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Editor's Note: This story originally appeared Feb. 21, 2021, in What's Up!

- ADVERTISEMENT - SOCIAL JUSTICE YOGA WITH EBONY UTLEY (Thursday) If you’re not altogether sure what social justice yoga entails, think of it as a relaxing yoga session and pep talk on how to be an upstanding, involved community member. Led by Cal State Long Beach professor and author Ebony Utley, this free virtual yoga session is modeled after “Kemetic Yin” which combines ancient Egyptian yoga with mindfulness, meditation and conversation about how yoga can be a form of care for oneself ...

While COVID-19 may have stopped her top fans from coming to the theater, it couldn’t stop Dixie from coming to her fans.

Good drinks, good stories, good company Mar 5, 2021 | Tammye Nash | Managing Editor “Thank the Lord and the Baby Jesus and all the ships at sea!” Dixie Longate declared when she heard that my household was not among the thousands here in Texas to lose power for days on end or having to deal with massive water line breaks or unsafe drinking water during deadly Winter Storm Uri in mid-February. “Oh my stars and garters!,” Dixie added. “It has just been crazy!” Safe to say, I guess, t...

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Welcome to impeachment week, in which we grow increasingly concerned about the fate of our fragile republic — but also the aesthetics of Sen. Ted Cruz’s haircut. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, here with your weekly dose of culture news — and hamburger dispatches: Artistic legacies Shortly after abandoning her religious vows in 1968, Corita Kent produced a series of 29 prints called “Heroes and Sheroes” that honored political an...

FAIRFIELD-SUISUN, CALIFORNIA How this drag performer is trying to save regional theater, one cocktail at a time [Los Angeles Times] She’s a fiery redhead with a heart of gold. A sassy Southern gal whose euphemisms would make a sailor blush. She believes that the four food groups are gin, rum, vodka and tequila, and she’d like to invite you to happy hour at her place. Dixie Longate is the drag persona of actor, writer and comedian Kris Andersson, who has been touring with his solo show, “D...

Newport Beach News Dixie Longate is back, and she’s owning Happy Hour at Segerstrom Center. Alabama’s favorite fast-talking, gum-chewing southern belle Dixie Longate performed her smash off-Broadway hit “Dixie’s Tupperware Party” at Segerstrom Center’s Samueli Theatre in December of 2019, and proved she’s as much fun in the OC as she is on – or off – Broadway. Now, Dixie is back in a new show, “Dixie’s Happy Hour,” with virtual perform...

Chicken curry is bubbling on the stove. The rich scent of garlic, ginger, coriander and Indian chili powder fills the air. Check the basmati rice. It’s almost done. Take a sip of your Mumbai Mule — feel that vodka kick? Now, turn your attention back to your laptop screen. Sri Rao has something important to say. He stands by his stove in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen, wearing a smart suit jacket and a collared shirt with no tie. He’s cooking what you’re cooking, and he’s explaining wha...