LB OPERA’S “AINADAMAR” IS A TRIUMPH OF CHARACTER OVER CARICATURES
Director Andreas Mitisek's cast seems coached to play subtleties more generally akin to good theatre than classic operatic scale, and the payoff is immediate. Emotion among characters is earned without requiring the audience to suspend disbelief in a flurry of larger-than-life gestures.
ON CLAIBORNE DRIVE, A HOUSE OUT FROM HIDING, BUT NOT MYSTERY
Greater Long Beach contributor Theo Douglas takes a walkthrough on the wild side, strapping on a haz-mat suit for a tour of a the big, old, crazygreat house at 900 Claiborne Drive, hoping he can inhale its rambling stories without filling his lungs with fatal contagions.
THE LOCAL NORM: ON CHASING RAINBOWS, FAMILY MONEY & DIRTY BASTARDS
Barack Obama's ordination as The First Gay President may have popped Long Beach City Council member Robert Garcia's long-range campaign for that distinction, but it's given Mayor Bob Foster's political advisers an idea so crazy it just might work. This week's report from local correspondent Norm de Ploom.
BRIGHTON’S RAIN DOESN’T DAMPEN AUDIENCE ENTHUSIASM FOR THE ARTS
Many in the audience at the Brighton Festivals are struggling with a lack of money and time, and on this evening there was bad weather, too. But a lifelong love of dance overcame the elements, and provided more proof of the importance of early exposure to the arts.
STEADY PROGRESS OF HMONG REFUGEES MAY CARRY XIONG TO CONGRESS
If Blong Xiong is elected this November, the Fresno city council member and Laos-born refugee would become the first Hmong American in Congress. No matter what happens, however, Xiong is energizing the country’s fast-growing Hmong community,
