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Lobsters, fairs & festivals highlight the month of September.
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ONSTAGE IN L.A.
Recent theatre & other performing arts reviews.
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EYE SPY LA GOOD EATS
Read all about our recent dining and other food adventures around town as we explore the grand buffet that is L.A.
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A FILLING WEEKEND OF FOOD FESTS
This is the last weekend of summer: spend Friday evening on a night hike Wrapping Up the Summer with Stars at the Victory Trailhead in the west San Fernando Valley and maybe work up an appetite for a very filling weekend of food festivals.
 Good Food at the Santa Monica Farmer's Market - they're celebrating 30 years this week.
A FILLING WEEKEND of FOOD FESTS: - The Santa Monica Farmer's market is celebrating their 30th anniversary with a Good Food Festival & Conference - multiple events now through Sunday. The Localicious Gala is tonight.
- The lobster invasion continues on the waterfront at the Port of Los Angeles Lobster Festival this weekend.
- Saturday head to Arcadia for BBQ & Blues.
- Chinatown is offering up moon cakes this Saturday plus other food, entertainment and dancing at the annual Moon Festival. This event sounds similar to the recent Summer Nights events which were very fun.
- Head to LACMA on Sunday for A Slice of Pie - taste what's best at this year's KCRW Good Food Pie Contest.
- The L.A. County Fair is in full swing. It appears that Deep-Fried Kool-Aid is this year's extreme fried fair food oddity - Abby Abanes Takes a Bite (well quite a few bites actually) and points out some of the better eats at this year's fair - scroll below for the story.
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COME TO THE DARK AND WONDERFUL CABARET!
by Mark Share
There is an overwhelming wave of talent on the stage in the new Reprise revival of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. The voices and performances are all superb. Bryce Ryness as the strange, sad, clownish Master of Ceremonies singing French with a German accent is charismatic enough to build a new Broadway revival around.
The tone of this Cabaret, under the intelligent and provocative direction of Marcia Milgrom Dodge, is dark and adult, more German Expressionism than Folies Bergère...
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"TAKE A BITE" OUT OF THE L.A. COUNTY FAIR by Abby Abanes
 Deep fried Kool-Aid anyone?
Sure, there's lots of rides, exhibits and shopping down at the LA County Fair, but in the end, it really is all about the food. A few days before the official opening of the Fair, I was invited to a Fair Food Media Mixer where I "literally" got a taste of what fair goers will be able to treat their palate to until October 2nd.
For example, how about a plate of Chicken Sate, a Vegetarian Egg Roll and Noodles to start? Or sink your teeth into a giant grilled turkey leg or even two.
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"WHAT THE MOON SAW" OR "I ONLY APPEAR TO BE DEAD" @ SON OF SEMELE by M.R. Hunter
Ever since 9/11, writers along with everyone else have been trying to come to grips with what happened on that fateful day. In the last few years there have been a number of so-called "9/11" plays: Neil LeBute's cynical "The Mercy Seat," Joshua Fardon's time-bending "Shake," and Paul Kampf's philosophical "11, September" among others recently staged in Los Angeles.
Playwright Stephanie Fleischmann's turn on the same theme approaches it from an entirely different if not wholly poetic angle with powerful, striking images...
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EYESTROLOGY: THIS WEEK'S EVENT FORECAST by Cici Psy-chic
 Happy birthday to these celebrity Virgos: Nick Jonas (09/16), Wade Robson (09/17), Jada Pinkett Smith (09/18), Trisha Yearwood (09/19), Sophia Loren (09/20), Stephen King (09/21), Tom Felton (09/22).
VIRGO - Big Changes
LIBRA - Reap the Benefits
SCORPIO - Far Ahead
SAGITTARIUS - Beyond Your Control
CAPRICORN - Erratic
AQUARIUS - Martians
PISCES - Now and Then
ARIES - Wrinkles
TAURUS - Two Heads
GEMINI - Crosswords
CANCER - Chatty Cathy
LEO - Materializing Big Dreams
This week will be a shakeup and a shakedown for most signs. Some of this is positive, but the ride could be a little bumpy. Think outside-of-the-box when faced with a dilemma. The stars are trying to teach us not to follow the same formula. Do something that pushes your boundaries.
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Eye Spy LA has been the Local's Guide to L.A. for more than 7 years. Content is written, edited and maintained by locals and focuses on local and nearby events and the local creative community.
Editorial policy: Eye Spy LA editorials are stories written about places, entertainment and events that we go to. The opinions are those of our editorial staff and the writer of the piece.
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Each week we pick and recommend events and other things to do based on our experience or sometimes because they look particularly unusual, unique or in some other way interesting. We do not recommend them based on any fees they may or may not have paid us for advertising.
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HAPPY WEEKEND! -- Andrea Kirk (editor@eyespyLA.com)
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