Wildfire season came in with a whoosh, didn’t it? Stay safe and let’s hope that this week brings a respite from the winds. If you’re still a bit hungover from election coverage, maybe shift your focus to some of the positives locally – like the Fernando Valenzuela mural that just went up – and set our sights on all the great things we have going on in Los Angeles.
Readers of this column know I’m a big musical theater fan, so I couldn’t be more excited about Jason Alexander (whom I last saw on stage in The Producers at the Pantages many moons ago) coming not to one of the major stages in town, but to La Mirada for a special run of Fiddler on the Roof . It was the first show I saw as a kid and it has so many timeless songs. Beyond the stage, ’90s rockers Soul Asylum are doing a free in-store show at Amoeba, there’s a very timely (too timely for some of us, perhaps) talk about democracy’s future with journalists at the Central Library, and I have lots of Thanksgiving planning for you in the dining section.