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Print 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. But the Broad version of rich-man civic engagement was just one of many that Los Angeles has seen. In the first half of the 20th century, the Chandler family, which owned The Times and a good deal else around town, and the Committee of 25, which consisted of leading local in...

Print Gloria Henry, the effervescent mother on the television series “Dennis the Menace” who patiently rolled with her son’s well-meaning but mischievous antics, has died at her home in Los Angeles. Henry, who was 98 when she died April 3, had a long film and television career and later in life was instrumental in bringing attention and much-needed money to help fund and grow educational programs at the Ahmanson Theatre and Mark Taper Forum at a time when the art scene in downtown Los Angeles was just beginning to bloom. Though her perpetually sunny character as Dennis Mitchell’s moth...

Lileana Blain-Cruz Today's subject Lileana Blain-Cruz is currently living her theatre life as the director of Signature Theatre's latest Signature Features streaming offering entitled Daniel J.Watts' The Jam: Only Child. The show recounts Watts' life as the only child of a single mother. From the fierce growing pains of boyhood innocence to the awkwardness of teenage years to a proud Black man, Daniel digs through his memory's attic in a powerful and playful story of metamorphosis. The production is available for streaming through May seventh on Marquee TV. Lileana's Off-Brodway work includ...

Print Grab the family, mask up, get your tickets online and eat your supper first. The Music Center announced Thursday the launch of its first in-person performances since the start of the pandemic, meaning audiences can at long last gather again for live shows as soon as next month. Dance at Dusk, staged by the Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center series, will kick off in the newly refurbished Jerry Moss Plaza between the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and the Mark Taper Forum. The four dance presentations — each an hour long with no intermission — will consist of a tap performa...

Zoot Suit and American Me, the series, from Elgin James and Kurt Sutter, explores a subculture made up of disparate cultures. With season three of The Crown, Battlestar Galactica from beginning to end for the first time). The A.V. Club spoke with Olmos about flawed characters, his famous Blade Runner ad lib, what was so difficult about making Selena, and how a motorcycle club became his family. Zoot Suit (1981)—“El Pachuco” Advertisement The A.V. Club: This was your breakout role, and you got to do it on Broadway and in a film. What was it about the part that first caught your a...