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18 November 2011

Michael Jackson visited Martha Graham studio

MJ was a creative artist who got caught in the wrong life. [...]

16 November 2011

Joseph Horowitz’s spoken-word exploration of Mahler marriage to precede Pacific Symphony’s Mahler Ninth symphony

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A great symphony, Mahler’s Ninth, preceded by a playlet examining the marriage of the composer and his wife Alma. [...]

16 November 2011

The Little Prince

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Pictures of Le Petit Prince, the Little Prince [...]

10 November 2011

African-American photojournalists capture L.A.’s rich post-War arts world

These are but a few arts-related images drawn from “Identity and Affirmation: Postwar African-American Photography,” an exhibition of 125 images produced by Los Angeles African-American photographers during the postwar years from 1945 to 1980. The marvelous show, at Cal State Northridge, which also includes social and political photographs, is part of Pacific Standard Time survey of post-war L.A. creative undertakings. [...]

10 November 2011

MJ dances

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In consideration of Michael Jackson’s dancing. [...]

10 November 2011

Genius. West Side Story.

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Seeing West Side Story projected properly for perhaps the first-time ever … [...]

5 November 2011

Back to school for Herb & Lani

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More superb philanthropy from the great giving arts couple, Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, this time creating the Herb Alpert Educational Village, an educational incubator to implement progressive ideas about learning. [...]

2 November 2011

James Brown’s third set in Shrevesport LA: “I Feel Good” came before “Man’s World”

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A boggling play list of James Brown’s set from the 1970s, part of the James Brown exhibit now on at the Grammy Museum in downtown Los Angeles. [...]

30 October 2011

Jack Cole danced in Pittsburgh

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A vintage program from 1935, a performance of an Austrian operetta by Robert Stolz, “Venus in Satin,” and Jack Cole danced in it. [...]

22 October 2011

Michael Jackson’s gold trousers

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On Michael Jackson’s gold trousers … [...]