The Pasadena Playhouse announced this past week that the final curtain will fall on Feb 7, 2010. It will cease operations with the closing of the currently running Camelot. The historic theatre represents 90 years of American Theater history and undoubtedly, its closing will be a big symbolic and physical loss to the artistic world [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Out and about’
July 31, 2009
I <3 LA
I love LA for its eclectic mix of randomness.
Billy goats grazing in the middle of Downtown LA greeted me one Wednesday as I emerged from the Pershing Square Metro Station.
How about a hipster karaoke competition at Royal-T, where the waitresses look as if they walked out of an anime novel? There was this crazy good [...]
July 14, 2009
Portable Screening Day
Tell me, isn’t this cool?! Portable Screening Day, organized by the The Portable Film Festival:
The Portable Film Festival, now in its third year, is an international festival of film and user created content. It works in the same way as other film festivals – the only difference is that it is delivered completely online and distributed [...]
July 12, 2009
宋冬 @ MOMA NYC
There’s an amazing installation at the MOMA NYC by Beijing based artist 宋冬 Song Dong called 物尽其用 or Waste Not. The breathtaking display of his elderly mother’s entire collection of material possessions (including the wooden frame of the house) covers the entire space of the second floor atrium.
Visitors are invited to walk through clear paths spliced through [...]
June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson RIP
If you haven’t heard already, Michael Jackson passed away around 1pm earlier today. He was rushed to the UCLA Medical Center after paramedics, responding to a call, couldn’t revive him. He had already stopped breathing when the paramedics arrived. He had suffered a heart attack.
Within hours, hordes of fans rushed down to the medical center [...]
May 30, 2009
Merlion in LA
I kid you not. There’s a shop near downtown LA, at the edge of old Chinatown, where you can buy a Merlion, the internationally known symbol of Singapore.
Fact: the Merlion is not a Singapore legend but a symbol owned by the Singapore Tourism Board, which has “all intellectual property rights (including design rights or copyright, [...]
May 24, 2009
Seeing in the Cemetery
Okay, it was more “watching” in the cemetery, the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It was a Cinespia screening. On screen was the 1955 Hitchcock flick To Catch a Thief, staring the wonderfully glamorous Grace Kelly last night. Love the badly blatant symbolism, understated, witty dialogue, and many double entendres. Thought the 50s was an era of sexual repression. The doorbitch was [...]
May 22, 2009
Back in LA
The best thing about jet lag is that I get to see the sunrise. LA is beautiful in the twilight, before the hustle, bustle and smog starts.
March 4, 2009
Midnight Ridazz Bicycle Ride
I totally wanna do this. I “ran” into them while trying to taking the LA subway for the first time.
The Midnight Ridazz is formally described as a group of bicycle enthusiasts who have been riding together on the second Friday of every month since February of 2004.Skeptics may scoff at the irreverence of this alleged [...]
