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True Tales Of Lust And Love
''True Tales of Lust and Love'' is a popular monthly storytelling show where local LA comedians and writers sample their material or read from their upcoming books. It's similar in format to The Moth but features only women, some of whom read rather than perform. According to ''LA Weekly'', the show is curated by Anna David and features an "all-gal lineup" that has included comedians Claire Titelman and Melinda Hill. Memoirist Sascha Rothchild has also performed in the show. The ''Los Angeles Times'' included the show in its round-up of Valentine's Day ideas in 2012. Each show is uploaded as a podcast. External links"Lust & Love" ''LA Weekly''"Culture Monster" ''LA Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the Un ...''LAist feature [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Moth
The Moth is a non-profit group based in New York City dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. Founded in 1997, the organization presents a wide range of theme-based storytelling events across the United States and abroad, often featuring prominent literary and cultural personalities alongside everyday people like veterans, astronauts, school teachers, and parents. The Moth offers a weekly podcast and in 2009 launched a national public radio show, ''The Moth Radio Hour'', which won a 2010 Peabody Award. The Moth has published four books including ''The Moth: 50 True Stories'' (2013) reached #22 on ''The New York Times'' Paperback Nonfiction Best-Seller List; ''All These Wonders: True Stories about Facing the Unknown'' (2017); and ''Occasional Magic: True Stories About Defying the Impossible'' (2019) and ''How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth (2022). In September of 2022, The Moth published an interactive card deck called, A Game ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Weekly
''LA Weekly'' is a free weekly alternative newspaper in Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 1978 by Jay Levin, who served as president and editor until 1991. Voice Media Group sold the paper in late 2017 to Semanal Media LLC, whose parent company is listed as Street Media. The current Editor-in-Chief and Creative Director is Darrick Rainey. It covers Los Angeles music, arts, film, theater, culture, concerts, and events. In 1979 they established the LA Weekly Theater Awards which awards small theatre productions (99 seats or less) in Los Angeles. Starting in 2006, ''LA Weekly'' has hosted the LA Weekly Detour Music Festival every October. The entire block surrounding Los Angeles City Hall is closed off to accommodate the festival's three stages. Some of its best known writers were Pulitzer Prize-winning food writer Jonathan Gold, who left in early 2012, and Nikki Finke, who blogged about the film industry through the ''Weekly'' website and published a print column in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna David (journalist)
Anna Benjamin David is an American publisher, author, speaker, podcast host, and television personality. Early life David was born to Jewish parents. She is a graduate of Trinity College. Career Book and magazine author David is the author of the novels ''Party Girl'' (''HarperCollins'', 2007), ''Bought'' (''HarperCollins'', 2009), and the non-fiction books ''Falling For Me'' (''HarperCollins'', 2011), ''Reality Matters'' (''HarperCollins'', 2010), ''True Tales of Lust and Love'', ''How to Get Successful by F*cking Up Your Life'' and ''Make Your Mess Your Memoir''. Her book ''By Some Miracle I Made It Out of There'', co-written with Tom Sizemore, was a ''New York Times'' bestseller. In 2021, she got the rights to ''Party Girl'' back from HarperCollins and relaunched the book under her own publishing imprint. ''Party Girl'' is in development as a movie with the producer of Martin Scorsese's ''The Irishman''. David has been a contributor to ''The Daily Beast'', ''Details'', ''M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comedians
A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain an audience by making them laugh. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting foolish (as in slapstick), or employing prop comedy. A comedian who addresses an audience directly is called a stand-up comedian. A popular saying often attributed to Ed Wynn attempts to differentiate the two terms: "A comic says funny things; a comedian says things funny." This draws a distinction between how much of the comedy can be attributed to verbal content and how much to acting and persona. Since the 1980s, a new wave of comedy, called alternative comedy, has grown in popularity with its more offbeat and experimental style. This normally involves more experiential, or observational reporting (e.g., Alexei Sayle, Daniel Tosh, Malcolm Hardee). As far as content is concerned, comedians such as Tommy Tiernan, Des Bishop, Kevin Hart, and Dawn French draw on their background to poke fun at themselves, while others such as Jon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claire Titelman
Claire Titelman is an American actress and stand-up comedian best known for her regular appearances as a roundtable panelist on ''Chelsea Lately'', as well as her roles on ''Parks and Recreation'', ''New Girl'' and ''Veronica Mars''. Theatrical work Titelman wrote and acted in ''Lemons Are for Emergencies Only,'' which was performed in her own kitchen in Los Angeles in 2006 before appearing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2007. Her play ''In Tubes'' was produced at HERE Arts in NYC, and her solo show ''Filthy'' was performed at experimental Los Angeles theater Machine Project in 2015. She is a member of the Wet the Hippo collective (Best Comedy nominee at L.A. Fringe Festival) and a graduate of Upright Citizens Brigade. Claire performed in the October 2011 edition of '' Don't Tell My Mother!'', as well as the subsequent ''Best of Don't Tell My Mother!'' at the Comedy Central stage in June 2012. She was named one of "8 L.A. Artists and Art-World Figures to Watch in 2016" by LA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melinda Hill
Melinda Hill is an American comedian and actress best known for her stand-up comedy and appearances in ''Lady Dynamite'', ''Adventure Time'', '' The Late Late Show'', ''The Bonnie Hunt Show'', ''Comics Unleashed'', ''Who Wants to Date a Comedian?'', and as the host of ''Comedy.TV''. Early life and education Hill was born in Hutchinson, Kansas but spent her formative years in Colorado Springs, which she considers home. Hill won a theatre scholarship where she did plays and took writing classes. After her freshman year she transferred to the University of Kansas where she stayed for another year, before moving to California to study acting with Joanne Baron, Lesly Kahn and Sandra Seacat. When finishing acting school, one of her teachers advised her to go into comedy. Hill joined The Groundlings with no previous comedy experience. She took classes, learned to write sketches and advanced through all levels before starting stand-up, incorporating all she'd learned about character ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Memoir
A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobiography since the late 20th century, the genre is differentiated in form, presenting a narrowed focus. A biography or autobiography tells the story "of a life", while a memoir often tells the story of a particular event or time, such as touchstone moments and turning points from the author's life. The author of a memoir may be referred to as a memoirist or a memorialist. Early memoirs Memoirs have been written since the ancient times, as shown by Julius Caesar's ''Commentarii de Bello Gallico'', also known as ''Commentaries on the Gallic Wars''. In the work, Caesar describes the battles that took place during the nine years that he spent fighting local armies in the Gallic Wars. His second memoir, ''Commentarii de Bello Civili'' (or ''Com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sascha Rothchild
Sascha Rothchild (born November 15, 1976) is an American writer. Life Rothchild grew up in Miami Beach, Florida and is one of three siblings. Her father, John Rothchild, is a well-known non-fiction writer and her mother, Susan Rothchild, is the daughter of 21 Club founder Charlie Berns. She attended Boston College and graduated with honors in 1998. She then moved to Los Angeles and began her writing career. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two rescued boxer dogs. Career Rothchild was featured reading from her teen diary at the stage show, Mortified, on ''This American Life'', ''My Experimental Phase'' episode. Her segment "Miami Vices" is on the This American Life best of CD, Hope and Fear. Rothchild was also featured on This American Life on Showtime, episode titled ''Growth Spurt''. Rothchild writes comedy feature films, scripted television, such as '' The Carrie Diaries,'' ''The Bold Type,'' ''Huge In France ''Huge in France'' is an American comedy series on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14. It originated as a Christian feast day honoring one or two early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine and, through later folk traditions, has become a significant cultural, religious, and commercial celebration of Romance (love), romance and love in many regions of the world. There are a number of martyrdom stories associated with various Valentines connected to February 14, including an account of the imprisonment of Saint Valentine of Rome for ministering to Christians Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire, persecuted under the Roman Empire in the third century. According to an early tradition, Saint Valentine restored sight to the blind daughter of his jailer. Numerous later additions to the legend have better related it to the theme of love: an 18th-century embellishment to the legend claims he wrote the jailer's daughter a letter signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Podcast
A podcast is a program made available in digital format for download over the Internet. For example, an episodic series of digital audio or video files that a user can download to a personal device to listen to at a time of their choosing. Streaming applications and podcasting services provide a convenient and integrated way to manage a personal consumption queue across many podcast sources and playback devices. There also exist podcast search engines, which help users find and share podcast episodes. A podcast series usually features one or more recurring hosts engaged in a discussion about a particular topic or current event. Discussion and content within a podcast can range from carefully scripted to completely improvised. Podcasts combine elaborate and artistic sound production with thematic concerns ranging from scientific research to slice-of-life journalism. Many podcast series provide an associated website with links and show notes, guest biographies, transcripts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LA Times
The ''Los Angeles Times'' (abbreviated as ''LA Times'') is a daily newspaper that started publishing in Los Angeles in 1881. Based in the LA-adjacent suburb of El Segundo since 2018, it is the sixth-largest newspaper by circulation in the United States. The publication has won more than 40 Pulitzer Prizes. It is owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong and published by the Times Mirror Company. The newspaper’s coverage emphasizes California and especially Southern California stories. In the 19th century, the paper developed a reputation for civic boosterism and opposition to labor unions, the latter of which led to the bombing of its headquarters in 1910. The paper's profile grew substantially in the 1960s under publisher Otis Chandler, who adopted a more national focus. In recent decades the paper's readership has declined, and it has been beset by a series of ownership changes, staff reductions, and other controversies. In January 2018, the paper's staff voted to unionize and final ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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