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LA Observed Notes for this week
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In dark times, is the role of the artist to expose? To comment, to criticize, to amuse? Since last fall, it's been all of the above onstage in Los Angeles.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears weekly at LA Observed.
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I didn't want to be less acquainted with "Hamilton" than so many other people who also haven't seen it. So I embarked on a pre-"Hamilton" syllabus.
John Rabe prepares his final "Off-Ramp" show for KPCC.
Yuja Wang is that singular pianist. Plus Bartok and Schubert, and choreographer Matthew Bourne
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When it's hotter than hell, everyone needs a savior.
Nextdoor.com baits us, like Facebook and Twitter do, into indulging the lesser angels of our nature.
I was delighted when my old Rhino Records boss, Harold Bronson, recently published "My British Invasion," his personal paean to an era some of us never stopped loving.
Las Vegas artists created a life-size lowrider pinata — based on the iconic Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Impala — for an upcoming exhibition at the Petersen Automotive Museum.
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Traffic is light in the eastern suburbs of Joshua Tree, population 7,400-ish.
"Today there are very few photographers. But there are a lot of people with cameras."
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The museum houses over 2,500 pieces of Victorian-era clothing. Women in America followed her lead.
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Our columnist sees spring plays from South Coast Repertory, the Mark Taper, Latino Theater Company, Ebony Repertory, Open Fist Theatre and the Bootleg.
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Finding a nugget of gold just may be worth a whole, long dig. But trust me, it wasn't easy to spot in the case of LA Opera's "Tosca."
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Just who are those guys playing baseball just north of Downtown Los Angeles?
Fountain Theatre is assuming an especially prominent profile this week, with concurrent productions at two venues.
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The outdoor season ends for desert art.
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Portion of wall on the side of Industry Cafe and Jazz in Culver City.
Right now Los Angeles looks like the new center of vocal arts, with Plácido Domingo as its long-time major benefactor.
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You are in luck. Only in LA is here to help at tax time.
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Streetscape: Lincoln Heights
Productos Mexicanos at El Milagro Market on Avenue 18.
Streetscape: DTLA
Spring Street bike lane.
Streetscape: West LA
405 North at Santa Monica Boulevard.
Hills turning brown
The hills above Gorman.
Arcana Books
In the Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
No casting (or emial)
Former Security-First bank on Wilshire near LaBrea.
Streetscape
CicLAvia at Venice and Centinela in Mar Vista.
Still life
Spotted in Solstice Canyon. Must be a story there.
Streetscape: Myers St.
Railroad siding beside the river in Boyle Heights, looking downstream toward the 4th Street bridge. Bigger.
Streetscape: West 2nd St.
A weekend line outside the Broad Contemporary Art Museum.
Chinatown queue
The line on a Sunday at Far East Plaza for Howling Ray's chicken.
Veronique de Turenne at her 
Melrose Streetscape
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of St Vladimir, Melrose Avenue.
Merry LA Christmas
A home in Mar Vista really gets into the lawn decorations. Photo by Judy Graeme.
Yule season on piñata row
Busy time in the downtown piñata district.
Media streetscape
BuzzFeed offices on Beverly Boulevard.
Art Friday
The day after Thanksgiving was jumping at LACMA.
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