After an album release, most bands expect to go on tour, perform at awards shows and hope for a Grammy nomination. But for Green Day, its 2004 punk rock album "American Idiot" resulted in a Broadway musical. Read more...
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(From left) Scott J. Campbell, Van Hughes and Jake Epstein perform in the Green Day-based rock opera “American Idiot,” which will be showing at the Ahmanson Theatre through April 22.
Joshua Elder is going to become a doctor. Between taking board examinations, attending class and auditioning for residency, any time Elder has just 10 minutes to spare, he will pick up his guitar and strum a couple of Tyrone Wells tunes. Read more...
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A capella group The GeffeNotes rehearses for tonight’s talent show, which will feature medical students of all years. Performances range from acoustic sets to piano pieces and dances.
In the years since its launch in 2005, the Huffington Post has been the subject of both admiration and controversy. On Saturday, its current editor-in-chief, Arianna Huffington, will appear at Royce Hall on behalf of non-profit organization Insight University as the first speaker for its "Transformational Leaders" series. Read more...
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Arianna Huffington will be recognized with the “Transformational Leaders” Award, to be presented by Laura Donnelley, founder of the Good Works Foundation.
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Video games, as compared to just about everything else discussed in this section of the newspaper, are a pretty new medium. They're still coming into their own, but they're doing so in a way that influences and will continue to influence life itself. Read more...
If the title "The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King," grabs someone's attention, then it has fulfilled its goal. The play doesn't actually feature Martin Luther King or his mistresses "“ it's simply meant to provoke a reaction. Read more...
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Tracey A. Leigh and Philip Casnoff star in “The Many Mistresses of Martin Luther King,” which also features UCLA adjunct assistant professor Judith Moreland and UCLA alumnus Theo Perkins.
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Once a week, the upbeat sound of spirited string instruments consumes Schoenberg Hall as about 20 musicians come together to learn about bluegrass and old-time style music. Read more...
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The L.A. BlueGrassHoppers is UCLA’s bluegrass and old-time style ensemble that returned from a seven-year hiatus when UCLA ethnomusicology alumnus Tommy Stanton brought the group back four years ago. The group’s instrumentation includes the banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitar and bass.
Madonna is in Mexico. Only she's not the Madonna most Americans think of "“ she is in the 95 degree heat of Mazatlan, sick with a fever while hordes of people outside call her name, asking her to sing. Read more...
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Professor of voice opera studies Juliana Gondek will be a performer in Chamber Music at UCLA’s “Faculty Composers: Songs, Arias and Rituals” held in Schoenberg Hall at 8 p.m. on Monday.
