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• LA Theatre Works, Sunday, September 21 at 10:00 pm, Nilo Cruz' Pulitzer Prize winning play "Anna in the Tropics," starring Jimmy Smits

  This poignant and poetic Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Nilo Cruz captures 1929 Florida at a time when cigars are still rolled by hand and lectors are employed to educate and entertain the workers. The arrival of a new lector is a cause for celebration. But when he reads aloud from Anna Karenina, he unwittingly becomes a catalyst in the lives of his avid listeners, for whom Tolstoy, the tropics, and the "American Dream" prove a volatile combination. Includes a conversation with actor Jimmy Smits.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Tuesday, September 16, 2025

• Phil and Ted's Sexy Boomer Show, Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 2:00 pm with guest filmmaker Jonathan Berman ("Commune," and "Calling All Earthlings"

  Documentary filmmaker Jonathan Berman talks about his film “Commune’ about the Black Bear Ranch Commune in Northern California in the '60s. Narrated by Peter Coyote (himself a commune member), it is screening at the Philosophical Research Society on Thurs., Sept 18. We'll also discuss his other movie "Calling All Earthings," about UFO contactee George Van Tassel, the creation of the Integratron, a Joshua Tree desert mystery dome inspired by Tesla, free energy, conspiracy, and alien help.

  Posted by Donna Walker at Tuesday, September 16, 2025

• Pacifica Performance Showcase, Friday, 2:30 pm, with guests Ellen Geer (Theatricum Botanicum) and Michelle Jasso ("When You Speak Love: Kurt Weill in Songs & Letters")

  Host Donna Walker welcomes Ellen Geer (Artistic director of Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum) and Michelle Jasso who, along with Andrew Ceglio perform in Botanicum's "Under the Oaks" series on Sept. 18th their show "When You Speak Love: Kurt Weill in Songs & Letters," a celebration of the artistry of legendary composer Kurt Weill ("Three Penny Opera," "Lost in the Stars")

  Posted by Donna Walker at Friday, September 12, 2025

• What Are We Cheering For?

  Every holiday, every weekend, every so-called American ritual came with a side of football. The game would be on, and we were supposed to care. I didn’t. Not really. Not until I almost did. For a brief stretch, when my dad worked with the Clippers during the Lob City era, I started to believe. Chris Paul, Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan — it felt like swagger, like culture, like something to belong to. Then the trades came, the team got gutted, and the curtain dropped. It wasn’t family. It wasn’t culture. It was business. That moment stuck. The more I watched, the more the wires showed: how ritual gets packaged, sold, and weaponized. How meaning becomes merchandise. How attention becomes empire.

  Posted by Ace Estwick at Tuesday, August 19, 2025

• When AI Replaced Our Comics

  When AI replaced hand-drawn comics in our newsroom, I saw more than ugly art — I saw the erosion of what makes journalism worth doing.

  Posted by Noah Velez at Friday, August 8, 2025

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