Precious few bands can fill a stadium 52 years into their career — let alone play to an audience heavily populated by parents and their children, both generations sporting red …
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Goldenvoice founder Gary Tovar is Coachella’s eternal fan
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesInside the club-like Sonora tent on the grounds of the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Gary Tovar is inching closer to the stage. As ever, he’s snapping pictures …
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Welcome to the L.A. Times Book Club newsletter. Honestly, for bibliophiles, is there a better weekend in spring than late April at the L.A. Times Festival of Books? The temps …
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Stewart Copeland plays with animals on latest project ‘Wild Concerto’
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesStewart Copeland is best known as one-third of the Police, the chart-topping trio that called it quits after five acclaimed albums released between 1978-1983 and launched Sting to solo stardom. …
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‘Top Chef’s’ Mei Lin returns to fine dining at 88 Club
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones88 Club At 88 Club, planks of artful shrimp toast, piles of chewy mung bean jelly noodles and clay pots of mapo tofu spin on well-lighted marble lazy Susans. This …
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Six decades later, Ramón Ayala is still the king of the accordion
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesRamón Ayala knows he’s on borrowed time. The 79-year-old accordionist and bandleader has been battling a bevy of health issues stemming from diabetes. He’s collapsed onstage multiple times in recent …
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Art Spiegelman, Janinah Burnett: L.A. arts and culture this weekend
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis Jones“Art Spiegelman is one of the most important cartoonists in the world working today. He tackled a subject that was enormous, and he established the medium as a serious literary …
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‘Ransom Canyon’ on Netflix: Handsome men, horses and high drama
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesNow streaming on Netflix, the home of “Virgin River” (six seasons, seven on the way), is “Ransom Canyon.” Like “Virgin River,” it adapts the work of a best-selling romance novelist …
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Demi Moore expected Mikey Madison to win the Academy Award for lead actress, she recently told Time magazine. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did,” Moore said in …
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Netflix posts strong earnings despite economic headwinds
by Curtis Jonesby Curtis JonesRising economic uncertainty amid a global trade war did little to dampen Netflix’s financial results in the first quarter. The Los Gatos-based streaming giant said its first quarter revenue grew …