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Greek Theatre, Gibson Amphitheatre announce upcoming lineups
Pop & HissThe Gibson will have several Latin music acts, including Gilberto Santa Rosa, Pepe Aguilar and Vicente Fernández. Sugarland, the Go-Go's and Norah Jones will play the Greek. System of a Down's Serj Tankian, Spanish tenor Jose Carreras, L.A. rockers 30...... -
For top Latin(o) musical talent, will Tennessee trump Coachella?
Pop & HissOn paper, it's one of the year's most impressive festival lineups of alternative Latin American and Latino bands: Los Amigos Invisibles from Venezuela; Mexican electronica wizards Bostich and Fussible of Nortec Collective, and the one-man digital... -
Chanticleer tours California's mission era music
Special to The TimesMOST California schoolchildren learn the basic facts about the state's mission history in the fourth grade. Established from 1769 to 1823 by Franciscan monks from Spain to spread the Roman Catholic faith among the area's Native American population, the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Folk (genre), Cults and Sects, Mexico, Pentecost
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Calle 13
Times Staff WriterThe second album by this hot Puerto Rican duo should be rated X for extremist. As in extreme sexuality, social rage, vulgarity and violent imagery. Nothing so raw and outrageous has ever been heard — or allowed — in mainstream Latin music....Tags: Argentina, Satire (genre), FBI, Sony Corp., Sex
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Turn It Up
TÊTE-À-TÊTE: JIMMY SMITS
If it seems Jimmy Smits has been in our living rooms for the best part of 20 years, its because he has. With iconic roles on L.A. Law, NYPD Blue, The West Wing, Cane and a recent stint on Showtimes Dexter, this actor has...Tags: Aretha Franklin, Tori Amos, University of Southern California, New York City Police Department, Bars and Clubs
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Cuban bassist Cachao dies; mambo pioneer
Cuban bassist and composer Israel "Cachao" Lopez, who is credited with pioneering the mambo style of music, died Saturday. He was 89. Known simply as Cachao, the Grammy-winning musician had fallen ill in the past week and died surrounded by family...Tags: Carnegie Hall, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Family, Bars and Clubs, Coral Gables
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In sleepy Hatch, a red-hot time
Times Staff WriterThe rush begins at midday, heralded by an unseen rooster crowing the noon hour. Of the dozen or so tables in El Mexicano Café, only four have customers. Two mainly are filled by men in jeans, plain cotton shirts and sweat-ringed hats. A couple of young...Tags: Restaurants, Crimes, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles International Airport, Bars and Clubs
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Lila Downs celebrates a new outlook
Times Staff WriterLila Downs is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in world music circles. What she...Tags: Arts and Culture, Culture, Academy Awards, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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Shakira, other Latin American stars sing for their cause -- ALAS
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMEXICO CITY -- Not so long ago, Latin American artists who spoke up for social causes often risked prison, exile or far worse. What a difference a generation makes. On Thursday, a phalanx of Spanish-speaking pop artists headed by Colombian superstar...Tags: U2 (music group), Television Networks, Mexico, Shakira, Aleks Syntek
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Pilar Díaz no longer Abandoned, and that's OK
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT'S BEEN a year since Los Abandoned suddenly broke up and L.A. lost one of its most creative bicultural bands. At the time, lead singer and songwriter couldn't get herself to talk about why she had abandoned the acclaimed quartet, whose logo was a broken...Tags: Los Lobos (music group), Grateful Dead (music group), Neil Young, Minority Groups, Fashion Shows
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Experience Miami on a budget
The Associated PressIt might be notorious for its late-night party scene, swanky beach hotels with steeply priced drinks and the beachgoers who wear barely-there $300 swimsuits, but vacationing Miami-style doesn't have to cost a fortune. From $3 beers to staying at a hostel...Tags: Gianni Versace, Arts and Culture, National Parks, Air Transportation Industry, Bars and Clubs
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The magic of Cartagena
Chicago Tribune Staff WriterIf it isn't the bright bougainvillea tumbling from the colonial balconies or the quiet shimmer of the Caribbean Sea, then maybe it's the impromptu dance parties in the town plazas, or the joyful din of guitars, bongos and maracas that drifts through the...Tags: Landforms, Guerrilla Activity, Civil Unrest, Family, Apartments
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