John Cale

A list of upcoming concerts across the Southland, with on-sale dates in parentheses. UCLA Live John Cale, Sept. 30; Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano, Oct. 2; Laurie Anderson, Oct. 21; Taj Mahal, Oct. 22; Ornette Coleman, Nov. 3; Mavis......

Ron Asheton, whose scorching and energetic guitar work behind singer Iggy Pop in the Michigan punk band the Stooges established a new model of raw emotion for a succeeding generation of punk, grunge and alternative rockers, has died. He was 60. Asheton's...

Friday April 17, 1998      The very least we expect from conventional screen storytellers is that they will entice us into caring about their people. More talented and daring filmmakers, however, take on the challenge of involving us in individuals...

Friday October 2, 1998      "Somewhere in the City" has such an endearing sensibility, good-humored and surprisingly tender, and such a wonderfully improbable cast, that it's tempting to forgive its strained, synthetic stretches and its tendency to...

Friday April 14, 2000      Suppose, just suppose, we take "American Psycho" at its word and agree that this little number is, in the words of director and co-writer Mary Harron, "a comedy, a satire on the late 1980s." The question becomes: a) How sharp...

Friday January 12, 1996      "The dark side is very bright indeed," director John Huston, who should've known, once said. "The dark is gleaming, like a fire opal or a black pearl."      John Huston would have appreciated "Nico Icon."      A well-made...

Friday May 17, 1996      On the afternoon of June 3, 1968, feminist Valerie Solanas shot the king of Pop art, Andy Warhol, seriously wounding him and, in effect, marking an end to an era in his life and art. Many contend that Warhol, who died in 1987...

Friday August 9, 1996      "The whole point," Julian Schnabel was quoted recently about his debut film delineating the brief life of fellow New York art star Jean-Michel Basquiat, "was not to have a tourist make this movie." Yet for all the difference...