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Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat
Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...
Tags: Psycho (movie), Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, Vertigo (movie), Philosophy
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Record Store Day's most curious releases: A list of vinyl to chase
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticThe annual music geek holiday known as Record Store Day arrives Saturday, and with it precious rewards for the fans and collectors looking to hold in their hands music that could be easily heard for free on the Internet. That, of course, is missing the...Tags: Comedy Central (tv network), Devo (music group), Music, The White Stripes (music group), Brian Eno
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Did you see jazz on the Grammys broadcast Sunday night?
Jazz fans, you can't say Sunday night's Grammy Awards weren't an improvement. In addition to honoring bright young talent including pianist Robert Glasper in the R&B category and bassist Esperanza Spalding, who followed her best new artist...
Tags: Music, Entertainment Events, Awards and Prizes, Grammy Awards, Entertainment
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Letters: Gay marriage and the Bible
Re "The Christian case for gay marriage," Opinion, Dec. 2 C.S. Pearce asserts that same-sex marriage is not addressed in Mark, Chapter 10, where Jesus said, "At the beginning of creation God made them male and female. For this reason a man will...Tags: Marriage, Genesis (music group), Social Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Minority Groups
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Parking meters: In the Dec. 6 LATExtra section, an article about a Los Angeles City Council vote upholding a policy making it illegal to park in spaces with broken meters said that tickets issued at non-working meters generate about $5 million a year in...Tags: Angus T. Jones, Two and a Half Men (tv program), Celebrities, Debra Paget, Dolores Hart
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Letters: A streetcar named Success?
Re "L.A.'s retro line," Dec. 5 The rebuilding of a streetcar line in downtown Los Angeles is the type of old-school solution that will help remake the area into a modern city. While some of the streetcar critics' arguments have merit, there is no...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage
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Letters: Uber's big issues
Re "Let the taxi app roll," Opinion, Dec. 4 Jonah Goldberg perpetuates the myth pushed by Uber, a car service customers can hail using their smartphones, that our laws may be selectively enforced. It is Uber, not the apps that compete against it, that...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage
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Letters: Port numbers don't add up
Re "Strike numbers are out to sea," Column, Dec. 5 Finally, we read a common-sense counterpoint to the inflated figures bandied about by pro-business forces in an attempt to bulldoze the Obama administration to act against the International Longshore...Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Heavy Engineering, Manufacturing and Engineering
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Grammys 2013: Jazz category plays it straight as Glasper goes to R&B
Pianist Robert Glasper was perhaps the biggest story in jazz for 2012 with his genre-blending crossover effort "Black Radio," and Grammy voters seemed to endorse his bid to reach a broader audience. Glasper received two nominations for best performance...
Tags: Music, Radio, Pat Metheny, Ahmad Jamal, Unity (music group)
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From the archives: Dave Brubeck at 90: 'I'm very fortunate'
Two years before Dave Brubeck died, the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the great jazzman on the occasion of his 90th birthday. With Brubeck's death at 92, we share our visit to his home in this profile from Dec. 5, 2010. WILTON, Conn --...
Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, George Lucas, Music Industry, Documentary (genre), Music
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Dave Brubeck dies at 91; jazz legend
In the strait-laced Eisenhower 1950s, Dave Brubeck seemed, on one hand, deeply conventional. He didn't drink, smoke or take drugs. He favored expressions like "baloney!" and "you bet" over ruder alternatives. He had a prodigious work ethic that had been...
Tags: Charles Mingus, Jazz (genre), Music Industry, Music, Colleges and Universities
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Jazz great Dave Brubeck dies at 91
The jazz artist Dave Brubeck died Wednesday at 91, according to his manager, Russell Gloyd. He died of cardiac arrest one day short of his 92nd birthday in Norwalk, Conn. The pianist and arranger, born in Concord, Calif., was one of jazz's first pop...
Tags: Music Industry, Jazz (genre), Music, Duke Ellington, Popular Music (genre)
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