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Critic's Notebook: Music that's all over the map
A tree grows most surely in Brooklyn. But what's in a ZIP Code? The Los Angeles Philharmonic began its Brooklyn Festival on Tuesday night with a Green Umbrella concert at Walt Disney Concert Hall. The hip New York City borough is not just a...
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Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...
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Green Day to resume touring in March
Green Day, sidelined since late September, will return to the touring circuit in early 2013. The rock band unveiled on Monday a host of live dates, its first since leader Billie Joe Armstrong was admitted to rehab in the fall. Green Day's return to the...
Tags: Music, Entertainment, Barclays Center, Clear Channel Communications Inc., Dunkin' Donuts
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Year in review: Heartbreak and heroes of 2012
2012 was a year marked by national tragedy -- the shootings in Newtown, Conn. and Aurora, Colo., the damage from Hurricane Sandy -- as well as instances of heroism and transcendence. The presidential election dominated headlines throughout 2012,...Tags: Awards and Prizes, Gabby Douglas, Sandy Hook Elementary School, James Holmes, Allyson Felix
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'Lola Versus' team turns their romantic baggage into films
24 FramesDaryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, the twentysomethings behind the new offbeat romantic comedy “Lola Versus,” endured a yearlong, real-life breakup whose spirit they funneled into the movie. For the film, which opens in Los Angeles Friday and... -
Melvins to attempt Guinness World Record on U.S. tour
Pop & HissThe Melvins are attempting to break a Guinness World Record for fastest tour of the U.S.: 50 states in 51 days. Times pop music critic Randall Roberts assesses the odds, and perils, of such a journey.... -
Connecticut wealth managers put the 'lot' in lottery winners
Opinion L.A.The Connecticut wealth managers who won a lottery jackpot of $254 million should set an example for the rest of the 1%.... -
James Elliot dies at 67; MIT astronomer discovered rings of Uranus and atmosphere of Pluto
James Elliot, the MIT astronomer who discovered the rings of Uranus and the faint atmosphere of Pluto, died March 3 at his home in Wellesley, Mass. He was 67 and had been suffering from cancer.
The rings of Uranus are narrow and faint and not...Tags: Astronomy, New London (New London, Connecticut), Education, Pluto (fictional animal), Science
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Scripps College among arts honorees at White House ceremony
Culture MonsterFirst Lady Michelle Obama hosted a ceremony at the White House on Wednesday honoring youth-oriented arts programs around the country, and one of the honorees comes directly from Southern California. Scripps College in Claremont was a recipient of the... -
$5 gasoline is already here in some parts of the U.S.
Money & CompanyMany observers are wondering whether the nation's gasoline prices will surpass $4 a gallon and rival 2008's all-time record. But in several parts of the U.S., $4 a gallon gasoline is already old news. How about $5 a gallon? Or...... -
PASSINGS: Stephen Barnett, Douglas Duitsman, Erich Lehmann
Stephen Barnett Vocal critic of California court system Stephen Barnett, 73, a 1st Amendment professor emeritus at the UC Berkeley School of Law and a prominent critic of the state court system, died Tuesday in Berkeley of complications from cardiac...Tags: Entertainment, Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Television
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David Levine dies at 83; artist illustrated New York Review of Books
Associated PressDavid Levine, an artist whose witty caricatures illustrated the New York Review of Books for more than 40 years, has died. He was 83. Levine died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan of prostate cancer and complications from other...Tags: Sports Illustrated, Richard Nixon, Albert Einstein, Westport, Health
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