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Skee-ball is the name of game in Brooklyn
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe odd coupling of tradition and trendiness that characterizes Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood is perhaps nowhere more evident than at Full Circle Bar, a watering hole on a quiet block that dead-ends at an expressway. Here, young urbanites, who...Tags: Human Interest, Television, Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), Entertainment, Coney Island
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Carey Mulligan to star in off-Broadway adaptation of Ingmar Bergman movie
Culture MonsterMaybe it was the generally underwhelming reception of her last two movies â "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps" and "Never Let Me Go" â that has actress/hot-young-thing Carey Mulligan pining for more theater work. The 25-year-old Brit is set to...... -
Theater review: 'Stoop Stories' at the Kirk Douglas Theatre
Culture MonsterWelcome to a block party of one. Sitting on a set of stairs in the middle of a bare stage, Dael Orlandersmith recounts close encounters of the urban kind in âStoop Stories,â which played last week as part of the...... -
Neil Patrick Harris returns to 'Rent' -- this time as director
Culture MonsterOn a recent afternoon, Neil Patrick Harris was standing in a large rehearsal room at the Hollywood United Methodist Church on Franklin Avenue. With a cup of coffee in one hand, he calmly observed a musical scene between actors Aaron...... -
Found Footage Festival is celebration of the very worst
If watching Alaska women in leotards gyrating in front of snow-capped mountains doesn't sound like your idea of a good time, then you probably won't see the art in the Found Footage Festival, running tonight and Friday at Hollywood's M Bar. But for Joe...Tags: Television, Festive Events, Entertainment, Trips and Vacations, Companies and Corporations
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"Project Runway": An eyesore?
Show TrackerI was having lunch with a friend yesterday who is sensing a bit of "Project Runway" fatigue. She largely blames Lifetime and thinks there was a drop in quality in the show's producing from the move from Bravo. I personally...... -
Italian Spoken Here
Times Staff WriterThe cab squirts past a blur of interesting-looking shops, overshoots the address, makes a neat U-turn and deposits us in front of a window with the word Ladro ("thief" in Italian) scribbled in red. We're in Fitzroy, one of Melbourne's inner-city...Tags: Anchovies, Butter, Breads, French Literature, Hotels and Accommodations
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America is jittery as election's outcome draws near
The charged coffeehouse conversations. The constant punching of states on computerized electoral college maps. ( Florida -- red or blue?) The mesmerizing hours in front of Fox, CNN and YouTube.
It's time for this to end.
Across time zones and...Tags: New York University, Republican Party, CNN (tv network), Elections, YouTube
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From supporting actor to star, Richard Jenkins steps up in 'The Visitor'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterTHERE is no such thing as a Richard Jenkins movie, though he's been in more than 70 of them. Even in his best-known role -- as the mortuary paterfamilias, Nathaniel Fisher, on the HBO series "Six Feet Under" -- Jenkins was dead, haunting the characters...Tags: Television, Jennifer Lopez, Susan Sarandon, Entertainment, Comedy (genre)
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Story of the scarf still waits to be told
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Iraqi woman with bone-thin hands and a beauty mark on her right cheek holds secrets in her scarf. It is yellow and stained with blood, and it made the journey with Nour Khal from a dark road in Basra to an airy bedroom in Manhattan. Now it is...Tags: Entertainment, Democracy, Refugee, News Media, Murder
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As 'Rent' closes in New York, fans mourn
Special to The TimesNEW YORK -- 5,140 performances. After 12 years, "Rent" is closing in New York. And depending on whom you talk to, it's either the end of a colorful era on Broadway, or the End of Days. Jonathan Larson's rock- fueled fable of AIDS-ravaged friends in New...Tags: Condos and Houses, Awards and Prizes, Music Theater, Entertainment, Office and Retail Spaces
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Anthony Neilson keeps to the dark side in Stitching
To put it simply, Anthony Neilson's "Stitching" isn't a play for everyone. A grim and emotionally exhausting drama about a troubled young couple, the play sews anxiety in delicate psychological patterns before shredding the narrative fabric with moments...Tags: Photography, William Shakespeare, Arts and Culture, Sex, Malta
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