A Night Out in Hollywood
Although I wasn't planning on it, Thursday night turned out to be a night full of Hollywood events! Nyla Arslanian, the Editor of Discover Hollywood and President of the Hollywood Arts Council, was...
View ArticleDinner and Drinks in Hollywood
I've been petsitting my grandparents' dogs in the Valley for a couple weeks now. I normally live about ten minutes away from our office at Crossroads of the World, but since petsitting began, my...
View ArticleGet Your Pants Scared Off at the Old Zoo
It's a crisp and cloudless October night. A full moon peaks out from behind twisted, leafless tree limbs. Fog creeps around a bend in the road up ahead. We park in a bustling parking lot full of...
View ArticleIrish Hollywood
My friend Peter and I enjoyed a very Irish night out in Hollywood last night, and it was, in a word, epic.The night started out at Dillon's Irish Pub, with an exorbitantly expensive Patron on the rocks...
View ArticleWicked
I was raised in a family that REALLY likes The Wizard of Oz. We do not own a copy and watch it sometimes. No, we own an old VHS, a new VHS, and a limited edition DVD that came in a Yellow Brick Road...
View ArticleSunset + Vine Pole Banner Contest
This is a really fun, community-wide event. Get involved! The Sunset & Vine Business Improvement District (BID) is a non-profit organization made up of property owners surrounding the Sunset &...
View ArticleGo Billy!
Having just graduated from the World Arts and Cultures department at UCLA last June, I took a couple performance studies classes which, while exceptionally grueling, were begrudgingly interesting and...
View ArticleHello Hollywood!
Hello, Hollywood! I, Brittany Knupper, am going to discover you. Not like Magellan or Vespucci, you do exist on a map (and Google Earth) after all - and for kind of a long time, if I'm remembering my...
View ArticleFun, Feathers and Free Food!
Two words: Pear Manhattans. Wait. I can't start a blog like that. Ok. Three words: Hot Welsh Bartender.Stop. Rewind. I had been looking forward to Wednesday for a long time. Two whole weeks in fact....
View ArticleMargaritas and Motown
July 31st 2012. Location: La Velvet Margarita Cantina Time: Happy Hour[1]Drinks to be ordered: All of them.Except for the ones with citrus in them.[2] Because I'm allergic. Not in a throat closing,...
View ArticleSUMMAH LOVIN'
That title. I know. I'm the worst. But you know what was the opposite of the worst? Summahfest 2012 at Meltdown Inc on Sunset Blvd. An all day-ish comedy party dedicated to all things Summah....
View ArticleNew York Film Academy: The Experience of a Lifetime
Do you have a passion for Filmmaking or Acting? Do you want to break into Hollywood but have little experience? Then you need to get yourself on the right path to becoming the next great Filmmaker,...
View ArticleFrom the Editor
Beginning the end of May, we begin seeing the gradual increase in visitors in and around our famous boulevard. It's always my dream that they come prepared to experience the realities of our urban...
View ArticleFeeling Old Fashioned
I received my MFA in Writing for Performance at the California Institute of the Arts, arguablyone of the most "experimental" and cutting edge theatre schools in the country and I have a confession to...
View ArticleFrom the Editor
Beginning with a star-studded parade along Hollywood's famous boulevards-Hollywood and Sunset- and contining into the first week of January, the holidays in Hollywood are always a grand occasion....
View ArticleHelena's Rite
Up until this point, my blogs for this site have been tackling the large, glitzy, well-packaged national touring productions that visit the Pantages. In fact, my last post was about the current revival...
View ArticleFrom The Editor
By the calendar, summer has definitely arrived, but this year the term "endless summer" really resonates as we've had an unprecedented warm winter. We're bracing for a warm and very dry season but...
View ArticleOscar's Hollywood
Oscar's HollywoodJune's Hollywood Economic Development Summit, An Urban Experience, presented in June by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, included an array of projects that have already broken ground...
View ArticleWe Will Rock You
After vaudeville became a thing of the past in the 1930's, composers such as the Gershwin Brothers, Moss and Berlin, Rodgers and Heart cranked out loosely structured musicals as showcases for their...
View ArticlePsyche: A Modern Rock Opera
The world premiere of Cindy Shapiro's "Psyche: A Modern Rock Opera" opened this week at the Greenway Court Theatre. Opera is an experience and in that "Psyche" does not disappoint. The orchestra which...
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