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Interview: Steve Almond of How Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (Part 2)
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor-- (@kbylin)-- Read Part 1 In the book, you speak of how Nil Lara became your messiah, because he “cultivated that trait so essential to rock stars: mystery." Not knowing anything about Nil, you say, only served to further ignite your passion; it allowed him to become larger than life, and for ...
Playboy Centerfold Goes 3-D in Naked Attempt to Create Buzz
Playboy readers who can only imagine what it would look like if a nude centerfold jumped off the page are getting new specs to help them see into Hef's world. The magazine's June edition hits newsstands Friday equipped with 3-D glasses. Now the toy that has kids dodging dragons, meatballs and tall blue aliens at the ...
Lena Horne Biography Tells of a Star Shaped by Rejection, Racism
'Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne' by James Gavin reveals a woman whose life reflects the civil rights struggles of the times. According to James Gavin's new biography, “Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne," the legendary singer-actress was never comfortable being an icon. “As I say in the introduction of my book, icons are ...
Beyond Hefner's Bedroom, a Look at His Legacy
The tale of the Playboy founder's gift to help save land by the Hollywood sign is but one of many stories of his life chronicled in 2,000 scrapbooks. Before I explain how I happened to be in Hugh Hefner's bedroom last week, let me start at the beginning. I bumped into L.A. City Councilman Tom LaBonge ...
AllAboutJazz-New York May 2010 Issue Now Available!
Lest one needs a reminder of the globalization of the world in general and music in particular, last month's eruption of a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull glacier was a particularly effective one. Lost in all the news reports of stranded travelers on both sides of the Atlantic were the many musicians whose tour plans were disrupted ...
'Free to be Creative at the Piano' Makes It Easy to Sit Down and Play
Music fans take note: Edward Weiss has just completed his extensive new book on creating, composing and playing New Age piano compositions. A distillation of Eds 20 years as an instructor and composer, Free to Be Creative at the Piano promises to take even novice players step by step through the process of creating music from ...
Jazz: A History of America's Music (Hardcover)
Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns deserve far more than simple gratitude for bringing jazz to the limelight with this lavishly illustrated volume. The book features among its 500-plus pictures many of the previously unseen shots of musicians and venues glimpsed in Burns's 10-part documentary, Jazz. Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey ...
Have They Got a Tale for You in Ojai
Performers gather for the 11th annual swapping of yarns at the Ojai Storytelling Festival, naughty bits included. Old-fashioned storytelling may be a dying art in the age of YouTube, but the organizers of the 11th annual Ojai Storytelling Festival don't intend to let it go down without a fight. For the last 10 years, they have ...
Huntington Library Get's the Blues of Charles Bukowski
Huntington Library to offer the first look at its Charles Bukowski collection with 'Poet on the Edge' exhibit The Huntington Library in San Marino, known as the home of Gainsborough's “The Blue Boy," made news four years ago with its acquisition of something a lot bluer: a cache of papers, books and memorabilia belonging to Charles ...
Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong
By Daniel Kassell Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong Terry Teachout Hardcover; 496 pages ISBN: 978-0-15-101089-9 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010 Terry Teachout explained in the Afterward that he's the first jazz bassist to produce a fully researched biography prepared recently ...
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