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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 ...
De Barcelona a Nueva York
by Joan A. Cararach
Gracias a la colaboración de la Dirección de Relaciones Culturales y Científicas del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, la colaboración de la Spain Usa Foundation y de la embajada de España en Washington, el Festival Internacional de Jazz de Barcelona va a afrontar este año el que quizá sea el reto más importante en ...
The Music Instinct: Science and Song
by AAJ Staff
Elena Gillespie reports on Daniel Levitin's PBS film The Music Instinct: Science And Song and explores new directions in music cognition theory. Long ago when I was caring for a woman dying of Alzheimer's, she gifted me with a beautiful rendition of a classical piece of music on her piano. I remember that moment ...
Michael Jackson: The Possibility of Communion
by Jeff Dayton-Johnson
Can anyone write about Michael Jackson's music without talking about themselves? My story goes like this. An after-school dance in the multi-use room at Charlotte Wood Junior High School. I'm 13 years old, my back firmly affixed to the wall, together with my coterie of friends, watching the less socially awkward kids dance in the center ...
