Remember Cracked magazine? an alternative version of Mad magazine - they printed part of my essay on Ernie Kovacs that appears in the forthcoming book that I co-edited. “Ernie Kovacs Was the Secret Father of Counterculture Comedy" cracked.com/article_38140_…

Solidarity with Music Needs Supervision members in their fight for unionization, and many thanks for showing up to support us in the writers strike #WGAStrong #MusicSupervisorEquity

Today will be a day that I remember forever. As President Biden finished speaking at the Safer Communities Summit he let us know that he could only take pictures in front of sections of the auditorium due to an incoming storm. As he walked around the front isle to take the group

We’re Dancing to New Heights at the Debbie Allen Middle School! ✨ Under the guiding vision of Debbie Allen and our Esteemed Staff, DAMS is where academics and the arts converge to shape passionate learners and inspire future stars. 📷: Lee Tonks

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☀️ Summer vibes and endless possibilities await as the DADA Summer Intensive kicks off today! Get ready to ignite your passion for the arts and create unforgettable memories with us at DADA. Let the journey begin! ✨" 📷: Michael Higgins #debbiesllendanceacademy

Many Music Sups fall within this low income threshold. AMPTP / NETFLIXS.CO.CC' inability to treat their workers fairly denies any possibility for diversity & only furthers a narrative that values corporate greed over their workers creative expertise. We're fighting & won’t let down!

So excited to be speaking ESSENCE Festival this year!! It’s gonna be a special one. Hope to see you there! #essencefest #essencefilmfestival

“Eat the Marley…take up space and move.” Sneak peek of darrell moultrie teaching our summer intensive dancers to embrace their power and presence on the floor, taking up space with every movement. ⚡️ ————————— #debbieallendanceacademy #DADAsummerintensive #LADance #DanceInLA

Music Sups struggle as “gig workers”. netflix⁷ & AMPTP only seem concerned with corporate greed and not the people behind the work. We stand with our colleagues. A strike is hard but not being able to sustain even while working is worse! A“Justice & respect” for all the workers!

It’s here. It’s yours, it’s mine, it’s ours. It’s an album I wrote alone about the whims, fantasies, heartaches, dramas and tragedies I lived out as a young woman between 18 and 20. I remember making tracklist after tracklist, obsessing over the right way to tell the story. I had

Attn LA Freelancers - The Freelancers Isn’t Free Act that has passed in Chicago and New York early this year has now passed in LA! Spread the word. Thank you Rafael Espinal who went form a NY City Councilman to a Union Boss and has been fighting for Freelancers from day 1. ✊🏼

Sunday morning at the Grove for #BarbieMovie round two.

#WINTERISCOMING It’s time to start prepping for Hot Chocolate Nutcracker! Join us at our clinic and boot camp to learn performance choreography and prepare for our upcoming Hot Chocolate Nutcracker auditions. 8/22-25 Fairyland Clinic 11 years +up 8/25-27 Snowflake Camp 5-7 yo

#SoulSunday ✨ It’s always a good idea to end the weekend with some #TinaTurner. Video via @camilaalexisdance #rollingonariver #DADA #performance #debbieallendanceacademy #sundayfunday #dance #dancer #performingarts #LAdance #LAdancestudio #losangeles

Despite law if there is corporate gain, we are finding over and over again, that Corporations will go full throttle despite legal and ethical concerns till they are told they can’t. This exploitation can be stopped and it starts with meaningful negotiations and fair contracts.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass tears into Greg Abbott for sending migrants to LA during a tropical storm: “It is evil to endanger the lives of vulnerable migrants by sending a bus with families and toddlers on board to a city that at the time was under an unprecedented tropical

Guns are the #1 killer of kids in America. Not cancer. Not car crashes. Not drugs. GUNS. And what is the GOP doing about it? Absolutely nothing. washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08…

The U.S. government is preparing to release a list of 10 drugs that Medicare will be able to negotiate prices for—one of the key elements of President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act ti.me/45O7jjQ

Fly with us this fall starting September 5th as we lift off with DA FLY Open Aerial Classes led by the incredible @mrterrybeeman. ✨TUES✨ 7:00pm - 8:30pm FLY Adult Aerial More info coming soon!