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Christmas music is in season
The bounty of new holiday albums is impressive -- little else is selling, the thinking seems to be, so let's see if Santa and Rudolph can salvage the end of the year. This year's batch is suitably diverse, many hurriedly assembled as a seasonal bonus...Tags: Gene Autry, Pete Townshend, Children, Christmas Music (genre), Natural Resources
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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: Salsa (genre), Jennifer Lopez, Perry Como, Western Africa, Alberto Giacometti
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At Whisky A Go-Go, applause for co-founder Elmer Valentine
They came to West Hollywood on Monday night not to bury one of the celebrated figures in L.A. music's storied past, but to praise him.
A few hundred family members, friends, former employees and just plain fans of Whisky A Go-Go co-founder Elmer...Tags: Clark Gable, Bars and Clubs, Rock and Roll (genre), Disc Jockeys, Van Halen (music group)
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A curious night at Largo
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"Largo" the movie is a lot like Largo the club. The lighting is low, its attention is 100% on the performers and it doesn't make things easy for its customers. "I don't really know what the audience would be," says the film's producer and co-director,...Tags: Louis Armstrong, Festive Events, Aimee Mann, Elliott Smith, Movies
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Ronnie Hawkins: Rock legend on both sides of border
Special to The TimesIf you are a fan of Bob Dylan and the Band, you might have heard the name Ronnie Hawkins quite a bit over the years, though you probably haven't heard much of his actual music -- the Canadian-based rocker has had little sales chart presence in this...Tags: Elvis Presley, Conway Twitty, Rock and Roll (genre), Music Industry, Muddy Waters
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Eclectic mix keeps Stagecoach turnstiles twirling
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStrolling the grounds of the Empire Polo Field on Sunday afternoon in the final hours of the three-day Stagecoach country music festival, Paul Tollett the man behind the event and its older sibling, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, stopped at...Tags: Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Country and Western (genre), Lifestyle and Leisure, Prince (music artist)
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Bo Diddley, 79; singer-songwriter's beat marked rock 'n' roll
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterPrimal rock and blues musician Bo Diddley, who helped cast the sonic template of rock more than 50 years ago with a signature syncopated rhythm that became universally recognized as "the Bo Diddley beat," died Monday. He was 79. Diddley died of heart...Tags: Eric Burdon, Heart Failure, Folklore and Mythology, ZZ Top (music group), Bo Diddley
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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: Fleetwood Mac (music group), Jeff Beck, Bee Gees (music group), Mott the Hoople (music group), Edgar Winter
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'Cadillac Records'
Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching "Cadillac Records"; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006's "Dreamgirls," in a montage sequence set to "Steppin' to the Bad Side."
There's the plucky upstart...Tags: Film Festivals, Movies, Music Industry, Bo Diddley, Entertainment
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Mural memorializes Ventura's Tortilla Flats
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIt took just one month for a new freeway mural in Ventura to be hit by graffiti. The tagger was considerate, however, taking pains not to mar the piece, which commemorates a neighborhood destroyed in the 1950s to make way for the 101 Freeway. Instead of...Tags: Wolfgang Puck, Drugs and Medicines, Family, History, Transportation
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A Palisades balladeer
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterIN one, a poor woman from the west coast of Ireland flies, to the strains of a lonely Celtic melody, to Graceland to pay homage to Elvis Presley. In another, a British soldier wounded in World War II wanders London, recalling the days when he danced to...Tags: England, Folklore and Mythology, Recording Studios, Thomas Hardy, Cults and Sects
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Beneath mayor's fanfare lies a sound framework
The Mayor Who Wants to Save the Children pranced onto the stage with Chuck Berry blasting: "Up in the mornin' and out to school / the teacher is teachin' the Golden Rule." Fireworks exploded. Fog machines pumped ersatz clouds. Well, not really. But...Tags: Academic Progress, Schools, Political Candidates, Elections, Regional Authority
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