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Behold! five great things you should do in Southern California this week, from art to food to music to wild card adventures from the makers of the 5 Every Day app.
Tapestries are what we too often hurry past in a museum to get to the paintings. But in the past, these woven masterpieces seemed at least as important to the ruling elites as anything on canvas.
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Gladys Knight rings in 2016 at Disney Hall, but first she talks with John Rabe about her new and old music, signing with Motown and keeping that legendary voice in shape.
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Frogtown sandwich shop Wax Paper, which names its sandwiches after public radio personalities, to donate proceeds from the Steve Julian for the Morning Edition host's medical costs.
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Couture is all about the dress fitting the body, not the body fitting the dress. By teaching myself how to sew, I now had this power over my clothes I never had before. I didn't have to worry about my irregular butt or my chest that is Jr. High-level small.
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At the Judson Studios in Highland Park, one family has been making art from glass for five generations.
Behold! five great things you should do in Southern California this week, from art to food to music to wild card adventures from the makers of the 5 Every Day app.
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R.H. Greene assesses the year's best documentaries, including "Amy," "The Look of Silence" and "(T)Error." No blockbusters, but plenty of good films relevant to our culture.
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Marc Haefele reviews the first English recording of the short opera "The Long Christmas Dinner," by Paul Hindemith and Thornton Wilder.
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Where else will you find Rachel Bloom, Larry Mantle, Salman Rushdie, and Sylvia Poggioli rendering Clement Moore's "A Visit from St Nicholas" for your ears?
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Rankin and Bass' 1970 masterwork "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town," an origin myth for Santa, is almost as Jewish thematically as the annual Chabad telethon.
The dancer turned graphic artist turned musician got his start crooning with a combo at the Air Force’s Officers’ Club, but didn’t truly pick up singing again until he was in his mid-seventies.