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Summer Night Life Special
It's Memorial Day weekend, and the hot season of Southern California night life is here. Get off on the good foot with our Summer Night Life Guide: a great drink poolside, a movie in the grass, a ridonculous day-party, a midnight bike ride. It's the start...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Foods and Beverages, Concerts, Strangers on a Train (movie), Human Interest
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100 days of summer
Looking for something to do this summer? Whether you're looking for relaxation, a good meal, respite from the heat or adventure, there are a wide range o f activities to help make the most of your summer. Here are 100 from which to choose: May Silver...
Tags: Steven Soderbergh, National Parks, Concerts, Pet Shops, Services, and Supplies, Beaches
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'Slumdog Millionaire' musical in works without Danny Boyle, others
Theater producers love turning movies into musicals, and the energetic, Oscar-winning “Slumdog Millionaire” looks like a good candidate for a screen-to-stage makeover. But after years of negotiations proved fruitless, a planned London...
Tags: Concerts, Entertainment Events, London Theatre, Theater, Summer Olympics
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'The King's Speech' to wrap its West End run early
"The King's Speech"will end its West End reign early. The play, which was slated to run at Wyndham's Theatre through July 21, will wrap May 12. The play has suffered poor ticket sales, and producers claim that the staged version came too close to the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Entertainment Events, Theater, World War II (1939-1945), Colin Firth
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Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare ... maybe
Today is the 448th birthday of William Shakespeare -- that is, if you believe the widely held assumption that the Bard was born on April 23. Like many things involving the greatest playwright in the English language, the day of his birth is shrouded in...
Tags: Festive Events, Arts and Culture, Stratford, 2012 Olympics Games
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Jude Law, Kristin Scott Thomas among Olivier Award nominees
Culture Monster"Ghost" and "Matilda" are among the nominees for this year's Olivier Awards, the highest theater honor in Britain. The nominations were announced Thursday in London.... -
Ides of March: Beware it, yes, but what is it?
If he could have, William Shakespeare would have tweeted it himself: Beware the Ides of March.
Instead, others are handling that duty for him today on Twitter. The Bard actually issued his warning in "Julius Caesar," Act 1, Scene 2. The phrase refers...Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, Ides of March
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Carpenter Center's new season: 'NEA Four,' Ira Glass, Lily Tomlin
Culture MonsterAppearances by the performance artists known as the "NEA Four" will be among the highlights of the new 2012-13 season at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach. The season, which was announced this week, will also include radio host Ira Glass,... -
Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
Spy Work
LA Times MagazineFor Gary Oldman, a long-deserved Oscar nomination is nice, but it’s really all about the work... -
Robert Pattinson: I loved playing a player in ‘Bel Ami’
24 FramesA corrupt government –- supported by a corrupt media –- that seeks to invade an Arab country for its resources is how Declan Donnellan described his film adaptation of the 1885 Guy de Maupassant novel “Bel Ami,” which focuses on... -
Berlin theater performs play live on Facebook
Culture MonsterBerlin’s Maxim Gorki Theatre this week premiered Theodor Fontane's "Effi Briest” on Facebook, in what it dubbed the first live performance for the social networking site....
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