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Clive Davis' next role: Broadway producer of a new 'My Fair Lady'
Clive Davis has played a key role in some of the biggest careers in pop music, including '60s rock icons Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead and Carlos Santana as well as pop and R&B hitmakers Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys. He’s long...
Tags: Grammy Awards, Whitney Houston, Music, Theater, Music Theater
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Sophie B. Hawkins still playing Janis Joplin in West Hollywood
When Sophie B. Hawkins first shook up adult-contemporary pop in the '90s with libidinally fixated songs like "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," critics instantly compared her to Janis Joplin. The idea stuck, so much so that last fall Hawkins was cast as...
Tags: Music, Entertainment
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2013 Grammy Award nominees
Indie-rock trio Fun. and R&B/hip-hop star Frank Ocean scored big in Grammy Award nominations, scoring six nods apiece mostly in the top Grammy categories. The Recording Academy announced the nominations Wednesday during a show in Nashville. The 55th...Tags: Bob Marley, Arcade Fire (music group), Newsies (musical), Dee Dee Bridgewater, Israel
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KPFK's 'Travel Tips for Aztlan' names 2012's best Latin-alt albums
One of Pop & Hiss' favorite radio shows is KPFK's "Travel Tips for Aztlan," the L.A. region's longest-running Latin-alternative music program, as well as one of its most clued-in and unpredictable. Marco Torres, the Saturday night show's founder, and...
Tags: Music, Alternative Music (genre), Trips and Vacations, Travel, Entertainment
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Online shopping goes hyperlocal on GatherLA.com
Los Angeles TimesKatie Kay Mead was sitting behind the counter in her Los Feliz boutique, GatherLA, in late summer when two European tourists came in, asking for directions to the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The tourists gazed curiously at a taxidermied fawn displayed among...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, American Apparel, Travel
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Southern California Close-Ups: Going Hollywood
First published on Dec. 25, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Pity the rubes. Those wayward tourists who dawdle in their cars and tour buses along Beachwood Drive, enraging the locals as they haltingly seek that perfect Hollywood sign photo op...
Tags: Charlie Sheen, Armenia, Heroin, Kelsey Grammer, Sony Corp.
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Southern California Close-Ups: West Hollywood, Fairfax, Wilshire, Koreatown
First published on Oct. 30, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown, and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we...
Tags: Personal Service, River Phoenix, Jeff Beck, Museums, Artists
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Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart christen 'Who Shot Rock & Roll' opening
Pop & HissThe opening of the "Who Shot Rock & Roll" photo exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography included Ann and Nancy Wilson, founders of Heart, stepping onto a stage to perform a short set of classics.... -
The Reading Life: Ellen Willis, rocking the rock music boat
![I've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's an exemplary life. She was the first pop music critic of the New Yorker, writing 56 pieces for the magazine from 1968 to 1975 that trace her relationship with "music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated ... [and] challenged me to do the same."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63579526-28135836.jpg "I've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's an exemplary life. She was the first pop music critic of the New Yorker, writing 56 pieces for the magazine from 1968 to 1975 that trace her relationship with \"music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated ... [and] challenged me to do the same.\"")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticI've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's an exemplary life. She was the first pop music critic of the New Yorker, writing 56 pieces for the magazine from...Tags: The Who (music group), Music, Entertainment, Media Industry, Bob Dylan
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Southern California Close-Ups: From West Hollywood to Wilshire
Set an out-of-towner loose to roam the Los Angeles area between West Hollywood and Koreatown and what can you expect? A food-truck overdose, perhaps. Or the bold suggestion that we extend our subway system westward. (Hey, we're working on it.) Or maybe...Tags: Personal Service, Haile Selassie, River Phoenix, Fine Arts, Minority Groups
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Album Review: Karen Dalton's '1966'
Pop & HissWhen folk singer Karen Dalton died in 1993 at age 55, she left behind two classic but unknown records made in the late 1960s and early ’70s and featuring session players who’d done time with Miles Davis, Bob Dylan and Janis Joplin, among... -
Mike Tyson wants to take Vegas show to Broadway
Culture MonsterMike Tyson wants to take his one-man Las Vegas show to New York...
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