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"It was a predominantly black neighborhood, but there was a diverse palette of people, including whites from all over the city, who would come in at night to frequent these hot destinations," said Brown, 44. "The whole area was jumping with all this excitement."
After years of working steadily as an actor in films and TV, Brown has returned home to establish the Ebony Repertory Theatre. His newly founded company has taken up residence at the Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, which was built on the grounds of the former Ebony Showcase. Though he's still in the early stages of forming the company, Brown hopes to have about 25 formal members, as well as a core technical team.
"I wanted to ensure that the so-called minority community had a place to go see theater where the standards are high and not compromised," Brown said as he sat in the uncompleted cafe off the center's lobby. "The minority community deserves something like this, where they can get the same kind of fare offered by the Mark Taper Forum, the Pantages or what the Shubert Theatre used to put on."
Brown envisions the 400-seat theater featuring distinguished African American-themed works of a "high quality," including classics like "A Raisin in the Sun," and works by acclaimed playwrights such as August Wilson. He is also hoping to attract to the mid-city audiences interested in an upscale cultural theater experience.
ERT's first production, opening tonight, is "Two Trains Running," Wilson's drama set in a 1960s ghetto diner in Pittsburgh. The play stars Russell Hornsby ("Lincoln Heights"), Felton Perry and Glynn Turman ("Cooley High," "The Wire"), who just scored an Emmy for his guest role on HBO's "In Treatment."
"All these actors were eager to do something in the neighborhood where they knew a high bar was being set," said Brown, who had worked with Perry and Turman at the former Inner City Culture Center theater. "There was absolutely no hesitation when I approached them about this."
The theater company is being launched at a time when African American audiences are gravitating toward raucous musical offerings, such as "Barbershop," or religious-themed comedic fare from Tyler Perry ("Why Did I Get Married," "Madea Goes to Jail") and David E. Talbert ("Love in the Nick of Time," "Mr. Right Now").
Although Brown did not specifically address the works of Perry and Talbert or their popularity with urban theatergoers, it's unlikely their pieces will be performed by the ERT. He said he wants to feature work that has "three-dimensional characters."
"Our mission is to perform true theatrical literature, and we are not interested in featuring the lowest common denominator," he said. "Minority audiences deserve better."
Mainstream theaters, such as the Taper, the Ahmanson and the Geffen Playhouse, he said, have not "historically had a warm reception or put forth an outreach for works that cater to urban audiences. So we hope to serve that need."
The arts scene in South Los Angeles has lacked a significant theater presence for more than a decade. One of the most vibrant, the Ebony Showcase, provided opportunities for black performers after it opened in 1950. But the theater, which was owned by actor Nick Stewart, fell on hard times during the 1980s and 1990s, and was forced to close in 1996.
The city of Los Angeles then funded the $7-million Holden Center, which opened in 2004. But that venue has mostly been used for special events or rentals. The nonprofit ERT is funded largely through private donations and revenue from rentals of the center.
Brown and other members of the company admitted to being a bit anxious as the opening draws closer. The mood during a recent afternoon rehearsal was intense as the performers grappled with Wilson's dense dialogue. Artistic director Israel Hicks, who is directing the drama, calmly but firmly instructed the actors how to handle the language and rhythms of the play.
Turman, 61, who as a young boy appeared in the original Broadway production of "A Raisin in the Sun," said working in the new theater was one of the highlights of a year that has already brought him much acclaim. "At any stage in one's career, to be part of an August Wilson classic is both an honor and a challenge," he said.
But the launch of the ERT is of particular cultural importance. "Everyone involved is aware of what this means," he said. "This is a venue owned and operated by people of color, and we want to make sure we put our best foot forward. It's not often that we can get to show those outside the community to what the community has to offer. It's important to show what they have been missing out on. We want to include others into the richness of our culture."
"Two Trains Running" will be followed by "Crowns," a dramatic musical paying tribute to black women and the elaborate hats they wear to church, by actress Regina Taylor ("The Unit," "I'll Fly Away").
"We're going to make this place a true destination," Brown said. "Just like it was before."
"Two Trains Running," Nate Holden Performing Arts Center, 4718 W. Washington Blvd., L.A. 8 p.m. Thursdays- Fridays, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturdays, 3 p.m. Sundays. $35-$50. (323) 964-9766 or ebonyrepertorytheatre.org.


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MEXICO CITY — Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto's office says he will undergo surgery next week to remove a thyroid nodule.
A Wednesday statement from the office says the president will have the operation at the Central Military Hospital in Mexico City.
It says Pena Nieto will take four days to recover but will be at the Los Pinos presidential residence holding private work meetings. The 47-year-old leader started his six-year administration Dec. 1.
A cancer specialist not involved in the president's case says it would not necessarily be worrisome if the nodule proved cancerous. Dr. Sergio Rodriguez says thyroid tumors tend to not be aggressive.
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I'm about as die hard an EWU fan as I am a Hawks fan. EWU's potential this year feels just about as high as Seattle's. We won the National Championship in 2010, and looked to repeat last year, but injuries killed us. We lost 14 starters throughout the season, with 3 of them being OL within the first 3 weeks. Because of that, we have a ton of depth, and all the players have one goal on their mind: our second National Championship.
We have a potential NFL QB in SMU transfer Kyle Padron (6'4, 225), throwing to a bevy of potential NFL WRs. Brandon Kaufman (6'5, 215), Nick Edwards (6'3, 200), and Greg Herd (6'3, 200) all have had a 1000+ yard season in the last 3 years: Kaufman in 2010 (1214 yds, 15 TDs), and both Edwards (1250 yds, 19 TDs) and Herd (1022 yds, 7 TDs) this last year.
We've got a pretty tough schedule to start the season, as we play 3 straight on the road, the first two against FBS competition in Idaho and Wazzu. We should beat Idaho, and might hang tough with Wazzu, it really depends on where our defense is at. Anyways, here's a link to the best write-up/preview I've found if you're not an EWU fan but would like to follow along with a kick ass local team. Gonna be a great year! GO EAGS!


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NAPA, Calif. -- Quarterback Terrelle Pryor signed a four-year contract with the Oakland Raiders on Thursday, three days after being picked in the third round of the NFL supplemental draft.
The Raiders announced the signing late Thursday night and said Pryor would take the field for his first NFL practice on Friday.
ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported the deal.
The Raiders play their third exhibition game on Sunday against New Orleans and it would be extremely unlikely that Pryor would play. The Raiders then will have three practices before the exhibition finale at Seattle on Sept. 2.
After that game, Pryor will be ineligible to practice with the Raiders until serving a five-game suspension.
When he was allowed to enter Monday's supplemental draft, Pryor was handed a suspension by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell for the same number of games he would have sat out had he returned to Ohio State. Pryor has said he will not appeal the suspension.
Pryor gave up his final season with the Buckeyes after an investigation into the team's memorabilia-for-cash scandal that cost coach Jim Tressel his job.
Pryor is an impressive physical specimen, measuring 6-foot-5 and 232 pounds and being clocked at 4.36 seconds in the 40-yard dash at his pro day last weekend.
Pryor is coming off his best season statistically at Ohio State, throwing for 2,772 yards and 27 touchdowns with 11 interceptions. He ran for 754 yards and four TDs while helping the Buckeyes win the Sugar Bowl.
There has been some speculation that Pryor could eventually play receiver or tight end in the NFL, but Raiders coach Hue Jackson said Monday that Pryor will start off as a quarterback.
Oakland's starting quarterback is Jason Campbell, in his second season with the Raiders. Campbell is eligible to be a free agent after the season, as are backups Kyle Boller and Trent Edwards.
The Raiders considered drafting a quarterback to groom for the future in April but did not find the right fit. Now they have Pryor to fill that role.
Oakland is without picks in the second, third and fourth rounds in next year's draft. The Raiders traded the 2012 second-round pick along with a 2011 seventh-round selection for third- and fourth-round picks this past draft to take offensive lineman Joe Barksdale and running back Taiwan Jones. They sent their fourth-round pick a year ago to the Redskins for Campbell.
But Raiders senior executive John Herrera said he expects the team to recoup some picks as compensation for losing Nnamdi Asomugha, Zach Miller and Robert Gallery as free agents.
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Schools 'face compulsory setting'
Secondary schools could be forced to separate pupils by ability under plans due to be proposed by Nicky Morgan, it has been reported.
The new Education Secretary is likely to ask England's schools watchdog Ofsted to oversee compulsory setting, which could mean that secondaries have to introduce the measure in order to be rated outstanding, according to the Guardian.
It is not clear whether the move would see pupils placed into sets for all subjects, or just some, for example English and maths.
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Setting has long been seen as controversial, with critics arguing that it can be detrimental to lower achievers, and supporters arguing that it helps brighter pupils.
Questions are likely to be raised about how the proposals can be legally enforced, as academies and free schools are semi-independent state schools free from government control, the newspaper said.
The Department for Education (DfE) said it was not commenting on the report.
Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) warned against the move.
"If Nicky Morgan is committed to closing the gap for disadvantaged children the last thing she should do is to divide children into ability sets and to use Ofsted to enforce this," she said.
"This is educationally unjustifiable. The evidence is overwhelming that this practice holds back poor children, denying them access to an appropriately demanding curriculum. Any claim that Ofsted is independent of government ideology will be shot to pieces if the agency is required to enforce ministerial dogma."
Prime Minister David Cameron has previously called for setting by ability within schools.
Speaking in 2006, he announced plans to introduce setting in all schools, suggesting that the method helps to stretch bright pupils and help those in danger of falling behind.
''There's a real case for more selection within schools rather than selection between schools," he said,adding that Tony Blair had promised to introduce the measure in 1997.
Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has also backed setting in the past.
Speaking last year, he advocated setting children in key subjects from the first year of secondary school.
"I want to give you my own personal view," he said. "Unless you have well-qualified experienced people who know how to deal with mixed ability then it doesn't work.
"If that's not happening it's much better to move to a setting system."
Sir Michael later added that he would "set from the word go", and that this was what he had done as head of Mossbourne Academy in east London, the position he held before becoming chief inspector.
Setting makes sure that "both ends of the ability spectrum get good teaching", he said.
Research conducted by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) concluded that overall, grouping appears to benefit higher attainers but can be detrimental to the learning of mid-range or lower achievers.
" On average, ability grouping does not appear to be an effective strategy for raising the attainment of disadvantaged pupils, who are more likely to be assigned to lower groups," EEF said. "Summer-born pupils and students from ethnic minority backgrounds are also likely to be adversely affected by ability grouping."
It added that on average, studies had shown that higher achievers make between one and two extra months progress when set or streamed, compared with when taught in mixed-ability groups, while l ow-attaining learners fall behind by one or two months a year, on average, compared with the progress of similar students in classes without ability grouping.
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt said: "We need urgent assurances that Nicky Morgan's plan will not place a cap on aspiration and confine some children to a second-rate education. All children, in all classes, do best when they are supported and challenged to reach their full potential.
"Any measures must be backed by a clear body of evidence demonstrating a positive impact on school standards for all children.
"I believe that excellent heads and great teachers know better than Westminster politicians how to deliver the best schooling for all pupils."
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UNIC Achievement Award to be presented at Barcelona convention on June 24.
CineEurope will awards its UNIC Achievment Award this year to Ad Weststrate, who is himself president of UNIC (the International Union of Cinemas) as well as an independent cinema owner, distributor and entrepreneur.
He will collect the honour during CineEurope's opening ceremony on June 24 in Barcelona.
The UNIC Achievement Award is given each year to an outstanding person for his or her dedication and service to European cinema exhibition. Past recipients include Lene Løken of Film&Kino Norway, Jean Labé of Fédération Nationale des Cinémas Français and John Fithian of National Association of Theatre Owners (NATO).
"We are delighted to give this year's UNIC Achievement Award to our President Ad J. Weststrate, who has played such an important role in strengthening the voice of international cinema exhibition in the past decade," said Jan Runge, CEO of UNIC. "Ad helped steer UNIC through a phase of considerable change and helped ensure its increasing influence. He managed to do so by bringing together a rare combination of skills - leadership, business sense, diplomatic tact and a great deal of empathy for those around him. We want to express our gratitude to Ad and look forward to continuing to work with him in the future."
"We are equally delighted that UNIC has decided to award this prestigious honor each year at CineEurope and we extend our congratulations to Ad Weststrate on this auspicious occasion," added Robert Sunshine, Managing Director of CineEurope.
Weststrate is an independent cinema owner and entrepreneur with more than 40 years' experience in the Dutch and the international cinema industry.He runs three Dutch cinemas and also works with distribution via A-Films. He runs a local TV station as well as being the founder of fsetival Film by The Sea and co-founder of magazine Holland Film Nieuws. He is also working with a group to open a cinema in the Kingdom of Buthan. He's also on the board of Dutch exhibitors association NVB.
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Disgraced Roman Polanski is set to be extradited to the U.S. under armed guard after a bid to halt the process was rejected. It follows French head of state Nicolas Sarkozy hand-delivering a personal letter to Barack Obama from the film director asking to be spared jail – a move which apparently failed because the American President refused even to read the note.
Lawyers for 76-year-old Polanski applied to have his child sex case heard in absentia, meaning he could remain under house arrest in Switzerland. Meanwhile, in Switzerland: Roman Polanski with friends while on house arrest .But a California appeals court rejected the bid outright yesterday, paving the way for the extradition process to continue.
If it is successful Polanski is likely to fly to America as a captured fugitive with federal agents in September, said a Swiss judicial source. Polanski is wanted on child sex charges after fleeing the U.S. 32 years ago following the rape of a 13-year-old girl.
He was arrested in Switzerland last September as he travelled to a film festival and is fighting extradition while under house arrest in his luxury chalet in the ski resort of Gstaad.
His latest appeal includes a sworn statement by his victim, Samantha Geimer, saying that the 1977 charge should be dropped. But the California 2nd District Court of Appeal dismissed Polanski's application without issuing an opinion. Presidents Nicolas Sarkozy and Barack Obama in Washington earlier this month
They also rejected the petition by Miss Geimer, who is now a mother of three living in Hawaii. Allowing prosecution witnesses to end cases by simply forgiving a criminal would set an unacceptable precedent, the court heard. Swiss Justice Ministry spokesman Folco Galli said Polanski will only be extradited if he receives a sentence longer than six months.
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I got a feeling he wont step foot on US soil. Some one will help him get away again."It's a convention of wolves over there with all the snarling, snapping, and baring of teeth."
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At the least he is getting harassed and his life is a nervous mess. Thats better than nothing!
Probably nothing. She has stated before that she doesn't want to relive it all over again. I understand her POV on it. She's got a life, a family and doesn't want to look back. Especially with the media circus that the trial will inspire.
On the other hand, I'm all for the state of California/US government still pushing for extradition. Since he's already been convicted of the sex offense, the survivor won't have to relive the event in court. The only new charge he should be facing is fleeing and eluding, or whatever they call it in California, and she won't have to testify at that hearing. She can testify at his sentencing on the rape charge, but it doesn't seem like the prosecutors would want her to, since she just wants to move on with her life.
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But the way he treated Polansky or the Dalai Lama, who is a slaver piece of shit,was inspired.
Also he might want to do the White House a favor by banning froggy.
What is your personal opinion on this collision in regards to service of justice versus the well being of the victim? I'm just curious about what your take on the situation is, because I'd almost always end on the side of justice being served, but I've never thought about a situation in which serving justice would detriment the victim."In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish the nation and set it together by the ears. A pretty business indeed for a man to be allowed eight hundred thousand sterling a year for, and worshipped into the bargain! Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived."
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