To say it’s been a tough year and half for music lovers is an understatement of course, but adjusting to the new pandemic-era normal, especially when it comes to c
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Maya Jenkins’ story is quintessentially L.A. The singer, songwriter and actress who goes simply by Maya J, spent the early part of her life in South Florida and wa
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Karen Civil says that she’s all about, creating moments in lifestyle and in culture.” To that end, she’s an author, philanthropist, media maven, curator and Ha
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Unbelievable. That word keeps coming to mind anytime the subject of Jimmy Angel arises. A vigorous, rafter-raising showman with steely tenor pipes and wild stage
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Los Angeles clubbers and lovers of EDM in general can't fail to have become familiar with the name SLANDER over the eight and a half yea
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The Plugz were just a little bit faster and tighter th
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Last week, Salvator Mundi, a painting said to be from the hand of Leonardo da Vinci, sold at Christie’s for $450 million. The painting is, apparently, of Jesus Ch
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While your friends are all bragging about their latest pickups from Amoeba, Sherry and Adrian Younge at the Artform Studio are looking to give you an entirely diff
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A few weeks ago I got a flier that said Fred Durst was hosting a live jazz night in Hollywood. “Was this a joke?” I first thought. Fred doing trad-jazz v
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One of Sharon Jones’ biggest fans found her musical love while waiting in line for a beer at Sunset Junction in 2004. Nancy Marie Arteaga heard the funky siren cal
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The core Dollyrots duo of Kelly Ogden and Luis Cabezas are married, and Ogden has just given birth to their second child. The family is about to embark on a tour for
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I enjoyed La La Land. As a jazz musician, jazz educator and sometime writer about jazz, I was surprised and compelled by director Damien Chazelle’s ambitious attem
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