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Album review: David Byrne & Fatboy Slim's 'Here Lies Love'
Pop & HissDavid Byrne has never lacked for ideas or curiosity, whether it's unearthing world music gems for his former label Luaka Bop, creating art with the presentation software PowerPoint or seizing around in an oversized suit with the Talking Heads. But...... -
Monster Mash: LACMA's 'American Idol'; GLAAD winners named; London museum to display its fakes
Culture Monster-- New treasures: Patrons helped to buy five works for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in this year's Collectors Committee Weekend -- what LACMA director Michael Govan has called "the 'American Idol' of the museum world." (Los Angeles...... -
Revisiting the flickering poetry of Bruce Conner
In a two-night event at separate venues, the UCLA Film & Television Archive, REDCAT and the Los Angeles Filmforum present two programs of the film work of artist Bruce Conner, who passed away in 2008 at 74. This is an increasingly rare opportunity to...Tags: Dennis Hopper, University of California, Los Angeles, Brian Eno, Dean Stockwell, Star Wars (movie)
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Review: Coldplay's 'Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends'
Coldplay "Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends" Capitol
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Have you ever picked up a self-help book from the display table in a big-box bookstore and opened it to find a phrase that exactly applied to your life? The most pedestrian...Tags: Coldplay (music group), Death, Radiohead (music group), Brian Eno, Entertainment
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Shining without help of spotlight
Special to The TimesThe big names sell tickets, but some of the finest moments of the Coachella Music and Arts festival can often be found elsewhere, surprising fans year after year on the smaller stages, scattered across the site's 78 grassy acres. On the weekend's...Tags: Louisville, Death, Theater, Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Radiohead (music group)
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Who's best suited for the White House?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAT FIRST glance, there wasn't much to the way Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain dressed for the debate Tuesday in Nashville, other than their partisan choices in necktie color -- a pale shade of blue for Obama and red stripes for McCain. Both wore two-...Tags: Armed Forces, John Wayne, Des Plaines, John McCain, Entertainment
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Airport's free wireless service comes at a price
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe latest hullabaloo at Denver International Airport, the $4-billion transit hub that became notorious for malfunctioning baggage-handling when it opened in 1995, has all the makings of a classic Internet scandal. Sex? Check. Hip, tech-savvy blogs?...Tags: Software Industry, Computer Networking and Internet, Entertainment, Family, Gaming
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'Pops' Staples; leader of the chart-topping Staple Singers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterRoebuck "Pops" Staples, who led his family vocal group, the Staple Singers, from gospel music into the forefront of socially conscious rhythm & blues and to the top of the pop music charts, died Tuesday in Chicago. He was 84. Staples suffered a...Tags: Curtis Mayfield, Bonnie Raitt, Buffalo Springfield (music group), Martin Luther King Jr., Ry Cooder
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Rethinking the rose
Times Staff WriterBeauty is a dangerous thing. Witness the rose. It was plucked from shrubdom because of the bloom. Its fragrance gave Egypt rose water, Persia attar, France candied rose petals. It sweetened the medieval apothecary cabinet and became a symbol of passion...Tags: Gardening, Crime, Law and Justice, Travel, Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden, Gardens and Parks
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The giant of miniatures
Times Staff WriterIf you've ever looked at a miniature rose and wondered, "How'd they do that?" the answer is: a lifetime's work, and not by a "they," but a he. Ralph Moore. In a career spanning 77 years, the founder of Sequoia Nursery in Visalia has single-handedly...Tags: Health, David Austin, Linda Campbell, Horse (animal), Hospitals and Clinics
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