UCLA’s archive of the groundbreaking newsmagazine provides historical context, understanding
Charles Ignacio Cheryl Cheng |
June 1, 2021
When New York City police raided a gay club in June 1969, it led to six days of violence and protest, which became known as the Stonewall riots. That event marked the beginning of the national gay rights movement and is the reason why Pride Month is celebrated in June.
For those who want to learn more about that landmark moment, as well as other historic moments in LGBTQ history, “In the Life” is an indispensable resource. The series, which aired from 1992 to 2012, was the first nationally broadcast LGBTQ newsmagazine on public television. Created by film director John Scagliotti, the respected, award-winning series was unique for its focus on the LGBTQ community, which was often ignored or misrepresented by media at the time.
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The Skirball Cultural Center partially reopens this weekend with “Ai Weiwei: Trace,” the artist’s portraits of imprisoned dissidents and free-speech advocates, all crafted with Lego bricks. It’s a smaller version of Ai’s installation for his unprecedented 2014 exhibition on Alcatraz, which Times critic Christopher Knight called “an always-poignant, often-powerful meditation on soul-deadening repressions of human thought and feeling.”
The Skirball show leads our weekend list of cultural offerings for your viewing consideration. All times are Pacific.
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“Ai Weiwei: Trace”
The acclaimed artist and activist‘s Lego portraits go on view in an 8,000-square-foot gallery lined with a gold-colored wallpaper, a design by Ai’s studio that turns images of surveillance equipment into a decorative pattern. 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd., L.A. Saturday through Aug. 1. $7-$12; kids under 2 are free; advance timed-entry tickets required. skirball.org
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In this photo from 2008, actor Norman Lloyd attends the grand opening of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Winter 2008 Exhibitions at the Academy s Grand Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. Lloyd has died at the age of 106.(Stephen Shugerman/Getty Images/TNS)
Norman Lloyd, a Hitchcock villain who later saved lives on ‘St. Elsewhere,’ dies at 106
LOS ANGELES Norman Lloyd, who memorably fell to his death from the Statue of Liberty as the villain in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Saboteur” in the 1940s but became best known four decades later as the kindly Dr. Daniel Auschlander on TV’s “St. Elsewhere,” has died at his home in the Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Mr. Newsom shuttered large portions of the state’s economy last year as it became a coronavirus hot spot. Economists at the University of California, Los Angeles recently have said the state’s economic recovery would start later than that of the nation overall but ultimately be stronger.
“The tensions really started increasing as a result of street violence… Attacks by some Palestinian youth from East Jerusalem against ultra-orthodox Jews. They were filming them, putting them on Tik-Tok. That, in turn, led far-right Israeli Jewish youth to then kind of carry out attacks against Palestinians in the city community,” said UCLA’s Dov Waxman (approx. 2:00 mark).
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Good morning, L.A. It’s May 11.
In federal court yesterday, attorneys for L.A. County pressed a judge to dismiss the county from a lawsuit filed last year, which would force local officials to take more aggressive action on the area’s homelessness crisis.
Lawyers representing the county have claimed that their client is not responsible for the crisis, and that blame should fall squarely on city officials. Yesterday, the defendant s attorneys argued that the court was overstepping by trying to dictate how to allocate government funds.
The lawsuit was originally filed in March of 2020 by the