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Miles Davis stamp to be dedicated in NYC and at Hollywood Bowl
Combining the twin obsessions of music and philately, stamps commemorating Miles Davis and Edith Piaf will be dedicated at the the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City on June 12. The ceremony will include members of the Davis family, including his...
Tags: Concerts, Music, Entertainment, Miles Davis, Arts and Culture
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Go, stop, order, chaos: the rhythm of Los Angeles
What is the rhythm of Los Angeles? Before hearing poet Wanda Coleman speak at the Los Angeles Central Library recently, it had never occurred to me to think that L.A. has a rhythm. Coleman is an L.A. native whose poems have taken her around the world as...
Tags: The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Poetry, Music, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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The Actors: 'Madagascar 3' goes on a European road trip
It hasn't always been smooth sailing for Alex the lion and Marty the zebra, the pals at the center of the "Madagascar" animated films, but for two Central Park Zoo animals, they've certainly had their share of adventures. After washing ashore on the...
Tags: Movies, Madagascar, Central Park, Entertainment, Frances McDormand
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It's all about the women in 'Follies'
Though the 1971 Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical "Follies" puts male-female relationships under a microscope with its probing exploration of unhappy showbiz marriages and broken dreams, most would agree that this show belongs to the women. "If...
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Oscars by the Numbers
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Pacific Symphony season to star Lang Lang and honor Ellington
Culture MonsterPianists Lang Lang and Andre Watts and cellist Alisa Weilerstein are key soloists for the Pacific Symphony's 2012-13 season. The annual American Composers Festival will focus on the music of Duke Ellington.... -
Cesaria Evora dies at 70; Grammy-winning singer known as the 'Barefoot Diva'
Cesaria Evora, who started singing as a teenager in bayside bars on the West African island nation of Cape Verde in the 1950s and won a Grammy Award in 2004 after she finally took her music to stages around the world, died Saturday. She was 70.
Evora,...Tags: Dining and Drinking, Concerts, Traditional Music (genre), Heart Surgery, Portugal
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Red carpet fashion statements
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticWith a lifetime of red carpet misses ranging from uncomfortably busty Guinevere gowns to something reminiscent of Grandma's doily tablecloth, Disney princess Miley Cyrus hasn't exactly been fashion It Girl material. Until now. The sleek and chic...Tags: Barbara Tfank, Norma Shearer, Easy A (movie), The Huffington Post, Awards and Prizes
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Influences: Patti LuPone
Culture MonsterLuPone will perform a concert Tuesday at UCLA's Royce Hall as a benefit for Reprise Theatre Company. "Gypsy in My Soul" will feature the actress singing an eclectic array of songs with a 10-piece band. She talks of the people who influenced her.... -
Jerry Leiber dies at 78; lyricist in songwriting duo Leiber and Stoller
Jerry Leiber, who with his songwriting partner, Mike Stoller, created a songbook that infused the rock 'n' roll scene of the 1950s and early '60s with energy and mischievous humor, has died. He was 78.
Leiber, the words half of the duo, died Monday at...Tags: Achievement Records, Blues (genre), Kansas (music group), Arts, Phil Spector
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Roquefort, France: Where the blue blood of blue cheeses lives
Special to the Los Angeles TimesA cool water droplet hit my forehead as I descended narrow stairs into the caves. An overwhelming smell — ammonia meets dirty feet — assaulted my nostrils. Chilly, stinky, damp. It was heaven. I had entered the caves of Roquefort (rohk-FOR), a...Tags: Caves and Caverns, Paris (France), Blue Cheese, Vehicles, France
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Book review: '13 rue Thérèse' by Elena Mauli Shapiro
Special to the Los Angeles TimesWhen Elena Mauli was a little girl growing up in Paris in the 1980s, an old woman named Louise Brunet lived alone in an apartment above her family. When she died, no one came to collect her things. The landlord allowed the other tenants to take...Tags: Education, World War I (1914-1918), Maurice Chevalier, France, French Literature
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