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18 September 2010

Hendrix died forty years ago …

The great guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix is a special favorite — an inspiration. His performance of “Wild Thing” at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 transcends a rock performance. [...]

21 April 2010

Heidi Duckler’s sudsy classic

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Heidi Duckler, creative director of Collage Dance Theater, reprises her “Laundromatinee,” recently named by the National Endowment for Arts as an “American Masterpiece.” [...]

27 July 2008

Jimi Hendrix hung out in Los Feliz

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Guitar virtuoso Jimi Hendrix lived for awhile in my neighborhood in Los Feliz. There he wrote “Purple Haze.” Listen to him play “Machine Gun” at New York City’s Fillmore East. [...]