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December 25, 2008Top 10 Latin Music Albums of 2008
By Julienne Gage Americans who still think of Latin music as mariachi bands and gyrating Ricky Martins and Shakiras might want to lend a closer ear to the genre. This country's Hispanic population isn't just growing, it's growing more diverse. More and more unique musical styles are being gobbled ... More >>
Film+TV
November 29, 2007LGBT People of Color Film Festival
Women get their due at fifth annual L.A. event
Music
June 12, 2008Centerfolds and Saxophones
Jazz in L.A., June 13-19
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December 18, 2008West Side Story
Jazz in L.A., June 13-19
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December 11, 2008Arroz con Pollo
Jazz in L.A., June 13-19
Stage
October 9, 2008Fresh Moves at Highways' Fourth Annual Latino New Works Festival
Jazz in L.A., June 13-19
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October 9, 2008Ritmos Nuevos
Dance offerings move Highways' fourth Latino New Works Festival
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May 29, 2008A Chorus Line
Dance offerings move Highways' fourth Latino New Works Festival
Music
May 8, 2008Hot Week for Latin Lovers
Latin Jazz Festival 2008 at the Greek, plus spicy fare at Catalina, Jazz Bakery
Music
May 1, 2008Bataan Twirling: Fania and Salsoul Star Returns to L.A.
The "King of Latin Soul" also teaches some mean karate kicks
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May 1, 2008References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot
The "King of Latin Soul" also teaches some mean karate kicks
LA Life
May 17, 2007¡Ask a Mexican! Pounding Eardrums
Dear Mexican: Just needed to know the reasoning behind the BLARING MARIACHI MUSIC AT 7 A.M. ON A SATURDAY MORNING.
Music
July 12, 2007Bricks Picks: Old Forms, New Sounds
Kenny Burrell, Davi Vieira, Sal Marquez and more
Music
May 24, 2007Echo Park Cuban Music Festival
Salsa, cigars, and chicharrones
Film+TV
June 21, 2007Film Reviews: Black Sheep, 1408, You Kill Me
Also Yellow and Broken English
News
August 24, 2006Remember the Immigrant-Rights Movement?
The case of Elvira Arellano inspires L.A. organizers
Music
April 21, 2005Coachella 2005: The Year of the Cult
A highly opinionated user’s guide
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May 27, 2004An Island of Words
Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing
News
May 13, 2004Greasel, not Diesel
Or what to do with all that old French-fry oil . . .
Art+Books
April 29, 2004An Island of Words
Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing
Eat+Drink
August 22, 2002The Wedding Planner?
Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing
News
July 19, 200113: A Metal Glossary of Styles
Luisita López Torregrosa on breaking the silence of infinite longing
News
June 1, 2000Sunny Days, Sultry Nights
Highlighting the events of the season
Columns
June 10, 1999Go Away
Highlighting the events of the season
Stage
December 10, 1998Duck Logic
Plays that defy gravity
Music
May 21, 2009Brick's Picks: Big-Band Revival
Plays that defy gravity
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May 28, 2009Conservative Tongues Wagging, Pig Ears Pricked Over Supreme Court Justice Nominee's Food Preferences -- Or Why Sonia Sotomayor Now Has the Full Support of Our Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Restaurant Critic
Josh Marshall's Talking Points Memo picked up conservatives going nuts over Sonia Sotomayor's eating habits: "A conservative source really did draw a connection between Sonia Sotomayor's gastronomical preferences -- traditional Puerto Rican cuisine -- and her allegedly "activist" jurisprudence." ... More >>
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August 28, 2009Ted Leo & the Pharmacists To Do Vegan Brunch Show at the Smell This Sunday
Like a good vegan brunch? Like to rock? Free Sunday? The Smell's hosting a surprise matinee show from Ted Leo & the Pharmacists this weekend. Starts at noon. If that weren't enough, also on the bill are Puerto Rican garage rock experts Davila 666, and Mose Campbell. The flyer says "vegan tacos and p ... More >>
LA Life
October 22, 2009Finish School — and Shut Up During the Mariachi
Like a good vegan brunch? Like to rock? Free Sunday? The Smell's hosting a surprise matinee show from Ted Leo & the Pharmacists this weekend. Starts at noon. If that weren't enough, also on the bill are Puerto Rican garage rock experts Davila 666, and Mose Campbell. The flyer says "vegan tacos and p ... More >>
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November 5, 2009Interview: Robbie Rivera Hates It When His Warm-Up DJs Play 'Crazy' Hard
The dance music underground might be rocking bleepy techno and dark-wave house from Europe, but the stuff that really moves the masses combines the synthetic strings of trance with the tough percussion of house. One look at the most popular DJs in the world, from Tiesto to Deadmau5 to Kaskade, point ... More >>
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December 21, 2009Death Of Actress Brittany Murphy Under Investigation
As Los Angeles police and county coroner's officials investigated the death of actress Brittany Murphy, reports indicate it has been a bad month or so for the star whose home was found to contain several prescription drugs, according to TMZ. In late November Murphy was reportedly removed fro ... More >>
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December 21, 2009Brittany Murphy Autopsy Inconclusive
The county coroner's office completed its autopsy on the body of actress Brittany Murphy on Monday but came to conclusions and deferred its decision on the cause of her death until a battery of tests, including "toxicological tests and tissue studies" come back, according to a coroner's state ... More >>
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December 21, 2009'SNL' Brittany Murphy Spoof Pulled From Website
Abby Elliott as Brittany Murphy on 'SNL.'NBC apparently pulled the online clip of a Saturday Night Live spoof of Brittany Murphy from a site, Hulu, the network co-owns. The move on Monday came a day after the actress died following cardiac arrest at her home in the hills above the Sunset Stri ... More >>
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December 22, 2009Brittany Murphy's Husband Says She Was Sick, Tired
Brittany Murphy's husband, British screenwriter Simon Monjack, told television show Access Hollywood this week that the actress was sick and maybe a bit worn down at the time of her death Sunday morning. He said she had recently seen a doctor and that she was just coming off a year in which ... More >>
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December 23, 2009Report: Brittany Murphy Was Fired From Movie Over Husband
Brittany Murphy's husband, screenwriter Simon Monjack, was the cause of her firing last month from a movie project being filmed in Puerto Rico at the time, according to a Hollywood Reporter columnist. Director Michael Z. Gordon, who had hired Murphy for an upcoming project, told Roger Friedm ... More >>
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May 6, 2010Bagels and Bongos! (Guest Bloggers: The "Jews on Vinyl" Project)
[Ed.'s Note: Roger Bennett and Josh Kun are the masterminds behind the amazing Jews on Vinyl project, where they have digged deep to retell the history of Jewish recorded music from the 1940s to the 1980s. Their projects include a blog, a book and a traveling museum exhibit which is coming to LA's S ... More >>
Stage
July 1, 2010Wuthering Heights
Lin-Manuel Miranda's rap-salsa-calypso musical sashays into the Pantages
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November 2, 2010World Champion Surfer Andy Irons Dies From Dengue Fever
Andy Irons died, reporteldy from dengue fever. Three-time world-champion surfer Andy Irons has died, according to Surfer magazine. The publication reports he was headed from a world tour stop in Puerto Rico to his home base of Hawaii after falling ill and was possibly grounded in Dallas befo ... More >>
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December 9, 2010West Side Story
Andy Irons died, reporteldy from dengue fever. Three-time world-champion surfer Andy Irons has died, according to Surfer magazine. The publication reports he was headed from a world tour stop in Puerto Rico to his home base of Hawaii after falling ill and was possibly grounded in Dallas befo ... More >>
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February 1, 2011Stage Raw: Shadow Anthropology
NEW THEATER REVIEWSSTAGE FEATURE ON PUZZLER AND ADDING MACHINE: A MUSICALCOMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGSNEW REVIEW GO SHADOW ANTHROPOLOGY ​Photo by Nigel DookhooTen years after 9/11, the plight of rural Afghanis caught in the crossfire between American forces and the T ... More >>
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April 18, 2011Weird Science: Sugar Cane Cools Climate
Jack Delano / Library of CongressSugar cane worker in the rich field, vicinity of Guanica, Puerto Rico (circa 1939).We already know it's good for making rum. Now, it turns out that sugar cane may help slow the pace of climate change. Score another victory for science. Scientists from the Car ... More >>
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May 25, 2011What Race is a Latino? Some Mexican-Americans in California Aren't Even Sure (Neither Are We)
RCALatina? White? Both?Have you ever looked at your light-skinned, green-eyed Latino neighbor -- or perhaps he's kinky haired and the color of cinnamon -- and asked, What the hell are you? It's a question Latinos even ask themselves, apparently, especially when filling out a U.S. Census form ... More >>
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June 6, 2011Weird Science: Eating Dirt Can Be Good For You
Jack Delano / Courtesy of The Library of CongressMember of a Yauco tomato cooperative, planting tomatoes on his farm in near Yauco, Puerto Rico.Eating dirt? It sounds like one of the tamer though still disgusting episodes of TLC's Addicted, the awful show (awful in a "can't stop watching" kin ... More >>
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June 14, 2011Rum Report: The Summer Edition, Part One
JgarbeeThe Ron De Barrilito Rum Bottling Line In Puerto RicoRum always seems to get the raw end of the piña colada deal. Yes, the spirit has a "sweet" finish, but not in the sugary sense. It's more like a really big inhale of cinnamon and vanilla, with a few other spices in between. Or at le ... More >>
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September 7, 2011White Arrows Singer Mickey Schiff Was Blind, But Now He Sees (Literally)
Matthew WardenaarBorn legally blind, Mickey Schiff experienced his surroundings as though they were a Monet landscape -- all colors and shapes and softness. When he was 11 his vision was corrected, turning the word into edges, hard angles and lines so sharp that he was startled into nausea. N ... More >>
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September 30, 2011Latinos Accounted For Most of America's White Population Growth in The Last Decade (Huh?)
revenanteSo sorry.The good news, my white people, is that you're still growing and own a large part of this great nation's demographics. There are 223.6 million of you in America, according to a just-released parsing of U.S. Census data, and you still make up about 72 percent of the landscape ... More >>
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September 8, 2011The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity
revenanteSo sorry.The good news, my white people, is that you're still growing and own a large part of this great nation's demographics. There are 223.6 million of you in America, according to a just-released parsing of U.S. Census data, and you still make up about 72 percent of the landscape ... More >>
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October 27, 2011The Rum Diary: Johnny Depp's Hunter S. Thompson
revenanteSo sorry.The good news, my white people, is that you're still growing and own a large part of this great nation's demographics. There are 223.6 million of you in America, according to a just-released parsing of U.S. Census data, and you still make up about 72 percent of the landscape ... More >>
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November 21, 2011Fuck Guilty Pleasures: Is Exile The Best Stones' Album? Nope, It's Some Girls
[Editor's Note: Fuck Guilty Pleasures celebrates the over-produced, commercial, artless, lowbrow music that we believe is genuinely worthwhile. Like, among the best music ever.] Today marks the re-release of the Rolling Stones' 1978 album Some Girls, which has been remastered and expanded. T ... More >>
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January 26, 2012Los Angeles Ranks as Really Really Good Looking
ZoolanderWe'll admit it. L.A. is an underdog town. Not just because it comes in second to New York in population, or because NYC's culture and arts scenes get way more attention. But because sometimes we fall on our face, and it's all our own fault. Look at the people we elect. Look at our so ... More >>
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