Author Archives: Lauren Schick

If it could ever be possible to call ballet “hip” in the 21st century, “Complexions” would be the show.

There are only so many hours a shopper can spend scouring Third Street Promenade and Westwood Village.

When Daisy Mae chased after Li’l Abner on the first Sadie Hawkins Day, it was unlikely anyone expected young women to still recall the comic strip event more than 70 years later.

A hopscotch jump from Rodeo Drive, the young and posh wait 30 minutes to shell out $3.75 for a bite-sized childhood treat.

It is unnerving to walk out of a museum exhibit feeling less knowledgeable and worldly than when you walked in. But that is surprisingly the effect after one hour in a gallery consisting of only 10 pictures.

With the closure of the Westwood Village Farmers’ Market on Westwood Boulevard and Weyburn Avenue in 2006, farmers market frequenters were left wondering where to turn.

Most people would feel more comfortable on the window side of a one-way mirror. But the New York foursome Battles, playing at the Troubador Saturday, has decided to submit themselves to scrutinous interrogation in the music video of their first single, “Atlas” off their debut album “Mirrored,” which was released in May.