FAIR FOOD - what will they cook up this year?  | Labor Day Weekend is here- what are you doing? One event that has more than just something for everyone is the L.A. County Fair. The fair opens on Saturday and admission is only $1 until 1pm on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
MORE FESTS & FIESTAS: Cinecon 46, benefiting film preservation, is a Labor Day weekend tradition for silent film buffs. Labor Day Fiesta Hermosa is the "largest arts & crafts fair in Southern California."
FOODIE ALERT: Get a Taste of Beverly Hills this weekend or head to the L.A. Times Celebration of Food & Wine on Sunday.
EYE SPY LA FAVORITE PLACES TO GO ANYTIME you have some extra time off or visitors from out of town. These are our favorite places to show off to visiting friends or family, take a Sunday drive, get away for a couple of days or just go for the day and people watch. FAVE PLACES ANYTIME
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RACE ACROSS THE FENCES: "NEIGHBORS" AT THE MATRIX THEATRE Review by M.R. Hunter |
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 One of the questions posed in the West Coast premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins stimulating play isn't "What will the neighbors think?" as it is "What do we really think of our neighbors?" The neighbors in question are the Crow family-a troupe of African-American minstrels in blackface that move into a middle-class track development next door to the interracial Patterson home which sets off a firestorm of deeply-rooted issues about racial identity and perception...
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THE GENE AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST IN GRIFFITH PARK
by M.R. Hunter
Get into the spirit, the spirit of the West that is, at Gene Autry's lasting tribute to a bygone era that defined him as "America's Favorite Cowboy." Located in the Autry National Center in Griffith Park directly across from the Zoo, this museum celebrates the diversity of the people, the culture and the varied perspectives of the American West...
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