Michael Lowe

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• ‘Nine Lives’ exhibit highlights Los Angeles artists

  March 12, 2009 at 12:46 a.m.

  To put it plainly, it is impossible to capture the entire breadth of the Hammer Museum’s fifth biannual exhibit “Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A.” in an 800-word article.

• Exhibit uses unsettling details to explore psychology

  Jan. 13, 2009 at 12:16 a.m.

  If you have ever wanted to be buried in a book, now may be your chance.

• Theater Review: "By the Waters of Babylon"

  Nov. 13, 2008 at midnight

  Pulitzer Prize-winner Robert Schenkkan’s play “By the Waters of Babylon” takes the audience on a rollercoaster ride through a day in the life of an Texan widow, her day worker gardener, and their attempted romance.

• Raising Hades

  Oct. 29, 2008 at 1:05 a.m.

  For UCLA students, Halloween usually means one of three things: tracking down king-sized candy bars in Bel Air, braving the streets of the famed West Hollywood Carnaval Party, or wandering the hills of Westwood for a frat or apartment party.

• Show provides first professional step

  Aug. 18, 2008 at 12:31 a.m.

  In 1979, Guyana-born actress CCH Pounder stepped into an audition space in New York City with no movie experience and came face-to-face with legendary director and choreographer Bob Fosse.

• Art4aCure combines creativity with cancer therapy

  Aug. 4, 2008 at 12:01 a.m.

  Natural light streams through oversized windows and into the sixth floor space where several tables are all covered with scraps of magazines and painting supplies.

• Inventive author mixes generic forms

  July 7, 2008 at 1:46 a.m.

  Author Salvador Plascencia’s first love wasn’t writing, it was basketball – that is, until he realized that being 5-foot-4-inches wouldn’t cut it.

• Orientation Issue 2008: Six hot spots for some summer fun in LA

  June 23, 2008 at 12:04 a.m.

  The way we see it, summer is a time to explore.

• ‘English Patient’ author to speak at Hammer

  May 14, 2008 at 12:46 a.m.

  Hemingway wrote about raucous bull runs in Pamplona. Fitzgerald wrote about glitzy New York. Steinbeck wrote about a Depression era Monterey.

• Gamer's Galaxy: "Mario Kart Wii"

  May 12, 2008 at 12:08 a.m.

  If driving with the sleek, wireless motion-sensor wheel isn’t enough to get you hooked on Nintendo’s latest installment of “Mario Kart” for the Wii gaming console, racing neck-and-neck with Miss Piggy from Finland and Sr. Jesus from Japan should be.