Posts Tagged ‘carpenter center’
December 2, 2009
Christmas by the Caribbean with the CSULB steel-drum band
PHOTO COURTESY CSULB COLLEGE OF THE ARTS
With all due respect to famed cricketsman Brian Lara, it can be safely said that the steel pan is Trinidad and Tobago’s most reverberant cultural contribution. Concave, refashioned, 55-gallon oil drums that were heard vibrating like underwater xylophones behind the calypso [...]
Tags: carpenter center, Christmas, csulb, Long Beach, Music, steel drums
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December 2, 2009
‘It’s a Stevie Wonderful Life!’ funks up Christmas
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE TROUBADOUR THEATER CO.
Once again, the holidays are upon us, and that means every stage in town will be filled with mean old shysters who reevaluate their lives for fear of leaving behind a bad legacy, sugar-coated ballets of sword-laden mice trying to murder oversized [...]
Tags: carpenter center, Christmas, it's a stevie wonderful life, Long Beach, Theater, troubadour theater company
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September 2, 2009
Divas, Daredevils and Deco
‘LA SALIDA’ by SHANNON JONES
All Aboard Eureka Technically it isn’t art, but Airship Ventures’ Zeppelin Eureka (246 feet long—that’s 15 feet longer than a 747) provides a glimpse of Long Beach like you’ve never seen it: from the sky. For added effect, bring your kaleidoscope. LONG BEACH AIRPORT AIRSHIPVENTURES.COM • ONE AND [...]
Tags: alive theatre, brian eno, cal rep, carpenter center, dia de los muertos, fall arts guide, frida kahlo, john cleese, Long Beach, long beach symphony orchestra, picture this gallery, Queen Mary, richard III, sergio mendes
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September 2, 2009
At age 76, Joan Collins blows full steamy ahead
Divas seem to be a dime a dozen these days, with any cheap slag who rolls drunkenly from her car or poses for incesty photos with her father feeling entitled to the label. And with so many wannabe divas skanking about, it’s often hard to remember that [...]
Tags: carpenter center, fall arts guide, joan collins, Long Beach
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February 13, 2008
FRI. FEB. 8: ON POINTE!
Tues | Feb 5 Super Tuesday is here and Californians go to the polls to exercise their right to vote for whoever they want. They respond by reiterating their love of term limits, thereby limiting their right to vote for whoever they want. Except, of course, when it comes to Warren [...]
Tags: carpenter center, elections, les ballets trockadero, Long Beach, marriage, Queen Mary, star trek the tour, super tuesday, term limits
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January 30, 2008
Male comedy troupe Trockadero goes there
PHOTO by SASCHA VAUGHN
It’s understandable that anyone, well, me, would first think about the Harlem Globetrotters when learning that Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo—“Trocks” to their buds—is coming back to town. After all, the Trocks, who perform Feb. 7 and 8 at Cal State Long Beach’s Carpenter Center, and [...]
Tags: ballet, carpenter center, Long Beach, swan lake, trockadero
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October 31, 2007
Valerie Plame warms up at the Carpenter Center
It’s funny: four years after Valerie Plame was outed by Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Ari Fleischer and Dick Armitage as a covert operative of the CIA working in nuclear counter-proliferation, I forget there are people who haven’t quite heard of the affair.
“Valerie Plame . . .” friends would [...]
Tags: carpenter center, cia, dick cheney, iraq war, karl rove, Long Beach, valerie plame
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September 5, 2007
The Dibs’ Chris Hamlin comes home happy
On Saturday, Chris Hanlin returns to Long Beach, the city he left two years ago after acting for years as a fulcrum for its music scene. The founder and driving force behind The Dibs, Hanlin and his band are performing at “Schooled in Song,” a benefit at the Carpenter [...]
Tags: carpenter center, chris hamlin, happy, Long Beach, the dibs
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