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Alec Monopoly at the premiere of Believe
BY ALEC MONOPOLY
Street artist Alec Monopoly is known for his variations of the top hat-wearing, mustache-sporting man from the eponymous board game. He started dropping those across New York at the dawn o...
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Santa Anita Park
This week's events include ice skating, horse racing, and the greatest concert ever.
5. Holiday burlesque
On the sliding scale between "naughty" and "nice," Santa usually ranks as sweet as the cookies he gorges himself on. But as...
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Little horribles include: the moment you realize your junk food binge from the mini bar on your family's vacation cost them more than $100. The moment it dawns on you that not offering to switch seats on an airplane made you an enormous asshole. The ...
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Though consuming the full scope of the scene's annual output remains a challenge for even hardcore fans, Los Angeles's top stand-up-centric CDs, DVDs, books and films of the year provide a helpful jumping-off point.
10. John Roy, Alexander Ham...
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Richard Karn and Josh Adamson in Alladin and His Winter Wish at the Pasadena Playhouse
A "beguiling interactive adaptation" of the Aladdin story is this week's Pick of the Week. It features with Bruce Vilanch and Ben Vereen, among others...
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Invertigo Dance Theatre at L.A. County Holiday Celebration
This week's events also include a holiday show that is not the Nutcracker, a flamenco finale, the return of Stomp and more Nutcracker.
5. A Ho! Ho! Ho! "Holiday Celebration"
The six danc...
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Danny Boy O'Connor and Knocko of Delta Bravo
Danny Boy O'Connor, the former rap star, and Knocko Nolan, a current police detective, are prowling the Spahn Ranch, looking for a cave where the Manson Family once posed for a picture.
The two men a...
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Mount Waterman
It's been more than two years since Mount Waterman was last open.
The small, three-chair ski resort in the San Gabriel Mountains, roughly an hour from La Caada Flintridge, hasn't had enough snow coverage for two winters in a row....
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Akiko Yamashita's designs for what will be projected onto City Hall on New Year's Eve
On New Year's Eve, around midnight, City Hall will disappear.
First, the iconic 85-year-old art deco skyscraper will morph and vibrate with neon patterns, as...
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Alan Shields' painting Wrinkle Pickle
This week, a food elevator makes its debut, and a live figure drawing session happens in a gallery that already has rendered figures hanging on every wall and sculpted ones standing on the floor.
5. One syl...
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Saturday, Dec. 21
Everything Is Terrible! Holiday Special 2013! is at the Echo tonight at 7 p.m. This comedy event promises to be "the tackiest winter wonderland imaginable," offering a combination of found-footage clips and a live stage show that i...
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Pasadena Playhouse's Sheldon Epps and CTG's Michael Ritchie
The artistic directors of Southern California's regional theater powerhouses came together Monday night on the Pasadena Playhouse stage for what was billed as a panel discussion "on the s...
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Growing up in Torrance, I saw countless movies at the AMC Rolling Hills. It's where I was first exposed to such hallmarks of my youth as The Matrix, Lord of the Rings and Kill Bill, and I doubt I'll ever see more movies at any single theater. What I ...
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In Old Hollywood -- that glorified era that still occupies the minds of thousands of dream-seeking L.A. newcomers both young and old -- ideas were born, scripts were hatched, romances kindled, careers built or smashed, in bars. Musso & Frank and The ...
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They say the Big Apple never sleeps, but here in Los Angeles, they say we roll out of bed at 10 a.m., set out a breakfast of kale and cold-pressed juice, then take out the dog for a hike at Runyon before we even get to work.
Ask the students of coll...
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From "What Does the Fox Say?" to "Wrecking Ball": YouTube has announced its top ten "trending" videos uploaded in 2013. What that means is a little opaque, but basically the company eliminated videos that didn't get enough engagement (like social med...
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21. Melissa McCarthy and Zach Galifianakis in The Hangover Part III
20. Nicholas Hoult and Teresa Palmer in Warm Bodies
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19. Daniel Radcliffe and Dane DeHaan in Kill Your Darlings
See also: 2013's ...
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The holidays can be a trying time, especially for your wallet. But if you want to indulge in some fun, free events, then you've come to the right place. Borrow party tips from Jazz Age icon Dorothy Parker or laugh at dating survival stories from Anna...
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A scene from LA Opera's current production of The Magic Flute.
If you waited until L.A. Opera's season started to purchase your tickets to season-opener Carmen this year, you were in for a rude awakening: Prices for the cheapest remaining seats f...
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Dalian Acrobatic Troupe's Terracotta Nutcracker
This week's dance events include two worthy Nutcrackers, holiday flamenco and the answer to the question: What is a "Blaktina"?
5. An acrobatic Nutcracker in pointe shoes (with ninjas)
A few year...
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