As I flew from London Heathrow Airport back to Los Angeles earlier this month, I found myself seated alongside three giddy English women.
Author Archives: Lauren Roberts
Soundbite: "Rabbits on the Run"
Nearly a decade has passed since Vanessa Carlton debuted her first single, “A Thousand Miles.” And though her latest album’s first track “Carousel” opens with the familiar sound of a solitary piano, Carlton’s sound has undergone quite the evolution.
The first major US retrospective featuring the works of artist Paul Thek comes to the Hammer Museum
Beneath a painting of a solitary pink diver immersed in vivid blue, a journal lies open to an entry dated in 1975.
Five bands to rock the stage for Spring Sing 2011
When the rockers of thatwasthen took the prize for best band in last year’s Spring Sing competition, they had only just begun recording their work.
Elemental Makeup
At its most basic, makeup is comprised of pigments. But blended properly, makeup is an art of illusion working with dimensions of color.
Concert review: The Naked and Famous, Unknown Mortal Orchestra perform disjointed sets at Echoplex
The Naked and Famous with Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The Echoplex
Friday and Saturday, April 8-9
After busing it the length of Sunset Boulevard through Silver Lake and finally to Echo Park for an hour and a half through traffic, I was ready to dance.
However, even after arriving on time to an already on-the-late-side 8:30 p.m. show at the Echoplex, bouncers informed our shivering alley crowd that alas, the opener ““ Unknown Mortal Orchestra ““ had just arrived. Unrehearsed.
Now, I wouldn’t mind waiting an additional half hour for fashionable lateness if Unknown Mortal Orchestra was, well, a little more than unknown.
Theater Review: "Burn This"
Just following the drowning death of Robbie, a talented dancer, “Burn This” opens in a cloud of emotion.
Nicholas Martin’s direction of Pulitzer Prize winner Lanford Wilson’s play runs through May 1 at the Mark Taper Forum, where it had its world premiere nearly 25 years ago.
Set in an airy bohemian New York loft apartment, the play focuses on the effects of the tragedy on those Robbie has left behind ““ his roommates, Larry (Brooks Ashmanskas) and Anna (Zabryna Guevara), the latter of which is also Robbie’s grieving dance partner.
While audiences never see beloved Robbie, Robbie’s brother and supposed mirror image soon enters.