No mystery is solved in Charlie Shackleton’s essayistic doodad “Zodiac Killer Project,” but the true-crime genre itself is certainly staked out and interrogated like a prime suspect. Then again, there’s …
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‘Merrily We Roll Along’ review: The movie version isn’t just filmed theater
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesComing to you from the opposite end of the movie musical spectrum from where “Wicked” perches is Maria Friedman’s compact, propulsive film of her acclaimed revival staging of Stephen Sondheim’s …
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Vanity Fair, Olivia Nuzzi part ways amid her ‘American Canto’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesFormer political journalist Olivia Nuzzi’s tenure at Vanity Fair has come to an end, a year after reports of her alleged relationship with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. …
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How Trump’s policies hurt museums: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesThis has not been a good year for museums. An annual report released last month by the American Alliance of Museums showed that nationwide attendance and financial performance are trending …
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa dead: ‘Mortal Kombat’ star, martial artist was 75
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesCary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the Japanese American actor whose powerful glare and graceful menace made him a fixture of action films for more than four decades, has died at 75. Tagawa, known …
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Lucas Museum chief curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas departs in shakeup
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesLess than a month after announcing its opening date, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art told staff that chief curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas is leaving the museum this week. “There …
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NBC News launches ‘Common Ground’ initiative to bridge partisan divide
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“I turned off news all together.” “Just talk to each other more.” “Report things from both sides.” Those are some of the responses NBC News received when it conducted consumer …
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The SoCal Sound is still rocking amid federal cuts to public radio
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesIt’s another bright, sunny and promising Thursday morning in Los Angeles in early October, but things are not going well for the morning team on the public radio station KCSN, …
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‘The Abandons’ review: Adversarial matriarchs tread old western ground
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesAh, the western. That great American canvas, upon which many sorts of motion pictures have been projected, stretching back to the very beginning of the medium: adventure, romance, comedic, serious, …
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Latino Theater Co. returns to L.A. cathedral for its holiday pageant
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesEvery year, hundreds of people gather in downtown L.A.’s cathedral for the Latino Theater Company’s annual holiday pageant, “La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin.” The nonprofit theater company has put …