California purists who like to shop local, travel local and eat local will have no problem reading local. Among the season\’s offerings of new books are several impressive works by Los Angeles-based writers.
In his grossout-doofus comedies, Rob Schneider plays the ultimate schlimazel.
Despite its title and the food, the play at The Met Theatre employs culinary arts not as an end, but a means to explore the complex and emotional Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
One could call \”Who Killed Woody Allen?\” a \”benign revenge comedy.\” Co-authors Tom Dunn, Dan Callahan and Brendan Connor wrote the whodunit after Allen allegedly withdrew the rights to his play, \”Death,\” from their theater company in 2001.
\”\’Jumor\’ is a look into our own culture through our elderly community,\” Aaron Krinsky said. \”The more homes we visited, the more we realized we were interested in the stories itself, not the comics who told them.\”
The new Kosher Nostra is a tiny storefront on Pico Boulevard east of La Cienega Boulevard, just a block or two outside the beaten path of kosher establishments on Pico.
Back in high school, I had a crush on a Protestant girl, Joan Reid. She told me that her mother encouraged her to date — and even marry — Jewish guys because: a) They\’re smarter and work harder; b) They make great fathers; c) They don\’t get drunk and beat you.
\”Revenge\” revolves around a 1998 staging of Stephen Fife\’s acclaimed adaptation of Sholem Asch\’s Yiddish classic, \”God of Vengeance,\” directed by his idol, the legendary Joseph Chaikin. The book recounts Fife\’s misadventures during that Atlanta production — such as his frantic attempts to find free places to crash — between astute insights into the play, the American theater and his colorful past.
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