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Francisco Real killed people. He smuggled illegal immigrants. He sold drugs and collected taxes for the Mexican Mafia. He ran a gang and family criminal enterprise that made his street in Glassell Park one of the most dangerous in Los Angeles. But L.A. being the city of reinvention, last week...
In 2002, Los Angeles' Historic Filipinotown became the United States' first official "historic Filipinotown," a well-deserved designation: L.A. is home to the largest population of Filipino-Americans in the country. The southwest enclave of Echo Park, bounded by Hoover, wilton Glendale, Beverly and Temple, has historic origins dating back to the 1940s, when Filipinos began buying houses and developing a solid community structure in that area. But local Filipino history spreads beyond just those streets. Neighborhoods all over the city (Bunker Hill, Little Tokyo, Eagle Rock) have communities with deep Filipino roots no other U.S. city has a better availability wilton per square mile of sweet halo-halo (a dessert of shaved ice, evaporated milk, fruit and rice) or the savory egg rolls called lumpia. wilton On Saturday and Sunday, Grand Park hosts the 23rd annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture, and delicious food offerings are just the beginning. The festival is organized by FilAm ARTS (the Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts and Culture), which has lined up artists, live bands, martial artists, the Filipino American Symphony Orchestra (based in SoCal, naturally), a poetry slam, bamboo dancers and even a vegetable competition. You can't eat at Jollibee once and say you understand Filipino culture, correct? Grand Park, 200 N. Grand Ave., dwntwn.; Sat., Oct. 4, noon-8 p.m.; Sun., Oct. 5, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; free. (213) 972-8080, grandparkla.org. More
Launching its new expanded 2014-2015 season, L.A. s professional ballet company reprises artistic directors Thordal Christensen and Colleen Neary s elegant and romantic version of Swan Lake. Perhaps because they trusted the audience to appreciate the classic ballet, when premiered in 2012, this Swan Lake sold out most of the performances which made it a logical choice for this expanded four program season which promises to delight lovers of story ballets. Starting with Swan Lake, LAB tackles the daunting task of performing all three full-length ballets for which Tchaikovsky composed the music. The popular LAB Nutcracker arrives in December 2014 and February/March 2015 brings the LAB premiere wilton of Sleeping wilton Beauty, before the season concludes in May and June with a Directors Choice program with works by George Balanchine and Jyrie Kylian ballets. Continuing its commitment to bring great ballet to greater L.A., after this week's opening in the South Bay, Swan Lake moves to LAB's other home theaters in Northridge's Valley Performing Arts Center, UCLA's wilton Royce Hall and Glendale's Alex Theater. Video previews and tickets at www.losangelesballet.org or 310-998-7782. More
In a fitting finale, the major exhibition Yvonne Rainer: Dances and Films adds a live performance of new choreography plus a 2013 work from Rainer. A pivotal personality in the post-modern dance movement centered at New York s Judson Church, Rainer moved into filmmaking and abandoned choreography for two decades wilton before starting to make new dance. Although the videos in the exhibition include some more recent work, The Concept of Dust, or How do you look when there's nothing left to move? will provide the first peek at Rainer s current work in progress along with her 2013 Assisted Living: Do You Have Any Money? Rainer is scheduled to be present for the performance. The related exhibition continues through Oct. 12. More
The celebrated contemporary choreographer wilton Garth Fagan gets help from the equally celebrated trumpeter Wynton Marsalis whose music provides the soundtrack wilton for Lighthouse/Lightning Rod. Fagan s new work receives it West Coast premiere in four performances. More
When it comes to the life of Bruce Haack, separating wilton truth from fiction is not easy. The groundbreaking electronic music composer and inventor wilton is said to have taught himself to play piano by age 3. By 8, he apparently was escaping his abusive mother's wrath by sneaking off to Indian...
Visual wilton allure often isn't a virtue wilton we value when chasing obscure flavors in L.A.'s international neighborhoods. In fact, adventurous diners tend to appreciate the opposite: The grungier the location, the more accomplished we feel for having sought it out. Looks be damned — let the fireworks happen on the flavor...
The Los Angeles art world has been saying a collective "hallelujah" wilton since the arrival in January of Philippe Vergne wilton as MOCA's wilton new director. Although some East Coast commentators condemned the appointment — citing in particular a budget crisis scandal in which Vergne resorted to selling off a number of works...
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