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Caroline O'Connor plays the monstrous Mama Rose, who pushes her daughters to perform on stage to satisfy her own thwarted dreams of stardom. Curve , Leicester , tonight to 15 April. Polly Teale directs for Shared Experience, a company that has done so much to put women's lives centre stage.
James McTeigue John Cusack stars in this satirical period horror. A mysterious serial killer is re-enacting the plots of Edgar Allan Poe 's gruesome stories. Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company: Barbican , London EC2 , Saturday. Get the Blessing Vivacious jazz-rock band driven by Portishead 's rhythm section plays mix of Ornette Coleman-influenced jazz, Morricone-like atmospherics, warped systems-music, and old-school twangy guitar rock from new OC DC album.
Arnolfini , Bristol , Thursday. Then touring until 4 April. The Civil Wars Improbably crossing the divide between alt-country cultdom and the glitzy world of the Country Music awards, the acclaimed duo arrive in Britain. In the Light of Claude The light Claude shines on Turner is less vital than seeing 17th-century French painter Claude Lorrain in the light of Turner's incandescent 19th-century vision. Early, troubled modernity meets baroque loveliness. A Midsummer Night's Dream Filter's funny and joyful take on Shakespeare celebrates the madness of love and performance with a mix of music and standup comedy, and knowing winks at theatrical convention.
Lyric Hammersmith , London W6 , until Saturday. Alma Har'el A Lynchian view of American life: The documentary looks at people now living in an abandoned vacation resort. Times Columnist Steve Lopez Saturday, 1 p. Lord is an author, critic and cartoonist. The Private Life of Rocket Science.
Low was a longtime editor for the L. She is now the managing editor at Black Clock. Lozano is active in the vibrant Los Angeles Latino arts scene.
Father Tom Plant, who took over as vicar of St Michael's Church in Camden, north London, in January this year, is currently waiting to hear if his. 6, , Howard Unruh, a World War II veteran, went on a minute rampage The Times assigned him the story about 11 a.m. He took a train to Camden, where and lives in Haddon Heights, N.J. He works for the Curtis Publishing Company. Mrs. Unruh had left the house some minutes before, to call on Mrs. Caroline.
Pictures on the Page Saturday, Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Africa. Lummis is a writer, arts organizer and influential teacher of poetry in Los Angeles. Lutz is the founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books and the author of books on weeping, slackers, nervousness and the function of criticism at the present time. He is a professor of creative writing at UC Riverside. The Road Home Saturday, 1: Lynch is a writer and editor at the L.
MacHale is the author of the best-selling Pendragon series. Previously she was a staff writer at Salon, Newsday and SmartMoney. She was a Tin House Scholar in Poetry. She was born in Connecticut, but she currently resides in Santa Monica, where she drinks too much coffee and finds the weather to be just a little too perfect for her taste. Mallery has entertained millions of readers With her witty and emotional stories about women and the relationships that move them.
Markoff joined the New York Times in March as a reporter for the business section. He now writes for the science section from San Francisco. Times Book Prize finalist in Science and Technology. Marr writes fiction for adults, teens and children. Her books have been translated into 28 languages to date and have been bestsellers in the U. His work has appeared in the L.
He is the comics editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. New Frontier Publishing, Times Book Prize in Biography. British priest, 72, put two policemen in hospital after violently lashing out when he was caught groping Rupert Goold and the Wooster group's Elizabeth LeCompte with a multimedia version of Shakespeare's play of war, love and betrayal.
He is a founding member of the Temblors, a new collective of L. From Page to Stage: She served as editor of The Poetry Project Newsletter and was program coordinator at the Poetry Project from through Eras of Music Sunday, 11 a. McClure lives in Olympia, Wash. A native of Sussex, England, McDonald studied politics, philosophy and economics at Oxford University before working as a music journalist and entertainment critic. She is a full-time novelist and screenwriter in Los Angeles.
She also writes racy, humorous fiction under the pseudonym Geneva Holliday. The American Booksellers Assn.
McNeil is an opera singer and writer. He is the editor-in-chief of ElectricLiterature. Mitchard has written over 20 books, including several bestsellers and award-winners. Molesky is associate professor of history at Seton Hall University. He received his PhD from Harvard. He is the recipient of numerous awards and grants and has contributed to The Wall Street Journal and many academic publications. Times Book Prize finalist in History.
Molina is a nutrition and fitness expert who has established a reputable career in the television industry. She has worked in shows like Republica Deportiva and Sabado Gigante and is currently the ambassador for healthy living in the morning show Despierta America. Now she debuts her new book Jugosa y Fit where she shares her secrets to fitness and a good juice.
Moore is the owner of Little Flower Candy Co. Morris is a former Marine infantry officer. From to , he reported from Iraq. In , he was awarded a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Morrison is a writer and columnist for the L. Tales from the Los Angeles River. Peete Sunday, 11 a. The Evolution of Gay Rights: Morton is a screenwriter, author of nonfiction books, award-winning prose writer and Halloween expert.
Mozingo is a projects reporter for the L. He won a Robert F. Kennedy Award for his coverage of the earthquake in Haiti and helped lead a Miami Herald reporting team whose investigation into the crash of the space shuttle Columbia was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has published three previous books, is an associate professor at the Antioch University MFA program and a former weekly book critic for the L.
Muske-Dukes is the author of eight books of poems, four novels, two essay collections and co-edited anthologies.
She has been a National Book Award short-list finalist, an L. Carol Muske-Dukes Sunday, Myers is the executive vice president of worldwide corporate communications and public affairs for Warner Bros. She represents fiction and nonfiction writers. In Dinosaur Encounters, watch as dinosaurs come to life! Our realistic juvenile T. Rex and Triceratops, Hunter and Dakota, are large-scale, full-body puppets that capture imaginations. Performance artists will guide you back in time to better understand dinosaur anatomy, possible behavior and movement. Learn about pterosaurs — flying reptiles that lived in the sky around the same time as the giant creatures that roamed the earth — by a real paleontologist from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Flight in The Age of Dinosaurs Sunday, 4 p. Nelson is editorial director for books and Kindle at Amazon and is responsible for all editorial presentations in the bookstore. She was formerly the books editor of O magazine and the editor in chief of Publishers Weekly. Nesteroff is a former stand-up comic turned writer. Newton is the author of three acclaimed works of history and biography: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace. Times journalist, he now edits Blueprint, a California policy magazine, and is writing a history of modern California and biography of Jerry Brown, to be published in Nguyen was born in Vietnam and raised in the U.
Vietnam and the Memory of War. With millions of copies in print, her books have been translated into 36 languages and have made numerous international bestseller lists. Nolan became a freelance writer at age 18, With several pieces for the L. Sudden Insight Publishing Booth April 9, He is a founding member of Cahuenga Press.
She is the fiction editor for Blunderbuss Magazine. Oates is a recipient of numerous awards, and she has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. She is the Roger S. Ochoa is the arts and entertainment editor of the L. Times and co-founder of the literary journal Slake, which features narrative reporting, fiction, memoir, poetry, art and photography. Prior to her role at the L. Oh is a visionary both in and out of the kitchen. He is founder of Seoul Sausage Co.
Oliver is a writer and producer of movies, books and TV series for children and families. She has created over TV episodes, four movies and seven books. She lives in Los Angeles With her husband, Alan. They have three sons named Theo, Ollie and Cole, one fluffy dog named Annie and no iguanas. A Bookstore Booth April 10, 1: She is also a former editor of Texas Observer. Born and raised in Washington, D.
Omowale is the director of the Southern California Library, a community library and archive in South Los Angeles that holds extensive collections relating to the histories of social justice movements in L. Times Fiction Book Prize. Orlean has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since She lives in Los Angeles. Orozco is a bilingual author and singer whose joyful performances bring out the child in all of us. His vast store of traditional songs from Latin America, coupled With his engaging style, will have everyone singing and dancing With him. He has recorded more than 13 CDs and authored three books.
Musical Act Sunday, 4 p. Wendy co-founded the Rhapsodomancy Reading Series, which she curated and hosted from to in Los Angeles. Osborn has been an LGBT and social justice activist for 40 years. Her stories have received an honorable mention for the Pushcart Prize and been named a Distinguished Story of the Year.
What Shapes Us Sunday, 2: Paige is the best-selling author of the Dorothy Must Die series. Before turning to young adult literature, she worked in the TV industry, where she received a Writers Guild of America award and was nominated for several Daytime Emmys. Danielle lives in New York City. Panowich, a military brat, grew up constantly on the move and saw such varied locations as Germany, Rome, East Berlin before the wall came down and the Swiss Alps.
He was a touring musician for 12 years before settling in East Georgia With his family. Parker was born in Los Angeles and lives in Southern California. Parmar was born in Nottingham in and was raised in Southern California. Partington is a writer, teacher and book critic. Her writing appears in the L. Parvini is a reporter on the L. She speaks fluent Persian and conversational Spanish and Italian.
Passarello is an actor and writer originally from Charleston, S. Pawel is a journalist and independent scholar and the author of two books about Cesar Chavez and the farm worker movement. Pearce is a national reporter for the L. In , he covered the unrest in Ferguson, Mo. He hails from Kansas City, Mo.
Pearson is a New York Times best-selling author of more than 50 suspense and young adult adventure novels. Over the years, his work has been published in two-dozen languages and has been adapted for network TV and the Broadway stage. The Return Book Two: Peete, actress, author, activist and philanthropist, has devoted her life and career to autism awareness. Percer is a three-time nominee for the Pushcart Prize and has twice been honored by the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Foundation.
She received a B. Perl-Rosenthal is assistant professor of history and spatial sciences at USC. His research focuses on the age of the American Revolution in the Atlantic world. His writings have appeared in The New Republic and Tablet as well as in many scholarly journals. He is now working on a new book about the cultural history of the age of revolution.
Petty writes books for kids that are also often enjoyed by immature adults. She likes stories that are funny, absurd and ask big, unanswerable questions. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at Brooklyn College. Phillips started at the L. Times in working as a producer on the home page of the website and in sports. During this time, he helped win an L.
Press Club award for an interactive Super Bowl package. Pittman is an award-winning cartoonist working in animation, comics and illustration for over 20 years. Pond is a cartoonist, illustrator and writer. She has created comics for the L. Times, Seventeen magazine, National Lampoon and more. Pousson was born and raised in Acadiana, in the bayou of Louisiana. His short stories won a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Eccentrics Saturday, noon, Seeley G. Press is a writer and editor who served as the books and culture editor and deputy TV editor at the L. She is currently writing a book about women in TV. Prinzmetal is a poet, psychotherapist and teacher. She has taught poetry and creative writing for more than 25 years. Puliafito is recognized worldwide as an innovator in the diagnosis and treatment of retinal disease and an accomplished leader in academic medicine. Purdum is a contributing editor at Vanity Fair and senior writer at Politico.
He previously spent more than 20 years at the New York Times, where he served as diplomatic correspondent, White House correspondent, and Los Angeles bureau chief. Quartey was born in Ghana and raised by a black American mother and a Ghanaian father. A practicing physician, he lives and works in Southern California. Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist, formerly With the L. Times, and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. Raab is a writer, editor and musician. He is editor and founder of TNY. Rae is an actress whose career spans six decades. He has contributed to the L.
James Ragan Sunday, 4 p. Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books. Reece is a poet and priest. Reichardt is a SoCal native and high school writing instructor. Reid is an author, essayist and TV writer from Acton, Mass. Resmovits is an editor and reporter who covers education for the L. From to , she was a Columbia University Spencer Fellow. Reynolds, born and raised in California, has written about travel, the outdoors, arts and culture for the Los Angeles Times since Since , he has climbed Mayan pyramids, roamed Red Square in a snowstorm, been shushed at the New York Public Library and jumped from the tallest building in Soweto.
Rifkind is a book critic whose work has been published in the L. Riggs grew up in Florida but now makes his home in the land of peculiar children — Los Angeles. He was raised on a steady diet of ghost stories and British comedy, which probably explains the novels he writes.
Her work has appeared in Latina, L. Rivera is the younger sister of the singer Jenni Rivera. Robinson is a winner of the Hugo, Nebula and Locus Awards. He lives in Davis, Ca.
He lives in Portland, Ore. For over a decade, Rodbard has written magazine and Web features about restaurants, chefs, drinks, music, cooking and travel, With an occasional listicle thrown in to pay the bills. Gang Days in L. Los Angeles Poet Laureate Saturday, 4 p. Rollins is the best-selling author of international thrillers, translated into more than 40 languages. His Sigma series has been lauded as one of the top crowd-pleasers by the New York Times and one of the hottest summer reads by People magazine.
Romo is a second generation L. In , he singlehandedly produced Palabrazilla, two nights of 12 spoken word forces from all around L. Ronnen is the founder of Veg Advantage, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping food service operators integrate vegetarian options into their menus. Roosevelt covers the economy for the Orange County Register. Before that, she covered the environment and energy for the L. Times and was a national correspondent for Time magazine. She was also a foreign correspondent for Time, based in Paris. Roper is a novelist and biographer.
Formerly a literature professor, he now babysits grandchildren. He lives in Berkeley. Roy founded her collection in and built it into a globally recognized and award-winning ready-to-wear lifestyle brand. She is a sought-after speaker on entrepreneurship and philanthropy and has shared her story across the world, including at the White House.
He curates the irreverent reading series Vermin on the Mount, now in its 12th year. She is a graduate of Harvard College and a Virgo to the core. He is currently head of multicultural development for the L. Times, is built on the artistry and virtuosity of its members: Dan lives in Southern California With his wife, two kids, and various pets. Schuman is an author and journalist based in Asia. He is the comics editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books. She has published numerous short stories, essays and articles in various national publications including the L.
Schwartz is the recipient of many awards and artist grants and is the founder of the literary magazine Charlotte. He is a veteran of the film business, where he worked as the director of development for filmmaker Wolfgang Petersen. Entertainment Booth April 9, Senghor is a writer, mentor and motivational speaker whose story of redemption has inspired thousands.
He currently serves as the director of strategy and innovation With cut50, a bipartisan initiative to safely reduce the U. Life, Death and Redemption in an American Prison. Sengupta is a veteran foreign correspondent for the New York Times and winner of the George Polk Award for foreign reporting. Sepetys was born and raised in Michigan in a family of artists, readers and music lovers.
The daughter of a refugee, Ruta is drawn to stories of strength through struggle. Her award-winning historical novels are published in over 40 countries. Sepetys lives With her family in Tennessee. She grew up in Maui and Los Angeles and now lives in Manhattan. Shanker, mild-mannered assistant by day, milder-mannered writer by night, is a New York University graduate currently living in Los Angeles. Shapiro is associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.
Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the journals Nature and Science, and she was a recipient of a MacArthur Award. She lives in Santa Cruz. Times Book Prize in Science and Technology. Sheinkin is the award-winning author of fast-paced, cinematic nonfiction histories for young readers. Shrum was senior advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign in Shurtliff was born and raised in Salt Lake City. Silver is an art historian and independent curator. Their debut EP, released last August, is a collection of songs at times bombastic and at times quiet and reserved.
Bender, a finalist for the National Book Award. Lessons From Down the Road. Smith grew up in Buffalo, N. She has also written on the topics of art history and modern and contemporary art. Smith works in private practice in L.
Smith grew up in Australia and now lives in Austin, Texas. She works With many of the largest food, health and consumer packaged goods companies to imagine new stories for the future of food. She was recognized for culinary diplomacy for the U. Soman illustrates the Ladybug Girl books, which he also writes With his wife. Soni is the dean of religious life at USC, where he is also an adjunct professor in the school of religion and a university fellow at the Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy.
Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the L. He is a founding editor of the Los Angeles Review of Books. Spritely presents all the feels of your favorite teen angst music, wrapped up in a refreshing indie-pop package.
Last Poems of Larry Levis. Selected Works Sunday, 3: Stead has written four novels for children: Times Best Book of the Year and bestseller. She lives in Santa Monica With her husband and two excellent kittens. Her stories and essays are included in O. Times Robert Kirsch Award. A former subway graffiti artist, stand-up comic, television writer, ghost writer, and corporate poet, Strauss is a writer and teaches high school English and coaches basketball in South Central Los Angeles.
Sussman received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and, in a previous life, managed animators and organized spreadsheets at some of the best animation studios in the world, including Nickelodeon, Disney, DreamWorks and Sony Imageworks. The Assassination of John F. Sweeney lives in Los Angeles With her husband and children. Talley grew up in Roanoke, Va. Daley and his Battle for Chicago and the Nation. Is the Best Thing Ever. Temple is the publisher of Akashic Books, an award-winning, Brooklyn-based independent company dedicated to publishing literary fiction and political nonfiction.
In addition to past accolades, Temple won the Ellery Queen Award in and is one of the main organizers of the Brooklyn Book Festival. Nick the Music Man and Jen the Fairy Dancer are a husband-and-wife duo dedicated to sharing the joy of music and movement With children everywhere.
Thomas has written for everything from her high school newspaper to Warner Bros. Thrash is a staff writer for Rookie, a popular online magazine for teenage girls. She lives in Delaware. Tolan is a journalist, documentary radio producer and associate professor at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. Toltz is an Australian novelist.
Prior to his literary career, he lived in Montreal, Vancouver, New York, Barcelona and Paris, variously working as a cameraman, telemarketer, security guard, private investigator, English teacher and screenwriter. With Friends Like These… Saturday, 4 p. Torres is an investigative reporter covering education for the L. Shortly after USC was founded in , a group of musicians came together to form what would become the Trojan Marching Band.
Now the largest spirit organization on campus, the band features over students from nearly every major at USC and is a prominent and visible representative of the university, With over engagements per year. Trojan Marching Band Sunday, The members of Trousdale came together at USC and quickly created their own musical genre: Tschorn is a staff writer at the L. He has been selected for an O.
Henry Award and a Macdowell Fellowship. Turan is film critic for the L. Do you think your doctor cares? How to find out and avoid being victimized. Villalon is the managing editor at Zyzzyva. Villamil is a bilingual poet, editor, translator, singer, and cultural manager from Bogota Columbia who is recognized internationally. Obesity kills British boy, So, what kind of parent are YOU? Pediatrician who became an internet sensation with his magic 'hold' to stop Former It'll be Alright on the Night host and comedy writer Denis Norden dies aged 96 EU is willing to 'improve' offer on Irish border to help secure Brexit deal says Barnier as he declares Theresa's 10 minutes to deliver the 'British dream': May heads to Salzburg for high-stakes - but very short Council house tenants are our 'friends and neighbours - not second-rate citizens', says Theresa May as she Air pollution could be responsible for 60, cases of dementia in the UK, with people exposed to dirty air Dragons' Den contestant who quit his job to care for his daughter after she was severely burned in a fire at The bravest picture album of all: Newlywed Olivia was just 29 when cancer threatened her dream of a family Ten years on from the great financial crash, just how safe is your cash today?
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Even after admitting delays were their Sally Field tells how Burt Reynolds would 'constantly snap as if I'd piddled on the floor', Ryanair employee calls passenger a 'fat slob' in shocking social media rant after he complained about the Father blasts boxing champion Billy Joe Saunders for taunting his drug addict daughter in sick video and Second sickening Billy Joe Saunders video emerges showing boxing champ 'taunting woman in the street and British priest, 72, put two policemen in hospital after violently lashing out when he was caught groping Murdered Georgia Williams whose final moments were captured on camera by a killer 'obsessed with snuff Privileged education of class-campaigning DJ revealed: BBC's Cerys Matthews, who has banned public school Jamie Oliver confesses he and his wife SPY on their teenage daughters by monitoring their movements with a