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Amy Winehouse dies at 27; iconoclastic British singer-songwriter
British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse was a phenomenon: a Jewish girl from a London suburb with a retro beehive, a devil-may-care attitude and a voice that channeled Aretha Franklin and Ruth Brown. Music industry figures on both sides of the Atlantic...Tags: Music Theater, Theater, Demi Moore, Frank Sinatra, Homes
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Shifra Goldman dies at 85; champion of modern Mexican art
In the early 1970s, when Shifra Goldman proposed a doctoral dissertation on modern Mexican art, her professors at UCLA sneered. Compared to European art, the art of Latin America was, in their view, imitative, too political, unworthy of serious...Tags: Politics, Demonstration, Minority Groups, University of California, Los Angeles, National or Ethnic Minorities
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Wade Mainer dies at 104; 'grandfather of bluegrass'
Born on a mountain farm near Weaverville, N.C., in 1907, Wade Mainer soaked up old songs ringing in the far hills and hollers.
As a professional singer and banjo player, he would introduce that music to audiences throughout the nation and also pass it on...Tags: Radio, Buncombe County, BBC, Artists, General Motors Corp.
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Culver City gallery owner gives crutches to Sierra Leone disabled
As a Culver City art gallery owner and marketing and advertising executive, Lisa Schultz wondered whether there was anything she could do about the plight of disabled men, women and children in Sierra Leone.
Many had lost limbs during unspeakable...Tags: Wars and Interventions, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Photography, Arts and Culture, Marketing
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Movie review: 'The Weird World of Blowfly'
The curious, vulgar tale of Clarence "Blowfly" Reid and his music can be best understood through an interaction between him and Miami electronic producer Otto Von Schirach near the end of "The Weird World of Blowfly," a documentary celebrating the life of...Tags: Music Industry, Popular Music (genre), Arts and Culture, Hugh Hefner, Anvil! The Story of Anvil (movie)
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Kurt Sanderling dies at 98; admired conductor under Soviets
Kurt Sanderling, who led the Leningrad Philharmonic and the East Berlin Symphony Orchestra under Soviet rule and won admirers in the West later in his career as a guest conductor for orchestras in London, Los Angeles and elsewhere, has died. He was 98....Tags: Nazi Party, Dmitri Shostakovich, Moscow (Russia), Johannes Brahms, Berlin (Germany)
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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and...Tags: Blues (genre), Greenwood, Slavery, Robert Johnson, Human Interest
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Patt Morrison Asks: New master Ed Ruscha
Most of the dozens of art spaces now showing off Southern California art history weren't even around when Ed Ruscha set up his easel and his style in Los Angeles in the 1950s. Ruscha's classic, defining works are keystones in Pacific Standard Time, a...Tags: Standards, Artists, History, Arts and Culture, Apple iPhone
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Art review: Tom Knechtel at Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Culture MonsterDavid Pagel reviews Tom Knechtel's paintings and drawings at Marc Selwyn Fine Art.... -
PASSINGS: Vesta Williams, Orlando Brown, Frank Driggs
Vesta Williams
Singer of R&B hits in 1980s
Vesta Williams, 53, an R&B singer who had hits in the 1980s with "Once Bitten Twice Shy" and "Congratulations," was found dead Thursday evening of a possible drug overdose in an El Segundo hotel room.
An...Tags: PBS (tv network), Chaka Khan, Entertainment, Baltimore Ravens, Documentary (genre)
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Pacific Standard Time: Sam Maloof and his communal 'House'
Sam Maloof's home was a haven for art.
The master furniture-maker filled his sprawling redwood house in Alta Loma, east of Los Angeles, with a profusion of pieces that he created in his adjoining workshop or collected with his first wife, Alfreda. Many...Tags: Standards, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, Metal and Mineral, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Material Science
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