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LiveTalksLA upcoming speakers include Neil Gaiman, Phil Jackson
The literary event series Live Talks Los Angles announced its spring 2013 series Wednesday. The series, founded in 2010, takes place at a number of venues around the city. Speakers this spring include Neil Gaiman, who comes to L.A. -- well, technically,...
Tags: Services and Shopping, Phil Jackson, Kim Gordon, Authors, Arts and Culture
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Forever in mom jeans? Hardly
Tribune staff reporterLong before Angelina adopted Maddox, and Gwyneth bore Apple, and Katie spawned Suri, mummies were yummy. Audrey Hepburn, it bears reminding, had two sons. Jackie Kennedy. Grace Kelly. Princess Diana. All, of course, moms. There's this notion of late...Tags: Celebrity Parents, Grace Kelly, Fashion Shows, Newspaper and Magazine, Los Angeles
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Las Vegas: Smith looks ahead to its second year of performances
The Smith Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Las Vegas is celebrating its first birthday and is looking ahead with a schedule of diverse productions. The center, which opened March 10, 2012, hosted more than 450 performances during its first...
Tags: Les Miserables (musical), NPR, Olympia Dukakis, Arts and Culture, Ira Glass
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The Real Deal: R.I.P. Stevo, aka Steven Deal, aka Steven Ceslik
Steven Deal got it. No, I don’t mean cancer, from which he died earlier this week. He got the whole rock & roll thing. On whatever level he chose to play it. Steve was a rock star in the signed-to-a-label sense. He was a rock star in that he could...Tags: MTV (tv network), Blur (music group), Soul Asylum (music group), Entertainment, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut)
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Hal David, Burt Bacharach's songwriting partner, dies at 91
Pop2itHal David, who partnered with Burt Bacharach to write some of the best-known songs in pop music, has died. He was 91.... -
Kristin Chenoweth says Zoellner concert, her first back from injury, has her nervous
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGWhen singer Katharine McPhee dropped out last week as headliner for Zoellner Arts Center’s Gala 2012 fundraiser, Lehigh University announced it was because of an undisclosed health problem. In having Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress and singer... -
Hal David, Burt Bacharach's music partner, dies at 91
L.A. NOWHal David, the renowned pop music lyricist whose prolific collaboration with composer Burt Bacharach produced a wealth of memorable hits in the 1960s and early ’70s, including “Walk on By,” “What the World Needs Now Is Love”... -
On movie lot, The Taste offers an only-in-L.A. kind of get-together
L.A. NOWThe Taste: The Times' Taste food festival got started Saturday at the Paramount movie lot in Hollywood. It had the feel of a block party.... -
Fifth Dimension singer Florence LaRue says good songs gave group success
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGMotown Records was a hit factory for black musicians in the early 1960s, churning out smash after smash R&B song. So hoping to follow that same path to success, the fledgling vocal group that singer Florence LaRue joined in 1965...... -
Carole King to receive 2013 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song
Carole King has been named the 2013 recipient of the Library of Congress’ Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, the first woman to receive the distinction given to songwriters for a body of work. The former Brill Building writer co-wrote hits in the...
Tags: The Rolling Stones (music group), Popular Music (genre), Entertainment Events, Carole King, Library of Congress
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Riffing on the highs and lows of the sonic landscape
The quirky violist known as Ljova, an ingratiating fixture on the New York new music scene, has just released a recording called "Melting River." You can purchase and download it for as little as $2 on the artist-friendly website Bandcamp as either an...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Steve Jobs, Popular Music (genre), Fine Artists, Sound Recordings
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Cody Chesnutt, 'Landing on a Hundred' album review
RedEye Sound Board*** (out of 4) If you yearn for the days of the signature sound from classic record labels like Stax, Volt, or Vee-Jay, then holy hell is this is record right up your alley. Chesnutt actually record a lot of his long-awaited follow-up to 2002’s...Tags: Curtis Mayfield
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