Falling James

Like an Olympics for words, the sprawling Poetrypalooza Tour 2012 has been popping up at numerous SoCal venues on its "50-mile, one-month-long celebration of poetry." Presented by local writers group ZZyZx WriterZ, the tour makes a stop this evening at Venice literary bastion Beyond Baroque, with workshops from the L.A......

Johnny Ramone was reportedly the surliest and most antisocial member of the Ramones, but the annual summer tributes to the late guitarist, who died of prostate cancer in 2004, have transformed Hollywood Forever cemetery into one of the city's liveliest (so to speak) social gatherings. Originally started as a way......

If you've seen alt-country diva Neko Case perform during the past decade, you've probably also heard her longtime backup singer Kelly Hogan, who keeps the audience (and Case) cracking up with her fearlessly irreverent onstage patter. Case is an amazing singer, but so is Hogan, with a rich, soulful voice......

Now that Steven Tyler won't be leering creepily at the next crop of nubile young hopefuls auditioning on the upcoming season of American Idol, perhaps the raspy-voiced singer can turn his attention to making Aerosmith great again. The irony is that, although the Boston quintet hasn't released a consistently strong......

Charles Fletcher Lummis was a fascinating man who — among many other things — started out in 1885 as the L.A. Times' first city editor (after walking from Cincinnati to L.A.!), toiled as one of the area's first librarians and founded the Southwest Museum. At a time when Native Americans......

For the latest installment of the ongoing "Poetry in Motion" series, the artist-poet Eve Brandstein has lassoed together an interesting lineup of performers to riff on the theme "Hidden Treasures." As a former casting director for Norman Lear, Brandstein has had a lot of experience corralling disparate personalities, and one......