ENTERTAINMENT
By Katherine Tulich | November 22, 2013
A garden shed in a northern-beaches suburb of Sydney, Australia, may sound like a remote connection to a Three Stooges film festival being held at Glendale's Alex Theatre on Nov. 30, but the rare find by a film collector there has fans of the zany comedy trio rejoicing. The Three Stooges, a former Vaudevillian troupe, made 190 short films in their long Hollywood career. One film, the Technicolor “Hello Pop,” an MGM 18-minute backstage musical made in 1933 was thought lost forever when a fire at MGM studios in 1967 destroyed what was then thought to be the last print.
ENTERTAINMENT
By Andy Klein | February 9, 2013
In real life, there's nothing funny about identity theft, as anyone who's gone through it can attest. (Believe me, I learned the hard way.) Unfortunately, if the new comedy "Identity Thief" is anything to go by, there's nothing funny about it on screen either. OK, not nothing funny. Let's be generous to director Seth Gordon and screenwriters Craig Mazin and Jerry Eeten and say there's not very much funny here. It's a film built around a simple log line: average nice guy must share a road trip with the resourceful sociopath who has destroyed his credit rating (and pretty much everything else in his life)
NEWS
By Megan O'Neil, megan.oneil@latimes.com | February 15, 2012
The Crescenta Valley community turned out en masse Wednesday to celebrate the life of a boy that family members described as a doting brother, an outdoor enthusiast and a champion of the marginalized. “He always wanted to take care of the underdogs, the ones that were kind of left behind,” Cindi Rivas said of her nephew, Drew Ferraro, who authorities say committed suicide last week by jumping off a three-story building during lunch period at Crescenta Valley High School. “He would go over there and make himself one of them just because he didn't want them to feel uncomfortable.” The standing-room only crowd at Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Tujunga included hundreds of students and staff from Crescenta Valley High, where the 15-year-old was a sophomore, as well as dozens of officers from the Los Angeles Police Department North Hollywood Division, where his father works.
NEWS
December 21, 2011
Police are searching for a man who has allegedly grabbed the buttocks of three young women in separate incidents as they were walking on city streets. Each time, the man approached the women - who ranged in age from their late teens to early 20s - as they walked alone between 10:45 p.m. to 1 a.m. on busy streets. After grabbing their buttocks, he laughs and runs away, police said. “He is looking for the girls who are by themselves and not paying attention to their surroundings,” Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.
NEWS
November 11, 2011
“Occupy” movements in New York, Oakland and all over the country are growing and gaining momentum, but the folks in Washington seem to have their eyes shut and their fingers in their ears. Do we have to wait until we completely lose our middle class to take measures against the death grip big banks, corporations, lobbyists and corporate-controlled media have on our government and our futures? Americans used to be able to rely on hard work, ethics and a good education as a means to get ahead, but the system we have in place now does little to provide for the future success of our country.
THE818NOW
By Katie Landan, katie.landan@latimes.com | August 31, 2011
Mountain lions aren't just wandering out of the hills above Burbank and making appearances in nearby residential areas. One of these big cats was struck by a car and killed Wednesday morning after attempting to cross the 405 Freeway near the Getty on-ramp, The Los Angeles Times reported. The 15-month-old male, known as P-18, was one of three kittens born last year in the Santa Monica Mountains and had been tracked since he was a few weeks old. Trees or puppies?
ENTERTAINMENT
By Dink O'Neal | August 30, 2011
An intricately woven tale of deceit and familial control issues is on display in “The Walworth Farce” currently playing at Burbank's Theatre Banshee. Playwright Enda Walsh's disturbing and sometimes shocking story of an Irish expatriate living in London with his two adult sons is a lesson in dramaturgical complexity directed with clarity and vigor by Tim Byron Owen. Played by Tim Cummings, Dinny is a housepainter who has kept his sons confined to a seedy Walworth Road flat since childhood with the constant threat of the outside world's unknown horrors.
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By Dan Evans, dan.evans@latimes.com | August 22, 2011
I spotted this gem of a statement/protest by an anonymous artist near the corner of Chandler and Victory boulevards in Burbank. Made me laugh, I have to admit. And, just so you know I'm not glorifying graffiti. it's in chalk. I checked.
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By Cassandra M. Bellantoni | July 14, 2011
Dina Morrone invited me to come see her new play, "Moose On The Loose," in Hollywood to write about it for Beverly Hills Times Magazine, one of my many freelance jobs, but it was so good, I'm writing about here too. Morrone wrote and performed in the play along with some excellent actors, many of which you've seen on television and in films. I love L.A.! Check my name, I get the humor around Italian immigrant characters and so does Morrone because she nails every line and cast the perfect actors for each member of the lively Tappino family as they come together over a moose on the loose.
ENTERTAINMENT
June 24, 2011
In celebration of National Foster Care Awareness Month, Counseling4Kids hosted an event for 200 foster children and their families at Flappers Comedy Club in Downtown Burbank. This was an outreach event for clients and families of Counseling4Kids, officials said. The event was inspired by healing through laughter and celebrated those who make a difference in the lives of Los Angeles County foster children by serving as foster parents, relative caregivers, advocates, volunteers and the children themselves.