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Directed by Mike Mills • Starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig • Rated R • 118 min.

Woods’ 2016 City Sun Eater in the River of Light opens with “Sun City Creeps,” a retro journey into elements of deep funk, immersed in calypso-derived rhythms with a West Indian soul. There are horns, falsetto harmonies, some North African jazz influence and a whole lot of controlled Acid Te…

Mark Shilstone-Laurent is playing an older, more established actor whose theater spotlight is dimming, opposite his son Brady, who plays a young, rising actor who is displacing the elder. This is the simple premise in David Mamet’s 1977 play A Life in the Theatre, which Mark is also directin…

Carl Alasko is a therapist, author, columnist, and owner of il vecchio restaurant – a real Renaissance man. Now he wants to premier a preview of a musical about Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th-century Italian political philosopher known for precepts like “It is better to be feared than loved, …

Zoe Alexander and The Money Band have satisfied cravings for habit-forming live music with their unofficial tenure at Sly McFly’s on Cannery Row, which has lasted more than a decade. The modern rockers, who play razor-sharp covers and tight originals, gained local celebrity and have been ele…