California
Recovering at USC Medical Center, Paul Morantz was wheeled out in his hospital bed to face the press. He had no doubt the snake had come from Synanon, the drug rehab group founded 20 years earlier by a magnetic pitchman named Charles Dederich.
May 29, 2024
Music
Jack Nimitz, baritone sax player, dies at 79
June 16, 2009
Image
“Black Twitter: A People’s History” traces the path that Black Twitter took in becoming an arbiter of cultural shifts time and again.
May 10, 2024
Letters to the Editor
A reader who rejects Biden’s policies and progressive politics says we must reelect the president to prevent Trump from fatally damaging American democracy.
March 21, 2024
Dale Norris, 68, an alto saxophonist who played in the Stan Kenton Orchestra in the early 1960s and toured with the big bands of Tommy Dorsey and Henry Mancini, died of lung cancer Tuesday in Tucson.
July 2, 2005
Forecasters said the Los Angeles area, where the system could park for a long time Sunday into Monday, was of major concern.
Feb. 4, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
Talking Horn: In the hands of Kenton band veteran Steve Huffsteter, above, the jazz trumpet is as much storyteller as instrument.
July 4, 1996
Even a tone-deaf hermit would have instantly realized that the event at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Redondo Beach last weekend had something to do with a piano player.
June 9, 1997
Stan Kenton fans--unlike the followers of Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Woody Herman and others--don’t have the opportunity to hear ghost band versions of their favorite music.
Aug. 21, 1998
Bill Perkins, a versatile saxophonist best known as a popular soloist in the Stan Kenton and Woody Herman big bands in the 1950s, has died.
Aug. 12, 2003