Posted Pencil This In: A New 'Moth,' Stinkers Auction and Cause on the Rocks to LAist
Strawberries + booze for a good cause at the Viceroy all month. | Photo by Robbie via LAist's flickr pool. TALK Last year, Lori Gottlieb's wrote a controversial Atlantic article, "Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough." Being with Mr. Alright is better than alone, she posits. In another Atlantic article, radio commentator Sandra Tsing Loh concluded that marriage was overrated. The two NPR correspondents will discuss modern love and marriage...
Posted Book Review - Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums to LAist
Marisa Matarazzo at Book Soup tomorrow. When we were sent an early copy of Marisa Matarazzo’s first book Drenched: Stories of Love and Other Deliriums, the title, the naked woman swimming on the cover and the gimmicky Valentine’s Day release date made us a little dubious of its contents. Would it be a Harlequin-eque bodice ripper? Or another innocuous but banal attempt at chick lit? But what the LA-based Matarazzo has given readers doesn’t...
Posted Pencil This In: Rant & Rave at Rogue Machine, Tarantino in Person at the Egyptian, to LAist
Photo by Archie Tucker via LAist's flickr pool. BASTERDS Quentin Tarantino is in person tonight at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood for a double-feature of his films: Pulp Fiction at 6 pm, followed by Inglorious Basterds. There’s a moderated discussion following each film with director Tarantino. Tickets are $11 and student/senior are $9. READING* It’s the latest installment of Rant & Rave at Rogue Machine tonight at 8 pm. A group of writers are...
Posted Pencil This In: Twelfth Night at Hollywood Forever, Salute to Yamaha Pianos and Urban Death to LAist
Photo by Lord Jim via LAist's flickr pool. THEATER Chalk Rep’s Twelfth Night opens tonight at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Shakespeare’s classic comedy of mistaken identity integrates indie folk rock and a high fashion sensibility. The play runs weekends through Feb. 28. Tickets are $30, but there are pay-what-you-can performances on Super Bowl Sunday at 7 pm and Sat., Feb. 13th at 2 pm. PIANO Musicians salute Yamaha tonight at 8:30...
Posted From Bach to Radiohead: Introducing the wild Up Modern Musical Collective to LAist
The new wild Up musical ensemble debuts tomorrow night at Jensen's Recreation Center in Echo Park, under the direction of 26-year-old Christopher Rountree. The evening will traverse a musical timeline that begins with J.S. Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto" (1721) and ends with Radiohead's "In Rainbows" (2007). This 24-piece musical collective also seeks to bust the mold of classical music equating to serious stodginess. We asked Rountree a few questions about the ambitious-sounding wild Up show: wild...
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