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When you say jazz, Nicholas Payton hears BAM
In a cramped UCLA classroom, trumpeter Nicholas Payton is leading a young septet of college students through his piece "The Backwards Step." He's here as part of a weeklong teaching residency, and the song he plays to the group at the Thelonious Monk...
Tags: Artists, Genres, Social Issues, Michael Jackson, Social Media
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Coachella 2013: Red Hot Chili Peppers lack a certain spice
INDIO -- "I feel like I'm in 'Lawrence of Arabia,' " Anthony Kiedis said Sunday night, not long after Red Hot Chili Peppers had taken the main stage at Coachella for the final headlining performance of the three-day festival. Kiedis was referring to the...
Tags: Chili, Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Staples Center, Entertainment Events
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A gathering of body and soul at Cheyann Benedict's new boutique
T-shirts were once novelty items: Disneyland giveaways for deeply uncool vacationers, concert keepsakes for the young and disheveled, kitschy thrift-store finds for young women with hair in Princess Leia buns. But in the last decade the garments have...
Tags: Rihanna, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Christina Hendricks, Fashion Trends, Rick Owens
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Jerry Buss dies: Pau Gasol, Dennis Rodman, musician Flea react
Tweets of admiration continue to roll in for Lakers owner Jerry Buss, who died Monday at the age of 80. A sampling: Lakers forward Pau Gasol: "Today is a very sad day for all the Lakers and basketball. All my support and condolences to the Buss family....
Tags: Jerry Buss, Pau Gasol, Dennis Rodman
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NCAA sure knows how to ruin a party
They opened the shiny, new Pauley Pavilion Friday night amid pomp and less-than-desired circumstance. The first game in the $136-million redo of outdated Pauley was preceded by loud music, speeches, floodlights, laser beams and fancy graphics on a big...
Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, Indiana State Sycamores, National Basketball Association, National Collegiate Athletic Association, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group)
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Review: Patti Smith rocks the Wiltern with Flea and Depp
This post has been corrected. See below for details. Among the pleas and invectives, yowls and barks coming from Patti Smith on stage at the Wiltern on Friday, the bellowed cries of “free money!” “Gloria!” and “Pussy Riot!&...
Tags: Keith Richards, Marlon Brando, Rufus Wainwright, Rock and Roll (genre), Music
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Southern California Close-Ups: Los Angeles' park neighborhoods
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterFirst published on March 20, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. It's not easy being the lungs of Los Angeles. But Griffith Park, the foremost green space in a city notorious for meager parkland and abundant smog, endures bravely, maybe even...Tags: Charles Manson, Jamie McCourt, Dodger Stadium, Music, Architecture
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Adam Yauch dies at 47; Beastie Boys' rapper MCA
It had only been a few years since Adam Yauch had found fame as the in-your-face rapper and bass player MCA in the transgressive, boundary-breaking trio the Beastie Boys.
But in 1992 he was searching for something else, traveling in Nepal to snowboard...Tags: Dave Matthews, Radiohead (music group), Rap (genre), Cancer, Music
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Album review: Damon Albarn's 'Dr Dee'
Pop & HissDamon Albarn seems about as busy as a pop star can be. In March the frontman of both Blur and Gorillaz released “Rocket Juice & the Moon,” a trippy Afro-funk disc he made with drummer Tony Allen and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers; next... -
In Rotation: Rocket Juice & the Moon's eponymous debut
Pop & HissIn Rotation: Times pop music critic Randall Roberts recommends "Rocket Juice & the Moon," the new project by Damon Albarn, Tony Allen and Flea.... -
A Tony Bennett revival? They're singing his song
By his own admission, Tony Bennett doesn't get nervous often. But he was anxious that day, more than 50 years ago, when he was filling in for Perry Como as host on the crooner's variety television show.
"Como had a big orchestra and great stars," Bennett...Tags: k.d. lang, Bill Clinton, Fine Arts, Blue Bloods (tv program), The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group)
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Katy Perry, Russell Brand buy compound in Sunset Strip area
Singer Katy Perry and comic actor Russell Brand have bought a Sunset Strip-area compound from former National Lampoon Chief Executive Daniel Laikin for $6.5 million, the Multiple Listing Service shows. Perry and Brand are in the process of selling their...Tags: Ultimate Fighting Championship, Personal Service, Chicago Hotels, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Ingo Rademacher
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