What a long, strange trip Hairspray has taken. Beginning as a shockingly wholesome PG-rated film from Pink Flamingos filmmaker John Waters — the master of trash and camp — Hairspray transformed into a smash hit Broadway...
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Kurt Gardner
“Paris Chansons” – Los Angeles cabaret music review
Paris Chansons is a delightful ensemble of singers and musicians who present authentic French and Russian musical entertainment in an intimate lounge setting. Currently playing around town, I caught a recent show, Paris...
Pauline Adamek
Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful – Photography exhibition at the Getty Museum – Los Angeles art photography review
Now on view at the Getty Museum, until March 22, is Josef Koudelka: Nationality Doubtful — the first major retrospective in the US of the Czech-born photographer’s work that spans close to several decades of his largely...
“Disconnection” – Los Angeles theater review
Scientology, as a religion and as a semi-cult, has been earning censure since it was first launched in 1953, thanks to its dubious connections to the norms of religion: belief in a strong afterlife and the ability of...
Ash Revell
Pierre Huyghe Retrospective at LACMA – Arts Reporting as Embedded Journalism – Los Angeles art exhibition review
I stand at the mouth of the gallery. It gapes. And still I stand. I have been hired by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to announce each patron’s name as they walk in. “Susan Choi!” “Douglas Martini” “Yi Sun Kim!” A...
