Entertainment & Arts
For composer David Felder, music concerts strike the wrong chord.
May 8, 1987
Autos
Chrysler’s first modern two-seater, Crossfire, is a Mercedes wearing designed-in-Michigan sheet metal. The combo will make beautiful music on the road.
May 28, 2003
Music
The first documentary on Nirvana singer, songwriter and lead guitarist Kurt Cobain to be made with the cooperation of his family is slated to premiere in 2015 on HBO.
Nov. 26, 2014
The record industry has found a new spokesman in its war against censorship: San Diego’s own Mojo Nixon.
Feb. 28, 1990
Television
The noise from the TV set is CNN’s “Crossfire,” the live, brawling public-affairs series where guests are confronted by co-hosts advertised as representing opposite ends of the political spectrum.
Aug. 30, 1989
Travel & Experiences
The Turtles, popular since the ‘60s, are among the rock, swing and country groups performing during the four-day Conejo Valley festival.
April 24, 1997
Salvation is coming . . . again . . . for the 73-year-old storied and stumbling Pilgrimage Theater. * No stage in Los Angeles has gone through the agonies of that unheralded open-air place (renamed the John Anson Ford but now the Ford Amphitheatre), stepchild of the Hollywood Bowl, poor relative on the east side of Cahuenga, abused and unused, shot down in the ‘60s in church-state cross-fire over its religious drama “The Pilgrimage Play,” then a latter-day shelter for homeless jazz groups, actors and musicians.
May 31, 1993
Inspired by Ann Hamilton’s eight-story tower, Meredith Monk teams with Hamilton to create a piece that spans genres.
Oct. 29, 2008
Meredith Monk and Ann Hamilton raise voices and thoughts in ‘Songs of Ascension.’
Archives
Hungry for an issue that will unite us rather than divide us, Americans have settled on a loathing of television shows that divide us rather than unite us.
Jan. 23, 2005