Picture This Gallery finds images of Frida Kahlo we haven’t seen

M. ANGEL ACORDAGOITIA’S ‘FRIDA’
The star power of its namesake places high expectations on Picture This Gallery’s annual “Frida Kahlo Art Exhibit.” Mainly there’s the necessity that nothing here should resemble any other representation of Frida you’ve ever seen—on lighters, refrigerator magnets or purses; or in [...]

Susan Egan: Seal Beach native and Broadway star Susan Egan comes back with dinner and drinks at the Carpenter Center. She’ll belt out a performance, too. 6pm.
CARPENTER CENTER 6200 Atherton St, Long Beach 90815. 562.985.7000; carpenterarts.org.
Jermaine Dupri: No word on how much of this autobiography Dupri wrote himself, but the yarn’s  a fascinating one: the [...]

In the hands of the faithful, Frida Kahlo is that and more

CAGGIANNO’S “LA DOLOROSSA” AT PICTURE THIS GALLERY
What is it with crippled, whiny women and art? Why do we love it so much when Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath and Britney Spears dribble their emotional polio all over us? Edna St. Vincent Millay may have [...]