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for September 2012

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Music Center season begins with a busy calendar

Donna Perlmutter | September 30, 2012 2:50 PM
placido-domingo-fc.jpg Placido Domingo gave his first absolute powerhouse performance as a baritone, but the production of Don Giovanni looked burned out and Benjamin Millepied's LA Dance Project offered little to remember.

Who could play in Farmers Field?

Phil Wallace | September 29, 2012 4:58 PM
Now that a Downtown football stadium has been approved, who could play there? The City Council vote is a starting point, not end point.

Gene Simmons and Wolfgang Puck

Gary Leonard | September 27, 2012 12:09 AM
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Money can't buy happiness for Dodgers or Angels

Phil Wallace | September 26, 2012 6:20 PM
The Dodgers and Angels need to know the difference between spending lots of money and running a smart organization.

The Beverly Hills Hotel and I go way back

Iris Schneider | September 24, 2012 10:47 PM
beverly hills hotel-iris.jpg Anxious to get away from a day of bad news, I retreated to that shrine of wealth and Hollywood make-believe, the Beverly Hills Hotel. I got to stay there in the late 70's when I was sent across the country by Rolling Stone to interview Dustin Hoffman when "Kramer vs. Kramer" was about to open. After I moved to LA, it helped me adapt to my new city.

LA Sketchbook: Lemonade

Steve Greenberg | September 24, 2012 9:19 AM
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Here Seamus! Here America! Get in! Let's go for a ride!

Deanne Stillman | September 22, 2012 8:07 PM
Okay kids, Seamus, let's rally!...We can't waste any time!...After all, we're headed for the White House, right Ann? Seamus, come on, hop in...Nothing but the best seat in the house for you, big guy!...Boys, did you bring your real estate workbooks?

LA Sketchbook: Non-taxpayers

Steve Greenberg | September 21, 2012 10:41 PM
qqxsg-NonTaxpayers.jpg The latest cartoon for LA Observed by Steve Greenberg.

What happens in Pahrump

Ellen Alperstein | September 20, 2012 4:43 PM
Pahrump-church-thumb-500x375-15812.jpg An innocent visit to a rural Nevada town introduced the writer to a singularly local tour.

Mitt Romney

Gary Leonard | September 20, 2012 8:14 AM
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LA Sketchbook: Summer movies

Steve Greenberg | September 18, 2012 9:39 PM
qq-Summer-Movies.jpg The latest cartoon for LA Observed by Steve Greenberg.

Streetscape: Go figure

Editor | September 17, 2012 9:37 PM
go-figure-tt.jpg Conflicting messages at the National Council of Jewish Women Thrift Store on Victory Boulevard in Van Nuys.

A new look at a fashion icon

Judy Graeme | September 17, 2012 9:23 PM
vreeland-from-site.jpg A few years ago I hunkered down in the FIDM library in downtown Los Angeles with a stack of Vogues from the 1960's. The editor at the time was Diana Vreeland. who reveled in the 60's, making the most of the explosion in pop culture. She clearly admired film, music, and dance and regularly integrated them into her pages, as a new documentary shows.

Only in LA: Back to school, topless and homeless issue

Steve Harvey | September 16, 2012 11:32 PM
sh-topless-driving-school.jpg Steve Harvey's latest column of the quirky and amusing spotted around LA (approximately.)

9/11 Remembrance

Gary Leonard | September 12, 2012 11:20 PM
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Night vision: Northeast LA art walk

Iris Schneider | September 12, 2012 12:00 AM
nelaa2.jpg In Glassell Park during last weekend's Second Saturday Gallery Night in Northeast LA. Photos by Iris Schneider.

LA-centric text-speak

Amy Ephron | September 11, 2012 11:12 PM
loose-diamonds.jpg In her first piece for LA Observed, author Amy Ephron reveals her car doesn't have a license plate — but she can explain. She signs and speaks Thursday night at Book Soup about the new paperback edition of "Loose Diamonds...and other things I've lost and found along the way."

Silent sites unseen: interview with John Bengtson

Adrienne Crew | September 11, 2012 9:02 PM
silentechoes-cover.jpg An interview with John Bengtson, silent film location sleuth, who will present a talk at the Central Library about images of the Historic Los Angeles Core that he's found in silent movie classics, this Saturday, September 15th.

Theo Ehret, 1920-2012

David Davis | September 11, 2012 12:08 AM
olympic-auditorium-ehret.jpg An unsung giant of sports photography in Los Angeles has passed away. Theo Ehret was the house photographer at the Grand Olympic Auditorium, chronicling with his Rolleiflex every aspect of the boxing and wrestling scenes: the press conferences, training regimens, head-jarring action inside the ring and the rowdy crowds that came to cheer on their favorites. A POW as a German soldier in World War II, Ehret and his wife came to Los Angeles with nothing.

LA Sketchbook: 2 Walmart cities

Steve Greenberg | September 9, 2012 11:54 PM
Walmart 2Cities LowRes.jpg The latest cartoon for LA Observed by Steve Greenberg.

Bruce Lisker celebrates an anniversary - and waits

Iris Schneider | September 8, 2012 11:50 AM
bruce-lisker-signs.jpg As September approached, Bruce Lisker was getting anxious. His civil suit--filed against the LAPD and postponed many times over the three years since he was released from prison and exonerated of the crime of murdering his mother--was set to begin on September 25. Since his release he has tried to create a life that would make up for the 26 years lost to a wrongful prison sentence. That life includes renewing his marriage vows with Kara, in front of friends and "chosen family."

Joseph Hellen, developer

Gary Leonard | September 6, 2012 8:11 AM
LAO__hellen.jpg Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears Thursdays at LA Observed.

Photo: Inside the fence

Editor | September 4, 2012 11:30 PM
bar-faces-moca-contemp-lao.jpg Crowd pushes up to the bar during Play MOCA at the Geffen Contemporary. August 2012.

CA Sketchbook: Pension Atlas

Steve Greenberg | September 4, 2012 12:55 AM
qqxsg-pension-atlas.jpg The latest for LA Observed by Steve Greenberg...

The never-ending chase to find the perfect pay TV service

Bob Timmermann | September 3, 2012 4:12 PM
Whenever you find the pay TV service that carries every channel that you think you will need, please tell the author. Because he doubts that you will ever find one.
KCET control room
kcet-rehearsal-control.jpgA peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
whitts-wood-yard.jpgElon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
bcam-stairs.jpgThe Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
David Hockney at LACMA
hockney-arrives-lacma.jpgThe artist arrives to open his latest exhibit.
Mountain lion family
mountain-lion-family-martinez.jpgFrom Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
The power of 'pluribus' plays
Allegiance-9-(1).jpgDon Shirley on theater in LA
Macy's winds down
mannequin-graveyard-macys.jpgThe store in Westside Pavilion has closed down.
Streetscape: Westwood
westwood-sky-lao.jpgWestwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Streetscape: East LA
la-luz-del-mundo.jpg Iglesia La Luz del Mundo, East 1st Street.
Sign from LA's past
loves-bbq-valley-relics.jpg Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
melissa-barak-cost-iris.jpg Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Engine Co. 17
engine-co-17-side.jpg Inside the long-closed Arts District fire station on Santa Fe Avenue.
Wilshire Grand Center lobby
wilshire-grand-lobby-wall.jpg Visitors check out the wall-mounted sculpture by artist Do Ho Suh.
Barnsdall Park
barnsdall-park-trees.jpg Under the trees.
Inside Hollyhock House
hollyhock-columns.jpgPhoto taking was allowed for one weekend. So we did.
Streetscape: Lincoln Heights
el-milagro-market.jpgProductos Mexicanos at El Milagro Market on Avenue 18.
June 6, 1968
rfk-hearse-wide-lapl.jpgThe body of Robert F. Kennedy leaves Good Samaritan hospital. More pics
Streetscape: DTLA
spring-street-bike-lane.jpgSpring Street bike lane.
Palm weeds of Santa Susana
santa-susana-palm-weeds.jpgOak trees, sandstone ridges and fan palms? Ugh. More
Streetscape: West LA
405-at-smblvd.jpg405 North at Santa Monica Boulevard.
Hills turning brown
grman1.jpgThe hills above Gorman.
Arcana Books
arcana-books.jpgIn the Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
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