Word: blvd
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...just that for a while she went too too far. Now it is time for her to step back and appraise -- what else? -- herself. The result is Girlie Show, an essay in retro show biz. As another star with some mileage on her said in Sunset Blvd., ''Not a comeback, a return.'' The show is a return to the womb of popular culture: a calculated peek at American innocence. The proscenium stage is fronted with red drapery suitable for a Louisiana bordello; the title promises and delivers burlesque. But burlesque in the older sense of parody, travesty, impudent fun. There...
...There are so many other problems in this city. Gangs. Robberies. To focus on people trying to make a living selling tacos? It makes no sense," says Olegario Hernandez, while gassing up his taco truck on East L.A.'s Whittier Blvd. Taco truck drivers say it takes time to set up and prepare the food, and that moving constantly would make doing business impossible...
...when they would show up with gifts for a family who wrote to his dad's TV station, asking for help. Now he wonders if it is better to give money and get out of the way, as he does when he gets off Highway 101 at Laurel Canyon Blvd., where there's always a person begging for money. "You think, This is a $20 light. So you hope to catch the light. And then you feel guilty for hoping to catch the light," he says. "People say, They'll buy booze. Fair enough. They need it." Clooney, having helped...
...grey hair, a few leather jackets, and plenty of love and peace.All were gathered together to take a fresh look at Rickie Lee Jones, a once-prominent singer-songwriter who is making a comeback with the release of her new album, “The Sermon on Exposition Blvd.” Jones first became famous with the release of her self-titled album in 1979, and enjoyed great success in the rock/pop world of the 1980s, eventually winning two Grammies. It was clear on Saturday night that while Jones may have a new album, she does not necessarily have...
...organizers of the March 25 demonstration that attracted more than 500,000 marchers to downtown L.A., but this time her group and others have distanced themselves from the more militant boycott organizers. They formed the We Are America Coalition, which planned a separate march along Wilshire Blvd. in midtown Los Angeles for 4 p.m. - after school hours and closer to quitting time for most jobholders. "We are not against the boycott," Sanbrano told TIME.com. "We just want to make sure that people have different options, because some workers will be fired if they take a day off and some students...