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A Plank Slate for an Oral Surfing History
Hawaiian legend Duke Kahanamoku and other wave riders relax on the beach at San Onofre in the 1940s. Surfings roots are in Polynesia, but the lifestyle of modern surfing was born in Southern California. The Surfing Heritage Foundation is undertaking an effort to collect the oral histories of wave riders from California and elsewhere. 'We're running ...
A Cylindrical Paper Cup Filled with Booze
Way back in the Lost Hang post, I said I'd fill in the details about Little Stevie's trumpet lessons with John Coffey. Here goes.My first trumpet teacher came to the house. A big jolly man, he reached down to his butt and said to me, “Now, you can tell your jughead friends this, but ...
Edendale a Los Angeles Paradise Lost
Forgotten neighborhood between Echo Park and Silver Lake was once a bohemian haven where artists created and early gay rights activism germinated. It deserves to be remembered and celebrated. This week I saw a work of art at the Huntington Library that set me off on a journey in search of a ghost from L.A.'s past. ...
Villaraigosa's Vanishing Veracity
His executive directive No. 1 in 2005 vowed to halt even the appearance of sleaze and conflicts. The lofty-sounding 2005 directive from Antonio Villaraigosa read: Avoid actual and perceived conflicts of interest at all times during my service to the city of Los Angeles ... Take full responsibility for learning and complying with all laws and ...
Rare Photos Give Glimpse of Elvis Presley, Graceland
Elvis Presley archivists have found three rare photos dating back more than 50 years that show the young singer greeting fans at the gates of Graceland. Negatives of the photos were discovered as archivists pored through a vast collection of documents from the office of Vernon Presley, Elvis' father. The office is a stop on the ...
LA Weekly: Antonio Villaraigosa Free Tickets List
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa must be the greatest jazz lover with free tickets worth $50,000 to $100,000. Full list here of 80 free events; corruption laws ignored. Did the mayor lose, misplace -- or destroy -- his records? L.A. Weekly is publishing below its exclusive ticket price list for the 80 events to which ...
Rolling Stone Magazine and the Runaway General
How Rolling Stone Magazine article turned Washington and the Afghanistan War on it's ear. A rapid-fire chain of events led to Gen. Stanley McChrystal's downfall. Gen. McChrystal's troubles began with fact checks by Rolling Stone for an upcoming article that angered Obama and culminated in the general's loss of his command of the Afghanistan war. McChrystal's ...
JJA Marches On
Monday, June 14 marked the annual Jazz Journalists Association Jazz (JJA) Awards event. The venue City Winery proved to be quite the ambient locale for what has become a jazz community tradition. As the tribes gathered to schmooze, catch-up on news, hugs and air kisses, and just generally revel in the greatness of jazz music (and ...
My Best Jazz Experiences Through the Decades
by Larry Taylor
I've been a jazz fan since I was a teenager in the late forties, growing up in Southern California. From grammar school on, I listened to pop tunes of the day--the hit parade songs and big band music that were in the air on the radio. As I entered junior high, I became ...
Il jazz in Friuli Venezia Giulia, la terra dell'improvvisazione e della ricerca
by AAJ Italy Staff
Non è la prima volta, nel corso degli anni, che ci capita di dedicare uno spazio speciale alla musica del Friuli Venezia Giulia, una regione che non finisce di stupire per vitalità creativa. Sarà il suo carattere di “frontiera," che la pone a cavallo tra l'Italia, la Mitteleuropa e i Balcani; sarà la sua “marginalità," la ...
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