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A few steps out the door of most of us who live here near the coast we see the rolling waves crashing on the shore. With it they bring mist in the air and evening clouds that weave into the mountain canyons. The air fills with the smell of sea salt. The beach fills with water that washes back, and we see the reflection of the sunset on the sand. In 2050 that could all change.

If we as a human race keep polluting at our current rate, there will be more plastic in the sea than fish by the year

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Atropos, Clotho and Lachesis, also known as the Fates, reached down from the heavens and wrenched their mighty crowbar into the thing called inequality between the sexes and wedged the two one step closer to parity, in whatever direction that may lie, when they brought us Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861 – 1937). She was the first female psychoanalyst and a protofeminist. Nicknamed Lou by a pastor who mentored her, she was and has remained a controversial historical figure. She was a revolutionary

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NOAA California Coastal Economy
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The gloves are already off. California is in the ring and preparing its KO. But this could be a wake-up call if California doesn’t heed the warnings of attorney Sandra Fluke, well-known for her testimony on birth control before Congress, and now the California State Director for Voices For Progress and the Voices For Progress Education Fund. 

“As State Director of Voices For Progress, we're supporting Assembly Bill 1775 (AB1775) and Senate Bill 834 (SB834), which are identical measures to try

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Congresman Ted Lieu in Malibu
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In California, we are the green leader. The state that sets the standard for all things environmentally friendly and people who want to keep the ocean blue. It’s no surprise that the Trump Administration’s proposal to open 90 recent of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to offshore oil drilling is a non-starter in our state. The Pacific Coast has been closed to offshore oil drilling for decades. No new leases have been issued in California state waters since 1969, which was the year of the

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Frances McDormand in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri
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Justice, prejudice, love, hatred and fighting for the messages on three billboards that could bring closure in the death of her daughter, this is the what Frances McDormand’s gritty character, Mildred, does in Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. And last night this Oscar winner for Best Actress laid it all on the line with a speech that told Hollywood what it needed to hear. It was the mic drop moment of the night with just two simple words.

“And now I want to get some perspective,”

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Kazuhiro Tsuji and Gary Oldman On The Set Of The Darkest Hour
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Kazuhiro Tsuji was working as a contemporary hyperrealist sculptor after a long and decorated career in Hollywood as a special effects make-up artist, when he decided to become involved in the Oscar nominated film the Darkest Hour. Coming out of retirement from the film industry was a good decision for Oscar Winner Tsuji. It has yielded several awards nominations and wins for his beautiful work with also Oscar Winner Gary Oldman on the same film. Tsuji won this year in the category for Best

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The Judge by Marcus Jansen
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By Rick Paulas & Editor Kriss Perras

Approaching one of Marcus Jansen's canvasses is like getting your bearings after having your brain rattled by a near explosion.

The chaotic colorful strokes that make up the landscape, the dominant force in any Jansen work, lends itself to momentary squints of confusion. It's only when the viewer latches onto some familiar object—a hand, a ball, a butterfly, a Dalmatian—that they begin to piece together the work. It's only then you realize that what

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Begin with a now classic Leonard Bernstein score that the composer referred to as his “love letter to Europe.” Layer in broad comedy, social satire, philosophical musings about the nature of good, evil and man’s responsibility to engage with the world. Season with strong performances and inventive staging, and you have the recipe for Candide, just finishing its run at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion under the auspices of the L.A. Opera and featuring Kelsey Grammer and Christine Ebersole.

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Brooklyn Crime Scene by Alix Lambert
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Known partly for her works The Mark of Cain and The Silencing, both published by Viggo Mortensen’s Perceval Press, and her work on the social justice theme of non-fiction crime, Alix Lambert is now hard at work on a graphic novel on the Brooklyn crime scene, a book title of the same name. Through this effort she’s bringing back the art of the courtroom sketch artist. In this Q&A we find out what daily life is like within the criminal justice system.

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KRISS: These are scenes from

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Casper Brindle Untitled 2017
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by Heather Fuller & Editor Kriss Perras

Using airbrush, auto paints, resin and wood, Casper Brindle creates infinite horizons in evocative suggestions of land and sea.

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MAJ: What are the Finish Fetish and Light and Space art movements, and how are you connected to this group of West Coast artists?


CASPER: Finish Fetish and Light and Space are art movements that were born in Southern California in the 1960s, in direct response to the culture, environment and geography of the

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Mabel Stark & Mae West Mabel Mabel Tiger Trainer by Leslie Zemeckis
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“Will you please not give the end of the story away?” director Leslie Zemeckis asks at the end of our phone call. It’s an important request. While enough is known about Mable Stark’s life to fill a modest Wikipedia page, Zemeckis’ film Mabel, Mabel Tiger Trainer fills in gaps that have long existed.

Born in 1889, Stark was an orphan by 17, and began traveling with the circus. She began as a “cooch dancer” before working her way into tiger training, and by 1916, she was the show’s featured act

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It started and ended with children - side by side with creatures the west calls fearsome but Koreans call friends - white tigers especially! Doves were everywhere. Drones where happy points of light turning a dove into the Olympic rings. Nowhere were the militant drums that announced the start of the Chinese games - Korean drums are soft, are all about Ying and Yang. This ceremony was years in the planning - before the North Koreans announced their Olympic peace plan. The whole world was

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