photography by LA Daily News Photographer Hans Gutknecht

Dancer Skip Cunningham will be performing at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)

Charles Peters, Miami, waits in line outside the Vista Theater in Los Angeles Friday, July 16, 2010. A screening House of Dark Shadows was shown at the theatre after Jonathan Frid, star of the 1960s television show Dark Shadows, left his handprints in cement in front of the theater. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)

Santa makes his way past residents at the Union Rescue Mission in Los Angeles Wednesday, July 7, 2010. The "Christmas in July" event was sponsored by Subway restaurants and featured 20 tons of snow, free lunch and Santa giving away gifts to children living at the shelter. (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)