SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk, gabriel.rizk@latimes.com | December 17, 2011
NORTHEAST GLENDALE - The Glendale Community College men's basketball team had the hotter hand and the cooler head down the stretch of Friday night's championship semifinal of the 2011 Vaquero Classic. As a result, the Vaqueros will now be in their tournament's championship game at 5 p.m. today after beating Victor Valley, 69-61, in a game made a bit testy in the final minutes by a confrontation that could have escalated into something much more serious. "I commend some of my guys [for]
NEWS
By Megan O'Neil, megan.oneil@latimes.com | June 7, 2011
One month after being invited to perform at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe — the largest arts festival in the world — the Glendale High School drama program has launched a major fundraising effort to make the trip a reality. Mack Duggard, who has headed the program for 22 years, said he is reaching out to community organizations and local businesses to help cover the $6,300-per-student cost. He hopes to take about 17 students to the August 2012 event, as well as a handful of technicians to help with staging, costume, makeup and music.
NEWS
Veronica Rocha, veronica.rocha@latimes.com | October 28, 2010
GLENDALE — [Updated] Police briefly locked down Hoover High School on Thursday morning after students were seen with what turned out to be a prop gun from the drama department, officials said. The fake weapon was supposed to be locked up, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said, and school officials were looking into how it got out. "It should have been secured," he said. "It's unknown why it wasn't secured. " No injuries were reported in the incident. At 8:47 a.m., a student reported seeing fellow classmates playing with what appeared to be a handgun during class, said Elena Heimerl, spokeswoman for the Glendale Unified School District.
ENTERTAINMENT
By James Famera | October 6, 2010
What a pleasure it is to have a classical theater company like A Noise Within in Los Angeles. From William Shakespeare to Henrik Ibsen, no playwright is deemedtoo "high-brow", and its actors' passion for the material is palpable on stage. Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" has been chosen to launch the 19th season of the company, and even though it was written more than 400 years ago, it still feels modern with its themes of moral corruption and political irresponsibility. Vienna is the setting, and the Duke (a stirring Robertson Dean)
ENTERTAINMENT
By Joyce Rudolph | April 14, 2010
The advanced acting class at Hoover High School is learning what it’s like to work with a playwright and hone a script that will eventually become a professional production. Los Angeles-based Jonathan Dorf writes plays produced by high schools, colleges and professional theater companies across the country. In searching for a high school to workshop his new full-length comedy “Tiny Tim Runs the Marathon,” Dorf received responses from schools nationwide, but chose Hoover because it was close to home and he wouldn’t have to deal with airfare, he said.
SPORTS
By Gabriel Rizk | October 24, 2009
VALLEY GLEN — Down three points with 4:30 left and 60 yards to go, the St. Francis High football team’s offense seemed dead in the water. The Golden Knights’ star player was on the sideline and it didn’t take a second look at a dejected Dietrich Riley laid out on a trainer’s table to figure out he wasn’t coming back in. Not exactly the stuff storybook endings are made of, but, for St. Francis, there was still plenty of time for a rewrite.
BUSINESS
By Zain Shauk | August 22, 2009
BURBANK — “The Jay Leno Show” may do more harm than good for local economies, even as it prepares to begin rolling tape from a studio here next month, experts say. Although the show will bring production jobs and spending to the area, it will simultaneously crowd out potential dramas from prime-time TV spots, costing the region hundreds of possible entertainment-industry jobs at a desperate time for labor markets, experts say....
NEWS
By WENDY GROVE | March 31, 2009
The play, ?Boy Gets Girl? by Rebecca Gilman, opens at 8 p.m. April 30 for three weekends in the Auditorium Studio Theatre at Glendale Community College. ?Boy Gets Girl? is a disturbing drama about a single career woman named Theresa in New York who is terrorized by a blind date who, after she breaks things off, grows increasingly obsessed with her. She must fight to save her identity and herself. The repertory production, staged by the theatre arts department and directed by Jeanette Farr, features two rotating casts.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Dink O’Neal | March 18, 2009
Offering insight on issues of race and gender, the Alexia Robinson Studio in Burbank presents a powerfully moving rendition of “for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf.” Robinson herself skillfully directs this extremely complex and emotionally charged production. Originally conceived in 1975, playwright Ntozake Shange’s script exposes the trials and camaraderie of a group of African American women. Constructed as a “choreopoem” this piece incorporates dance, song and the spoken word.