Culture Watch

By Sarah A. Spitz For the fifth time in just over a century, Christmas and Chanukah (my preferred spelling; start...

  By Sarah A. Spitz   Mark Stewart (aka Stew), a black kid from the Fairfax neighborhood, formed an award-winning...

By Sarah A. Spitz   If you’re anything like me, in these post-election weeks you’ve been bouncing between seeking ways...

By Sarah A. Spitz Stay local for your holiday entertainment. Enjoy “A Christmas Carol” at Miles Memorial Playhouse, Impro Theater...

Jeanne Field occupies a niche all her own; no single description defines her. She’s been a nanny, a caterer, a...

By Sarah A. Spitz Some of our smaller local theatres put on reliably good entertainment much of the time. Today...

  By Sarah A. Spitz This weekend, the WestEdge Design Fair sets up shop in Barker Hangar at Santa Monica...

What lies beneath — beneath the ground, behind the mask, below the surface of superficial appearance? That’s what the astonishing...

I had a profound experience watching the documentary “The True Cost” last week at a Sustainable Works screening at the...

On the off-chance you haven’t had enough of election year politics, tonight (Thursday, 9/29) Mike Daisey presents “The Trump Card,”...