ENTERTAINMENT
April 22, 1993
The Harry and Grace Steele Foundation has awarded $1.5 million to the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the largest operating grant ever received by the center, it was announced Wednesday. The grant, to be paid over three years in annual installments of $500,000, will help underwrite the center's dance series and other, unidentified projects.
ENTERTAINMENT
September 28, 1991 | LYNNE HEFFLEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Whether you're 4 or over 40, here's a wacky winner: "Blue Palm Startles Little Red Riding Hood, Eats Hansel and Gretel, Then Dances With the Sleeping Beauty," free at Barnsdall Art Park's Gallery Theatre in Hollywood. In a departure from their sensual, unique dance theater works for adults, the professional dance duo Blue Palm--Jackie Planeix and Tom Crocker--performs a trio of hilarious take-offs on familiar fairy tales for children.
ENTERTAINMENT
January 15, 1998 | LYNNE HEFFLEY, TIMES STAFF WRITER
CD-ROM Fun With Architecture. Learn Technologies Inc./Voyager. Windows 3.1 or Windows 95; DOS 6.0 or later. Macintosh, System 7 or higher. $19.98. (888) 292-5584; www.learntech.com. Ages 8 and up. From New York's Empire State Building to the Notre Dame Cathedral, aspiring young architects can re-create existing famous edifices or design their own wonders in this interactive delight, based on a best-selling stamp series from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
NEWS
November 25, 2013 | By Susan Denley
Sunday belonged to Taylor Swift, but Lady Gaga also turned a few heads at the American Music Awards. Swift, who won four awards including artist of the year, wore a short gold dress by Julien Macdonald along with Jimmy Choo's Madison shoes. Gaga made her entrance riding a human-powered "horse" and wearing a lilac gown from Versace's spring-summer 2014 collection. Later, she performed in an Atelier Versace Swarovski crystal jacket and pleated skirt, which she removed to reveal an Atelier Versace bodysuit also embroidered with Swarovski crystals with chain mail detail.
BOOKS
February 25, 1990 | Gail Lumet Buckley, Buckley is author of a family memoir , "The Hornes" (Alfred A. Knopf). She is currently writing a book on the African-American military experience. and
The title of this collection of nonfiction stories linked mostly by family relationships (a first book that began as fiction but ended as "literal truth") comes from an African-American proverb: "Every shut-eye ain't sleep; every good-bye ain't gone."
ENTERTAINMENT
November 14, 2005 | Lea Aschkenas, Special to The Times
IN the opening scene of "First Love," in just three spare, evocative paragraphs, Adrienne Sharp gives a glimpse of the childhoods of her debut novel's three main characters and, in so doing, sets the stage for each of their downfalls. American Ballet Theater star Adam LaSalle has grown up in the shadow of his parents' ballet careers, always longing to be the center of someone's life.