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Music Preview: SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY’S CHRISTMAS CONCERTS (Davies Symphony Hall)
HERE COMES SAN FRANCISCO’S STUPENDOUS SYMPHONY SERVING COLOSSAL CHRISTMAS CONCERTS We all know that San Francisco Symphony can easily be labeled one of our country’s best orchestras, but it’s a no-brainer to visit them this season given the amazingly diverse options you have this year. Here are my favorites. (And through Monday, Dec 2 at…
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Theater Review: JITNEY (Mark Taper Forum)
A JOYOUS JITNEY The late August Wilson (1945-2005) was a truly great American playwright, the most prolifically produced African-American playwright of all time. Jitney, now at the Mark Taper Forum until December 29, was his last play of his “Century Plays” to be produced on Broadway (winner of the 2017 Best Revival) but was the…
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Theater Review: ‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE (Cirque du Soleil in Chicago and New York)
CHRISTMAS AS A CIRCUS There’s a beloved poem behind these multiple circus acts in one act: Clement Moore was never that fond of his famous 1837 poem A Visit from Saint Nicholas (better known as ’Twas the Night Before Christmas). Written in a jog-trotting anapestic tetrameter, the now-treasured verse was for its author a mere…
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CD Review: PICK UP MY PIECES (Gabrielle Stravelli Sings Willie Nelson)
BETWEEN TWO WORLDS The opening track of Gabrielle Stravelli’s latest CD Pick up My Pieces — which covers Willie Nelson originals and songs he’s covered — is delicious and delightful. Front and center in the medley of “Lady Luck” and “If You’ve Got the Money, I’ve Got the Time” is that voice! I’m a huge…
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Film Review: SAFETY (directed by Fabrice Joubert)
THE ILLUSION OF SAFETY If you have ever thought, I can’t imagine what it must be like to be in a situation as awful as a school shooting, this incredible new short film will show you. Without bloodshed, writer/director/producer Fabrice Joubert creates an effectively tense film with little more than a ten-minute run-time. There’s just…
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Theater Review: KEY LARGO (Geffen Playhouse)
NOT AS KEYED UP AS IT SHOULD BE The Geffen Playhouse has really been on a roll under the newest Artistic Director Matt Shakman. There are many more interesting scripts, and many more chances are being taken. And as always, both of Geffen’s playhouses are given Broadway-caliber production values. Shakman is also to be thanked…
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Theater Review: UNCLE VANYA (The New American Theatre in Hollywood)
CYNICS UNITE These days when directors revive a classic, they have to decide whether their approach will be either to modernize the play or mount it as a period piece, true to the spirit of the times in which it was created. Sometimes, as in the case of The New American Theatre’s Uncle Vanya, director…
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WHY MOBILE GAMES ARE INCREASING IN POPULARITY
WHY MOBILE GAMES ARE INCREASING IN POPULARITY The mobile games industry has grown at an astonishing rate in recent years. It is estimated that there will be 2.7 billion mobile gamers around the world by 2021. Players can also pay using phone credit to purchase items in these games. This blog post will explain to…
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Theater Review: A CHRISTMAS CAROL (Goodman)
REAPPRAISING A CASH COW Consider this a kind of conditional mea culpa: In past reviews of Goodman Theatre’s A Christmas Carol, I’ve faulted the production’s trivialization of Charles Dickens’ 1847 ghost story, a tale intended to scare Victorian readers into avoiding the ugly life and dire fate of Ebenezer Scrooge. Rather than deal with a contemptible,…
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SLOT GAMES WITH THE HIGHEST RATINGS IN THE MARKET
SLOT GAMES WITH THE HIGHEST RATINGS IN THE MARKET The world of slots can be a little overwhelming for any casino game player, let alone a beginner. The rapid evolution over the last century has resulted in slots being found in near enough every pub or casino on the planet. If that’s not enough, there…
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Opera Review: THE MAGIC FLUTE (Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion)
THE WHIMSICAL FLUTE How to illustrate such whimsy: Chaplin on a Seussian sleigh, perhaps, belting an aria from Metropolis into the bowels of Dante’s Inferno. That’s as succinctly I can describe the magic awaiting audiences this holiday season in LA Opera’s dazzling production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflöte). The fact that…
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Music Preview: CHRISTMAS CHORAL CONCERTS (Los Angeles Master Chorale at Disney Hall)
HERE COMES L.A.’S COLOSSAL CHORALE WITH CHRISTMAS CHORAL CONCERTS AND CAROLS With the indefatigable Energizer Bunny of conducting, Grant Gershon, at the helm, Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC) can easily be labeled one of the best choirs on earth, and you have a chance to see four separate holiday programs this year at Walt Disney…
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DVD Review: DETECTIVE MONTALBANO (IL COMMISSARIO MONTALBANO), Episodes 33 & 34 (MHz Releasing)
JUST WHEN YOU GO TO LEAVE, THEY KEEP PULLING YOU BACK IN Dang! but this show has legs. Set in a gorgeous seaside town in Sicily, this quality cop-show, featuring the ever-young Detective Salvo Montalbano (now in his 50s) who fights murder in his section of the country with an individualistic crack team. These two…
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DVD Review: THE BASTARDS OF PIZZOFALCONE (Season One, MHz Releasing)
CITTí€ BY THE BAY Set in the hilly part of the bayside city of Naples, Italy, Pizzofalcone was once a flourishing center of power and money, but is now a rundown, dangerous sector of the third largest city in Italy, after Rome and Milan. So, when police detective Inspector Giuseppe Lojacono (an arresting [!] Allesandro…
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Theater Review: LINDIWE (Steppenwolf)
THE PLOT THIN-ENS Can lightning strike thrice? Over two decades later, it’s happened again — a third collaboration between author/director Eric Simonson and the world-famous, nine-member Ladysmith Black Mambazo. Like The Song of Jacob Zulu in 1992 and Nomathemba in 1996, Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s world premiere Lindiwe, co-directed with Jonathan Berry, is imbued with the ensemble’s seamless a…
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Extras Feature: BEST DAYS TO PLAY BINGO
Playing Bingo at any time is a great way to increase your entertainment. Many people play whilst they are waiting for the kids to come out of school, during their daily commute or at the times they are travelling. It is a great way to kill time whilst you are also in with a good…
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Theater Preview: JITNEY (Mark Taper Forum)
JUMP FOR JITNEY It is an incontestable fact that every play August Wilson wrote justifies being looked at again and again. It has been fascinating to see how the moral, political and emotional life of African-Americans has been given the sweep of history by concentrating on the ten decades of a tumultuous century and how…
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Theater Review: WAITING FOR GODOT (Dennis ZaÄek Productions at Victory Gardens in Chicago)
DÉJí€ VU MEETS GROUNDHOG DAY “Birth was the death of him”: Terse to the point of cruelty, Samuel Beckett devours the human experience in six words, repeatedly juxtaposing graves with cradles. Waiting for Godot, his minimalist masterpiece, takes nearly three hours for the same result. But Beckett succeeds in his life-long task — to “find the…
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Chicago Opera Review: DON GIOVANNI (Lyric Opera)
A CAUTIONARY TALE FOR THE #METOO ERA When this production first premiered at Lyric Opera in 2014, opening the company’s sixtieth anniversary season, I noted how much Chicago loves Don Giovanni. Its popularity seems to have formed the foundation of the company, which made the Mozart opera its first production back in 1954 and has…
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Jazz Preview: GERALD CLAYTON (Solo Piano at LACC)
GERALD CLAYTON SOLOS AT LACC ONE NIGHT ONLY There are few times in life that one witnesses an artist and knows immediately that something is different. I can even catch it on a recording. That specialness that can’t be replicated by imitation or study. Well, to quote Thelonius Monk: “Know it when you hear it.”…
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