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The Nov. 25 concert will be at Bethel Congregational Church.

One of the singular accomplishments of Ed Ruscha’s long and varied career is to bring the hyperbolic image of the American billboard down to its actual size. Whether revealing the ass-end of the Hollywood sign or the lateral sprawl of Manifest Destiny down to its cinematic Sunset end, he’s served as sardonic witness to the country’s love/hate, super/under-sized relationship with itself.

David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha

THE DISTANCE from the Knox-Less service station in Oklahoma City to Bob’s Seaside Service, not so far from the Santa Monica Pier at the terminus of Route 66—both pictured in Ed Ruscha’s 1963 artist’s book, Twentysix Gasoline Stations—was about 1,400 miles. It’s a drive Ruscha has taken many times since he traveled it with Mason Williams in Ruscha’s lowered 1950 four-door Ford, with throaty Smitty Glasspack dual muffler, following their graduation from Oklahoma City’s Classen High...

The Warwick Figure Skaters held its 49th Annual Show Saturday at Thayer Arena. The theme to this year’s show, “Skating Through the Decades” could not have been more fitting than the …

One of the victims in the murder mystery comedy, Bloody Murder, to be staged by the Pilgrim Players Drama Club this weekend, Sarah Burnham, cracks a smile during rehearsals last week. Story and more …

Somewhere in time Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” at the Music Center by Bondo Wyszpolski It’s always autumn in a Symbolist work of art, often lit by the pale…

Its Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous versus real human beings who make a mess, director Elkhanah Pulitzer said.

LAO takes on the challenges of Wagner’s big Romantic opera.

Angelina Jolie back in action Angelina Jolie back in action Over recent years filmmaker Taylor Sheridan has had a huge impact on Hollywood. His screenplay for the hard-hitting Sicario heralded in a new age of dramatic intensity within a market that many said had gone soft. Then came his work on the under-rated Hell or High Water and the brilliant Wind River. Sheridan was no longer a lightweight, he had awards in his back pocket and actors like Jeremy Renner were lining up to work with him. To s...