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Think You Like the Hollywood Bowl? These People Really Like the Hollywood Bowl

See also: *More articles about the Hollywood Bowl *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Annoying Things About Summer in L.A. Tickets for the Hollywood Bowl went on general sale to the public Saturday morning at 10 a.m., and for Alisha Staten, Gwen Corben, Sheila Tunnel and their cohorts, this ... More >>

Rob Zombie Hates That Movie Scores Aren't Catchy Anymore. So He's Trying to Change Them

Rob Zombie remembers the first time he saw Jaws. It was in 1975. He was a child at the time, probably in fourth grade by his recollections. "There wasn't anything scary happening," he remembers. Yet Jaws became a legend of the horror genre it was, in a large part, thanks to the music. "John Williams ... More >>

New African-American Owned Beverly Hills Jazz Club Is An Anomaly

Dennis "D.Anthony" Robertson has moved back and forth between the business and music worlds for years now. An aspiring drummer, he first began promoting acts at B.B. King's at Universal Studios, working his way into management and eventually ownership of the club. When that venture ended a few ye ... More >>

Does Lincoln Feed the Spielberg Haters?

The first few minutes of Lincoln play out like a parody of the expectations of Steven Spielberg's detractors. The Great Emancipator rests like a humble Solomon upon a hard wooden chair, surrounded by freely mixing black and white soldiers of that great war of his. One black soldier dares to speak of ... More >>

Lincoln Review: Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis Make the 16th President Relatable

Top 10 Live Music Venues in L.A.: The Complete List

Timothy Norris​California knows how to party. -"California Love" It's the unofficial state motto. But not only do we know how, we know where. Los Angeles is home to a wide spectrum of live music venues, from the teeniest Echo Park hole-in-the-wall only you and five friends know, to grand ol' ... More >>

Top 10 Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #5-1

For all the best of L.A. music, download our free Best Of Mobile app. See also: Top Ten Best Live Music Venues in L.A.: #10 - #6 5. Music Box See also: R.I.P. the Music Box? Legendary Hollywood Venue Shuttered [UPDATE: Short-term?] News of the Music Box's overnight shuttering this month was met wi ... More >>

5 Best Songs From John Hughes Films

Breakfast Club scene from the musical revue For the Record: John Hughes (Holiday Road)​If you were alive in the 1980's, chances are that the films of John Hughes have worked their way into your memory and/or heart. Whether it was that kiss over cake in Sixteen Candles, that never ending detent ... More >>

John Williams' Untitled, an Abstract Painting in My Home

Music Picks: Ravi Shankar, Marilyn Scott, Duran Duran, Burkina Electric

Also, Emmylou Harris & Her Red Dirt Boys, Odd Future, Gillian Welch and others

Five Revelations from the Hollywood Bowl's Trippy, Light Stick-Crazy AFI Great American Movie Quiz

Mathew Imaging"If Timothy Leary was here he'd say 'Boy did they give me some real good stuff," quipped AFI Movie Quiz host Alex Trebek about patrons' light sticks.​ There's typically a spot on the September Hollywood Bowl calendar for its revue of classical Hollywood scores, aka The Big Pictu ... More >>

Music Picks: Janet Jackson, John Escreet Quartet, DJ Quik, Charles Bradley

Also, Charlie Haden Quartet West, John Williams, Philip Glass and others

Jazz Trumpeter Terence Blanchard's Five Favorite Film Soundtracks

​Interview by Sean O'Connell Trumpet player and New Orleans native Terence Blanchard is a very busy man, but when he isn't blasting his fiery, post-bop horn on a recording date or scoring the latest Hollywood drama, he always makes time for the stage. From August 19th through the 21st, Blan ... More >>

The Belle Brigade: All in the Family

Sibling act is not afraid to suck

KNOWING RAYMOND SCOTT

Music Picks: Dr. John, Herbie Hancock, Sunset Strip Music Festival

Also, Funkfest, Chromeo, Slayer and others

Wild Grass: Red Bull

Alain Resnais does his carrot-topped muse no favors

Brian Eno Has Plenty of Time for Coldplay But No Time for Oscar Paperwork

"Hey Oscar! Take your paperwork and shove it up your gold-plated arse!" screams Brian Eno​We fess up to not having paid much attention to the current film The Lovely Bones, a remake of 1990's Ghost with the Patrick Swayze part played by a prepubescent girl and the Demi Moore part played by Mar ... More >>

Frank Zappa to Jack Kirby: "I Could Have Scored 'Star Wars'!"

The current issue of visually spiffy pop culture magazine Royal Flush has a really interesting interview with Ahmet Zappa, where he reveals details of his dad Frank's surprising friendship with legendary comics maverick Jack Kirby. (Yes, the LA Times blogged about this a month ago, but bear with us. ... More >>

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Maestro! Film Composers (and One Director) Speak About Ennio Morricone's Impact

Legendary composer has still never played L.A.

Star Wars in Concert: How Many Ways Can You Interpret "The Imperial March"?

​The appeal of a piece of music can be measured by how well it can be covered. If you can change not just the musicians, but the instruments, and still come out with something solid, then it's a winner. Take "The Imperial March (Darth Vader's Theme)" as an example. Ever since its first appeara ... More >>

Dudamel in Los Angeles and El Sistema a Huge Success

We sat perhaps 100 to 150 feet away from Gustavo Dudamel at the Hollywood Bowl last night, watching as he whipped his wiry, pale-skinned little body around the stage like dancer whose DNA somehow got mixed up with Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek.I wanted to snack on my brie-and-figs picni ... More >>

Know This, America: Watching Obama With a Plate of Grits

The L.A. County Federation of Labor, to which I belong as a union delegate, threw an Inauguration Day viewing breakfast this morning. Like the Fed's annual Labor Day breakfast and other early morning rallies, this one showed some health-consciousness in the chicken sausage cakes and turkey bacon off ... More >>

The TV Crank's Wish List

A DVD gift guide for curmudgeons who think there's nothing good on TV anymore

California Philharmonic explores space, the musical frontier

Featuring Holst's "The Planets," score to Star Wars and images from JPL

The New Guy: Gustavo Dudamel

Strength in numbers

Do-Run-Run

What to do in Los Angeles this week

Emily Bernstein Benefit Concert

It Comes With the Job

Murder On the Last Turn

Mickey Thompson was a renowned race-car driver and promoter. Mike Goodwin was the brash, egocentric creator of motocross. They became business partners. Then all hell broke loose.

Theater Reviews

For the week of March 17 - 23

Give It Up for the Geisha

The exquisitely phony charms of the Asian bourgeoisie — Hollywood style

The Miseducation of Ericka Griffin

Ericka Griffin figured she was finally getting her big break when she got a teaching job at an exclusive Santa Monica private school. Instead, the school’s elite taught her the lesson of her life.

Iberian Airs

The Lady at the Bottom of the Groove

The Wife's Old Tales

A Loss of Originality

The Voice of America

Deep listening with DJ Shadow

A Thousand Clones . . .

...do not an awesome Star Wars make

Letters

Something Wonderful

Star Wars Wars

The Best of Sitegeist

Dark Angels

Something for (Nearly) Everyone

Ladybug Man

Small bugs, big plans

Episode Zero

Geek Love

Star Wars and me

Star Wars Wars

The Spectacle of a Mind