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Ticketmaster: AEG May Cancel if Merger Succeeds
Ticketmaster's chief executive sought Thursday to allay antitrust fears over the ticket seller's planned merger with concert promoter Live Nation by revealing that a major venue operator has threatened to cancel its contract if the merger goes through. The revelation, made before a House subcommittee examining the proposed merger for antitrust concerns, was meant to suggest ...
No Doubt Shows Raise Doubt About Ticketmaster
There’s no question that No Doubt is planning to close its reunion tour on its old Orange County turf with performances July 31 and Aug. 1 at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine. But those shows raise the question of how efficiently Ticketmaster is following through on its recent agreement with the New Jersey attorney general’s office ...
Esperanza Spalding, Wayne Shorter Top Playboy Jazz Fest Lineup
Start considering your Hollywood Bowl boxed-lunch options, L.A.'s own jazz-themed Coachella (albeit with far more hospitable weather) is coming. Past years have generally offered a combination of performers from the genre's considerable past, pop-jazz favorites and the occasional left-field pick (Ozomatli, anyone?), and this year's lineup is no exception. Among the can't-miss picks for this year's ...
L.A. Times Unifies Arts and Entertainment Coverage in One Department
The Los Angeles Times today created a new department that will centralize the newspaper's coverage of arts and entertainment and expand its focus on Hollywood news. The move will consolidate into one department more than 50 reporters, editors and Web producers who have been handling arts and entertainment for the paper's Calendar and Business sections and ...
MKD Joins Ron Quesada and DJ Kuttin Kandi for "Tropical Renditions"
On February 5, 2009, Maria Katindig-Dykes joined multiple generations of Fil-Am musicians and scholars for a two-day event at the University of California, Riverside, titled “TROPICAL RENDITIONS: MUSICS OF FILIPINO AMERICA." Maria launched the showcase Thursday night that took place at UC Riverside's new Performance Lab, which also featured performances by Ron Quesada (Kulintronica), and the ...
81st Academy Award Winners
2009 Oscar Winners Winners in bold BEST PICTURE “Slumdog Millionaire" “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" “Frost/Nixon" “Milk" “The Reader" BEST ACTRESS Kate Winslet, “The Reader" Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married" Angelina Jolie, “Changeling" Melissa Leo, “Frozen River" Meryl Streep, “Doubt" BEST ACTOR Sean Penn, “Milk" Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon" Brad Pitt, “The Curious Case ...
A.R. Rahman Takes Oscar for Slumdog Original Score, Best Song
Original score: 'Slumdog Millionaire's' A.R. Rahman Rahman, composer of countless Bollywood scores, won for his transporting soundscape in Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle's crowd-pleaser that is part potboiler, part fairy tale. Rahman started writing music for Indian TV ads in the early '90s, eventually switching to film and composing dozens of soundtracks a year. In 2002, Andrew ...
Complete List of Nominees for the 81st Annual Academy Awards
2009 Oscar scorecard The Envelope Winner ---> BEST PICTURE “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" “Frost/Nixon" “Milk" “The Reader" “Slumdog Millionaire" BEST ACTRESS Anne Hathaway, “Rachel Getting Married" Angelina Jolie, “Changeling" Melissa Leo, “Frozen River" Meryl Streep, “Doubt" Kate Winslet, “The Reader" BEST ACTOR Frank Langella, “Frost/Nixon" Sean Penn, “Milk" Brad Pitt, “The Curious ...
Live Blogging the Oscars
Make this blog item your home page for the rest of Oscar day. Tom O'Neil and Paul Sheehan are blogging live continuously all day. Keep hitting “refresh" for constant updates about what's happening at the Kodak Theatre. 1:30 p.m. — Our forums moderator Chris “Boomer" Beachum has compiled this list of who we believe will be ...
A. R. Rahman Slumdog Fusionist in Oscar Spotlight
A. R. Rahman one of Indias most prolific film composers knows how big a deal it would be if he wins an Oscar on Sunday. Rahman, in his natural habitat at the computer, works on five or six films a year, juggling several at a time. He is a kind of national hero in India. One ...
