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    Jul 22, 2012 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  1. Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards'

    <strong>The Jazz Standards</strong>
    -------------------- The Jazz Standards A Guide to the Repertoire Ted Gioia Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95 -------------------- I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...

    Tags: Louis Armstrong, Vladimir Horowitz, Entertainment, Science and Technology, Music

    2. Dec 23, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  2. Year-end Top 10 list: August Brown

    Pop & Hiss
    Throughout the week and holiday season, Pop & Hiss will be presenting various top 10 lists from its contributors. What follows are the favorite albums of the year from staffer August Brown....
    3. Nov 17, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. Friday's Highlights: 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys' on Sundance

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    Friday's Highlights: 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys' on Sundance...
    4. Sep 8, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  4. The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett

    Culture Monster
    “Grand Canyon Serenade” 8 p.m. Thursday KVCR: A visual tour of the Grand Canyon is set to classical music by Tchaikovsky, Brahms and Dvorak. “Globe Trekker” 8 p.m. Thursday and 7 p.m. Saturday KLCS; 9 p.m. Monday KCET: Amsterdam...
    5. May 9, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Ken Burns, Steve Martin and the cosmos coming to PBS' fall lineup

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    Banjos! Speakeasies! Ken Burns! Steve Martin! An epic exploration of space and time! They're all coming to PBS' fall season, the network announced Monday. And they'll probably make you smarter than watching your 10th "Two and a Half Men" rerun.......
    6. Nov 4, 2009 | Los Angeles Times

  6. Rihanna's 'Russian Roulette' is loaded -- but what does it say?

    Pop & Hiss
    For much of her career, Rihanna was seen as being not entirely herself. From her high-profile signing during Jay-Z’s Def Jam tenure to her steely, minimalist presence on blustery tracks by the-Dream and Tricky and Ne-Yo, Rihanna’s most successful...
    7. Jun 6, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  7. Live: Maxwell and Jill Scott at Staples Center

    Pop & Hiss
    What do "real music" and meaningful sex have in common? Everything, it seemed, for the committed couples and best-girlfriend clusters who filled Staples Center on Saturday night to enjoy the R&B grooves of Maxwell and Jill Scott. The two singers......
    8. Oct 31, 2007 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Obama's gospel mistake

    Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...

    Tags: Billy Strayhorn, Martin Luther King Jr., Gays and Lesbians, Zora Neale Hurston, Baptist

    9. May 4, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. High-minded lowdown

    Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
    In the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...

    Tags: Jerry Lewis, Devil (movie), James Fenimore Cooper, Entertainment, Biography (genre)

    10. Nov 13, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. Mae Mercer dies at 76; blues singer also had a Hollywood career

    Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing at a blues bar in Paris and touring Europe before launching an acting career back home in films and television, has died. She was 76. Mercer was found dead Oct. 29 at her...

    Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Bars and Clubs, Entertainment, Don Siegel, Willie Dixon

    11. Nov 24, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. PASSINGS

    Ibrahim Nasir Maldives' 1st president Ibrahim Nasir, 82, who led the Maldives' independence movement from the British and became the archipelago's first president, died Saturday at a Singapore hospital, Ahmed Shaeed, the foreign minister of the Maldives,...

    Tags: England, Hospitals and Clinics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Singapore, Greenwich Village

    12. Jun 15, 2003 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. A Southern classic

    They've just unleashed the dawgs on the streets of this college town &#8212; 36 fanciful fiberglass bulldogs that will be permanent works of public art in and around the historic downtown and on the campus of the University of Georgia, home of the Georgia Bulldogs.
    Times Staff Writer
    They've just unleashed the dawgs on the streets of this college town — 36 fanciful fiberglass bulldogs that will be permanent works of public art in and around the historic downtown and on the campus of the University of Georgia, home of the Georgia...

    Tags: Bars and Clubs, Louis Armstrong, Furniture, Margaret Mitchell, Hotel and Accommodation Industry

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