Pico Union, Pico Boulevard, Pico Rivera … so who was Pico? Actors playing zombies don’t need acting classes. El Nino is bringing welcome rain, but it’s also bringing a lot of uncommon marine species to Southern California, including the highly venomous yellow bellied sea snake. The only group allowed to bring notorious, wonderful EC Comics to life on the stage. We go to the Arboretum to see if it’s finally the right time to rip out your lawn and plant drought tolerant species … but we’ll also ask how the rains of El Nino fit into the picture.
A new show at the Getty Villa shows the Greece of 200 years ago — an ancient, empty, alien landscape of a long lost civilization, fallen into a ruin of broken columns and shattered pediments.
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He lived nearly a century, overthrew two governors, and gambled $25,000 on a single race. Maybe it isn't surprising that he needed two graves.
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It's more than just the sea snake. Dozens of tropical marine species are moving into Southern California's coast as El Niño brings abnormally warm water north.
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There's an El Niño on the horizon, and with it a record breaking rainy season is also on the horizon. What's a drought-conscious Angeleno to do?
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Captured Aural Phantasy Theater is the only troupe with permission to perform stories from notoriously sexy and gory EC Comics, and they're doing it at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.
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The DWP and the city are like a binary star system. They rotate around one another rather than working in sync.
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"And then, when you think it can't get worse, they bring out the contact lenses — and let me tell you, having a strange woman touching your eyeballs at 7 a.m. is less fun than it sounds."
Fans of jangly 80's pop rock (Stone Roses, New Order, Orange Juice) can find a new, exciting band to follow in Los Angeles' Roses.
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Mary and Vincent Price loved food, but they weren't snooty. Their "A Treasury of Great Recipes" turns 50 this year. Elina Shatkin gets the backstory with daughter Victoria Price.
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I have a dream in which all the public radio stations in town collaborate to foil people who turn off a station that's fundraising and switch over to one that isn't.
‘’I told myself,’’ German artist Otto Dix said, ‘‘that life is not colorful at all. It is much darker, quieter in its tonality, much simpler. I wanted to depict things as they really are."