Being the progeny of a Mixteca cabaret singer and a professor of art from Minnesota means that Lila Downs’s musical world isn’t so much about cultures colliding as it is about beautifully caressing two traditions into something that far exceeds the sum of their parts.
Fifty years after it opened its doors, San Marcos High is laden with achievements, and this week is a perfect time to review some of them.
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Being the social butterfly that I am, I’m bouncing from scene to scene, changing from outfit to outfit, sometimes without the benefit of someone else’s honest opinion about how hot (or not) my clothing choices look on me.
It’s 10 minutes after Roldy and Kumar get back from their first film’s addled epic quest for White Castle, which, you will remember, was the pretext for a movie representing the difficulties reality imposes on pleasure principle-centered lives.
When Robert Black, dressed in black himself, raises his fist to his bass in his composition “Swoosh” (2005), the bass knows he doesn’t mean it.
Now that the pre-Coachella indie rock influx has come and gone, it seems a good deal of our hometown heroes are crawling out of the woodwork.
On Saturday, April 5, at 10:20 a.m., northbound Amtrak 799 struck and killed a homeless pedestrian near the Milpas Street crossing.
There’s something dubious about fiction writers whose major theme is storytelling.
Saturday’s L.A. Phil appearance, significant as a new beginning at the Granada, also has a bittersweet aspect, as it will be the final appearance here of the L.A. Phil under maestro Esa-Pekka Salonen, who ends his long tenure with the Philharmonic after next season.
