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  • Feature Piece: TOP 3 NETENT SLOT GAMES

    By Frank Arthur | November 5, 2019
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    TOP 3 NETENT SLOT GAMES NetEnt has taken the world by storm since they entered the online gaming industry and have shown incredible growth and versatility as the years have gone on. Nowadays they are a household name when it comes to who the leading game developers are and are providing slot games to an…

  • Film Feature: CASINO ROYALE: A SPY FILM TO REMEMBER

    By Frank Arthur | October 12, 2019
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    CASINO ROYALE: A SPY FILM TO REMEMBER The name Casino Royale itself brings a hoard of joy into the minds of many audiences. It is possibly one of the finest movies of James Bond that is based on a casino theme. Well, 007 is himself a fantastic Poker player and has appeared in numerous casino…

  • SLOTS GAMES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD

    By Frank Arthur | September 26, 2019
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    SLOTS GAMES FROM ACROSS THE WORLD Slot machines differ from country to country. However, it is more with regards to their look than how the slots function. Each country’s slots carry a little bit of their culture with them. Slots can be used to expose players to not only different parts of the world but…

  • Theater Preview: GRUMPY OLD MEN — THE MUSICAL (La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts)

    By Frank Arthur | September 17, 2019
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    FASTEN YOUR SEAT BELT; IT’S GOING TO BE A GRUMPY RIDE John and Max are elderly neighbors in a cold Minnesota town. They both live alone in their homes since their wives have died, and exchange stories about how their friends are now dying when they are not busy insulting each other. They have a…

  • Theater Interview: BEKAH BRUNSTETTER, Playwright of MISS LILLY GETS BONED (West Coast Premiere by Rogue Machine at Electric Lodge in Venice)

    By Frank Arthur | September 15, 2019
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    BONE CALL When a young Bekah Brunstetter set out to explore where she stood on issues like animal rights, faith, and even relationships, it was before she had ever learned to question what she wrote. No filters, just passion. Sex, faith, and violence are all part of the intricate package of connections in Miss Lilly…

  • Theater Preview: SKINTIGHT (Geffen Playhouse)

    By Frank Arthur | September 7, 2019
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    GET SKINNED Joshua Harmon’s new play Skintight assays the nature of love, the power of attraction, and the ways in which a superficial culture persists in teaching its children that all that matters is what’s on the inside. This dramedy completed its successful run at Roundabout in NY, and opens at The Geffen Playhouse this…

  • Theater Preview: HOT MIKADO (42nd Street Moon in San Francisco)

    By Frank Arthur | September 3, 2019
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    HOT, HOT, HOT I’m guessing most of you have not seen David H. Bell’s rousing Hot Mikado, a swing-era adaptation of Gilbert and Sullivan’s beloved 1885 operetta, The Mikado. It may be the funniest toe-tapping musical comedy you’ve never heard of. This tour de force comic satire and dazzlingly spirited dance spectacular is a musical…

  • FIVE GREAT JAPANESE HORROR PICS

    By Frank Arthur | August 20, 2019
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    JAPANESE HORROR FILM REVIEWS One might ask what is so special about Japanese horror movies, as Japan’s input into global culture is now strongly associated with animation, fashion, and toys. However, the names of the horror films listed below are so widely known that a specific tendency becomes almost apparent. Let’s read on and try…

  • Interview: VINCE MELOCCHI (writer of world premiere ANDY WARHOL’S TOMATO at Pacific Resident Theatre)

    By Frank Arthur | August 2, 2019
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    PEELING A TOMATO If you’ve ever wondered what Andy Warhol was like as a kid, perhaps writer Vince Melocchi’s new play will give you a better understanding of the iconic artist, far beyond his eccentric persona. This curiosity became the biggest challenge for the playwright, finding the voice of a teenage Andy Warhola who was…

  • Theater Preview: HEDDA GABLER (Los Angeles Theatre Works at UCLA)

    By Frank Arthur | June 27, 2019
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    A JEALOUS WIFE WITH BAD GUN CONTROL You can’t keep a bad/mad woman down. Not to be confused with  A Doll’s House, where Henrik Ibsen offers an almost feminist defense of a vastly underestimated wife, his poisonous 1891 domestic drama  Hedda Gabler  depicts a very different “helpmate.” Here a bored and bitter housewife transforms her contempt for her…

  • Theater Feature: THE PRODUCERS (Celebration Theatre in Los Angeles)

    By Frank Arthur | June 21, 2019
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    KEEP IT GAY It’s always springtime for Mel Brooks, who really does write musicals the way they used to. Even before Young Frankenstein, his 2001 triumph  The Producers (based on the sidesplitting 1968 film with Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder) reverts to the anything-for-a-laugh, neo-vaudevillian, politically incorrect musicals of its 1959 setting. Giving a new meaning…

  • Feature: HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW OF A THEATRE PERFORMANCE

    By Frank Arthur | June 4, 2019
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    HOW TO WRITE A REVIEW OF A THEATRE PERFORMANCE Going to the theatre can be a magical experience, but writing a critical review of a theatre performance can be a challenge even for the most insightful and attentive theatre-goers. If you are interested in writing a critical review of a theatre performance, there are a…

  • Theater Feature: GREAT THINGS ABOUT THE LOS ANGELES THEATRE

    By Frank Arthur | November 15, 2018
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    Los Angeles, dubbed as the City of Angels, is truly a magnificent destination that holds some of the most beautiful architectural buildings in the world. One of the biggest attractions in LA is most assuredly The Los Angeles Theatre and its rich history. This luxurious spot hosts some of the biggest Broadway shows, and based…

  • Theater Preview: ZORBA (Musical Theatre Guild)

    By Frank Arthur | November 1, 2018
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    GREEK ACTIVE It only seemed natural that Michael Cacoyannis’s 1964 film,  Zorba the Greek, about a happy-go-lucky fisherman on the isle of Crete, should one day become a musical. It took John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret, Chicago, Kiss Of The Spider Woman  and many more)  to make this a reality, with Joseph Stein (Fiddler on the Roof,…

  • Theater Preview: THE SEAFARER (Laguna Playhouse)

    By Frank Arthur | October 19, 2018
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    THE DEVIL’S AT THE DOOR “He knows not Who lives most easily on land, how I Have spent my winter on the ice-cold sea Wretched and anxious, in the paths of exile Lacking dear friends, hung round by icicles While hail flew past in showers:” From the medieval poem The Seafarer translated by Richard Hamer…

  • Theater Preview: 42ND STREET (3-D Theatricals)

    By Frank Arthur | October 11, 2018
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    YOU’VE GOT SOME FEET TO MEET Call us saps or suckers but we can’t, it seems, get enough of “The Understudy Who Becomes A Star.” Not when the sweet and satisfying story is stuffed with thrills like “Shuffle Off to Buffalo” and “Young and Healthy.” Some clichés justify themselves, if only because nothing less than…

  • Theater Feature: OPPENHEIMER (Rogue Machine Theatre at its new home, Electric Lodge in Venice)

    By Frank Arthur | October 3, 2018
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    A READY ROGUE MACHINE OPENS OPPENHEIMER J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant, enigmatic and complex man. Ambitious and charismatic, Oppenheimer found himself uniquely placed to spearhead the largest scientific undertaking in all of human history, the Manhattan Project and the creation of the Atomic bomb — he’s the man in charge of the team whose…

  • Theater Preview: WHO’S HYSTERICAL NOW? (Bootleg Theater in Los Angeles)

    By Frank Arthur | October 1, 2018
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    GENDER-SWITCHED REENACTMENT OF THE KAVANAUGH/FORD TESTIMONIES ONE NIGHT ONLY, TUESDAY OCTOBER 2 If you think the Senate hearings last week were high drama, imagine seeing them live in the theater, but with a twist. Writer/producer Tina Poppy and Bootleg Theater’s Jessica Hanna offer you the timeliest commiseration on record. Tomorrow night, Tuesday October 2 at…

  • Los Angeles Music Preview: CAMERATA PACIFICA (Season 29)

    By Frank Arthur | September 11, 2018
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    CAMERATA PACIFICA’S SEASON 29 BASED IN BEETHOVEN Camerata Pacifica is a chamber music ensemble based in Santa Barbara that performs a monthly series of concerts in Santa Barbara, Ventura, San Marino (at the Huntington), and DTLA’s Zipper Hall (at Colburn School). Founded by Adrian Spence in 1990, the group is composed of the finest performers…

  • Theater Preview: 2018 PLAY LA FESTIVAL (Casa 0101)

    By Frank Arthur | September 5, 2018
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    PLAY ON Opening Night of the 2018 PLAY LA Festival of New Plays takes place Friday, September 7, at CASA 0101.  Doors open at 7:00 pm at the Casa 0101 Gallery space for  Hotel Mariachi, photos from acclaimed photographer, Miguel Gandert, followed by live Mariachi music (More about Gandert’s work  here). At 8:00,  HUMANITAS  and  PLAY LA  will announce next year’s PLAY…

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