Brett Callwood

Hot Club of Los Angeles; Credit: Terry Okey

The Hot Club of Los Angeles Keeps Gypsy Jazz Alive

Brett Callwood
Gypsy-jazz pioneer Django Reinhardt may have died in 1953 from a brain hemorrhage at the horribly young age of 43, but thanks to bands such as the Hot Club of Los Angeles, named after Reinhardt's own Quintette du Hot Club de France, his music remains alive and well....
Hippie Sabotage; Credit: Michael Paredes

Hippie Sabotage Are All About Love, Though Not Necessarily Peace

Brett Callwood
"Over 1 billion streams": That's what's plastered across the press release sent out to promote local EDM duo Hippie Sabotage's 2018 national tour. Brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer are rightfully proud of that statistic, too. Even in this modern world, where streaming music is the norm, there’s so much music online to listen to that reaching 1 billion is quite the achievement....
A picture of David Slocum's medical retail cannabis license

First Cannabis Licenses Issued by Los Angeles

Brett Callwood
The city of Los Angeles granted its first licenses for cannabis sale on Friday, Jan. 12, with Mother Nature’s Remedy Caregivers in Woodland Hills being the first recipient of a medicinal license. WHTC in Studio City was granted the first recreational license....
Patty Schemel will speak and perform at the Women of Rock Oral History Project event.; Credit: Darcy Hemley

The Women of Rock Project Documents Interviews for Deserved Recognition

Brett Callwood
Tanya Pearson was a student at Smith College in Massachusetts when she conceived of and developed an inspired idea: conduct and collect a comprehensive series of interviews with female rock and rollers, with the ultimate goal of ensuring that the same recognition and place in rock history available to men is also up for grabs for women. The Women of Rock Oral History Project was born....
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Rams', Chargers' New Home Taking Shape

Brett Callwood
After an unusually wet 2017 winter held up development on the NFL stadium scheduled to open in Inglewood in 2020, work is now well underway. Before too long, two football teams that until recently played in St. Louis and San Diego will play their home games in the same park....
Cash crop; Credit: File photo by Brett Levin/Flickr

Cannabis Watch 2018: What Can We Learn From Colorado?

Brett Callwood
It was in November 2012 that Colorado residents voted in favor of the legalization of recreational cannabis, which came into effect in January 2014. Exactly four years later, we’re ideally placed to look east at what those folks did right and wrong. You can be sure the powers-that-be have been doing exactly that. Here are five things to keep an eye on…...