Yearly Archives: 2012






LOVE HACKING, directed by Jenni Nelson, a recent MFA grad in Documentary Film and Video at Stanford University, won the Outstanding Documentary Award at the Angelus Student Film Festival. The film follows the journey of Tim Heath, a Silicon Valley robot inventor After a personal reawakening, Tim radically shifts his outlook […]

Love Hacking



Long live the Dane! Hamlet rendering by Sarah Airriess Join us in Elsinore, beginning January 21 Experience Hamlet in a whole new way. After intense audience reaction to our production last summer in Griffith Park, we realized we weren’t done with Denmark just yet. This time around, we’re re-imagining the […]

ISC Opens Winter Run Of Hamlet



Reviewed by Frank Mundo In poet Melinda Palacio‘s debut novel, Ocotillo Dreams, we meet a young woman named Isola, a green-eyed, “exotic-looking” Mexican-American “often mistaken for Thai or Filipino” whose mother’s death couldn’t have come at a worse time in her life. Just one fellowship short of becoming a full […]

LA Books Examiner Reviews Ocotillo Dreams


A cookbook for Meals on Wheels Truth be told, the seniors beat us to it. Long before iPhone-wielding hipsters were tracking down the latest culinary-mashup food truck, a subset of our elders were getting their dinner from Meals on Wheels. Cart for a Cause, the food truck whose sales benefit […]

Book for a Cause