LIFESTYLE & LEISURE

ARTS & LEISURE

Local singer finds his own spin on R&B and hip hop Johnny Michael is not a household name, but that may change soon. A former Visalia resident, the up-and-coming artist now co-owns a men's clothing line, started his own independent record label and is poised to release the first ever R&B mix tape. Happenings in the area VISALIA -- Seven performances of Les Miserables will be held at the L.J. Williams Theater, 1001 Main St., in Visalia (on the Redwood High School campus). Matinee performances will be at 2 p.m., on July 19 and 26. Evening performances will begin at 7:30 p.m., on July 18, 19, 24, 25 and 26. General admission tickets are $8 per person and VIP seating is $20 per person. Tickets are available at either of the Tulare County Office of Education's Visalia facilities: 2637 W. Burrel Ave., (near the Tulare County Courthouse), or 700 Doe Ave., Suite A, (north of Goshen Avenue on Shirk to Doe Avenue), Monday -- Friday, 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Geek Review: ‘Wall-E’ is a great tale of robots in love Wall-E is easily the most lovable Disney Pixar character yet. He's a goggle-eyed robot with more expression than most actors, which is quite the feat for a creation that is, essentially, a trash compactor. It is the year 2815 and Earth is abandoned, polluted, covered with trash and turned into an arid desert on which no life remains. Humanity fled to the Axiom space station on the other side of the solar system, while a huge team of Waste Allocation Load-Lifter, Earth-class (Wall-E) units were left behind to clean up the mess.

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