This Week in L.A.

Ring, Ingres, Vertigo

March 8, 2010

Monday

Laila Lalami: The author reads and signs Secret Son.
Storytelling: A workshop at the Annenberg Community Beach House with Michael D. McCarty.

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This Week in L.A.: Archives

Silence, Love, Silk

On March 1, 2010

Monday

Hopper’s Silence: A documentary screening and discussion with the filmmaker, Brian O’Doherty, a friend of Edward Hopper’s, at the Getty.
Love Hurts: 826LA presents three writers on love, and mingling afterward.

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Elvis, Stiglitz, Gold

On February 22, 2010

Monday

Elvis: The final master class on the King at the Grammy Museum.
Holly Rothschild: The Annenberg Community Beach House’s artist in residence talks dance in unlikely places.
Gabriel Thompson: On his book, Working in the Shadows.

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Presidents, Panoramas, Dragons

On February 15, 2010

Monday

Presidents Day: Free admission at LACMA.

Tuesday

Renoir after Impressionism: A lecture, special exhibition, and reception at LACMA.
Louis Armstrong: The Grammy Museum screens a never-before-seen concert film.

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Love, Embrace, Wine

On February 8, 2010

Monday

Scotty McLennan: The inspiration for Doonesbury’s Rev. Scot Sloan talks about Christianity and liberalism.

Tuesday

Wagner and anti-Semitism: A panel discussion on the composer’s politics, and whether they matter in performances today, at the Hammer.

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Articles

Feuilleton
Monday, July 6, 2009
Abe Lowenthal on Globalizing California
Swati Pandey

Abe Lowenthal

According to Abraham F. Lowenthal, professor of international relations at the University of Southern California, California shouldn't get too preoccupied with its current economic crisis, however pressing. "It is important to pay attention to the urgent, but it is equally vital to keep our eye on what's going to be truly important in the 21st century....

Poetry
This week in L.A.
From the green room
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Orson Welles
Swati Pandey

Orson Welles was born on May 6, 1915, and directed his most acclaimed film, Citizen Kane, at age 26. Years later, after a couple disastrous movies and a sojourn in Europe, he would reunite with one of its stars, Joseph Cotton, in The Third Man. Welles' character, Harry Lime, is the missing center of the movie until he appears, finally, and explains his motives for entering a less-than-savory line of work....

 
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