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What Patti Smith and Neil Young won't be doing at BEA
Jacket CopyAn encore of the stunning 1996 performance by Neil Young and Patti Smith is probably too much to hope for from their upcoming discussion together at BEA.... -
Posthumous Joey Ramone album due May 22; live performance set
Pop & HissPunk rock pioneer Joey Ramone's unfinished songs have been completed and will be issued in a posthumous album "...ya know?" to be released May 22. Joey Ramone's brother, Mickey Leigh, enlisted help from Joey's friends and admirers to complete the tracks... -
Lizzie Garrett Mettler looks at tomboy style in a new Rizzoli book
Los Angeles Times Fashion CriticFor years, L.A.-based author Lizzie Garrett Mettler thought "tomboy" was a dirty word. "I was a definite tomboy when I was a kid," she says. "It was a nightmare for my parents to get me into a dress for a stretch of years." As she became a teenager...Tags: Courtney Love, Eartha Kitt, Central Park, Band of Outsiders, Katharine Hepburn
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Amnesty International 'Chimes of Freedom' salutes Bob Dylan's music
Pop & HissDozens of musicians salute rock icon Bob Dylan in new Amnesty International tribute album. The "Chimes of Freedom" collection encompasses 75 recordings of songs written by Bob Dylan.... -
First U.S. World Book Night giveaway announces book selections
Jacket CopyIn 2012,the first World Book Night celebration in America will give away bestsellers by Stephen King, Patti Smith, Rebecca Skloot, Suzanne Collins and more, for free.... -
In Sunday books: On Patti Smith, Tolstoy and life in the marginalia
Jacket CopySunday's Arts & Books coverage is highlighted with an essay on the tracks of one woman's life found in the marginalia of her books, a critic's notebook on Patti Smith's prose poems and a biography of Tolstoy.... -
Warren Hellman dies at 77; San Francisco financier, bluegrass fan
Reporting from San Francisco -- Warren Hellman, a San Francisco financier, philanthropist and bluegrass enthusiast who lavished his city with a free concert that grew into one of the nation's largest music festivals, died Sunday of complications from...Tags: Wells Fargo & Co., Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Farmers & Merchants Bank, Leukemia, Billy Bragg
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Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith's 'Woolgathering'
Los Angeles Times Book CriticOne thing I've always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not?...Tags: Artists, Poetry, Fine Artists, Arts and Culture, Artists
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New York City's spots for book lovers
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOn the third floor of a big, gray building at Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, silver-haired docent Julie Chelminski recently stepped up to the middle of a hushed room and faced 15 spellbound tourists. "On the walls of this room there were 9,000 drawers,"...Tags: Charles Dickens, West Village, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Benchley, Amazon.com Inc.
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Twenty essential R.E.M. songs
Pop & HissWith Michael Stipe’s poetic, often cryptic lyrics and Peter Buck’s ringing guitar lines, REM leaves behind a legacy of radio hits, sleeper favorites, aged chestnuts, downright gaffes and beautifully conceived minor-chord odes. Here’s a... -
Radiohead: No statement, no plans to play at Occupy Wall Street [updated]
Pop & HissRumors have been swirling on the internet that Radiohead, who performed at the Roseland Ballroom in New York on Wednesday and Thursday night, will perform Friday at Occupy Wall Street. According to the band's publicist, there is no statement from the band... -
Buddy Holly all-star tribute concert to premiere on PBS on Dec. 3
Pop & HissA Buddy Holly all-start tribute concert special will premiere on PBS on Dec. 3. Stevie Nicks, Graham Nash, Chris Isaak and other fans saluted Buddy Holly in Hollywood in September on what would have been the Texas rocker's 75th birthday....
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