Surkus plants pretty party people for perfect PR. Does The Broad museum on Grand Avenue match expectations? The music of Quitapenas. Brains On - the science podcast for kids. Making a living paying tribute to The Bob Dylan of Mexico.
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L.A.'s newest art museum, The Broad, opens Sunday. For the first time, the public can see the blue-chip art collection of one of the city's biggest philanthropists in one place...for free.
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The greatness of most of these pieces is their molding into forever the rages, delights, and puzzlements of a period so far gone from us. And yet as close as Irv the punch-drunk boxer.
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Mike Sheehan went to Lucerne Valley — the self-proclaimed middle of nowhere — to meet Tonya Littlewolf and her sanctuary for wolves.
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Did the bar or nightclub you went to last night seem more lively than usual? A new app may have paid some of the people to be there.
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Emerging out of San Bernardino and Riverside is Quitapenas, a band playing a kind of Afro-Latin music that spans continents with their sound.
Deradoorian is the solo project of Los Angeles bassist and singer Angel Deradoorian, she’s performed with artists like the Dirty Projectors and Avey Tare.
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To a kid visiting a museum, is there anything more fascinating than mummies? Come see unopened caskets, 3D printing and mummified beer mugs.
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After a New York run in 2015, the show is set for its Los Angeles premiere at the Japanese American Cultural Center.
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How to plant the right milkweed in your backyard to help bring back the dwindling population of monarch butterflies.
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"It is a bitter thing to be a woman," says Euripides' Medea. In a new adaptation at the Getty Villa, with the action moved to Boyle Heights and mixed with the woes of ambitious undocumented immigrants, it is still very bitter.
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“Like most Canadians living outside Canada I think you're constantly under attack because people don’t know or care about Canada and you constantly hear comments that make no sense.”
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The owners of the quirky downtown bar say they'll continue paying rent "until the state marshall shows up."