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Asian in America Dinner Experience is Poetry in Motion
People’s attitudes about food consumption span an incredibly large gamut. On one end of this spectrum, food is simply fuel that is ingested in order to keep us alive, energized and, hopefully, healthy. As we travel toward the other end of...
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Long Beach Opens Its first Cidery, Ficklewood Ciderworks
The newest addition to the East Village, formerly the Department of Motor Vehicles in Long Beach during the 1930s and '40s, is Ficklewood Ciderworks, featuring a diverse collection of ciders brought together by locally inspired releases fro...
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MUSIC
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Music Pick: Skullcrack
In a recent interview with Death By Stereo’s Efrem Schulz, the frontman was asked to highlight some contemporary punk rock bands in Orange County that are making some impressive noises, and the first name he came up with was Skullcrack. L...
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Patricia Kopatchinskaja & Jay Campbell Traverse a Thousand Years of Music in a Dramatic Concert
Patricia Kopatchinskaja is one of the world’s great violinists — bold and daring while other musicians are cautious and bound by tradition — but she had never performed in Los Angeles until April 2019, when she swept through town for ...
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ENTERTAINMENT
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UnBinged: If You Still Haven’t Seen Maisel, The Witcher, You or Dollface, Read This
There's a battle brewing, and it's being fought by streaming services, cable TV and primetime television. If you're too weak to resist, UnBinged is here to help, telling you what to hate, what to love and what to love to hate. This week...
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A Review of the Oscars’ Best Shorts Nominees (and Where You Can See Them)
On Oscar day, it’s not unusual for a movie critic to receive several (slightly frantic) text messages from friends seeking advice on the office awards pool: “What will win Best Live-Action Short? Best Short Doc? Best Animation Short? He...
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ARTS
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The Last Ship’s Long Voyage to the L.A. Stage
The Last Ship has indeed had a long journey since it first premiered on Broadway in 2014. Its tumultuous course has been steered into calmer waters by a new captain, director Lorne Campbell, who also wrote the revised book. The original mus...
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Dance Pick: Heidi Duckler Dance: One Leg at a Time
On the theory that the arts — and perhaps dance and movement especially — are not only engaging, uplifting and inspirational, but also therapeutic, Heidi Duckler Dance often stages work activating locations and communities outside the c...
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CULTURE
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Requiem for a Father and Daughter: Kobe Bryant Redefined What It Meant to be a Black Man in America
Here are the things no one will say in public but have likely thought at some point in their lives:  Black men beat their women. Black men sell drugs. Black men aren’t smart. Black men aren’t emotionally available. Black men don’t...
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Party Pick: Celebrate Queen of Angels Drag Shop’s New Downtown Digs
Celebrating the wonderful world of local drag at its fabulous downtown locale for nearly 2 years, Queen of Angels L.A. is the city’s only brick-and-mortar retail queendom of its kind. Now it’s growing and re-launching at a new location ...
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CANNABIS
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State Legislators Target Pot Taxes With AB 1948
As the state’s legal cannabis industry continues to float on top of an underground market three times its size, the debate has again kicked off around lowering California’s pot taxes to make legal marijuana more competitive with its rea...
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Behind the Scenes at L.A. Weekly’s CBD Saturday Farmers Market
The first L.A. Weekly and Green Entrepreneur CBD Farmers Market on Saturday, January 11, welcomed 3,000 cannabis enthusiasts to Academy LA in Hollywood, California. Consumers, as well as business owners, enjoyed food, smokable hemp, yoga, m...
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EVENTS
 
 
Creative Communal Presents Makers Market Pop-Up
Come hang with us on Saturday, February 22, 2020, from 5:30-9 p.m. Fifteen-plus local makers, raffles all night, live music, bomb brews, and good grub from Anarchy Seafood. Free to attend, and applications are open at creativecommunal.com....
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Academy Awards Viewing at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills
Admission is $10 to watch the awards on the big screen. Entire entry fee refunded with a $10 or more purchase in concessions. Doors open for the pre-show at 3pm. Buy tickets here: fineartstheatrebh.com....
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