Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Apollo Theater published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 181
» View latimes.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-16
•
Next >
-
Ella Fitzgerald, with unerring sense of swing, conquered jazz
Today’s Google Doodle celebrates the first lady of song, Ella Fitzgerald, on what would have been her 96th birthday. The stylized doodle puts her in the spotlight on stage leading a quartet. Fitzgerald became the preeminent female jazz singer of...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Chick Webb
-
Matthew Bourne, Ethan Stiefel part of Music Center's 2013-14 season
The new 2013-14 season of Dance at the Music Center will feature works by choreographers Matthew Bourne, Ethan Stiefel and Alexei Ratmansky. The season, which the Music Center announced this week, will also include return appearances by Ballet Preljocaj...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Arts and Culture, New Zealand, Ethan Stiefel, Music
-
Campaign music: Politicians are playing their song
Pop & HissBarack Obama channel's Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together.' Mitt Romney leans on K'naan's 'Wavin' Flag.' If there's a politician, there's a song ready to blare. Like less charismatic hip-hop artists, politicians routinely repurpose other people's songs.... -
House Democrats sing to Obama: 'Let's Stay Together'
"Let's Stay Together" is turning into something of a new anthem for the Democratic Party.
Last week, President Obama sang a bit of the Al Green tune during a fundraiser at the landmark Apollo Theater in Harlem, a moment that became an instant sensation....Tags: Cambridge (Dorchester, Maryland), Al Green, John Larson, Parties and Movements, Democratic Party
-
Obama covers Al Green -- for one line of 'Let's Stay Together'
Pop & HissPresident Obama let loose a line from Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" during a fundraiser at the Apollo Theater in New York City. Obama sang while the legend himself, the Rev. Al Green, was in the crowd.... -
Obama sings for his donors
Opinion L.A.Fundraising on Thursday in New York, President Obama decided his audience of 1,400 at the Apollo Theater in Harlem needed to hear just a little bit more than the usual campaign rhetoric. So he broke into the first line of...... -
Grammy 2012: Bruno Mars lights it up at rehearsals
Pop & HissIt was like the Apollo Theatre of Figueroa Street on Friday when the rehearsal stage for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards was given over to a wall of flickering ligh tbulbs and a giant marquee that read: "Live on Stage Bruno Mars."... -
Musical moments with U.S. presidents
Pop & HissPresident Obama sang the blues on Tuesday with B.B. King, Mick Jagger and Buddy Guy for a White House blues concert. The President is one of many chief executives who have shown their musical talents in office.... -
Filmmakers behind George Plimpton documentary seek final funds in Kickstarter campaign
Jacket CopyA documentary about writer/editor George Plimpton, founder of the Paris Review and first-generation immersive journalist, is raising funds on Kickstarter.... -
Clarice Taylor dies at 93; actress played Grandmother Huxtable on 'Cosby Show'
Clarice Taylor, an actress best known for portraying the self-possessed Grandmother Huxtable on the hit television sitcom "The Cosby Show," died Monday. She was 93.
Taylor died of congestive heart failure at her home in Englewood., N.J., said Ulysses...Tags: Television, Music Theater, Danica Patrick, Bill Cosby, Comedy (genre)
-
Michael Jackson's life was infused with fantasy and tragedy
Michael Jackson was fascinated by celebrity tragedy. He had a statue of Marilyn Monroe in his home and studied the sad Hollywood exile of Charlie Chaplin. He married the daughter of Elvis Presley.
--------------------
FOR THE RECORD:
Michael Jackson...Tags: Stevie Wonder, Awards and Prizes, Television, Vitiligo, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939)
-
The Ponderosa Stomp: A treasure trove of sound, and stories [Updated]
Pop & Hiss"It's a small town story, and probably a typical American story," said Ian Dunlop, telling the writer Holly George-Warren how he came to play bass in the International Submarine Band with the late Gram Parsons in the mid-1960s. Dunlop was......
Apr 25, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 11, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 14, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Jan 27, 2012
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jan 20, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Jan 20, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Feb 10, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Feb 22, 2012
| Los Angeles Times
Jul 27, 2011
| Los Angeles Times
Jun 2, 2011
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Jun 26, 2009
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Sep 27, 2010
| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Apollo Theater topic gallery.
