A & E

	Massaging the Medium with Marshall McLuhan By Frederik Sisa @ 4:00 PM May 17, 2013 Found in: General Art Review of McLuhan for Beginners by W. Terrence Gordon, with illustrations by Susan Willmarth. A book like McLuhan for Beginners, then, is a timely wakeup call to take a moment and consider one of the 20th century’s foremost media and culture theorists even if that consideration reveals...read
	Middle School Troupe Will Improvise 4 Times Over the Weekend By Geoff Maleman @ 11:00 AM May 16, 2013 Found in: A & E The Culver City Middle School Comedy Improv troupe will deliver four performances this weekend, on Saturday at 3 and 7. Andf Sunday, at 1 and 4, at the Willows Community School Theater, 8520 Warner Dr., Culver City. Each performance will feature a different group of students.read
	Science Fiction’s Forget-Me-Not By Frederik Sisa @ 12:00 PM May 03, 2013 Found in: Film Like Lucifer, only without the theological trappings of sin, Joseph Kosinski set out to bring some light into the normally dimly-lit visions of Hollywood science fiction. It’s a logical step. His work on Tron: Legacy was entirely rooted in the play of light on dark in an agile, design-driven cinematography of contrast.read
	Oz the Mostly Great and, Surprisingly, Powerful By Frederik Sisa @ 5:00 PM March 29, 2013 Found in: Film A review of Oz the Great and Powerful. I cannot say...that the renewed interest in the land of munchkins and yellow bricks road did anything to revise my rather lukewarm relationship to anything Oz-related.read
	Poetry for St. Patrick's Day by Culver City's Poet Laureate By Dr. Janet Hoult @ 12:00 PM March 15, 2013 Found in: A & E Editor’s Note: Dr. Hoult, the Poet Laureate of Culver City, never allows a holiday to slip by unrewarded, especially St. Patrick’s Day.]read
	For Kerr, ‘South Pacific’ Was a Hit That, Oddly, Helped No One By Ross Hawkins @ 8:00 AM February 13, 2013 Found in: A & E Actor John Kerr, who died on Feb. 2 at the age of 81, told me the film he enjoyed making the most was "The Pit and The Pendulum," directed by Roger Corman and co-starred Vincent Price. He recalled that Corman was an excellent director and Price kept him laughing during the entire production. In 1958, Kerr played...read
	John Kerr, South Pacific Star and ‘Culver City-The Reel Hollywood’ Narrator By Ross Hawkins @ 8:00 AM February 12, 2013 Found in: A & E Actor John Kerr, who won a Tony Award for his role in the Elia Kazan stage production of "Tea and Sympathy," died on Feb. 2. He was 81 years old. I first met Mr. Kerr 35 years ago, in 1978, when...read
	Les Miserables: Victory Over Revenge By Frederik Sisa @ 5:00 PM February 01, 2013 Found in: Film I never did get the chance to see the theatrical production of Les Miserables; such are the vagaries of the calendar. Fortunately, there is this magnificent film from the director of the superlative crowd-pleaser, The King’s Speech.read
	Peering Into Windows 8 (Part 2) By Frederik Sisa @ 5:00 PM January 25, 2013 Found in: General Art After almost two weeks of working with Windows 8, I’ve gained enough experience to reinforce my suspicion that critics of the OS are either operating with a bias against Microsoft or are simply old dogs whimpering at new tricks. An unfair characterization, no doubt, but I remain baffled at the hostility towards Windows 8. In my experience, Windows is just like Windows 7, only with a Start screen instead of a Start menu.read
	The Day a Cowboy Legend Ended in a Crash By Ross Hawkins @ 8:00 AM January 22, 2013 Found in: Film A little old lady was being interviewed by the host. Seems that when she was an aspiring actress in the 1920s, one of her earliest assignments had been to ride double with the famed cowboy Tom Mix when he performed a stunt at a hotel in Santa Monica. She rode behind Mix while his horse actually climbed four flights of stairs, to the top of the hotel, and then he – they? – plunged into...read