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Carnaval to Burst to Life in Hollywood
Suddenly, Los Angeles is feeling a little like São Paulo. SoCal's largest annual Brazilian Carnaval celebration returns to the Palladium after years in Long Beach. First, two large Carnaval-related events will take place this weekend -- a festival in Santa Barbara and the annual Brazilian Carnaval at the Palladium Saturday. Then, a DJ-centric dance ...
Bad Times for Bunny: Playboy for Sale
For sale (maybe): Playboy The bottom line for Playboy Enterprises: Business is bad. Business is so bad that the company that gave us the magazine, the interviews, Hugh Hefner, Playboy bunnies past and present (including Gloria Steinem) and, of course, the Playmate of the Month, would consider -- gasp! -- selling itself. Calm down, ...
Anita O'Day - The Life of a Jazz Singer - Film Opening
A film about the jazz singer Anita O'Day may be opening near you. Anita O'Day: The Life Of A Jazz Singer won the “2008 SATELLITE Award winner for Best Documentary – International Press Academy". Read the All About Jazz review Visit our website to find an opening near you! About Anita O'Day Born Anita ...
Tomei and Winslet: Nudity = Oscar Glory?
There's more than art for actresses like Marisa Tomei and Kate Winslet to consider when they take on nude scenes. Take 26! That's the shot that director Darren Aronofsky used of Marisa Tomei in one of The Wrestler's pivotal dance sequences, one in which the 44-year-old Academy Award nominee gyrates and prances, flaunts and ...
Joan Baez Remains More Than the Song
The singer-songwriter, who performs Thursday at UCLA, has found a new intimacy in her music and her life. If all the stars had aligned for her, Joan Baez would have come away from this year's Grammy Awards with the first recording academy trophy of her long and distinguished career. She was nominated for her critically lauded ...
Juana Molina, Laura Gibson at the Troubadour
The daughters of Joni and Joan are alive and well and living these days in places like Buenos Aires and Portland, Ore. They also were on stage Tuesday night at the Troubadour Demonstrating to a transfixed crowd how they've absorbed the lessons of the aforementioned Mitchell, Baez and other elder stateswomen of the singer-songwriter sisterhood. But ...
Henry Rollins Will Debut New Show on KCRW Next Month
Well, it's started. One of the few other destinations for progressive radio in L.A. has scooped up Henry Rollins, who will air his new show live at KCRW on Saturdays from 6 to 8 p.m., starting March 7. Next question: Who's taking Jonesy? When Entravision folded Indie 103 last month, Rollins diligently followed other DJs such ...
Grammys: Where Were the Latino Musicians?
There's been an understandable amount of head-scratching and second-guessing in some quarters over the shortage of Latino and Latin American musical artists presenting trophies at the Grammys earlier this month. Musically, CBS' 3 1/2 -hour broadcast on Feb. 8 reflected what Times pop critic Ann Powers called “the great wide mess of styles and sounds that ...
The Necks Are Proud of Their Lack of Direction
They make no plans before their concerts. Instead, they just go where their music takes them. When the Necks take the stage at REDCAT on Thursday night, there will surely be some confused looks darting around the audience before the performance begins. If the Australian piano trio's pattern holds -- as it has for the last ...
"Men at Work" Guitarist Jailed (Update)
“It’s a mistake?” One of the founders of the Australian ‘80s band “Men at Work” was jailed over the weekend in LA for a bench warrant on a charge of making criminal threats, the Los Angeles Times reported. Ronald Strykert, former guitarist in the group who rose to fame with the song “Who Can It Be ...
