Steve Appleford was a features editor for Times Community News and a contributor to the Los Angeles Times Calendar section. He is a Los Angeles native and the former editor in chief of the award-winning L.A. CityBeat. As a writer and photographer, he’s covered riots, political conventions and a whole lot of pop culture for a variety of publications including Rolling Stone, GQ, Entertainment Weekly, TV Guide and LA Weekly.
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G. Ray Hawkins launched the first public gallery in Los Angeles devoted to photography and showcased the work of giants including Ansel Adams, Man Ray and Paul Outerbridge during his career
“The Bikeriders” began as a book of photographs taken by an embedded Danny Lyon. Those images have inspired a film starring Austin Butler, Jodie Comer and Mike Feist.
Coachella co-founder Paul Tollett tells The Times that Frank Ocean will headline the festival in 2023, and reflects on the ongoing damage of COVID-19.
KISS frontman Gene Simmons recounts his first encounter with Eddie Van Halen in 1976, and, tearfully, his final one decades later.
Eddie Van Halen, legendary lead guitarist for rock band Van Halen, has died of cancer at 65.
In Nirvana’s copyright dispute with Marc Jacobs over its smiley-face logo, the band said Kurt Cobain created it. Now, their art director says he did.
Billie Eilish and her brother and musical partner, Finneas O’Connell, talk to reporters backstage at the 62nd Grammy Awards and share how James Corden “running around singing ‘Bad Guy’” signaled they were on the road to success.