Surf's Up  
June 8, 2012
SUMMER IS HERE!

 HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEKEND:

LAST REMAINING SEATSIt's June and it's time for the LA Conservancy's Last Remaining Seats - classic films presented in the wonderfully restored classic movie palaces downtown.  If there are any remaining seats, you may want to snap them up NOW! They always sell out and the experience is totally fantastic.

 

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)

 

RAY BRADBURY -- 1920-2012: A WRITER OF THE STARS & THE STAGE

 by M.R. Hunter

In a recently published interview by The New York Times, John Irving claims, "It's better to read a good writer than meet one." While in some respects this observation might be justified, I'm grateful that I don't share Irving's cynical view, having had the privilege of meeting and interviewing some of my favorite writers and playwrights, among them Richard Matheson, Arthur Miller and my brief encounter with Ray Bradbury at the 2009 restaging of "Falling Upward" at the El Centro Theatre.

 

 

LA Times photo

 

A minor mix-up at the box office left me and my friend possibly without seats on opening night. The ushers ran around feverishly to find a place for both of us, but the theater was sold out. We stood waiting at the top of the stairs when one of the ushers waved us down...and kept waving...until I realized as we approached the very first aisle, Mr. Ray Bradbury himself, seated but hardly contained by his genuine excitement...   

 

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Eyestrology - This Week's Event Forecast
By Cici Psy-Chic

 
Happy birthday to these celebrity Gemini's: Prince (06/07), Joan Rivers (06/08), Natalie Portman (06/09), Shane West (06/10), Mehmetz Oz (06/11), Jim Nabors (06/12), Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen (06/13).

GEMINI - Your Needs
CANCER - Under the Radar
LEO - Achieve
VIRGO - Contagious Optimism
LIBRA - Don't be Idle
SCORPIO - Teal
SAGITTARIUS - Frugal
CAPRICORN - Cover Your Bases
AQUARIUS - Feeling Amorous?
PISCES - Want Your Cake
ARIES - Faith
TAURUS - No Guarantees

 

Read your full EYESTROLOGICAL Forecast   

AL FRESCO LA - THE SUMMER OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE

 

Summer in L.A. is all about the experience and not so much about the money. Grab your friends, a cooler, a blanket, and a picnic. You'll find plenty of summer events and low cost al fresco entertainment all over town. 

 

LACMA JAZZ

Friday Night Jazz at LACMA

 

Museums throughout L.A. have special events or regularly scheduled outdoor music. Try Jazz at LACMA on Friday evenings, or Saturdays Off the 405 at the Getty.  You'll find these and more in this year's Summer Entertainment Guide.

   

Check out this year's SUMMER OUTDOOR ENTERTAINMENT GUIDE
 

THE CLOSENESS OF THE HORIZON

By Samuel Bernstein

 

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

By M.R. Hunter

 

MednickThere'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

 

Red Queen 

 

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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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 L.A. 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