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Could Wendy Greuel's love affair with labor backfire in Valley?
The long-running love-in between Wendy Greuel and public employee unions continued Tuesday, with the mayoral candidate from the San Fernando Valley bagging an endorsement from the powerful Los Angeles County Federation of Labor. Which raises a question:...
Tags: Government, Politics, Eric Garcetti, Public Officials, Elections
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Sequester Day
So, it’s Sequester’s Eve, and all through the White House (and the House and the Senate), not a creature is stirring, not even John Boehner. Out in the hinterlands, folks are putting up their Sequester trees, decorating them with $1, $5, $10...
Tags: Customs and Tradition, Barack Obama, White House, Pies and Tarts, U.S. Congress
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Grammys 2013: Pre-telecast ceremony broadens the spotlight
Awards handed out Sunday before the evening Grammy Awards telecast sometimes set the stage for what happens during the national TV broadcast. This year, the Black Keys got the momentum rolling by having a hand in three awards early on, including rock...
Tags: Kaskade, Dan Auerbach, Bonnie Raitt, Wars and Interventions, Grammy Awards
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Critic's Notebook: 'Ho Hey,' songs like this are here to stay
One of the underreported music health stories of last year was the trouble brought on by the Lumineers virus. At the beginning of 2012, a three-headed body from Denver released to the world a thing called "Ho Hey," and it spread through ears and into...
Tags: Dave Matthews Band (music group), Wars and Interventions, Jewel, Maroon 5 (music group), Entertainment Events
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Woody Guthrie's new year's resolutions
As we close the book on 2012, which among other things included the ambitious yearlong multifaceted salute to Woody Guthrie on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Pop & Hiss will take a page from America’s most celebrated folk singer and songwriter....
Tags: Roger Waters, Music, Entertainment
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Grammys 2013: John Fullbright's 'From the Ground Up'
How surprised was Blue Door Records co-owner Greg Johnson when he got word that his Oklahoma-based artist John Fullbright had been nominated for a Grammy Award for Americana album, alongside roots-music heavyweights Mumford & Sons, Bonnie Raitt, the Avett...
Tags: Bonnie Raitt, Grammy Awards, Chuck Berry, Entertainment Events, Music
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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: Heart Attack, Dom (music group), Dan Auerbach, Science and Technology, Davis Guggenheim
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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Morello rage against Prop. 32
PolitiCalTom Morello joined veteran activist super-group Crosby, Stills & Nash in Los Angeles on Wednesday for a fundraiser to defeat Proposition 32. The November ballot measure would make major changes to California's campaign finance system, including banning... -
Ken Burns' latest: The man-made disaster of the Dust Bowl
In a sense, Ken Burns' new documentary is the photographic negative of the one he delivered in 2009: Instead of swooning full-color shots of azure lakes and soaring mountains, his new film is made of images that could come from the dark side of the moon....
Tags: Landforms, Gardens and Parks, Peter Coyote, Documentary (genre), Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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Review: Ken Burns' 'The Dust Bowl' a timely, exceptional endeavor
Ken Burns, public television's signature chronicler of great American moments, pastimes and inventions, has turned his Ken Burns Effect loose upon "The Dust Bowl." One would say it was almost inevitable that two things so huge were bound to meet. The...
Tags: PG Rated Movies, Peter Coyote, The Grapes of Wrath (movie), Pneumonia, Entertainment
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Jim James of My Morning Jacket to release solo album
Jim James has done plenty of work lately outside the confines of his Kentucky-based roots-rock band, My Morning Jacket: In 2009 he recorded and toured with Conor Oberst, M. Ward and Mike Mogis as Monsters of Folk, and earlier this year he took part in...
Tags: George Harrison, Book, The Killers (music group), Revolution (tv program), My Morning Jacket (music group)
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Counter Intelligence: Red Hill brings a folky modernism to Echo Park
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticTo understand Red Hill, Jason Michaud and Trevor Rocco's newish place in a converted Chinese bakery just north of Sunset, you could do worse than to look at the bread-and-butter plate, a once-free nicety that has evolved into an item of competition in L....Tags: Salads, Sausages, Diets and Dieting, Yams, Butter
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