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Buzzed About Art Fair in Santa Monica Shines Light on Cheech Marin's Collection
This week’s Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art fair in Santa Monica, (Jan..25-28 at Barker Hanger) is no joke. And neither is Cheech Marin’s collection of Chicano Art.Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) launches this Thursday, January 25 and runs through Sunday January 28 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. This is the ninth year of ALAC […]
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Astana Days: Kazakhstan's Excellent Financial Adventure
During the first week of July, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, celebrated its 20th Anniversary and officially launched the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), a bold plan to make this city of 1 Million people in a landlocked country of some 18 million citizens, the financial hub of Central Asia and a destination for European, […]
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When a "City Without Jews" Was a Comedy
Wilshire Boulevard Temple will host a special screening of the Los Angeles premiere of “The City Without Jews,” a long-lost, recently restored 1924 Austrian silent film, featuring live accompaniment on the temple’s magnificent, 4,102-pipe Korn Kimball organ.This film could not be more timely (alas). The increase of anti-Semitic incidents in England, France, Hungary and Poland […]
Using the Blues to Bridge Across the Great Americana Divide
One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It’s sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord â enough to hear a favorite artist or song and discover someone worth […]
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Hollywood Makes History: Preview of Next Year's New Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
A year from now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, known more popularly as the people who brings us The Oscars, hope to open their long-gestating Academy Museum of Motion Picture.At a luncheon given by the Academy recently, Academy and Museum board members. executives and officials Ron Meyer, Dawn Hudson and Kerry Brougher […]