Monday, August 30, 2004
Greetings. I hope everyone had a brilliant weekend. I know I did.
Instead of boring you with a synopsis of the alcoholic beverages I drank this weekend (mostly cosmos) and with whom they were drunk...drank....drinked...you get the picture, I have decided to ed-u-ma-cate my fellow Angelenos about a local Latino/Chicano theatre comedy group called Culture Clash. The group now consists of 3 supremely talented individuals; Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas. I was introduced to Culture Clash last year when I went to see their show Chavez Ravine at the Mark Taper Forum. Cross your fingers that this piece will return in the near future as I will definitely be a one-woman-mad-marketing-campaign for it. Chavez Ravine taught me, a mini-historian of all things Los Angeles, all about the messy politics and corruption involved in erecting Dodger Stadium. Their current show, in AmeriCCa, which just completed a limited engagement run in Hollywood is a collection of stories and sketches culled from interviews with people all over the U.S. Any explanation by me would seriously do them an injustice but let me say that if you ever get a chance to see them, GO!!! You will laugh your ass off and possibly come away from the theatre with a lesson or two learned...like how to tell the difference between a Cubano, Puerto Rican & Mexican by how they dance the Salsa. Good times were had by all.
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