Music
Out on the basketball court, Marcus Garvey grabs a rebound and gets the ball to point guard Nat Turner, who’s teamed with Huey Newton in the back court.
Sept. 18, 1994
Adaptability has been the forte of Michael Franti, the San Francisco-based politicized singer-songwriter-rapper who has won acclaim through a series of chameleonic-style shifts.
Sept. 30, 1995
***; SPEARHEAD, “Home” ( Capitol ) On his past efforts, with the groups the Beatnigs and the critically lauded Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, the street poetry of Spearhead’s Michael Franti was couched in punk, thrash and industrial grooves that were punctuated with elements of hip-hop.
Digable Planets and Spearhead’s leader, Michael Franti, come from opposite coasts and opposite stylistic ends of the hip-hop spectrum.
Feb. 23, 1995
Michael Franti & Spearhead “All Rebel Rockers” (Anti) * * 1/2 San Francisco-based Michael Franti has covered a huge amount of stylistic ground over the last two decades, playing punk with the Beatnigs and rap with the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy.
Sept. 9, 2008
Movies
Robert Osborne, on-air personality for Turner Classic Movies and a columnist for the Hollywood Reporter, hosts “A Centennial Tribute to Gary Cooper,” a gala featuring film clips from the actor’s career and personal appearances by his friends and peers, including actors Frances Dee, Joan Leslie, Karl Malden and Robert Stack, film critic Richard Schickel and Cooper’s daughter, Maria Cooper Janis.
May 3, 2001
“Rendez-vous in L.A.,” an international food fest and concert that attracted about 1,000 people Sunday to Santa Monica Airport’s Barker Hanger, was a bold and successful attempt to redefine world music along broader lines by featuring artists with styles built on American street beats (Spearhead and Solsonics) alongside African artists Manu Dibango and Cesaria Evora.
Nov. 8, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
Reality TV star Jessica Simpson has gone country. What’s all the fuss about?
Both acts were on the road, but the idea of home , literal and metaphorical, pervaded the performances of hip-hop forces Digable Planets and Spearhead at the House of Blues on Wednesday.
Feb. 24, 1995
Courtney Love, whose band Hole is one of Calendar’s choices for the year’s most promising pop arrivals, has been a presence in rock for so long that it seems hard on first thought to consider her part of a freshman class.
Dec. 4, 1994