For Violaine Corradi, the composer behind Cirque du Soleil’s latest production to stop in Los Angeles, “Varekai,” the challenge of creating original music for a Cirque show means more than just finding the right notes. Read more...
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August 24, 9:00 pm
Newest Cirque du Soleil show wings its way to L.A.
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August 24, 9:00 pm
Review: Mancini
What award doesn’t Clint Eastwood deserve? He’s been an Oscar-winning director, one of the most recognizable actors in films, a producer, a military man, a lumberjack and the mayor of Carmel, a small California town. Read more...
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August 24, 9:00 pm
Black leaves Pixies behind, continues music as “˜cult artist’
Frank Black’s innovative guitar-playing and songwriting skills seem to always be one step ahead of the rest. However, despite his major influence upon the music community, Black appears to have a casual attitude about his musical career and seems content to remain on the fringe. Read more...
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August 24, 9:00 pm
It’s punk rock, it’s house, it’s Junior Senior
Leave it to an exuberant Danish duo to put radio programmers and other media types into a tizzy of cultural confusion. Ever since Junior Senior’s party vibes made its U.S. Read more...
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August 17, 9:00 pm
Online: Mundane put on big screen in “˜American Splendor’
In the past year, numerous films based on comic books including “Hulk” and “The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen” have been produced in hopes of achieving the box office success of other comic book-based films “Batman” and “Spider-Man.” As movie studios vie for the opportunity to adapt another comic book for the big screen, along comes “American Splendor.” But “American Splendor” is the antithesis to the big-budgeted, effects-driven comic book films of the past. Read more...
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August 17, 9:00 pm
Online: El Gran Silencio jumps into American music scene with new album
Over 200 bodies clashed and sweated until 2 a.m. in a tireless mosh pit as the band El Gran Silencio jammed and danced live for three hours at JC Fandango’s in Anaheim earlier this month. Read more...
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August 17, 9:00 pm
[Online] Review: “American Splendor"
“American Splendor” Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Fine Line Features If this year’s disappointments “Daredevil” and “Hulk” are any indication, comic-book adaptations for the big screen have lately failed to capture the true essence of the original comic book. Constructed with ingenuity and inventiveness, the new film “American Splendor” should help to subside fears of comic book adaptations gone wrong. Read more...