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Scattered leaves “The Secret Garden” wilts at the Ahmanson by Bondo Wyszpolski In the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett a cholera epidemic sweeps through British India and 10-year-old Mary Lennox is orphaned, then sent to Uncle Archibald Craven in Yorkshire, to a forlorn mansion that would be at home in a gothic tale by Hawthorne or Poe. Mary...

TelevisionOn this day in 1955 on “I Love Lucy”: Lucy (Lucille Ball) was determined to own a Don Loper gown and winds up being part of a “Hollywood Wives” fashion show, wearing a scratchy tweed suit while having a bad sunburn…ABC’s “Happy Days” introduced Mork (Robin Williams), an alien who sought to collect an average Earthling to study...

Luis Cruz: Welcome to “San Diego News Fix: The Backstory.” Hundreds of newspapers across the country, including The San Diego Union-Tribune have either stopped or will stop running the “Dilbert” comic strip after its creator made racist comments during a YouTube livestream last week. Joining us to discuss the offensive remarks and the decision to stop running the “Dilbert”...

Four-time Fulbright Scholar, practitioner and acting technique pedagogist, Dr. Baron Kelly is a decorated actor, director and scholar. Currently, Kelly serves as a professor in the University of Wisconsin Theatre and Drama Department and is directing and acting in August Wilson’s Fences. Kelly has an unusual story for how he ended up in Madison, Wisconsin, much of it stemming...