Adrienne Crew

This weekend, explore the diversity of religious, poetic and spiritual experiences in Los Angeles. UCLA Fowler Museum hosts a panel "Inside Botanicas" to compliment the museum's on-going "Botanicas LA: Latino Popular Religious Art in the City of Angels" exhibit. Sunday, December 5, 2004 2-5 PM Inside Botánicas 2 pm Panel Discussion 3:30-5 pm In-Gallery Commentary Featured artists/practitioners discuss their contributions to Botánica Los Angeles and explain the ways in which altars and shrines reflect...

Holiday time also bring out feelings of perversity. Not surprisingly, many Angelenos act on them. Vent your pent up frustrations and angst at the following somatic events: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 Check out the "Sixth Nihilist International Film Festival," with films ranging from the antisocial to the amusing. Art Priestess Anna Homler will bless the televisions brought by the attendees fifteen minutes prior to the screening. 8 PM Track 16 Gallery in the Bergamont Station...

It won't count as a sighting on Defamer.com, but the stars of stage and screen will be accessible to the faithful at various screenings and tributes about town this month. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3 The American Cinematheque presents a double feature of Reese Witherspoon in "Vanity Fair" (2004) and Alexander Payne's "Election" (1999). A discussion with Ms. Witherspoon will take place between films. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 4 The American Cinematheque pays home to American starlet Janet...

As the nights grow darker and colder, we seem to treasure light and make it the centerpiece of the winter season. Here are some upcoming events to get you in the mood: Bottom's Dream Theater Company presents the World Premiere of "FireFlow: Two Tales from Andersen" featuring 2 Hans Christian Anderson tales adapted by Erik Ehn "Matcher in the Nigh" (The Little Match Girl) and "Blister" (The Story of a Mother) directed by James...

After last night's fiery mayoral debate, we wonder if other LA elections will be as tempestuous. The Los Angeles Times doesn't seem to think the upcoming school board elections will be as contentious. For the first time in three elections, it appears there will be no contentious and expensive face-off next year for control of the Los Angeles Board of Education: Two of the three board members up for reelection did not have opponents...

The Los Angeles Times checks out folks patronizing the Central Library downtown in an article published 11/28/2004. Michael T. Jarvis writes "The Central Library in downtown Los Angeles is home to 2.2 million volumes, including books, maps, CDs, DVDs and prints... We checked out some book lovers for a quick read on the library. Ted Sweetser Space Mission Designer at JPL Pasadena What brings you here? I brought some books back. I also bought some...

The LA County Board of Supervisors just authorized a new emergency mental health clinic at the beleagured hospital. LAist is confused. Why shutter the trauma unit and open another one in the same hospital? How will this help the larger institution regain credibility in community and medical profession? Will any money go toward rehabilitating and reviving the trauma unit?...

Prop 72 lingers on, reports the December 1, 2004 edition of the Los Angeles Times, as state officials recount late ballots and report a possible marginal victory for proponents of state manadated health insurance. The fate of a statewide proposition mandating health insurance coverage -- assumed to have been defeated in the Nov. 2 election -- was thrown into confusion Tuesday night after the secretary of state's office reported that late-counted ballots had given...

Tonight at 7 PM Laemmle Theater in Santa Monica will hold a free screening of "AIDS Treatment: Reaching the People?," a film documenting the lives of patients and medical teams of HIV/AIDS treatment programs administered by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) in Malawi, Thailand, and Guatemala. Six million people urgently need treatment to survive - what will it take for HIV/AIDS medicines to reach them in time? Discussion follows with MSF field volunteers...

People from across Los Angeles will come together tonight for the dedication of The Wall-Las Memorias, the AIDS monument in Lincoln Park, in the Los Angeles community of Lincoln Heights. Singer Dionne Warwick is scheduled to perform at the event. The AIDS monument will eventually hold the names of approximately 7,500 Californians who lost their lives to AIDS. Over ten years in the making, the nearly 10,000 square foot monument includes six panels (9'x12')...