Dara Weinberg

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• Posted Four Steps To A Lazy (Free) Saturday to LAist
  Just look at all those 70's film gangsters! They knew how to handle their three-day-weekends like pros. So does LAist. 1) Sleep off the "I started my Labor Day weekend drinking at 1 in the afternoon on Friday" hangover. 2) Roll out of bed and roll into the absolute beginner's yoga class at Karuna Yoga, Hillhurst, 3:30 - 4:30 pm. Karuna does a free beginner's class every first Saturday of the month and all...
• Posted Critics Curbed: Philly Bloggers Bite Back! to LAist
  The Philadelphia theater community has set up a protest blog to attack their vitriolic local critic, Toby Zinman, known as the Bitch of Broad Street for her snarky reviews. Zinman has been the main theater critic at the Philadelphia Inquirer since January and has alienated most of the town since then with statements like "You could go into the University of the Arts musical theater program and with your eyes shut point out five...
• Posted Community-Conscious Theatre at the Fountain to LAist
  LITTLE ARMENIA at the Fountain, the show developed by and for the local Armenian community surrounding the Hollywood theatre, has added two more weekend matinees before it closes September 3rd. This play was developed by Fountain writers throughout 2005, and incorporates stories from the history of Armenian politics and immigration to California. Playwright and actress Dael Orlandersmith (Pulitzer finalist for YELLOWMAN) follows next at the theatre with her one-woman show. THE GIMMICK is a...
• Posted Much Adoobie Brothers About Nothing to LAist
  Joseph Leo Bwarie, Eric Anderson, and Daren Herbert. Shakespeare? Sure! Laist doesn't think you have anything better to do with your weekend than see a Shakespearean musical cobbled together from the music of the Doobie Brothers. Yes, the Doobie Brothers. The Troubadour Theatre Company, helmed by their clowning-and-commedia-steeped director Matt Walker, has perfected the foolish, boisterous aspects of Shakespearean comedy, through a judicious pairing with the best in smooth rock. Their latest offering, at...
• Posted The Evidence Room's Last-Days-Of-Summer Reading to LAist
  Still no word on the future of Bart DeLorenzo's Evidence Room company, but an email on the sadly quiet company mailing list this week recommends two "ER-related offerings": actress Pamela Gordon's poignant last film, The Dogwalker, premiering tonight at the Laemmle Music Hall, and a new novel, The Glass Books Of The Dream Eaters, by ER playwright Gordon Dahlquist (Delirium Palace (2001), Messalina (2003)). DeLorenzo describes The Glass Books as "kind of a Victorian...