The AxS Festival, in coordination with A Noise Within, presented a staged reading of playwright Michael Frayn’s Tony Award-winning play Copenhagen on September 29, 2014. In it, Neils Bohr, his wife Margrethe, and Bohr’s protégé Werner Heisenberg are condemned to recount the events of one day in 1941 standing in the purgatory of director Robertson Dean’s barren stage. …
Last night I attended a Community Cinema screening of MAKERS: Women in Space at the Crawford Family Forum as part of the 2014 AxS Festival. What is something new that you learned? Although women were banned from the NASA program because they couldn’t be military jet pilots, there was an initial push to include women in the …
What is something new that you learned? I learned that LA has a wonderful, old school natural history museum! Having been in the city for two years, I’ve never heard anyone talk about visiting the museum, and based on the fact that it was 1) a free admission day and 2) over nearly 100 degrees …
These days, the phrase “technical difficulties” is met with oversized eye rolls and heavy sighs. The HealthCare.gov debacle has us all biting our nails waiting for a vintage cartoon with the caption, “We’ll be right back!” to appear on our laptop screens. I sometimes find myself at the checkout counter of CVS cursing at my …