Author: The Argonaut

Bergamot Station’s “Vanishing America” transports viewers to another time By Christina Campodonico For his latest film “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood” director Quentin Tarantino turned back the clock on a section of Hollywood Boulevard by half a century — transforming it into a 1969-smothered street of mid-20th century neon signage and marquees, with windows dressed in period fare. Film aficionados and L.A. history buffs across the internet went bananas for recreations of iconic Hollywood storefronts such as the X-rated Pussycat Theatre and Peaches record store alongside the original Larry Edmunds Cinema and Theatre Bookshop. The entire film in...

The Marina del Rey Symphony presents two nights of the Cole Porter classic “Kiss Me, Kate” By Brian Marks Though it’s a convention in many musicals to suspend disbelief as characters publicly burst into song, there’s a long tradition of Broadways shows that openly acknowledge their artifice and let audiences in on the joke. One of the best of these meta-musicals, Cole Porter’s “Kiss Me, Kate,” concludes the Marina del Rey Symphony’s free outdoor summer concerts season with fully-staged productions on Thursday and Saturday in Burton Chace Park. “Kiss Me, Kate” takes place in a single evening as a...