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Los Angeles Times Book Festival at UCLA Weekend
Authors and publishers address the biggest issues facing the print medium in the age of technology. In an age when economic downturns and new technology pose huge challenges to the publishing world, public events like the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books this weekend at UCLA offer a different type of interactivity than can be found ...
32nd Annual Playboy Jazz Festival
Your Guide to the Playboy Jazz Festival 2010, Saturday and Sunday June 12 and 13 at The Hollywood Bowl. Presented in Cooperation with The L.A. Philharmonic Association The 32nd annual Playboy Jazz Festival is just around the corner! This landmark event continues its rich tradition of featuring the biggest names in jazz, along with future jazz ...
Muslim Extremist Can't Take a Joke, Post Death Threats Against "South Park" Creators
Threat against South Park creators highlights dilemma for media companies. Comedy Central bleeped out all references to the prophet Muhammad in the show after he was depicted dressed as a bear. The shows creators disagreed strongly with the decision. In its 200 shows, the irreverent animated program “South Park" has mercilessly satirized Christianity, Buddhism, Scientology, the ...
Southland Jazz
Playboy Jazz Festival Hollywood Bowl 2301 N. Highland Ave., Hollywood The 32nd annual summer music party at the bowl returns, with performances by Chick Corea, George Benson, the Manhattan Transfer, Grammy-winning vocalist Kurt Elling, Cuban salsa greats Los Van Van, and fusion guitarist Marcus Miller with young trumpeter Christian Scott, ...
Hollywood Don't Get Games
Avatar producer Jon Landau says getting game developers to work directly with forward-thinking filmmakers is the solution to Hollywood's long-standing videogame problem. The process for developing movie-themed games “can't be studio-driven," Landau told Wired.com. “It has to be filmmaker-driven. I think [game companies] need to go find the Jim Cameron's, Steven Spielberg's and Peter Jackson's of ...
Norah Jones at the Orpheum Theatre
It's hard to feel sorry for Norah Jones: At 31, she's already sold more records than most artists will over a lifetime, and despite her soccer-mom appeal, she's retained a kind of cool-musician cachet, collaborating in recent years with Bright Eyes, Beck and the Beastie Boys. In an unsteady music industry, hers is a success story ...
16th Annual Children's Athletic Games & Family Fair Jazz Festival in Conjunction with the Cure Network Corp at Victoria Regional Park in Carson on April 24th
The Center for Community and Family Services, Inc. will sponsor its 16th Annual Children's Athletic Games & Family Fair. Opening ceremony begins promptly at 9:00am with the running of the torch into the stadium by former Olympic US Gold Medalist, Mark Crear, followed by the Parade of Athletes and presentations of Proclamations and commendations from State ...
Celebrate Hot Jazz Guitarist Django Reinhardt at the Freight & Salvage on May 8th
Saturday, May 8th, Show 8:00 PM The Freight and Salvage, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA 94704 Tickets: $18.50 Adv./$19.50 Door (510) 644-2020 2010 is the Django Reinhardt centennial year and The George Cole Quintet is coming to the East Bay to celebrate his life and style at The Freight and Salvage on May 8th. Come hear ...
Box-Office Futures Exchanges Dealt Blow by Senate Panel
The Senate Agriculture Committee on Wednesday passed the Wall Street Transparency and Accountability Act, which includes in it a provision banning futures trading on movie box office. This is a big blow to Indiana-based Media Derivatives and Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, both of which had been given the green light to create their box-office futures ...
Its a Joni Mitchell Concert, Sans Joni
Actor and performance artist John Kelly channels the iconic singer-songwriter in his tribute show, Paved Paradise: The Art of Joni Mitchell. Even the real Mitchell is a fan. “People used to say nobody can sing my songs but me they're too personal," Joni Mitchell explained last week during a rare interview. Apparently, nobody told John Kelly ...
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