say, but when it comes right down to it, your opinion has as much validity as mine.
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Lionel Rolfe |
12-08-2011 |
Commentary
People’s Capitalism Is Dead!new
With two of the three leading Republican candidates for president threatening to set up a new Christian theocracy, this next election may be our last. We know that it will be brutal, the Republicans will use every cheap bullying lie and tactic that they can, and we’ll end up with America’s first fascist state if they prevail.
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Lionel Rolfe |
08-26-2011 |
Commentary
Who Was The Real Columbo?new
The death of Peter Falk at 83, the actor whose most famous role was a rumpled, eccentric Los Angeles police detective named “Lt. Columbo,” brought to mind the real story of who Columbo was.
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Lionel Rolfe |
07-01-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Columbo, Peter Falk
A Reunion At Mt. Lowenew
Lionel Rolfe is the author of “Literary L.A.,” about which a documentary is being made. The following are his recollections of his teen years at Mount Lowe Military Academy in Altadena, California and the secrets that mostly died with its closing.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
06-27-2011 |
History
Roots in the Garden of California’s Bohemianew
Charles Fletcher Lummis, L.A.’s “renaissance man” from the turn of the last century, began building El Alisal in 1897. Later, he liked to throw soirées on Saturday nights there among the sycamores on the Arroyo Seco. That is the memory people will try to recreate at El Alisal and along the arroyo when artists, poets, musicians and dancers celebrate “Charles Lummis Day” on Sunday, June 5.
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Lionel Rolfe |
06-03-2011 |
Commentary
My Hero, Ed Asnernew
Twenty-five years ago, my mentor and hero was a city editor of television fame. The actor's name was Ed Asner and he played a city editor named Lou Grant, which was also the name of the television series.
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Lionel Rolfe |
04-14-2011 |
Commentary
Photographer Phil Stern Opens His Own Gallerynew
The Phil Stern gallery in downtown Los Angeles opened its doors last week to the general public, a few days later than planned.
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Lionel Rolfe |
02-14-2011 |
Art
A Blast On Broadwaynew
Bombing of the L.A. Times Anniversary.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe, Nigey Lennon, Paul Greenstein |
09-20-2010 |
History
Bukowski: Tales of an Extraordinary Madmannew
Charles Bukowski was especially popular in his native Germany, but in the United States he was selling only in the hundreds. Even though the movie Barfly didn’t do well at the box office, it helped draw more attention Bukowski’s way. Let me tell you about the time I reconstructed Bukowski.
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Lionel Rolfe |
05-21-2010 |
Commentary
A Commentary on Genre
While sleekly presented in an avant noir style, each vignette is a superb niche in the ten main genres commonly placed on the video shelf, reflecting as the artist insists on something similar to the ten Aristotelian categories of reality.
Random Lengths News |
Armando Ruiz and James Preston Allen |
09-15-2006 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
