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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 ...
Watts, the Place, Inspires Jeff 'Tain' Watts
It was more than a shared name that first got the attention of drummer Jeff “Tain" Watts. Even as a kid growing up in the Hill District of Pittsburgh, he recognized something profound about a distant neighborhood in Los Angeles. He knew of those six days of rioting in 1965, but he also knew that Watts ...
Billy Joel Opens Concert Venue in the Desert
A grand-opening performance by Billy Joel is guaranteed to boost the profile of a concert venue. So The Show at Agua Caliente Casino Resort Spa near Palm Springs in Rancho Mirage, Calif., snagged the musical legend for its opening show last week. The $76 million, 2,000-seat theater is about two hours by car from L.A. and ...
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