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GIRL NEXT DOOR - A Pole Dance Soirée
GIRL NEXT DOOR - a pole dance soirée combines the sensuality of pole dance with the fanciful medium of theater to create a new aesthetic: artistic pole dance.
The Most Consistently Hip Club in L.A.
As Angelenos know, the Viper Room on Sunset Boulevard is somewhat of an institution in L.A. Best known as the place where actor River Phoenix died of a drug overdose, the tiny West Hollywood club has remained on the local radar for the past 15 years.
The Viper Room was founded in 1993 by young nightlife [...]
Quick Culture: Art Minus the Attitude
Art museums have a reputation for being cold, snooty places where you aren’t allowed to touch anything. It’s no surprise that “normal” people are often intimidated or overwhelmed by the idea of visiting a museum– unfortunately so, since today’s art world has something for just about everyone to appreciate.
Luckily for L.A. museum patrons, private art [...]
Teen Theater Takeover: The Young Artist Project
Putting several highly-creative strangers together and asking them to create a work of art is bound to produce interesting results. But how to guaranty something even more interesting? Put several kids together and ask them to create something, to be performed in front of an audience a few weeks later.
For the three years now, Phantom [...]
It Ain’t Over Til the Fat Lady Sings
With esoteric music, foreign languages and complicated audience etiquette, opera can be intimidating to even adventurous event-goers. Luckily, the L.A. Opera is the perfect place for those with opera anxiety to enjoy the 400-year-old art form for the first time.
Founded in 1986, the L.A. Opera is the four largest opera company in the country. Its [...]
Hollywood Forever: Where the Immortal Go to Die
Adjacent to Paramount studios in the heart of Hollywood, L.A.’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery is best known as the place where some of Hollywood’s brightest stars are interred. But locals also know it as one of the area’s oldest and best-loved places to celebrate L.A. culture.
The historic burial ground was built in 1899 on 100 acres [...]
Bicycle Film Festival Rides Into LA
In 2001, Brendt Barbur, Founder & Director, was compelled to start the Bicycle Film Festival after being hit by a bus while riding his bike in NYC. Instead of being deterred by this experience, it inspired him to create a festival that celebrates the bicycle through music, art, and film. Now in its ninth year [...]
1 Ball, 5 Bucks - A Soccer Community Benefit!
Come make a difference in the lives of children both locally and globally through the great game of SOCCER!
Furious Theatre Company and The Theatre @ Boston Court
Join them for the Furious Fundraiser in support of the first-ever co-production of Furious Theatre Company and The Theatre @ Boston Court
LA Opera 2009 I 2010 Season Snapshot
The history of opera as it is presented today in America goes back to the late Renaissance in Italy, when a group of composers “invented” a new art form to resemble what they thought music-drama was like in classical Greece. During its 400-year history, European opera has been very diverse, though. The only thing that [...]
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