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CREATIVE WORD: Can Comedy Be Taught?
By Katie Love at October 6, 2010 | 4:15 pm | 0 Comment
CREATIVE WORD: Can Comedy Be Taught? By: Katie Love A guy walks into a Thanksgiving dinner and sits down at the table. He starts doing bits about the family, the stuffing, his childhood. Big laughs all around…in fact, at one point Aunt Clara needs CPR. Later, the guests can’t decide if their stomachs hurt from the onion-laden casserole or that last joke about the
CREATIVE WORD: Overcoming Setbacks
By Katie Love at September 30, 2010 | 4:17 pm | 0 Comment
CREATIVE WORD: Overcoming Setbacks By: Katie Love During my first year in Hollywood, I attended one of those “How to Make it in Hollywood!” seminars and met a well-known producer who was very interested in my first script. In fact, he was so interested that he left an urgent message instructing me not to speak of my idea to a single soul over the weekend and that he
CREATIVE WORD: The Balancing Act
By Katie Love at September 27, 2010 | 4:20 pm | 0 Comment
CREATIVE WORD: The Balancing Act By Katie Love I once had a friend who described her famous actress- friend this way: “She’s one of those right-brain artist-types. She can’t balance her checkbook and she can’t make the bed.” Of course I envisioned a gaggle of minions following Fame Girl around with calculators and cleaning brushes, tending to her every
Creative Word: Art, Voice and Community
By Katie Love at September 18, 2010 | 4:22 pm | 0 Comment
Creative Word: Art, Voice and Community By Katie Love Artists- albeit the musician, sculptor, painter, dancer, writer, poet, actor, and in my opinion- a great bartender, have long been hailed by their cities as a commodity- even if it isn’t with the same outward gusto as say- a real estate investor. In fact, there was a time in history, where if a city could not
Lorna Loft Concert to Applause, Finger Snapping and Standing Ovations
By Diana Funaro at September 15, 2010 | 2:13 pm | 0 Comment
Jewel City Scene -- Lorna Loft Concert to Applause, Finger Snapping and Standing Ovations – Sept 15, 2010. By Diana Funaro The dynamic blond chanteuse left it all on the Alex Theater Stage Thursday night belting out classics songs from Hollywood to Broadway. Lorna Loft, Judy Garland’s daughter, wowed the audience into finger snapping, clapping along and
In Search of Ray Bradbury’s Definition of GOD by Diana Funaro
By Diana Funaro at August 20, 2010 | 2:18 pm | 0 Comment
Jewel City Scene -- In Search of Ray Bradbury’s Definition of GOD. By Diana Funaro This is Ray Bradbury week in Los Angeles with various events and productions going on around town. Here in Glendale, I happened to catch his 90th birthday party at Bookfellows Book Store on Brand last week. I was half hoping to not only get to shake his hand but ask
Great ARS Festival Celebrating Armenian Culture
By Diana Funaro at May 4, 2010 | 2:21 pm | 0 Comment
Jewel City Scene – Great ARS Festival Celebrating Armenian Culture By Diana Funaro With passion and dedication to their heritage, the Armenian Relief Society celebrated the arts, crafts, music, food and dance of their ancient culture this past weekend at the Glendale Civic Auditorium. The Armenian Relief Society began a century ago in 1910 in New York and
Customer Service Rules at Golden Touch
By Diana Funaro at April 15, 2010 | 2:24 pm | 0 Comment
Jewel City Scene – Customer Service Rules at Golden Touch By Diana Funaro Customer Service rules at Golden Touch Beauty Salon and Supply on Foothill in North Glendale. Owner Annie Voskanion goes out of her way to make customers comfortable and enjoy themselves whether it be sharing her Mediterranean cruise photos or a surprise birthday cake for one of her
“I Saw John Cleese Before He Died” T-Shirt
By Diana Funaro at November 16, 2009 | 2:26 pm | 0 Comment
JEWEL CITY SCENE – “I Saw John Cleese Before He Died” T-Shirt By Diana Funaro “I Saw John Cleese Before He Died” was one of the T-shirts for sale at the John Cleese Show, “A Final Wave at the World (or The Alimony Tour, Part 1), at the Alex Theater last Saturday. The legendary comic and founding member of Monty Python was expectedly great for this
Cordons — A SUPER- Market
By Diana Funaro at November 9, 2009 | 2:28 pm | 0 Comment
Jewel City Scene -- Cordons -- A SUPER- Market. By Diana Funaro When I first moved up to La Crescenta over ten years ago from the Lo Feliz area of LA, a former neighbor used to visit me once a week -- not just visit me but shop at Cordon's, an independently owned supermarket on Honolulu. I had stopped there once with her to pick something up when I first
