“Bring in ‘da Noise, Bring in ‘da Funk” Ahmanson Theater, through Feb. 15 (213) 628-6772 A word like “tap” cannot possibly begin to describe it. What tap dance marvel Savion Glover does with his feet is at once furious and beautiful. His feet move with such rhythmic precision and electricity that it’s almost difficult for […]
Author Archives: Amber Noizumi
Inane “˜Twentieth Century’ lacks substance
In the 1930s, the 20th Century Limited could make it nonstop from Chicago to New York in 16 hours. Unfortunately, the screwball comedy on this legendary locomotive seemed just as long. Reprise! Broadway’s Best’s revival of the 1977 Cy Coleman musical “On The Twentieth Century” will be chugging along in Freud Playhouse through Feb. 21, […]
BUICK offers students comic relief
No, it’s not the big gas-guzzling beast your grandma drives, it’s Bruin United Improv Comedy Kraze, better known as BUICK Improv. BUICK, which will perform its third show ever at the Cooperage tonight, was founded last year by students Elliot Deutsch, Leslie Klein and Corey Wish when they saw that the studious students of UCLA […]
Sexual Aging
When I first started telling people that I was going to get to interview Hugh Hefner at the Playboy Mansion, the shock and excitement was unbelievable. “Are you kidding? That guy is my idol! If I pay you 20 bucks, will you take me with you?” said a guy in one of my classes, wide-eyed […]
“˜Grease’ angel won’t go unsung
There comes a time in many of our lives when we stop pretending and accept what we are and what we’ll always be. Luckily for Frankie Avalon, that’s a teen idol. The original Teen Angel in the 1978 film “Grease” is donning the white pantsuit again, playing Frenchy’s heartthrob in the touring production of the […]
Lights…Camera…ZOOM!
L.A. movie premieres are always crawling with celebrities and other notables, but some premieres have featured important cast members, who are not given top billing: cars. Running through Jan. 12 in the L.A. Convention Center is the Greater L.A. Auto Show, featuring over 1,000 vehicles, with 24 cars making their world or North American debuts. […]
Briefs
Art “¢bull; Part of the UCLA Department of Art lecture series, there will be a lecture by artist Sam Durant, an L.A.-based artist of drawings, models, installations, sculpture and photography. He will discuss his work in relation to current cultural trends. Thursday, Nov. 21, 7 p.m. UCLA Hammer Museum. “¢bull; Principals of Servo, a research […]