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With Dulce Rosa, an Isabel Allende Story Becomes Opera

The new work launches an L.A. Opera initiative to keep opera vital

Cookbook of the Year: Gran Cocina Latina A Spicy Bolivian Peanut Sauce Recipe

What happens you combine a culinary pedigree that includes a Latin American/Spanish market and pastry shop (Ultramarinos) and two restaurants (Zafra & Cucharamama in New Jersey) with a doctorate in medieval history? Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America, a 900-page homage to Latin American c ... More >>

La Vida Boheme: Venezuelan Disco Punks Perform Before the Dodgers Game on Sunday

See also: Viva Los Dodgers 2012 Lineup Announced: Ximena Sariñana, Ana Tijoux, More Henry D'Arthenay is psyched for this Sunday's Dodger game, and not just because it's only the second of his life. As he tells us over Skype from his home in Caracas, Venezuela, his band La Vida Boheme will also per ... More >>

Mahlerpalooza: Gustavo Dudamel Makes L.A. the Mahler Capital of North America

See also: *Mahlerpalooza: Our Tips for Getting Through Gustavo Dudamel's Nine Concerts in 22 Days *Stravinsky vs. Schoenberg: Who Was More Gangsta? Did you have a WTF moment Saturday night, a tug towards the ocean followed by a sensation of heaviness pulling downward for a second? What you felt ... More >>

Tricia Tunstall's Changing Lives: A Book on Dudamel, El Sistema and the Revolution in Music Education

There's not much talk about music education these days. With all the budget crises, education cuts and Republican candidates --  none of whom seem terribly supportive of the arts -- you couldn't be blamed for thinking music programs aren't exactly a social priority right now. So you might be su ... More >>

Cafe Bolívar's 10th Anniversary, With Arepas

In December, Bolívar Café and Gallery celebrated two achievements. First, its 10th anniversary as a small, bustling Santa Monica café. Second, the arrival of a custom-made arepa machine, and the reappearance -- after a year hiatus -- of this Venezuelan dish. "On the first day we made over 200," ... More >>

The Passion of el Cristo

Osvaldo Golijov's thoroughly panamerican tribute to Bach comes to L.A.

Fast Food: Talking Food with IndyCar Driver E.J. Viso

And now, an entirely different meaning for fast food. With this weekend marking the annual Long Beach Grand Prix, it seemed like a good time to find out what an open wheel racer eats. Meet driver E.J. Viso. Now in his third year in the Indy Racing League, the 25 year-old from Caracas, Venezula, h ... More >>

Say It Ain't So, WeHo!

L.A. Phil's Gustavo Dudamel: Being a Brilliant and Inspiring Conductor Isn't Enough

Not when you're tasked with saving classical music

Plamegate, Reimagined as a Soccer-Mom Duel

Reformed Judy-ism

AFI: The Rest of the Fest

Our guide to films premiering during the festival's final weekend

The Boras Factor

Is super agent Scott Boras destroying the game of baseball? And what does he want now?

Devendra Banhart

Days of mud and poses

Spreading Good Vibes

The Nick Mancini Collective and more

Aromatherapy

Features

Major Mud

With Bush providing nothing for his party to run on, 2006 shapes up as the year of the slimeball

Polished Diamond

Talking LACE

With new executive director Carol Stakenas

Star Tracks

Mods & Rockers, Goatherds and a Sober George Carlin

Royal Coke

How the U.S. and France let the smuggling prince get away to help the war on terror

Box Populi

TV’s top stories

Maria Bustillos

The Prose and the Passion

Welcome to the Jungle

Herr Reich

Should Otto make us laugh or cry?

The Jewish Gaucho