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  • Theater Preview: LATINO THEATER COMPANY (Fall 2020 Virtual Season)

    By Nia Liat | August 12, 2020
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    LATINO THEATER COMPANY ANNOUNCES FALL 2020 SEASON Beginning Tuesday August 18, 2020, and over the next five months, L.A.’s Latino Theater Company will offer virtual programming, which includes: streaming archival footage  of past, fully-staged hit productions live  online conversations with company members; live streamed, “sneak-peek” readings  of plays set for on-stage production in 2021 (or whenever theater is…

  • Museum Preview: FAITHLESS ELECTORS AND THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE (Hammer Museum in Los Angeles on Zoom)

    By Nia Liat | August 1, 2020
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    CAUSE YOU GOTTA HAVE FAITH Do members of the Electoral College have the right to be “faithless” and vote against the popular vote of the state they represent? In 2016 there were 10 such cases of “faithless electors” during the contentious and controversial election of Donald Trump. With the 2020 election just months away, the…

  • Theater Feature: WEST ADAMS (Skylight Theatre)

    By Nia Liat | July 29, 2020
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    GO WEST Playing for one performance only tomorrow, July 30, 2020, at 3pm PST, is Skylight presents their smash hit play West Adams, a story about the absurdity of racism. After the archival recording as it was performed before an audience at Skylight Theatre, join a guest panel — which will include the writer, director,…

  • Event Preview: ANDROMEDA SISTERS: A TWO-PART ARTS AND ADVOCACY FORUM (The Neo-Political Cowgirls)

    By Nia Liat | July 25, 2020
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    YOU GO, COWGIRL! Neo-Political Cowgirls (NPC), an organization created for women in theater to help increase the female voice in the narrative of our society’s stories, will present their annual fundraiser, Andromeda’s Sisters: An Arts and Advocacy Forum, remotely via Zoom in two parts: One on Friday, August 14 celebrates, highlights and honors women story…

  • Theater Preview: UNDER 30 PLAYWRIGHTS LAB VIRTUAL SERIES (IAMA Theatre Company in Los Angeles)

    By Nia Liat | July 20, 2020
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    LET’S GET HIP The great IAMA  Theatre Company culminates its first annual, year-long residency for emerging, Los Angeles-based playwrights under the age of 30 with a four-day virtual reading series of six new works developed in the lab. The free series runs from July 23-26, 2020. Over the course of the past year, the six writers…

  • Music Feature: SAVE OUR STAGES (National Independent Venue Association)

    By Nia Liat | July 14, 2020
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    SAVE OUR STAGES Contact Congress Tell Congress to #SaveOurStages Your local independent music venues are in trouble. You can help  #saveourstages  by supporting the National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) – an organization of nearly 2000 music venues and promoters who have joined together to fight for the survival of the independent music business. Independent music venues provide…

  • Film Extra: THE DISNEY PRINCESSES RANKED FROM WORST TO BEST: WHO TRULY DESERVES THE CROWN?

    By Nia Liat | July 8, 2020
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    THE DISNEY PRINCESSES RANKED FROM WORST TO BEST: WHO TRULY DESERVES THE CROWN? Disney has been making movies about princesses for almost a century. They’ve inspired countless Disney princess costumes, books, toys, sheets, towels, mugs, and so on to infinity! With so many princesses to evaluate, we’re taking this opportunity to look back and ask,…

  • Film Preview: BORN TO PLAY (directed by Viridiana Lieberman)

    By Nia Liat | June 30, 2020
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    PLAY ON Park Pictures announced today that ESPN will broadcast the world premiere of the women’s football documentary Born to Play on Wednesday, July 1st, 2020, at 9 p.m. EDT. Directed by Viridiana Lieberman, the film is a love letter to the game, written by people who you never knew played. Until now. Born to…

  • Music Review: RAISE YOU UP (New Video from Kinky Boots’ Billy Porter, Stark Sands, Annaleigh Ashford, and more)

    By Nia Liat | June 28, 2020
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    LET THIS NEW VIDEO  “RAISE YOU UP” To celebrate New York City pride, and to close-out pride month, Producers  Daryl Roth  and  Hal Luftig today released an epic, multi-national, all-new music video of the stirring finale anthem, “Raise You Up” from the smash-hit musical sensation  Kinky Boots. The video features cast members from seven nations across four continents, and reunites…

  • Music Review “After Party” (The Habits)

    By Nia Liat | June 27, 2020
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    ALT POP DUO THE HABITS RELEASE 90’S INSPIRED NOSTALGIA-FILLED MUSIC VIDEO FOR “AFTER PARTY” This L.A. alternative/pop duo takes the sights, sounds and fashions of 1990s for inspiration behind their latest music video “After Party.”   And it is WAY fun. The riffs are fun. The harmonies are fun. There playful faces are fun. Meet The…

  • Opera Preview: CELEBRATING THE SUMMER SEASON (San Francisco Opera)

    By Nia Liat | June 24, 2020
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    CELEBRATING THE SUMMER SEASON San Francisco Opera will present its first virtual event, Celebrating the Summer Season, on Friday, July 10 at  sfopera.com. The three-part, 90-minute program will honor the artists and operas’”Verdi’s  Ernani, Handel’s  Partenope  and Mason Bates and Mark Campbell’s  The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs’”from the Company’s 2020 Summer Season which was canceled due to the pandemic.  Celebrating the…

  • Extras: INSIGHT INTO CASINO SECURITY

    By Nia Liat | June 12, 2020
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    INSIGHT INTO CASINO SECURITY One of the most important parts of running any casino has to be its security. Yes, the players need to be entertained and there needs to be enough games to keep them happy, and of course the décor has to be pleasing, but without good security, cheating can take place and…

  • Film Commentary: FILMMAKING AS A PROFESSION: WHERE TO STUDY?

    By Nia Liat | February 4, 2020
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    FILMMAKING AS A PROFESSION: WHERE TO STUDY? Cinema is a world of dreams, illusions, and fantasies. That is why any girl dreams of becoming a movie star. However, everyone who connects their lives with cinema faces the problem of choosing a university. A primitive lever drives a rotating disk and, with a chatter, translates a…

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