Native Intelligence: May 2013 archive

Dodgers are suffering a power outage

Phil Wallace | May 30, 2013 9:57 PM

The Dodgers are getting on base, but they're not scoring runs because they're hitting for zero power. The team counted on the wrong players for big hits and they now have an aging roster that would be perfect for 2008, but not 2013.

Presto Magic

Gary Leonard | May 29, 2013 10:53 PM

Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears on Thursdays at LA Observed. Click on the photo to see it bigger....

My San Francisco diary

Greg Critser | May 29, 2013 9:56 AM

Visiting blogger Greg Critser spent a day in San Francisco. His report.

Photography of war at the Annenberg Space

Iris Schneider | May 28, 2013 10:59 PM

On Memorial Day I spent some time absorbing the enormity of the world's struggles and conflicts at the War/Photography exhibit, over 170 images dating from 1887 to the present. As with many of the exhibits at the Annenberg Space for Photography, there was too much of a good thing, with the curators choosing to go wide rather than deep.

Figaro there, Tosca there

Donna Perlmutter | May 28, 2013 10:33 PM

in a single weekend we saw LA Opera's "Tosca" at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, "Dulce Rosa" at Santa Monica's Broad Stage, and most stunningly sophisticated of all, Christopher Alden's staging of "Le nozze di Figaro" with Gustavo Dudamel helming his Mozart-sized band in a makeshift semi-pit at Disney Hall.

LACMA mounts an exhibition that may be the best thing hardly anyone sees

Bob Timmermann | May 27, 2013 5:07 PM

LACMA's James Turrell retrospective will likely be very popular. If you ever have the patience to wait out the crowds to see most of it.

Driving into downtown

J. Michael Walker | May 26, 2013 3:56 PM

Visiting blogger: An artist has a pleasant surprise of an encounter at The Last Bookstore on 5th Street.

Mayor-elect Eric Garcetti

Gary Leonard | May 23, 2013 12:34 AM

Gary Leonard's long-running series of Los Angeles photos appears on LA Observed on Thursdays.

I left LA for Chicago because ...

TJ Sullivan | May 20, 2013 12:50 PM

In "Leaving Las Vegas," Hollywood screenwriter Ben leaves LA ... and then he dies, which was sort of what he wanted. Who better than a Hollywood screenwriter to figure out that the easiest way to kill yourself is to leave LA?

Valley Girl at 30

Iris Schneider | May 17, 2013 12:27 AM

At LACMA on Thursday night, a packed and very excited audience, some dressed in 80's garb, watched a screening of "Valley Girl" as the the museum's Film Independent program celebrated the movie's 30th anniversary. "This film was well-researched and shot in Los Angeles. It is about our cultural history," director Martha Coolidge told the crowd.

Ricky Jay's tricks and treats

Ellen Alperstein | May 16, 2013 5:32 PM

Ricky Jay could conjure a taxi in the rain in the middle of a cornfield. A documentary film about the renowned illusionist doesn't explain how, and, really, would you want it any other way?

Happy Birthday Bill Rosendahl

Gary Leonard | May 16, 2013 8:04 AM

Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears every Thursday at LA Observed.

Tell me a story ... or not

Ellen Alperstein | May 14, 2013 3:39 PM

Why would you stand on a corner with a picket sign if you don't want people to hear your message?

A giant robot invades Brentwood

Iris Schneider | May 12, 2013 4:04 PM

He was greeting people good naturedly on Barrington Avenue just south of Sunset on Friday. The only name he wanted to give was Giant Robot.

A. Quincy Jones getting his due

Judy Graeme | May 11, 2013 11:12 PM

The first major museum retrospective of Jones' work comes later this month to the Hammer Museum. Jones was a seminal figure in late mid-century modern architecture and planning.