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Day: March 17, 2015
L.A.’s Grand Central Market: Gentrification Isn’t Always A Bad Thing…
Two years ago when I moved a few blocks away from Grand Central Market, it was a ghost town of empty stalls, mostly abandoned restaurants, a few grocers, produce over-ripe and priced to move. Then things began to change. The 98 year old landmark got a facelift and our community regained a treasured resource. Surviving …
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American History Gets the Rap Treatment in Hamilton Musical
American history gets a vigorous shot in the arm with Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda’s bracing new musical about the most abrasive of our founding fathers, now playing at the Public Theater. You could argue, and Miranda does, that outside of George Washington, Alexander Hamilton was the key figure in the birth of our new nation. Scrappy, …
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Patricia Morison: Beautiful, Incandescent, Wunderbar
It was an ordinary date for an interview, like so many others before it and after. The time was the early 1970s and the big question on my plate that day was this: What is as distinguished a performer as Patricia Morison doing in The Sound of Music at the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera …
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Crutch
Every so often, regardless of its cinematic qualities, a short grabs me because of its sheer audacity of subject and movement. So when my good friend, producer and ocean activist Steve Reiss, with whom I frequently share views of and conversations about dance media, sent me several links – including David La Chappelle’s WAY over …
The Blurred Lines of Marvin Gaye and Feminist Parody
“I hate those blurred lines / I know you want it” croon the lyrics, but of course Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams, the song’s creators, didn’t want the $7.4 million judgement awarded to the Marvin Gaye estate for plagiarizing Gaye’s 1977 song “Got to Give It Up.” The decision, by a jury in a Los …
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Dutch Artists Create Walkscape Soundtrack for March 22 CicLAvia
Free “Walk With Me” App Allows Users to Experience Own Unique Walking Tour A city’s streets are permeated with ghosts of lives that have been lived, music that has faded, histories that have drifted from memory and sorrows whose wounds never closed. Streets also have the vibrancy of the moment – small business owners working …
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