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Author Archives: James Eliopulos
Review: Joan As Policewoman – Sunday December 16, The Hotel Cafe
(Photo by permission: Alex Ghabril) Sunday evening at the Hotel Café Joan as Policewoman offered up a terrific, if far too brief, performance for a warm crowd of appreciative fans. Drawing primarily from a collection of works in progress for … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Music
Tagged Alex Ghabril, Dave Rawlings, Gillian Welch, Hotel Cafe, James Eliopulos, Joan as Policewoman, Joan Wasser
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Music Review: Rat Soup, Hot and Brassy, Cool and Sassy
If I have to stand at another bar and listen to one more insipid conversation about ‘Who’s gonna carry on the tradition of Rock and Roll?’ or ‘Who’s gonna replace ______________ (fill in whatever band name the annoying loud mouth … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Music
Tagged Aaron Gitnick, Al Marotta, Damion Meadows, For the record, Funk, Jamie Flores, Jazz, JB, Milford Street Records, Rat Soup, Shane Baird, Tim Wickham
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LA Comedy Fest 2012: Filmmaker Adrian Roup Discusses His Submission, ‘Tango Changes Everything’
Beginning this weekend the LA Comedy Fest (November 2 – 11) gets underway at several venues around the city. Featuring over a weeks worth of new projects from new talent in film, live comedy and screenplays, past participants have gone … Continue reading
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Theater Review: In the Red and Brown Water at The Fountain Theater
A legitimate work of art doesn’t require perfection in each of its components to manifest its truth. It doesn’t even have to reach the pinnacle of its own form to raise its observer to a higher place within … Continue reading
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Bajofondo at Royce Hall (October 12, 2012)
Friday October 12, at UCLA’s Royce Hall, the University’s Center for the Art of Performance presented an emotionally charged and artistically inspiring evening with 8 musicians, singers and composers celebrating the music of the Plata del Rio, collectively … Continue reading
The Fool and The Red Queen – through June 24 at The Lounge Theater
For a play that is presented in a small theater, on a small stage and with a set so minimalist that the three folding chairs in the first act loom like the proverbial ‘gun over the fireplace mantle’, the latest … Continue reading
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Tagged Ann Closs-Farley, Bill Celentano, Brad L. Cooper, Gray Palmer, Guy Zimmerman, Hollywood Fringe Festival, Jack Kehler, Jeffrey Atherton, John Diehl, Julia Prud'Homme, Matt Richter, Murray Mednick, Padua Playwrights, Peggy A. Blow, The Fool and the Red Queen, The gary Plays, The Lounge Theater
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Part Two of THE LOS ANGELES BEAT Interview With Emitt Rhodes
Conclusion of a 2 part interview with Southern California musical great Emitt Rhodes of The Palace Guard and The Merry-Go-Round, conducted by Richard Derrick and James Eliopulos. To Read Part 1 of The Los Angeles Beat Interview With Emitt Rhodes Click … Continue reading
‘Long Time No See’ – LOS ANGELES BEAT Exclusive Interview With Emitt Rhodes (Part 1 of 2)
Emitt Rhodes. If you already know who he is, then seeing his name in print is likely to get your eyes focused and locked-on like a bird of prey catching the movement of a twig in the foliage beneath a … Continue reading
‘Naked Before God’ at The [Inside] the Ford Theater
For about the first 30 minutes of Naked Before God, playing an initial run through April 28 at the (Inside) Ford Theater, Writer/Director Leo Geter’s funny and irreverent exploration of American culture, mores and politics circa 2012, my experience suffered … Continue reading
