Author Archives: Jenae Cohn

Underground public transportation around the world has one thing in common: mustiness.

Most tourists come to Los Angeles to see movie stars, but as I am not a tourist, and as I am not most people, I really wanted to see stars. Yes, stars: those burning, shining things in space. On an average Westwood night, it’s impossible to see a single star in the sky. Thanks, electricity and smog.

Apparently, I’m concerned about money.
“The coins just keep showing up,” my tarot card reader on the Venice Beach boardwalk muttered as she revealed the cards I chose with my left hand.

Let me begin this honestly: I don’t love Los Angeles.

South Campus students may like to joke that upon graduation, North Campus students will be stuck waiting tables or stocking retail shelves, but theater majors need not fear this fate, for Los Angeles’ enormous theater industry provides a variety of opportunities to recent graduates.

With war, terrorism and a declining economy in the past eight years, the United States may be in “state of emergency.”

Swelling violins and overwrought, dramatic narration streaming through crackling radio speakers may seem out-of-date, but L.A. Theatre Works produces radio drama that is anything but old-fashioned.