Archive for Thursday, February 14, 2008

• Street Greek

• Maceo Parker: sax man steers the ship

• Dusty Springfield bio touches a pained truth

• Lively tempo changes

• A landscape that melds organic and synthetic

• The Reel Less Traveled

• Franklin not sharing her throne

• DON’T MISS

• Getty Villa: Luis Alfaro’s ‘Oedipus El Rey’

• David Strathairn

• ‘Stay Forever: The Life and Music of Dusty Springfield’

• Bright red flags, waving fast – heed them

• ‘Our Town’ in San Juan Capistrano

• Jack Smith: Just the artifacts

• Powerhouse Theatre: ‘Robots vs. Fake Robots’

• THE FIVE THIS WEEK: BEST PRESSED

• Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars

• The Short Set: Bare-bones b-day

• Amy Ryan

• The Glutton

• Stagecoach fest corrals the Eagles

• ‘Jericho’ returns to ratings battles

• Now that’s down under

• UNDERRATED OVERRATED

• A ‘time-lapse’ chronicle of a rapidly changing China

• Luckyfish: Food gone mobile

• Aquarium of the Pacific: Nature by Kayak tour

• Lock & Key Party: Open your mind

• A seafood hideaway has Hollywood at the door

• The hair club for Sam

• First Cabin: A taste of the old country

• DON’T MISS

• Antiquarian Book Fair turns back the pages

• Smokin’ Mo’s BBQ: surf and sauce

• The stars of ‘Star Wars’ back in the galaxy we know

• Horoscope: Feb. 14

• Oscar-nominated live-action and animated shorts

• SCENESTEALER

• Lucent L’amour: Lights, fabric, action

• The Enabler: Duke’s Hideaway

• 3-Way Pickling workshop: building the perfect pickle

• Time for candy hearts and daggers

• A strange new world

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• Clean, wholesome, old-fashioned burlesque

• ‘O.C.’s’ Bilson makes the jump

• A Scattered Life

• When film made waves

• A Winkle and a nod to films that go beyond cute

• ‘The Flu Season’: Lovesick

• The Buddhists’ goodwill is there for the tasting

• Untitled Paul Young

• Some ‘Aspects’ are charming

• Calendar’s Calendar

• Kate Somerville

• Romance? Definitely. Success? Maybe.

• Ballet and karate? It’s a kickin’ sweat

• ‘Step Up 2 the Streets’

• DON’T MISS

• Los Angeles, Italia: Buon giorno, Bernardo Bertolucci

• Amaranta Cocina Mexicana: Agave Rose Martini

• Harlem Globetrotters: Big kids

• EIGHT THINGS

• Déjà vu all ogre again

• Jon Ross: Brother’s keeper

• Look ma, no hands (or pianist, either)

• Visible Fictions: ‘Jason and the Argonauts’

• Riverside County Fair: Make a date

• Seductive Crimsin is designed for intimacy

• Screening Room

• Night Lines

• Slowfish: slow and steady

• DJ Craze: Real vinyl-scratching hip-hop

• 60 Seconds With … Rhys Darby

• Hank Jones presents the highest of standards

• Pillow talk with socially conscious undertones

• Rainn Wilson, in the Spirit

• DON’T MISS

• ‘Jumper’ bounces around but never goes forward

• Sympathy, no, true love for the ‘Devil’

• New in Town: Citrus

• Was (Not Was) is, again

• DON’T MISS

• Comedy is her true calling

• St. Vincent: Shred head

• Xiem Gallery: Can you DIG it?

• ‘Sleep’ helps sales to awake

• All the world’s (or at least SoCal’s) a stage

• DON’T MISS