THEATRE Orson's Shadow is an expansion of Austin Pendleton's drama that first ran a few years back at the Black Dahlia Theater and is now at the Pasadena Playhouse. It's a behind the scenes look at life in the theatre and the intermingling lives of some legendary folk, like Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Vivien Leigh, and drama critic Kenneth Tynan. We're told the set--a theater-within-the-theater--is stunning. 7:00 p.m. // Pasadena Playhouse // 39......

Jessica Garrison of the Los Angeles Times covers the fracas in Van Nuys regarding the status of Daniel Van Meter's "Tower of Wooden Pallets" as a historic monument in 1978. The Tower is actually 22-foot stack of crumbling, termite-infested Schlitz beer pallets that now stands in the way of development. Those wacky Cultural Heritage Commissioners obviously didn't take their jobs that seriously back in the 70s. Garrison opens her piece with this quote: It's......

As all the blogs are reporting today, Jessica Garrison's 1/10/05 Los Angeles Times piece, "Hahn Rivals Court Pet Lovers" informs us that the mayor's challengers sought animal advocates' endorsement last Sunday at the Citizens for Humane Los Angeles mayoral convention. Some see it as evidence of the activists' increasing political clout. Garrison wrote, "In a sign of the growing political influence that animal advocates wield in Los Angeles, the top challengers to Mayor James......