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Bohemian tenants shown the door
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterNEW YORK -- Overheard on the Chelsea Hotel stairway one recent Sunday: Question: "Is Rita still here?" Reply: "Rita's dead." A pause between footsteps. "Rita was a sweetheart." Only in this hotel could such an exchange take place as calmly as if two...Tags: Harry S. Truman, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Sex Pistols (music group), Death, Dylan Thomas
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PIL's John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten) brings his distinctive post-punk style to Club Nokia Tuesday night
All The RageIt's unavoidable. When discussing circa-1970s British punk-rock style, seminal band The Sex Pistols will always dominate the conversation. After all, these were the guys who first turned safety pins and green hair into fashion statements (with a lot of... -
The insiders' guide to Las Vegas
Special to The Los Angeles TimesWhile there are a lot of places to go and people to see in Las Vegas, those that pop into the addled minds of locals aren't necessarily those that pop into the minds of visitors. To help you navigate the other Vegas -- that is, the one not so heavily...Tags: Hotels and Accommodations, Electronics, Casino and Gambling, Lifestyle and Leisure, Casino and Gambling Industry
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Gas prices have rock tours reelin'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterOUT IN the hardscrabble world of rock concert touring, promoter Sean Carlson has learned a thing or two about eateries. "Japanese restaurants are the best," said Carlson, founder of the F Yeah Fest that's hitting 27 cities in 27 days this month. He isn'...Tags: Music, Glastonbury Festival, Bon Jovi (music group), Lifestyle and Leisure, Death
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A crucial chapter for the storied Chelsea Hotel
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe Chelsea Hotel had a beleaguered look. A tenant had draped several banners across the legendary establishment's red brick facade: "Stanley Bard is my hero," one banner proclaimed. The signs referred to the hotel's part-owner and longtime manager who...Tags: Sex Pistols (music group), Public Employees, Hotels and Accommodations, Chelsea (Manhattan, New York), Leonard Cohen
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New in paperback: The pioneers of the police procedural, Iraq by way of Homer and the Crusades through Muslim eyes
"Immoveable Feast" by John Baxter (Harper Perennial) Baxter, the film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Buñuel and others, fell in love and moved from Los Angeles to Paris some years back, from whence he has dispatched a series of fluent, witty and...Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Murder, Nottingham, U.S. Army, Simone Weil
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A selected Heath Ledger filmography
A selected Heath Ledger filmography
Over a wildly eclectic 15-year movie career, Heath Ledger rose from relative obscurity in Australia to become one of the finest actors of his generation. Disappearing into many of his roles -- he could do glamorous,...Tags: Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, Death, Australia (movie), Mel Gibson
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'X Films' by Alex Cox
Special to The TimesATRUE "radical" filmmaker is not satisfied to merely bloviate from the red carpet or screening room. One must turn art into action. Alex Cox is ready with a personal manifesto: He calls feature filmmaking a dying art form in the Digital Age, has open...Tags: Emilio Estevez, William Walker, Sex Pistols (music group), Comedy (genre), Death
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Glen Matlock And Sylvain Sylvain Join Up For an Acoustic Night at New Haven's Cafe Nine
Glen Matlock and Sylvain Sylvain 8 p.m. March 31 at Café Nine, 250 State Street, New Haven. (203) 789-8281, cafenine.com $18, $15 in advance. The world would not have been the same without them. Sylvain Sylvain played guitar for the New York...
Tags: Music, Sex Pistols (music group), New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), David Johansen, John Lydon
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New Haven's Lord Fowl Plays to the SXSW Masses
Lord Fowl, pride of New Haven, played their South by Southwest showcase at midnight on Thursday, opposite some of the biggest names of the festival. (Just down the street, keynote speaker Dave Grohl was leading his all-star Sound City Players at Stubb's)....
Tags: The Black Keys (music group), SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Flea (music artist), Destiny's Child (music group)
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CT.com Interview: WWE Wrestler Heath Slater
WWE Presents Raw: Road to WrestleMania $15-$95, 7:30 p.m., Mar. 15. Webster Bank Arena, 600 Main St., Bridgeport, websterbankarena.com If you're ever having a bad day at the office and need to console yourself with someone else's on-the-clock...
Tags: Heavy Engineering, Twitter, Inc., Bon Jovi (music group), Mardi Gras, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc.
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Illness makes one headliner drop off Tommy Ramone/Sex Pistol Glen Matlock show at Croc Rock
Lehigh Valley Music presents FESTBLOGA show scheduled for Allentown’s Crocodile Rock Café featuring Tommy Ramone, the last surviving member of the original Ramones, and Glen Matlock, original bassist for proto-punk band The Sex Pistols, has been changed because one of them has taken...
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