If you’ve never heard of The Smell, chances are you won’t be familiar with any of these little-known experimental, electronic and indie pop musicians that played at the intimate venue on Friday, Nov. 6.
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Los Angeles Theatre ensemble’s ‘Beau Fib’ premieres at The Powerhouse Theatre
With so much to remember to do, it’s perhaps time to resort back to the old method of tying a string around your finger as a reminder. But what if the string were to be removed? You would forget.
Part Time Punks Festival prompts post-punk music revival
While few would recognize the band name The Raincoats, just about everyone knows the name of grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain.
Theater Review: Gogol Project
To watch the Rogue Artists Ensemble in performance of “Gogol Project” is to rabidly savor each spoken word, mute turn of the eye and flick of the wrist for fear that you’ll miss one moment of this rare wonder.
Exhibit serves up history of tea
On campus, caught in a trivial debate with a pal over which is the better iced tea brand, Lipton or Arizona, few of us would think of the long journey tea has traveled in history to get here since its beginnings in China’s Zhou dynasty.
Two decades later, professor still mad for plaid
Neil Peter Jampolis sat in a very small bar in the Upper West Side of Manhattan a little more than 20 years ago, in attendance at the workshop production of yet another fledgling musical lurking around New York City, hopeful for its big break.
Theater Review
The audience was told before the opening night of Cole Porter’s “Red, Hot and Blue!” that the mission of By George Productions is “to preserve and present lost musicals” with as much historical accuracy as possible. My anticipation subsequently sank a little, but quickly renewed at a chance to write, “It’s no wonder it’s a […]