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Convicted killer Rodney Alcala plays 'Alice's Restaurant' before asking jury to spare his life
L.A. NOWConvicted serial killer Rodney James Alcala asked jurors to spare him the death penalty Tuesday, concluding his defense by playing a portion of âAliceâs Restaurant,â the rambling 18-minute Vietnam War protest song by folk singer Arlo Guthrie. By... -
Orange County jury orders death for Alcala for third time [updated]
L.A. NOWAn Orange County jury needed just a few hours Tuesday to hand down the death penalty for Rodney James Alcala, convicted Feb. 25 of murdering four Los Angeles County women and a 12-year-old girl from Huntington Beach in the late...... -
The ballad of a classic guitar shop
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMost Southland music fans know McCabe's Guitar Shop for the innumerable folk, country, blues, jazz and world-music concerts presented over the decades in the tiny back stockroom that can hold about 150 folding chairs when all the instrument cases are...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Public Employees, Music Theater, Government, Los Lobos (music group)
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Reopening marks new chapter in Malibu Pier's history book
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAfter years of false starts and construction delays, the fabled Malibu Pier -- or at least part of it -- will reopen today. Built in 1905, the structure has been the scene of TV and movie filming ("The Rockford Files," "Gidget," "Beach Blanket Bingo")...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Family, Dining and Drinking, Local Elections, Cesar Romero
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'Screenwriter's Blues' Soul Coughing | 1994
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Screenwriter's Blues" MIKE Doughty was studying at Eugene Lang College, a tiny liberal arts school in New York City, and living in the "supremely seedy, pre-Giuliani Union Square" when he dreamed up a poem about the decadent vortex of L.A. It was...Tags: The Who (music group), Ani Difranco, Teen-agers, Coughing, Poetry
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'Coming Into Los Angeles' Arlo Guthrie | 1968
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIT was the most inspiring voyage of Arlo Guthrie's itinerant music career, but a lot of the details are a bit of a blur now, like so much of the late 1960s. "I was flying from London to L.A. I don't know what airline it was. It was around 1968 -- well,...Tags: Documentary (genre), Woody Guthrie, Woodstock Festival (1969)
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A decade later, 'Best Little Town' still fits Bayfield, Wisconsin
Chicago Tribune staff reporterThere are still no traffic lights. In fact, there are still no traffic lights in the entire county. There's still no McDonald's, no Wal-Mart. The lake still sparkles, the beaches still squeak, the restaurants still serve those menacing whitefish livers....Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Whitefish, Robert Preston, Regional Authority, Trout
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A gallery of superstars
He didn't have to cobble together a show when he decided to turn his shoe repair shop into an art gallery.
All Greg Papazian had to do was reach into the shoe box that for 35 years held a one-of-a-kind photographic record of Los Angeles in its glittery...Tags: Photography, Bars and Clubs, Elton John, Rock and Roll (genre), Jeff Beck
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Thoughts from Dr. Joe: Taking a page from Tolkien
It was the beginning of summer. It had to be a few years before I married, because once I met Kaitzer in 1988, I wouldn’t try something foolish that just might get me killed. At the time I was throwing down shooters with my buddy Gerry George in...Tags: Literature, Arts and Culture, Entertainment, Movies
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Philadelphia Folk Festival stacks talent for its first year -- after its first 50
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGFor its 50th anniversary last year, the Philadelphia Folk Festival had some of the biggest performers names in the genreperform — Arlo Guthrie, David Bromberg, Tom Paxton, Tom Rush and Doc Watson and Levon Helm, who both passed away this...... -
Mixtape Friday List, November 9th, 2012
1. Dave 1.) The Honeycombs- Have I the Right? 2.) Sir Douglas Quintet- She’s About a Mover 3.) The Raspberries- Go All the Way 4.) Tom Jones- Delilah 5.) Chicago- Alive Again 2. Phil Larson 1.) Al Green- I’m Still in Love with You...Tags: Dido, Elton John, Al Green, Frank Sinatra, Ides of March
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Back to the '70s: Arts center seasons to include Emmylou Harris, Todd Rundgren, Jackson Browne and Dr. John
Summer is when the area's performing arts centers announce their fall schedules. The Peninsula's two main centers -- The Ferguson Center for the Arts and The American Theatre in Hampton -- have plenty of interesting shows heading our way. As my colleague...
Tags: Arts, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull (music group), Branford Marsalis, Hampton Jazz Festival
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