Arts & Culture

GRAMMY Museum All About the Music

By Eric Richardson — Tuesday — 1 Comment

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|Photo Gallery| When it opens to the public on Saturday, the GRAMMY Museum at L.A. Live will join a small list of major music museums around the country: Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame and Seattle's Experience Music Project. All highlight the history of music.

"We're not so much about the history of anything really," GRAMMY Museum Executive Director Robert Santelli told a media crowd on-hand to check out the new facility this morning.

While information and artifacts from music's past are certainly to be found in the new space, displays at the GRAMMY Museum put a special focus on music's present, giving visitors a chance to experience the creation process. — Continued Inside...


12/3: Chamber Singers Kick Off Holiday Season at Vibiana

By Eric Richardson — November 26, 2008
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Next Wednesday, the Los Angeles Chamber Singers and Capella bring their Grammy-winning voices to Vibiana for an evening of Christmas carols from around the world. The group, directed by Peter Rutenberg, played at the former Cathedral in June of 2007 as part of Chorus America's national conference and now returns for a public concert.


12/6: Old Bank District Block Party to Let Downtowners Play in the Streets

By Eric Richardson — November 25, 2008
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Old Bank District Lights

|Photo Gallery| Food, drink and music take to the streets on Saturday, December 6th, as Gilmore Associates hosts the first annual Old Bank District Block Party at 4th and Main. The 6pm to midnight event will close off two blocks and feature two stages of music, an art bazaar and charity booths.


City Looking to Get Back Into the Mural Business with "Art Easements"

By Ed Fuentes — November 21, 2008
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Los Angeles' title of “Mural Capital of the World” was a moniker inspired by large-scale works created for the 1984 Olympics Arts Festival. But in the last two years, that title has been claimed, rightfully so, by Philadelphia's active and prolific community mural program. Recent years here in L.A. have seen murals become more a topic for controversy than a...


Art Walk Preview for November 2008

By Sophia Kercher with Ed Fuentes — November 12, 2008
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November brings change and hope. Celebrate moving onward among art openings slightly less wine-soaked than months before, photography by Skid Row denizens, art demonstrations and moving Vaudeville shows. This Thursday there's all manner of fresh activity on Gallery Row, so here's a guide to some of what's new in November.


Modern Mickey Comes to Art Walk

By Pamela Rouse — November 07, 2008
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BLOC28 @ the continental

Mickey's coming to the Historic Core, and it looks like he's picked up some street cred. Emblazoned on the side of the Continental Gallery, the first floor make-shift art space in the Continental Building, are large signs promoting BLOC28 and an oh too hip (and perhaps a little badass) Mickey Mouse. He's coming to the Downtown Art Walk next week for a limited...


Arts Orgs Announce 10-Week Festival for 2010

By Eric Richardson — November 03, 2008
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The tenor

As mentioned on Wednesday, the LA Opera headed a list of fifty arts and culture organizations set to make a major announcement at a press event this morning. There’s little need to attend the actual event, though, since the organizers gave the Times an extensive preview of what’s to come, a ten-week arts festival to take place around the city in 2010...


Saturday: One Last Night for Million Dollar Spooktacular

By Eric Richardson — November 01, 2008

Million Dollar Spooktacular

|Photo Gallery| Downtowners looking to gasp should be sure to catch the second night of the Million Dollar Spooktacular, taking place at the Million Dollar Theater on Broadway. While classic horror films in a historic Broadway theater is an easy crowd-pleaser, the star of Friday’s opening was George the Giant. Offering a mix of stand-up comedy and impressive stunts, the...


Festival de la Gente Set to Make Its Arts District Debut

By Ed Fuentes — October 31, 2008
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While Thanksgiving and Christmas are for friends and family coming together, Halloween and El Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) is becoming an holiday where communities gather. Why not? No one wants to meet ghostly spirits alone. Unlike Halloween, a day that came from a tradition scaring away the boogeyman, the Day of the Dead welcomes spirits home with...


Broadway Theater Comes Alive on Halloween and Day of the Dead

By Ed Fuentes — October 30, 2008
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Tomorrow the Million Dollar Spooktacular comes to Broadway, bringing a performance Friday night, Saturday matinees, and a Saturday evening showing. It’s a double culture dip for classic horror films as “Night of the Living Dead” is screened Friday and “The Reanimator” on Saturday night. In between, matinee times offer kids a Day...