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Edendale a Los Angeles Paradise Lost
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Michael Ricci
Forgotten neighborhood between Echo Park and Silver Lake was once a bohemian haven where artists created and early gay rights activism germinated. It deserves to be remembered and celebrated.
This week I saw a work of art at the Huntington Library that set me off on a journey in search of a ghost from L.A.'s past. It was a 1932 print by Paul Landacre, an L.A. resident considered by many the master American wood engraver of his day. Landacre etched ...
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Villaraigosa's Vanishing Veracity
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All About Jazz
His executive directive No. 1 in 2005 vowed to halt even the appearance of sleaze and conflicts. The lofty-sounding 2005 directive from Antonio Villaraigosa read:
Avoid actual and perceived conflicts of interest at all times during my service to the city of Los Angeles ... Take full responsibility for learning and complying with all laws and rules governing the standards of conduct for public officials, including gift restrictions, disclosure requirements and campaign finance limitations.
Those 49 words were contained in ...
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Rare Photos Give Glimpse of Elvis Presley, Graceland
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All About Jazz
Elvis Presley archivists have found three rare photos dating back more than 50 years that show the young singer greeting fans at the gates of Graceland.
Negatives of the photos were discovered as archivists pored through a vast collection of documents from the office of Vernon Presley, Elvis' father. The office is a stop on the daily tour of Graceland, Elvis' Memphis estate.
Angie Marchese, director of archives at Elvis Presley Enterprises, said the negatives were tucked in a small ...
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LA Weekly: Antonio Villaraigosa Free Tickets List
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All About Jazz
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa must be the greatest jazz lover with free tickets worth $50,000 to $100,000. Full list here of 80 free events; corruption laws ignored.
Did the mayor lose, misplace -- or destroy -- his records?
L.A. Weekly is publishing below its exclusive ticket price list for the 80 events to which Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa accepted free seats.
Villaraigosa lost or threw away paperwork showing who gave him the freebies, how many tickets he accepted to ...
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Rolling Stone Magazine and the Runaway General
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Michael Ricci
How Rolling Stone Magazine article turned Washington and the Afghanistan War on it's ear. A rapid-fire chain of events led to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's downfall.
Gen. McChrystal's troubles began with fact checks by Rolling Stone for an upcoming article that angered Obama and culminated in the general's loss of his command of the Afghanistan war.
McChrystal's team knew it had a problem on its hands last Thursday, when fact checkers for Rolling Stone magazine sent in questions for an upcoming ...
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JJA Marches On
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The Independent Ear by Willard Jenkins
Monday, June 14 marked the annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz (JJA) Awards event. The venue City Winery proved to be quite the ambient locale for what has become a jazz community tradition. As the tribes gathered to schmooze, catch-up on news, hugs and air kisses, and just generally revel in the greatness of jazz music (and the auspicious list of jazz greats on hand), I was reminded not so much of the actual birth of the JJA as its conception. ...
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The Projo on Dave McKenna
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
On election day, the Providence Journal ran two editorials concerning matters important to Rhode Islanders. One was about the governor's suggestion that it's time to end the state income tax (a questionable idea, the paper said). The other was on the death of pianist Dave McKenna, one of the state's cultural heroes. To read the Mckenna editorial, go here. Thanks to Rifftides reader Steve Caminis for calling it to our attention.
For the October 18 announcement of McKenna's death, video of ...
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NYC Jazz Journalism Conference/Live Blog, Sept. 29
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All About Jazz
Jazz Journalists Association Consults Columbia University Center for Jazz Studies on first international conference of jazz journalists to be held in the U.S. “Jazz in the Global Imagination: Music, Journalism, and Culture"
With live, globally interactive blog from and about the conference at Columbia School of Journalism, 2950 Broadway (at 116th Street), New York.
9:00 am - 6 pm, with an evening panel at 7:30 pm open to the public, free of charge Saturday, September 29
Welcome reception: ...
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