Monday, April 27

Different cuisine makes delicious food

It's a small world after all. A few days go, one of my fellow editors told me that she went to a dinner party where the host served bruschetta as an appetizer, which turned out to be the bruschetta recipe I wrote about in my last column. Read more...

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Sous chef Amy Chen provided a traditional Chinese lemon shrimp stir-fry recipe comprised of shrimp, ginger, green onions, brown sugar and rice.


Experimenting with dance

It's not everyday that one witnesses a dancer pelted by a head of wet lettuce. Read more...

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Dancers rehearse Herman Moore’s choreography titled “1838 West 78th Street,” which is featured in the “Watch This” MFA2 dance concert.


Killam with laughter: actor, comedian, and former Bruin lands dream job on “˜Saturday Night Live’ cast

Taran Killam used to dress up as Jim Carrey for Halloween. Last year, he performed a skit he wrote with Carrey on "Saturday Night Live," something he never thought he'd get to do. While attending UCLA in 2000, Killam auditioned regularly for various acting jobs and ended up landing a role on "MADtv," causing him to take time off from school to pursue acting. Two years ago, "SNL" executive producer Lorne Michaels came to see a show at the L.A. Read more...

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Taran Killam spent a year at UCLA before leaving to take a role on the sketch comedy show “MADtv.” Last September he joined the cast of “Saturday Night Live,” where he has done impersonations of Michael Cera and Eminem, among other celebrities.


Alumnus O’Brien-Lux works with deaf and other hearing actors to present “˜The Adventures of Pinocchio’ play

As a child, 2010 theater alumnus Colin O'Brien-Lux sat for hours in the Deaf West Theatre in North Hollywood, playing Minesweeper while his father worked as a producer on stage. Read more...

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Alumnus Colin O’Brien-Lux will perform in Deaf West Theatre’s production of “The Adventures of Pinocchio.” (courtesy of Colin O’Brien-Lux)


FASHION OR WHATEVER: _Seemingly repulsive articles of fashion turn heads for all kinds of reasons_

Fashion can seem frivolous when a T-shirt costs upward of $1,000 a pop, but it can also make a meaningful feminist statement. This idea stems from Leandra Medine's fashion blog "the Man Repeller." Medine said the blog is about outfitting oneself in a sartorially offensive way that will repel members of the opposite sex.
From drop crotch pants to shoulder pads, and animal hats to rompers, there is an austere desexualization in fashion. Read more...

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Model Abbey Lee Kershaw presents an outfit from the Chanel Fall 2010 Ready-to-Wear Collection. (Courtesy of Monica Feudi)


Photography exhibit tells stories through trees at Getty Museum

In 1861, a bearded man named Galen Clark stood at the base of a giant sequoia tree in the Mariposa Grove and had his photograph taken by Carleton Watkins, a landscape photographer. Read more...

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Rhea Garen’s photograph “Treehouse, Freese Road” is among the works featured in the Getty’s photography exhibition “The Tree” through July 3. (Credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum)