Mondongo: Dark Moods And Fairy Tales In Upcoming Performance Installation

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Written by Kriss Perras

Category: Art

Mondongo is back, and so are their dark themes and punk influences. Mondongo consists of Juliana Lafitte and Manuel Mendanha. Step back in time about a decade and read part of the Mondongo Manifesto.

“In Spanish, the word Mondongo means tripe, or the lining of a cow’s stomach. The word Mondongo is also a stew we love, and we are like three witches stirring it up in a cauldron: revolving and expecting and trying and experimenting; attempting to alchemize, to distill, and ooze all the chaos, and

Scientific and Technical Oscars: ILM, DreamWorks, Pixar, Jonathan Erland To Be Honored

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Written by Kriss Perras

Category: Film

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed its list of winners of scientific and technical Oscar awards today. The 90th Oscars, for this part of the awards show, will honor 10 scientific and technical achievements represented by 34 individual award recipients, plus one organization. Some of these include Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), DreamWorks, and Pixar. 

Visual effects technologist Jonathan Erland will receive the Gordon E. Sawyer Award (an Oscar^® statuette) for

Hollywood and Music Lost So Many Stars In 2017: In Memoriam

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Written by Heather Fuller

Category: Film

Over the course of last year we lost so many Hollywood and music stars many of us grew up with watching black and white TV that turned Kodachrome to MTV. We laughed so many times with Mary Tyler Moore who played Laura Petrie on the Dick Van Dyke Show. She also had her own show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show. We lost Moore in January. Rose Marie, best known as the woman who played TV writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke show, only just passed away December 28, 2017. She was 94. Adam West who

Hollywood’s Leading Women Launch Time’s Up Against Sexual Misconduct

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Written by Heather Fuller

Category: Film

In an effort to stamp out inequality and promote safety in the workplace, an unprecedented number of Hollywood’s leading women today formally launched a campaign titled Time’s Up. 

"Earning a living should not come at the cost of anyone's safety, dignity or morale," said Shonda Rhimes, (Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy) about the campaign’s launch.

Part of this effort is the Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund, which will assist individuals in the workplace who have experienced sexual misconduct, assault

Bob Givens: Animation Creator of Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd Dies At 99

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Written by Kriss Perras

Category: Art

 

Bob Givens, who has given us so many iconic cartoon characters, has died at age 99 in Burbank of natural causes.

 

A 60-year long career that produced cartoon characters out of some of the most well-known Hollywood studios, Givens gave us Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Tom and Jerry, Daffy Duck, Popeye and Alvin and The Chipmunks, among many others. Givens worked at Disney, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hanna-Barbara and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. His imprint is huge on the American world of

How to Get your Short Story Published: A Community Workshop

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Written by Heather Fuller

Category: Books

So many writers have stories they’ve seriously worked on but haven’t gotten published. The craft of writing is a difficult field. Pitches are driven at publishers daily. How do you get yours heard? Take some time to attend Emerging From the Slush: How To Get Your Short Story Published, a community workshop hosted by the City of Malibu Community Services Department.

 
The workshop will start January 24, 2018 at 10:00 am at Bluffs Park. It will be led by Robert Kerbeck. Participants will learn

The UnAmerican Struggle: 2016's Shot Heard Round The World

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Written by Rick Paulas

Category: Film

Like a huge chunk of America, director Ric Osuna was shook to his core on the night of November 8^th, 2016.  

 

In the previous months, he'd witnessed the rise of a presidential candidate whose race-baiting and hateful scapegoating gave license to emboldened white supremacists, and on that night, he saw that candidate win the most powerful office in the country. While most of us were still walking around blurry-eyed and confused like the day after a particularly long night out, Osuna was

Lili Haydn And Opium Moon: Kama Sutra Music

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Written by Heather Fuller

Category: Music

By Editor Kriss Perras And Heather Fuller

Opium Moon plays Kama Sutra music. Her violin weeps the notes of a love ballad. The bow is at times ecstatic and at others barely touching the strings. As she performs, we’re transported to another universe. There are overtones of Itzhak Perlman in her fingers, and Isaac Stern in her bow. Best of all, in her facial expressions you will find the plateaued emotions of her musical performance. Her whole body is into it, like a violent ballet. This is Lili

Jimi Gleason: The Reflected Painterly Surface

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Written by Kriss Perras

Category: Art

The works are striking upon entering the gallery. In an alchemy of silver nitrate and acrylic-coated canvases, the gallery was alight with pastels backed by a black canvas and silver coated acrylic in a variation of many colors. This new set of works by California artist Jimi Gleason is titled Reflected and Absorbed and is currently on exhibition at William Turner Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica through January 13, 2018.

Gleason uses a technique of impasto combined with silver

Young Actors Project and Mission IMPROVable Perform In Malibu

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Written by Heather Fuller

Category: Theater

written by Heather Fuller and Editor Kriss Perras

The Young Actors Project and The City Of Malibu hosted a Teen Comedy Improv at Malibu City Hall recently. Local youth and teens from the Young Actors Project collaborated with artists from the Westside Comedy Theater, Mission IMPROVable. The night saw a series of Saturday Night Live style comedy sketches.

The comedy troupe was all about creating a night of laughs from whatever the audience told them. This is the goal of Mission IMPROVable. The

Trumping Democracy: Buying And Selling Your Profile

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Written by Rick Paulas

Category: Film

Trump was elected because of racist backlash to Obama's presidency. Trump was elected because of sexist backlash to Hillary's candidacy. Or because of Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders siphoning leftist voters. Or because of non-voters. Or the media. Or Russia. Or because your dumbass Aunt won't stop watching Fox News.

When an election with over 235 million eligible voters is determined by the slim margin of 80,000 cast over three states, the reason can be almost anything. In Thomas Huchon's

Richard Wolff And Capitalism’s Troubled Waters At The Left Coast Forum

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Written by Chris Elliott

Category: Books

The Left Forum is a meeting of progressive thinkers, writers and advocates of various types that has convened regularly in and around New York City since the 1960s. On the first weekend of November, Left Coast Forum was launched, its maiden voyage held at LA Trade Tech in Los Angeles. Despite some chilly weather, turnout was strong, surely due to the nexus of a profound national political upheaval, and the presentation of some of the country’s leading progressive voices.

The three day event