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Due to popular demand, a 2:30 p.m. matinee has been added to the Pandora Presents Disney Princess - The Concert engagement at the Fabulous Fox Theatre on Saturday, December 11, 2021. Tickets will go on sale Friday, May 28 at 10 a.m. online at metrotix.com or by calling 314-534-1111. The Fox Box Office is currently closed. For generations, Disney's Princesses have enchanted us with their courage and kindness. Their music has been the soundtrack to our lives. Now, for the first time in forever, that beloved music will be celebrated in Pandora Presents Disney Princess - The Concert on stage at t...

How Los Angeles Descended Into Neo-Feudalism—and How to Fix It | Opinion Joel Kotkin , Presidential Fellow in Urban Futures at Chapman University On 5/16/21 at 8:00 AM EDT For most of the last century, Los Angeles loomed as the next great American city, a burgeoning paradise riding the shift of world power west. It seemed posed to leave New York and London in the dust, the engines of growth inexorable. There was the city's dominance of the entertainment and aerospace industries, which incited migration from both the rest of the country and abroad, and all this promise was...

Print The intermission was already on shaky ground before the pandemic. The convention of the two-act play, interrupted by 15 minutes of recess, was starting to feel like a relic of the theatergoing past. After lockdown, the interval’s days seem numbered. The vaccines appear to be miraculous, but they won’t erase all our qualms about indoor public gatherings. It’s hard to imagine even the most die-hard spectators wanting to spend more time than necessary crowding into lobbies between acts for overpriced wine and snacks or waiting in bathroom lines in unsavory cramped spaces. Broadway, ...

Builder and Breaker Eli Broad put his stamp on Los Angeles culture—and his foot down on its public schools. A version of this article first ran in the Los Angeles Times. In Los Angeles as everyplace else, the rich, for better and worse, we shall always have with us. The obituary tributes to Eli Broad have rightly noted the singularity of his achievements, most notably, making the city an epicenter not just of creating contemporary arts, but of exhibiting them as well, and most, in a sense, stamped with his name. At various points in the past three decades, he didn’t so much personif...

Op-Ed: Eli Broad and L.A.'s complicated history with civic leaders with cash Harold Meyerson © Provided by The LA Times Eli Broad at his Century City offices on Aug. 3, 2000. (Los Angeles Times) In Los Angeles, for better and worse, the rich we shall always have with us. The obituary tributes to Eli Broad have rightly noted the singularity of his achievements. At various points in the past three decades, he didn’t so much personify the city’s business-civic elite as actually comprise it in its entirety. Popular Searches But the Broad version of rich-man civic engagement...