LA CULTURE HOUND

Review of 2/17/13 UnCabaret by LA Culture Hound

 

Each UnCabaret show is different.  Some nights are raucous and profane, others are gutsy and confessional.  Tonight’s show struck a certain elegiac tone.  As always, Beth Lapides displayed her gifts at alchemy by assembling the perfect blend of talent to make for a mesmerizing night.

 

Kira Soltanovich speaks of sitting beside her 101-year-old grandmother, dying in hospice. The others have gone out to smoke “because all Russian Jews legally have to smoke.” Kira kisses her grandmother’s forehead, whispers in her ear.  “It’s okay, babushka, everyone went to smoke.  Go now, it’s safe.” Her cousins are coming out of the elevator, and she’s thinking go, go, go! “And she passed.” The rabbi in attendance mentions that he also does Bar Mitzvahs. “The rabbi is networking in front of my dead grandmother,” she sighs.
Patton Oswalt

Patton Oswalt at UnCabaret

 

More about Patton Oswalt, Kira Soltonovich and Judith Owen here.
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SAY THE WORD: BLEEDING HEARTS

WE WERE SKIRBALLING!

Great time tonight at Say The Word: Bleeding Hearts at The Skirball Cultural Center. Thanks to a great line up: Tim Bagley, Carlos Kotkin, Cindy Chupack, Wayne Federman, Jon Kinnally and making her stage debut 18 year old Natalie Lindeman with a truly lovely story about falling ad falling in love that is slated to appear in the New York Times’ Modern Love column in March.

We looked at love from so many different angles: first love, bad boy love, having a crush on someone with a heart transplant, the death of a loved one, STD’s, on line dating, divorce, red flags. Laughed. Feel better.

Here’s a pic of the crazy space ship room! Next Say The Word April 21. The New Me!

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TIG NOTARO GUEST DJ KCRW

Here’s Tig Notaro’s guest DJ set.

A perfect compliment to her performance on UnCabaret Amazon Episode 2 in which she appears with Margaret Cho, Dana Gould, Taylor Negron and Garfunkel and Oates.

Enjoy!

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