Archive for August, 2012
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THEATRE: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS So, Labor Day week-end is finally here, and we get a chance to relax. Or have some fun. Or both. But what to do? If you're staying in town, which I always think is a good idea, you can always go see Little Shop o
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SPORTS: KIM CLIJSTERS
KIM CLIJSTERS I had a whole different column planned for today, but Kim Clijsters just lost at the US Open, and I'm so upset that I just had to pay tribute to her right here and now. I was planning to do it at the end of the tournament, a
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SPORTS/KAREN’S MUSINGS: ONE FINAL FINAL OLYMPICS MUSING
ONE FINAL FINAL OLYMPICS MUSING Okay, I lied when I used the word “final” in the title of what I thought last week was my last column on this summer's Olympics. But by accident, not on purpose. I really thought that I had written my
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THEATRE: ELEPHANT ROOM
ELEPHANT ROOM In the several years of its existence, I had seen only one show at Culver City's Kirk Douglas Theatre. I would have liked to attend more, but I guess I was just too busy being the restaurant critic for that city's newspape
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SPORTS: US OPEN 2012 BEGINS TODAY
US OPEN 2012 BEGINS TODAY Fresh off the heels of the emotional (for me, and not in a good way,) Olympics tennis competition, here comes the last major tournament of the year, the US Open. As much as I really can't bear the thought of si
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SPORTS/GOSSIP/KAREN’S RANTS: SHUT UP, HOPE SOLO!
SHUT UP, HOPE SOLO! I never could stand Hope Solo. Being not a fan of soccer, but of most other things sports, I had ESPN on with the sound down one day a couple of years ago, and saw what looked like a serious story on this woman. It ap
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GOSSIP/TELEVISION: AMERICAN IDOL RUMORS
AMERICAN IDOL RUMORS Every day we read another rumor about who's going to be the next American Idol judge. But now, if any of them are true, the producers are just going crazy. The show is becoming about the judges, not the contestants
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MISCELLANEOUS: THE NEWS
THE NEWS Every time I went onto a new site this week, celebrity-oriented or not, I read something horrible. I can't take all this bad news anymore!!! When I was younger and impressionable, I read that Kate Jackson, one of the original
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TRIBUTE: PHYLLIS DILLER
PHYLLIS DILLER I usually write tributes to only people I knew personally, (Lynn Redgrave, Tony Curtis, Nate Dogg, for example) or at least have met a time or two (Elizabeth Taylor, John Wooden.) But, even though I never ran into stand-u
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SPORTS/KAREN’S RANTS: FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE 2012 OLYMPICS
FINAL THOUGHTS ON THE 2012 OLYMPICS Ever since I finished the Olympics Wrap-up column last week, other thoughts on the subject keep coming to me. So, here are my final musings on the subject. Thankfully, for me who has to type them and y
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