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Music and identity crisis on the Sunset Strip

This post has been corrected, please see below for details. In March, the Sunset Strip music venue the Key Club announced that it was closing for good. Few local music fans were especially surprised. The venue had operated in various guises since...

Tags: Havas, Steve Aoki, Concerts, Entertainment, Lifestyle and Leisure

2013 L.A. Pride Celebration to hit stages, streets this weekend

As sweet summer approaches with sunny days and soaring temperatures, so does the 2013 L.A. Pride Celebration in West Hollywood Park at San Vicente Boulevard and Melrose Avenue. The annual party, by and for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender...

Tags: Gays and Lesbians, Entertainment, Music, Disc Jockeys, Social Issues

Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Keith Urban team up at CMA Festival

It was a meeting made in country music fan heaven as Taylor Swift teamed with not one but two of country's biggest male heartthrobs — Tim McGraw and Keith Urban — at the 2013 CMA Music Festival this week in Nashville. The occasion was a...

Tags: CMT Music Awards, Entertainment, Taylor Swift, Music, Arts and Culture

New Mexico: Flamenco fest pays homage to the song, dance of Spain

Flamenco dancers and aficionados will gather in New Mexico for the 26th Annual Festival Flamenco Internacional de Alburquerque, which begins Monday and continues until June 16. The festival, one of the longest-running events in Albuquerque, is...

Tags: Spain, Entertainment, Music, Fine Artists, Artists

Review: 'Rite' stuff for Bad Plus at the Ojai Music Festival

OJAI — It can't, of course, be helped, but after a hundred years, "The Rite of Spring" has inevitably lost its sting. "Le Sacre du Printemps" supposedly caused a riot at its Paris premiere May 22, 1913, although the police files are lost and...

Tags: Concerts, Entertainment, Common, Music, Radio Industry

L.A. students tackle social problems for Aspen Ideas Festival

A plastic drink dispenser filled with a brilliant green liquid sat on the classroom counter, but no one dared take a sip. The murky water contained goldfish, and a small hose carried its waste into a container full of leafy greens. "It's a self-...

Tags: Science and Technology, Sandra Day O'Connor, Plant Openings, Teaching and Learning, Students

Through the good and the bad, Alice in Chains unbroken

This post has been updated. Please see below for details. Even at the worst of times, one facet of the Alice in Chains saga was never in doubt: the longtime friendship of founding members Jerry Cantrell and Sean Kinney. The guitarist and drummer met...

Tags: Verizon Wireless, Human Interest, Entertainment, Music, Apple iTunes

Dances With Films: Indie film fest celebrates sweet 16

The indie film festival Dances With Films is celebrating its sweet 16th anniversary this year. The festival, which annually attracts some 8,000 attendees, will feature nearly 100 films from around the world including 60 world premieres, as well as...

Tags: Miss USA, Entertainment, Bradley Whitford, Movies, Los Angeles Film Festival

Michelle Branch, Matt Sorum at May 30 Stones Fest in Hollywood

This post has been updated. See note below for details. After two sold-out performances last week in New York, the L.A. edition of Stones Fest, a musical salute to the Rolling Stones that benefits the Sweet Relief  Musicians Fund, will bring Michelle...

Tags: Carrie Underwood, Entertainment, Jason Sudeikis, Music, Dakota Johnson

‘Independence Day’: Emmerich gets into character for more alien action

‘Devil’s Backbone’: Guillermo del Toro reflects on his ‘dearest film’

David W. Ross hopes 'I Do' stirs action on gay marriage

Talk about tapping into the zeitgeist. With most polls now showing a majority in favor of marriage equality, 12 states legally recognizing gay marriage and the U.S. Supreme Court poised to rule on the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, or...

Tags: Entertainment, Family, Defense of Marriage Act, U.S. Supreme Court, Same-Sex Marriage