Paul Birchall’s Got it Covered: The Ovations, SLM and Stage Raw, More Changes at LA Weekly, and Jerry Charlson

However, one thing I am assured of is that Stage Raw will continue its venerable tradition of almost two years. Morris says he’s withdrawing from the day-to-day operations of the website – assigning, editing, posting, etc – and will delegate those roles to staff, and will guide the more general direction of Stage Raw from afar. --BY PAUL BIRCHALL

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Sights Pacific: “Hopscotch” and “Steel Hammer”

"Hopscotch"'s meta-significance may lie in its unabashed embodiment of an anti-operatic happening, shorn of opera’s traditional barriers of social class and pretension (as well as a Happening’s reliance on spontaneity and chance). Yet most of the various innovations can be viewed as effectively a brazen checklist of grant-magnet attributes: prolix profundities, expanding audience appeal to younger demographics, technologically savvy, community-based, environmentally grounded, academically au courant theoretical underpinnings. -- BY MYRON MEISEL

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