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Los Angeles Times
25-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Paul McCartney's photographs and John Waters' birthday: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
This weekend is the annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, when more than 650 authors and speakers gather across seven outdoor stages and 15 indoor venues across USC's University Park campus. Your Essential Arts scribes are on the lineup of the free, two-day event: My colleague Jessica Gelt is chatting with Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, while I, Ashley Lee, am moderating a conversation with director and memoirist Jon M. Chu, as well as a Center Theatre Group panel with Lolita Chakrabarti, who penned the stunning stage adaptation of 'Life of Pi,' Larissa FastHorse, the playwright of the farce 'Fake It Until You Make It,' and Robert O'Hara, who is helming his film noir take on 'Hamlet.' For more headlines and happenings beyond book talk, here's your weekend newsletter. Feel free to scroll through it poolside like the Beatles' George Harrison, as photographed in 1964 by Paul McCartney. 'Rearview Mirror: Photographs, December 1963–February 1964'This Gagosian show highlights recently rediscovered photographs taken by McCartney between December 1963 and February 1964, during the emergence of Beatlemania. Shot all over Liverpool, London, Paris and the U.S., the mix of black-and-white and color prints includes self-portraits, intimate views of his bandmates and shots of the fandom that constantly surrounded them. Accompanying the photos is an installation of contemporaneous ephemera, as well as excerpts of cinema verité-style footage of the band recorded by filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, who were granted access to document the group during their first U.S. visit in February 1964. The exhibition, which opens tonight, is on view through June 21. Gagosian, 456 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills. Arts Open San PedroThis weekend-long celebration of the waterfront Arts and Cultural District features more than 100 South Bay artists, open studios, interactive workshops and immersive art installations, with free trolley routes connecting arts lovers to various hotspots. Two main stages will host live music and dance performances, and smaller shows will take over venues throughout the city. Admission to the event — which runs Saturday from noon until 7 p.m., and Sunday from noon until 7 p.m. — is free with online RSVP. 'The Turnaway Play'Lesley Lisa Greene's play is inspired by the Turnaway Study, which followed 1,000 pregnant people over 10 years and reached the first definitive scientific conclusions on the impact on their lives from either having or being denied an abortion. This staged reading — starring Alysia Reiner, Mishal Prada, Jenny Yang and Sasheer Zamata — is followed by a panel discussion with Dr. Diana Greene Foster, lead researcher of the Turnaway Study, Francine Coeytaux, co-founder of Plan C, a public health campaign for abortion pill access by mail in every state, and Xochitl Lopez-Ayala, policy coordinator for Access RJ, which advocates for reproductive justice. The one-night-only fundraiser starts at 7 p.m. Sunday. Lodge Room, 104 N. Ave 56, 2nd Floor, L.A. 'John Waters' Birthday Celebration: The Naked Truth''Humor is always the way to win a war, to terrorize people, to make them laugh, to change their mind, to scare them and to be friendly,' the movie director and raconteur told Jessica Gelt of his birthday tour, which stops at the Wallis this weekend. The event's press release promises 'an endless bag of transgressive, and hetero-non-aggressive twisted tales that will warm the dark little hearts of non-binary brats all over the world.' Remember, Waters says he loves everything he teases 'and maybe that's why I really never am mean, and people embrace even the most crazy s— I say.' Saturday, 7:30 p.m. The Wallis, 9390 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills. — Ashley Lee FRIDAYBen Folds The erstwhile layer of 'Brick' joins the Pacific Symphony for an evening of impromptu genre-spanning musical exploration.8 p.m. Friday-Saturday. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 600 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa. Heidi Hahn 'Not Your Woman' is the third solo exhibition of the Brooklyn-based painter's June 6, Michael Kohn Gallery, 1227 N. Highland Ave. Legally Blonde The Musical The hit stage show based on the hit 2001 movie follows the unexpected trajectory of Elle Woods from sorority girl to Harvard May 18. La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts, 14900 La Mirada Blvd. Mozart & Nielsen Ryan Bancroft conducts Nielsen's Fourth, and Yeol Eum Son performs Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. 8 p.m. Friday; 2 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Walt Disney Concert Hall, 111 S. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. Phish The eclectic jam band and its ravenous Phishhead fans invade the Bowl for three nights of genre-blending musical improvisation.7 p.m. Friday-Saturday; 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N. Highland Ave. SATURDAYAinadamar Ana María Martínez stars as Margarita Xirgu, the muse of poet Federico García Lorca, in LA Opera's production of Osvaldo Golijov's dramatic, flamenco-inspired score with a libretto by David Henry Hwang about the writer's life and his last days in the Spanish Civil War. Lina González-Granados conducts with Daniela Mack as May 18. Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown L.A. All of the Above Monologues in the form of first-person narratives, poems, songs and stories anonymously written by women are performed by female-identifying actors.7 p.m. Saturday; 2 and 7 p.m. Sunday. The Actors Company, 916 N. Formosa Ave. Centroamérica The artistic collective Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol reaches beyond preconceived ideas about the region in this play about a Nicaraguan woman fleeing Daniel Ortega's dictatorship. Presented in Spanish with English supertitles.8 p.m. UCLA Nimoy Theater, 262 Westwood Blvd. Dark Library: Paris 1925 Visit Gertrude Stein's apartment and mingle with such notable expats as Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife, Zelda, via this intersection of multisensory mediums, including cocktails, dance and movement, and experiential design.7 and 9 p.m. Friday-Saturday. New Musicals Inc., 5628 Vineland Ave., North Hollywood. Junwen Liang The pianist peforms his 'Sonata Extravaganza' featuring Mozart's Sonata No. 10, Ravel's Sonatine and Prokofiev's Sonata No. 8.8 p.m. Boston Court, 70 N. Mentor Ave., Pasadena. Los Angeles Times Festival of Books More than 650 authors and speakers, including 'Wicked' director Jon M. Chu, comedian Chelsea Handler, exoneree Amanda Knox, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen, politician Stacey Abrams and poet Amanda Gorman, gather across seven outdoor stages and 15 indoor day Saturday-Sunday. USC, University Park campus. Tasty Little Rabbit An 1890s love triangle between poet Sebastian Melmoth, photographer Wilhelm Von Gloeden and an 18-year-old Sicilian boy is the subject of this play written by Tom Jacobson and directed by George June 6, Moving Arts, 3191 Casitas Ave. 30th Anniversary Concert Richard Carpenter and Renee Elise Goldsberry, the Tony Award-winning star of 'Hamilton,' will open the show with 'Rainy Days and Mondays' to honor the Carpenter Center's three decades.8 p.m. Saturday. Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center, 6200 E. Atherton St., Long Beach. Verdi Chorus In the program 'Bella Bellini,' the vocal group performs selections from operas by Vincenzo Bellini and Giuseppe Verdi.7:30 p.m. Saturday; 4 p.m Sunday. First Presbyterian Church, 1220 2nd St., Santa Monica. SUNDAYAmy Adler: Nice Girl The exhibition features an installation of 20 new oil pastel works that critique the social media mirror selfie through portraits of anonymous young women.11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday and Wednesday-Saturday, through Sept. 7. Orange County Museum of Art, 3333 Avenue of the Arts, Costa Mesa. The Glass Menagerie Carolyn Ratteray directs Tennessee Williams' shattering classic about a fading Southern belle, her two children and the impending arrival of a gentleman June 2. Antaeus Theatre Company, Kiki & David Gindler Performing Arts Center, 110 E. Broadway, Glendale. The Millennium Tour Trey Songz, Omarion and Bow Wow headline this collection of hip-hop and R&B stars.7 p.m. Kia Forum, 3900 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood. The Staircase A mother and son spin Hawaiian folk tales while playing cards to avoid their own stories in a play by Noa Gardner, directed by Gaye Taylor May 18. South Coast Repertory, Emmes/Benson Theatre Center, 655 Town Center Dr., Costa Mesa. The stagecraft at the heart of the new Broadway show 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow' is examined by Ashley Lee in a Q&A concluding that the most difficult illusion is creating the franchise's signature nosebleeds. Visual effects designers Jamie Harrison and Chris Fisher, who also worked on 'Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,' reveal the behind-the-scenes strategies that any superfan of either franchise will be glad to know about. Speaking of 'Stranger Things: The First Shadow,' Times theater critic Charles McNulty was in New York to catch its Broadway debut — and warns viewers to enter the Marquis Theatre at their own risk. If Disney shows make the art form veer into theme park territory, McNulty notes, the signature Netflix sci-fi franchise sets it squarely in the violently frenetic world of Dungeons & Dragons. While the visual effects are lavish and stunning, the script feels lacking, McNulty writes. Read about why, here. Ashley also sat down with playwright a.k. payne between rehearsals of 'Furlough's Paradise,' which is at Geffen Playhouse through May 18. The show is about the relationship between two estranged cousins — with vastly divergent lives — as they reunite in their hometown for a funeral. In a wide-ranging conversation, payne discusses what inspired the show, what the characters represent and what their hopes are for the audience's experience. The photographer John Humble — known for his incisive images of L.A.'s vast urban landscape — has died. He was 81. After studying at the University of Maryland, Humble was drafted during the Vietnam War, spending more than a year overseas as a medic. He landed a job as a photojournalist at the Washington Post upon his return, but ultimately left to perfect his craft at the San Francisco Art Institute. In 1974, Humble moved to Los Angeles. He never meant to stay, but ended up putting down roots for the rest of his life — gaining a reputation as one of the city's most clear-eyed viewers and honest visual champions. The French luxury fashion house, Chanel, in collaboration with CalArts, announced the creation of the Chanel Center for Artists and Technology, made with support from Chanel's Culture Fund. The center will give students on campus unfettered access to crucial upcoming technology, including cutting-edge AI software and hardware; machine learning; and digital imaging tools. The resources will be made available in all disciplines, allowing for collaboration and innovation in dance, art, film, music, animation and theater. The center will also welcome visiting artists and fellows, many of whom have also received support from the brand's Culture Fund. Expected guests include Jacolby Satterwhite, Arthur Jafa, Cao Fei and William Kentridge. The 60th Annual Pasadena Showcase House of Design is now open, and welcomes guests for tours through May 18. As one of the country's longest running and most expansive home and garden tours, this year's Showcase House features the renovated Bauer Estate & Gardens. The 15,000-square-foot Monterey colonial estate was built in 1928 and features five acres of botanical gardens, which guests can walk through while taking in the latest in interior and landscape design trends. The program's opening night gala raised more than $200,000 for area music programs. — Jessica Gelt Cynthia Erivo's cover of Prince's 'Purple Rain' with the Los Angeles Philharmonic was my Coachella highlight.
Yahoo
09-04-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding.
Dr. Diana Greene Foster is responsible for landmark research on the effects of abortion access — a massive 10-year study that tracked thousands of people who had an abortion or were denied one. But funding for a follow-up to her seminal Turnaway Study has just been cut as part of a wave of canceled health policy research. Foster received a MacArthur 'genius grant' for the Turnaway Study. That piece of research, which examined the impact of restrictions even before the fall of Roe v. Wade, helped shape public understanding of how abortion access can affect people's health and economic well-being by finding that people who were denied abortions were more likely to experience years of poverty compared to those who could terminate their unplanned pregnancies. Foster's new study was meant to build on that research, using quantitative analysis and in-depth interviews to follow people who sought abortions in or outside of the medical system after federal abortion rights were terminated, as well as those who carried their pregnancies to term. Though national data has shown that the number of abortions has gone up since Roe was overturned, little research has examined who is still able to access care in the face of abortion bans, or what it means for people's health and economic well-being when they cannot. 'It is very likely that certain types of people are less likely to be able to get a wanted abortion. And I think that includes people who experience pregnancy complications and are too sick to travel across state lines,' Foster wrote in an email to The 19th. 'Some cases make the newspapers but only systematic study can tell us how often it happens, quantify the added health risks of the law and help us understand how to mitigate the harms.' The study began immediately after Roe's fall, using private donations; Foster spent the past two-and-a-half years securing federal funding to expand her work. Her research was only six months into what was supposed to be a five-year grant when the federal funding was pulled. Already, that research had begun to yield results. Foster's team was about to publish data showing that in states with abortion bans, people were more likely to seek abortions in their second trimester than they had been before — possibly the result of having to navigate new, onerous restrictions. Federal funding had enabled the study to expand the number of people it followed so that her team could better understand how abortion bans have affected people with medically complex pregnancies, including those who need abortions because of medical emergencies. 'Our study would rigorously examine how state abortion bans — with and without health exceptions — affect treatment of medical emergencies, like preterm prelabor rupture of membranes, preeclampsia and ectopic pregnancy, through surveys and interviews with physicians in emergency departments across the U.S.,' Foster said. 'This is a topic for which we desperately need data.' The future of that work is now uncertain. A letter from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), which Foster shared with The 19th, said that her research was no longer aligned with federal goals: 'Research programs based on gender identity are often unscientific, have little identifiable return on investment, and do nothing to enhance the health of many Americans,' the letter read. That phrasing has appeared in other letters sent to researchers whose work centers on women or LGBTQ+ people, though also in work like Foster's, which is not explicitly about gender identity. The NIH has canceled funding for scores of studies relevant to gender, women and LGBTQ+ people, a pattern that threatens to undercut a decades-long effort to improve how scientific research considers gender. Foster said her team had only used less than $200,000 of an anticipated $2.5 million in NIH support, slated to be spread out over the five years. She intends to continue the study, she said, but the cancellation of their federal grant means her team cannot pay for all the staff it needs, including personnel to interview patients and physicians about their experiences navigating abortion bans. That's information that some states with abortion bans — such as Texas, the largest state to ban the procedure — aren't tracking. 'I am madly fundraising to replace these canceled funds,' she wrote. 'I would rather be spending the time implementing the study than beginning the fundraising again.' The post She was tracking post-Roe abortions. The government just pulled her funding. appeared first on The 19th. News that represents you, in your inbox every weekday. Subscribe to our free, daily newsletter.
