Each year The Paley Center for Media, located in Beverly Hills, invites a dozen or so popular television shows to participate in a week of television appreciation. Read more...
Arts, Arts Columns, Film & TV
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March 5, 11:41 pm
Remote Life: Events like PaleyFest offer valuable insight from TV cast and crew members
Arts, Arts Columns, Music
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March 5, 11:38 pm
Soundbite: Bowerbirds
"The Clearing" is an album that was preceded by a series of ill-fated events, including a car crash, the extreme illness of a band-member and the temporary breakup of two other romantically involved band members. Read more...
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DEAD OCEANS
Arts, Arts Columns, Music
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March 5, 11:32 pm
Soundbite: Balkan Beat Box
The cover for Balkan Beat Box's newest album, "Give," features a subtle visual portmanteau of a megaphone and an assault rifle. It's an image that takes a little while to sink in, but it ultimately fits the sound of the album very well. Read more...
Photo:
NAT GEO MUSIC
Arts
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March 4, 11:53 pm
Fowler Museum to host photo exhibition highlighting recovery from Japanese earthquake
A distraught woman carries an elderly woman on her back, away from the piles of debris that are the flattened remnants of what was once a city. Read more...
Arts
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March 4, 11:53 pm
Fowler Museum to host photo exhibition highlighting recovery from Japanese earthquake
A distraught woman carries an elderly woman on her back, away from the piles of debris that are the flattened remnants of what was once a city. Read more...
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courtesy of Kahoku Shimpo
The above photograph, along with other photographs, articles and video clips from the Kahoku Shimpo, a Japanese newspaper based near the epicenter of last year’s earthquake in Japan, will be displayed in Fowler Museum as part of a photo exhibition titled “Moving Forward: Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake.”
Arts, Arts Columns
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March 4, 11:51 pm
B-sides: _Music, film and interactive portions of South by Southwest feature pinnacle of festival-going_
The Coachella and Sasquatch festivals are like jewels. They are small, taking place in a single venue located out in the middle of nowhere (Indio in California for Coachella, The Gorge in Washington for Sasquatch) and are singularly devoted to one thing: music. Read more...
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Courtesy of Extreme Air Shots
South by Southwest (also known as SXSW) is a three-part music, film and interactive festival which takes over the entire city of Austin, Texas, from March 9 to 18.
Arts, Music
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March 4, 11:48 pm
UCLA Jazz Combo Concert combines legends, lessons
Not many students of jazz have the rare chance to study under legends of the genre, but at UCLA they do. Read more...
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Brandon Bridges, a second-year ethnomusicology student, practices with one of the combos of the UCLA jazz studies program.