A & E

	AVPA Star Student Charlotte Sabet Earns Trip to a Global Conference By Art & Entertainment @ 4:00 PM October 18, 2011 Found in: A & E From Geoff Maleman Charlotte Sabet, an Academy of Visual and Performing Arts student at Culver City High School, has won first-place in the “Get To Know Art Contest” for her painting, and she will serve this weekend as one of 20 youth delegates in "The International Unconference" in Jasper, Alberta, Canada. read
	‘Excuseman’ Only Tortures Readers By Frederik Sisa @ 11:00 AM October 14, 2011 Found in: General Art In an age saturated by scandals, what we apparently need is a superhero wielding a very large needle to pop the ballooning delusions of celebrity apologetics. Unfortunately, “Excuseman” (aka Chicago trial lawyer Jordan Margolis) is too busy indulging himself to stay focused on his mission to save the world from “insincere apologies for bad behavior from celebrities, politicians and general ne’er-do-wells.”read
	Is Humanism a Religion? By Ben Edward Akerley @ 7:00 AM September 22, 2011 Found in: A & E Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe By Greg M. Epstein (HarperCollins, New York) 250 pp. $14.99 (paperback) read
	Delving Deeper Inside the Corrie Woman By Ari L. Noonan @ 3:00 PM September 01, 2011 Found in: A & E Re “The Killing of Rachel Corrie” read
	Humanists, the True Believers By Ben Edward Akerley @ 10:00 AM September 01, 2011 Found in: A & E em>Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe By Greg M. Epstein (HarperCollins, New York) 250 pp. $14.99 (paperback) read
	The Killing of Rachel Corrie By Ari L. Noonan @ 4:00 PM August 31, 2011 Found in: A & E Re “Controversial ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’ Arrives at the Will Geer” read
	Controversial ‘My Name Is Rachel Corrie’ Arrives at the Will Geer   By Art & Entertainment @ 11:00 AM August 30, 2011 Found in: A & E From Lucy Pollak [Editor: A two-part interview with actor Alan Blumenfeld will run Wednesday and Thursday.] read
	Wusses?..! By Dr. Janet Hoult @ 8:00 AM August 30, 2011 Found in: A & E [Editor’s Note: Dr. Hoult is under going surgery today, and prayers would be appreciated.] read
	Cowboys & Aliens: The Year's Most Underrated Blockbuster? By Frederik Sisa @ 1:00 PM August 26, 2011 Found in: Film As tempting as it is to label Cowboys & Aliens a genre mashup, that path leads to confusion – which goes some ways to explaining the mixed reviews and box office performance. Viewed as a seemingly irresolvable chimera, reactions to the film are akin to the befuddlement that the Saturday Night Live’s “It’s Pat!” sketches exploited for laughs, only with less amusement and interpretive acuity. For reference, consider Firefly, a bona fide mashup of two genres that the San Francisco Chronicle’s Tim Goodman, in his review of the cult TV series, described as “alarmingly opposite.” Here we were presented with an aesthetic that jammed together Western and sci-fi tropes, leading to scenes that played out as Westerns with ray-guns and hovering vehicles. Whedon’s blending of visual vocabularies from two strongly defined genres yielded results akin to the Spanglish that comes from the meld of Spanish and English. It worked, albeit very creakily, but the show’s appeal ultimately emerged from the strong storytelling and compelling character archetypes drawn from Western rather than Science Fiction sensibilities. read
	Tonight at 7, Summer Concert Series Waves Bye, Bye By Ari L. Noonan @ 10:00 AM August 25, 2011 Found in: A & E Closing Night. Can it be? read

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