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Grammys 2013: Mood lifts at Clive Davis gala
This post has been updated. Please see below for details. The annual pre-Grammy gala known as the Clive Davis party is an A-list showbiz summit — "the invite everybody wants,” as CBS boss Les Moonves put it — masquerading as an...
Tags: Whitney Houston, Frank Ocean, Patti Smith, Gladys Knight, OutKast (music group)
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Riding shotgun with Dennis Zine across CD3
Dennis Zine is trying to kill me. Or at least it seems that way. He’s driving across the grass at Lanark Park in his city car, enthusing about how responsive he is to his City Council constituents here in the West San Fernando Valley, explaining...
Tags: Dennis P. Zine, Led Zeppelin (music group), Bankruptcy, YMCA, Local Elections
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In Rotation: Angel Olsen's 'Half Way Home'
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticA series in Sunday Calendar about what Times writers and contributors are listening to right now... Angel Olsen “Half Way Home” (Bathetic) A few Fridays ago at the little Bootleg Theater in Silver Lake, a singer and songwriter named...Tags: Organized Crime, Jeff Buckley, Bonnie Prince Billy, Lee Hazlewood, Entertainment
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It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas
It's word association time. Say the first word that springs to mind: "holiday ----." Did you think "season"? "Sale"? "Hangover"? How about "music?" This year, there are plenty of new holiday albums to pick from. Cee Lo Green, English pop-rocker Tracey...
Tags: Holidays, Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc., Barbra Streisand, PBS (tv network), Judaism
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Art appreciation 101: 'Glittering Images' by Camille Paglia
-------------------- Glittering Images A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars Camille Paglia Pantheon: 202 pp., $30 -------------------- In the 1990s Camille Paglia established herself as a cultural critic to be reckoned with. Her daring...
Tags: Phyllis Schlafly, Arts and Culture, Fine Artists, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., Wesleyan University
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Review: Lianne La Havas stuns a sold-out Roxy
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticIn another era, when musical overload and recorded abundance hadn’t so fragmented the listening public as to diminish the notion of shared tastes, a pitch-perfect performance such as Lianne La Havas’ at the Roxy on Friday night would have...Tags: Alicia Keys, Havas, Genres, Entertainment, Music
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Album review: John Mayer's 'Born and Raised'
Pop & HissOn John Mayer's new album "Born and Raised," he travels to Montana to get away from the city, and the result is expert musicality filled with charm and honesty -- and an impressive level of self-absorption within his lyrics. Times pop music critic Randall... -
Rock 'n' Reubens in the Kibitz Room at Canter's
Los Angeles TimesRock 'n' roll is to the Kibitz Room at Canter's what onions are to chopped liver. The two have been closely aligned since the little bar opened just off the beloved Fairfax Avenue deli's annex dining room in 1961. Only now, instead of a bunch of hippies...Tags: Frank Zappa, Slash (music artist), Fiona Apple, Entertainment, Soups
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A peaceful interlude at the Mojave National Preserve
For a nation in perpetual motion, to cross the lands that make up the Mojave National Preserve has long meant only one thing: You are very nearly somewhere else.
For westward-bound travelers, whether they came through open wilderness, along the now-...Tags: Arts and Culture, Natural Resources, Dining and Drinking, Forests, Folklore and Mythology
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Review: Carole King reveals the story behind 'A Natural Woman'
Special to the Los Angeles TimesMy favorite scene in Carole King's long-awaited "A Natural Woman" comes near the beginning — appropriately, since the teen hitmaker was the epitome of an early starter. The high school student born Carol Klein had just signed a recording contract...Tags: Aretha Franklin, Alan Freed, Nicki Minaj, Music, Entertainment
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'Sweet Joe' Russell dies at 72; singer with the Persuasions
"Sweet Joe" Russell, who spent half a century harmonizing with the Persuasions, an influential vocal group widely regarded as the "kings of a cappella," has died. He was 72.
Russell died May 5 in a Brooklyn hospice after a long struggle with diabetes,...Tags: Diabetes, Frank Zappa, Concerts, Aretha Franklin, Music
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Fashion books reviewed: 'City of Style,' 'By Invitation Only'
Los Angeles TimesLooking for a stylish read? Here are some very fashionable books out this spring. "City of Style" (Harper Collins, $21.99) is an approachable field guide to L.A. style in all its incarnations, whether Laurel Canyon bohemians or Mexican American cholas,...Tags: Elsa Schiaparelli, Arts and Culture, Arts, Book, Slash (music artist)
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