Summer Is Here

June 1, 2012

SUMMER IS HERE!

I had so much fun visiting San Francisco over the holiday weekend that quite frankly I'm speechless (wordless?). Nevertheless there is plenty to do this weekend here in L.A...

See all of this week's Editors Picks or view the full Eye Spy LA Calendar

TIP: you can find events and other things to do near you - you'll find neighborhood and regional calendar links at the bottom of all Eye Spy LA web pages.

Happy Weekend! --Andrea Kirk (editor@eyespyla.com)

LISTEN CLOSELY TO POET MURRAY MEDNICK AND PADUA PLAYWRIGHTS ARTISTIC DIRECTOR GUY ZIMMERMAN

By M.R. Hunter

There's one demand pioneering poet-playwright, Murray Mednick makes on his audiences: you have to listen. And enjoy poetry. On these, there is no compromise.

Zimmerman, a New York based playwright came out to Los Angeles to write for television but found himself attracted to the challenging but highly satisfying philosophy of Padua Playwrights and Mednick's own process. The pair relates to one another like a weathered married couple, finishing each other's sentences...

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FANTASTIC!: "GARY'S NIGHTMARISH AUDITION &

THE FOOL AND THE RED QUEEN"

By M.R. Hunter

Its one thing to appreciate Murray Mednick's form, but quite an altogether different experience when you see his poetic structure onstage. Both plays, "Gary's Nightmarish Audition" and the "The Fool and the Red Queen" relate to one another in such subtle but powerfully intrinsic ways that one can view these as a conversation between shifting realities and the artistic process...

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THE CLOSENESS OF THE HORIZON

By M.R. Hunter

Recalling Jason Miller's 1972 play, That Championship Season, Richard Martin Hirsch'sThe Closeness of the Horizon, now at the Odyssey Theatre, is a study in regret. A 1969 road trip is juxtaposed with later events in the lives of the three men who took that trip, and the road not taken looms large in their consciousness-along with a whole bunch of metaphorical and literal comparisons to the first moon landing.

There is a touch of a romantic triangle involved, lots of envy, a few major misunderstandings, some repressed rage, and literal as well as figurative paralysis.

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Eyestrology - This Week's Event Forecast

By Cici Psy-Chic

Happy birthday to these celebrity Gemini's: Colin Farrell (05/31), Morgan Freeman (06/01), Justin Long (06/02), Anderson Cooper (06/03), Russel Brand (06/04), Mark Wahlberg (06/05), Sandra Bernhard (06/06).

GEMINI - Accommodating
CANCER - Own Self
LEO - Five-Alarm Fire
VIRGO - Reward
LIBRA - Awfully Quiet
SCORPIO - Nothing to Chance
SAGITTARIUS - Stop Bellyaching!
CAPRICORN - Uncomfortable
AQUARIUS - The True Test
PISCES - Why
ARIES - Really Hot
TAURUS - All at Once

Cooperation is tantamount this week. We all have to work together to reach agreeable solutions. We need to pay close attention to the choices we make. Acting impulsively is unwise now. Most signs will be juggling a great deal of responsibilities. Don't be afraid of asking others for help.

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ABOUT EYE SPY LA

Eye Spy LA has been the online Local's Guide to L.A. since 2003. 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. Calendar listings are ads posted by the people producing events and activities in the local area. 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.

You'll always find the latest events & activities plus commentary about where we've been at eyespyLA.com - updated daily.

Andrea Kirk, publisher (editor@eyespyLA.com)

EYE SPY LA CONTRIBUTORS:

M.R. Hunter - editorial and reviews

Mark Share - reviews

Kelly Hargraves - dance and reviews

Abby Abanes - food adventures

Charles Phoenix - retro slide of the week