Dance & Performance
Hip-hop dancer Steven “Boogieman” Stanton never had to answer the question “So You Think You Can Dance?” Long before the dance competition TV series became a proving ground for commercial success, the Detroit native landed jobs dancing in...
Dance & Performance
STARTING Friday, four generations of female tap dancers will descend upon UCLA to celebrate their contributions to the historically male-dominated field of tap over the last 100 years. And nothing exemplifies that spectrum of experience quite like Friday night’s...
City Guides & Travel
If the mystique of Hollywood’s more brilliant past captures your fancy, or if you’ve got a hankering for Hollywood history, this itinerary will steep you in nostalgia. It may be hard to remember a time before round-the-clock TMZ and Perez. What with...
City Guides & Travel
In the shadow of Los Angeles City College, the intersection of Heliotrope Drive and Melrose Avenue boasts a collegiate, counterculture vibe, complete with avid bicycle activists, a smoke shop, tattoo parlor and a splash of colorful, graffiti-style murals. Yet this...
City Guides & Travel
A city of dualities, La Cañada Flintridge is home to both NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the pastoral Descanso Gardens, boasting pristine natural beauty yet also at the cutting edge of technology. It’s nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel...