Roger Aldridge's Collaboration Project Is Open For Submissions
Roger Aldridge is hosting a collaboration project through Talenthouse. To participate in the project musicians and ensembles listen to a selection of his original music (link is in the project description), find a piece that you especially like, contact Roger for a copy of the music, and submit a recording of it expressing your vision of ...
Tom Petty And Heartbreakers' Stolen Guitars Found, Man Arrested
Culver City detectives have arrested man in connection with the theft of five vintage guitars belonging to members of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from a studio last week. The guitars were stolen from a sound stage at The Culver Studios in Culver City, according to the band’s website. A reward of $7,500 with “no questions asked” was ...
Five Guitars Stolen From Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
How do you break the heart of a Heartbreaker? Steal his guitar. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers showed up to rehearse for a new tour slated to get rolling Wednesday in Colorado only to find that thieves had swiped five of their electric guitars. Photos have been posted at the band’s official website with detailed descriptions, including ...
Ixquick offer anonymous web browsing with new Startpage Proxy
It doesn't matter what search engine you use, or which websites you visit, some of your information is logged and cookies may be installed on your machine while browsing the web. You can limit such activity by paying for a service like IPREDator, but a free alternative now exists. Ixquick launched a privacy search engine that ...
Musician accused of attacking park worker over dog without leash
If it's true that all publicity is good publicity, one struggling L.A. musician may have struck gold. Arune Kavaliauskaite, 28, who fronts the band Arune & Alternatives, got plenty of coverage over the weekend on local newscasts and elsewhere, including a blog for dog lovers. But the attention wasn't for the singer's power vocals: The Altadena ...
The Inbreeding Coefficient of Superheroes
There are many ways to examine the social worlds of fact and fiction, and whether or not they are similar. In an article for The Atlantic, I examined the social networks of superheroes, a mathematical way to think about comic books. I found that the worlds of fiction are not so different from the real world, ...
Peter Frampton Reunited With ‘Best Guitar’ After 31 Years
Peter Frampton has been reunited with the Gibson electric guitar he played on “Frampton Comes Alive," three decades years after it was presumed destroyed in a plane crash. It turns out the guitar did not burn up in November 1980 when a cargo plane crashed on takeoff in Caracas, Venezuela, on its way to Panama, where ...
Photographers needed for the 2012 New Orleans Jazz Fest
The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation Archive is seeking volunteer photographers to document the 2012 Jazz Fest. The foundation will organize a team of volunteer photographers to take pictures of various aspects of the 2012 festival, according to a press release from the foundation. The three categories for applicants are: student, amateur and professional. The ...
Teen’s Priceless Violin Recovered In Philadelphia
Muchen Hsieh offered an impromptu performance at the Philadelphia Police Department's 18th District station house after being reunited with the $172,000 violin that she accidentally left on a bus. That expensive violin left by an 18-year-old student on a bus has been recovered. Philadelphia police scheduled a press conference for 3pm this afternoon “regarding the return ...
Ol' Blue Eyes
All blue-eyed people can be traced back to one ancestor who lived 10,000 years ago near the Black Sea. Throughout history they have been the eyes that are prized. Frank Sinatra's were legendary, Paul Newman's melted a million hearts while Cameron Diaz's dazzle in modern Hollywood. Ol' Blue Eyes, the late Frank Sinatra, whose nickname was ...
A Photographer's Quirky Look of Christmas Across America
On his many trips across the United States, Lee Friedlander has famously documented the social landscape and tapestry of the country in his own inimitable, unique way. For more than half a century, his personal and often oblique visual language—filled with the recurring themes of reflections in mirrors, shadows, signs and cars— has provided a rich ...
With City Opera’s Departure, Big Vacancy at Koch Theater
Wanted: One intrepid cultural organization to share the cost of operating a Lincoln Center theater that recently lost one of its tenants to financial difficulties. Must be able to balance a budget and attract large audiences with programming dynamic enough to fill 2,600 seats.
Financially healthy, reliably popular performing arts organizations are not so easy to ...
Valentine's Day countdown: Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa's favorite love song
From now through Valentine's Day we're sharing the favorite love song from eight musicians who are about to perform in the Los Angeles area. Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa is a sucker for “Danny Boy." Watch the opera star from New Zealand sing the sentimental Irish folk song in this video. “When you want a love song ...
Valentine's Day countdown: Baritone Nathan Gunn's favorite love song
Through Valentine's Day we're sharing the favorite love song from eight musicians who are about to perform in the Los Angeles area. The baritone Nathan Gunn selects “Die Neugierige" from Schubert's song cycle “Die Schöne Müllerin." “ 'Die Neugierige' is my favorite because I love beautiful tunes, but I also love the context of the words. ...
