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The community altar is part of a 10-day cultural exhibition at Gloria Molina Grand Park in downtown L.A.
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Theatre Banshee deserves a great deal of credit for taking a risk on a black comedy as dark and difficult as Enda Walsh's The Walworth Farce. It's a loud, confrontational, complicated play, more symbolic than realistic. It requires the audience to sit up and pay attention, to keep up with its tangle of tales and personas and tragedy.
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Who doesn't love Flamenco? Guitarist David Maldonado is performing tomorrow night at the Ford Ampitheatre with dancers that you might have seen on "Dancing with the Stars" (Katie Miller) or as performers all over the world.
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes may be the missing link between the classic series & modern moviegoers. Bellflower's a Sundance darling sporting serious firepower under its twee hood.
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Images of Los Angeles can sometimes so evocatively capture what it is like to really be--and see--here. A new gallery show, "I Love L.A." will put on display the work of 42 photographers whose images represent their love for L.A. and the opening reception is open to the public next Thursday night.
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We caught the final 3 days of the Just For Laughs festival in Montréal = amazing! We will be going back for at least a week at next year's 30th anniversary event. With all the comedians and entertainment industry focus in LA, it's a shame that a similar event can't be launched but perhaps it's for the better.
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AMC's "Breaking Bad" isn't going anywhere, there is no 'drama' about the negotiations, and AMC itself is not becoming a failed network, so ignore the idiotic echochamber that is the Internet and enjoy one of the best shows ever on TV. --- Plus check out the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan for tonight.
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Have you ever wanted to physically hurt a bad comedian? Actually, I haven't either, but maybe we're in the minority. Tomorrow night, the Comedy Store will present "Paid or Pain," a show subjecting professional joke-sters to the whims of a voting audience that has the ability to shower them with cash, or hand them over to a professional dominatrix.
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One of our favorite oceanfront venues is Santa Monica's Annenberg Beach House, and they have just announced an upcoming opportunity to experience their gorgeous pool with your fellow grown ups for an adult evening's beach party.
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Though singer Etta James has been confined to her Riverside home and seriously ill for some time now, she is not dead, no matter what you may have read online, reports L.A. Now. The 73-year-old blues singer's son Donto James attests: “She’s fine. I just saw her last night and she was fine."
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Craig Ferguson's jaunt to Paris has been a lot of fun this week but tonight we'll have to defer to Jimmy Fallon's lineup which includes Jason Bateman, Freida Pinto, Tony Bennett, and Big Audio Dynamite. --- We've got casting news and the TV Junkie Must-Watch Plan in the full post.
