If you want an easy job, you can apply to pretend to hang out in a café for AMC’s new show “Sunday Morning Shootout.” The show, which has aired twice, is set in a coffee shop complete with anonymous coffee drinkers to add to the authenticity. Read more...

By Jake Tracer dB MAGAZINE SENIOR STAFF [email protected] At 6613 1/2 Hollywood Blvd., among the sex and novelty shops, east of the wax museum and tourist traps, there exists, well, a boarded up building with a big “For Lease” sign posted on it. Read more...

Picture a Broadway musical starring nine distinctive personalities and talents. Take away the melodrama, and then add some high-end hip-hop and original poetry. The result is the “Russell Simmons’ Def Poetry Jam.” In essence, “Def Poetry Jam” is a presentation of performance poetry inspired by current events. Read more...

My Ralphs Senior Rewards Club Card is wasting away in my wallet. How I got my hands on a Senior Rewards Club Card that saves $1 for every $10 spent isn’t important. Read more...

Somewhere in the middle of Theatre 40’s energetic, spirited performance of William Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” (not to be confused with the Globe Theatre version) the servant Fabian (Rachael Lyerla) momentarily steps toward the audience, cheekily pulls down her character’s elasticized Jewish beard and joyously declares, “If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.” Director Steven Williams, abetted by a more-than-able cast, seizes on this one line and turns his rendition into a theaterfest of metadramatic madness. Read more...

John Lehr has done it all. A night in jail, LSD, an orgy with three large women in a trailer park in Missouri, converted to Judaism and more that wouldn’t be fit to print. Read more...

There has been an enormous buzz surrounding William Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre and its rendition of “Twelfth Night.” In anticipation of the production’s West Coast debut at Freud Playhouse Wednesday night, students and Bard enthusiasts at UCLA noted that Shakespeare remains the No. Read more...