Imagine the Peace Corps with a touch of soul and lots of instruments and you get something like MusicianCorps, part of the nonprofit Music National Service that trains and sends musicians into communities to spread the love of music. Read more...
Arts, Music
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July 25, 10:39 pm
MusicianCorps shares talent
Arts
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July 25, 10:37 pm
The Daily Bruin’s Summer 2010 Guide to Los Angeles Art Exhibits
“Document: Iranian-Americans in L.A.” Read more...
Music
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July 25, 10:36 pm
Soundbite
When Ronnie James Dio, the legendary singer of Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Dio, passed away on May 16, no one called it the death of metal, because as far as the mainstream musical world is concerned, metal died a long time ago. Read more...
Film & TV
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July 19, 3:33 pm
The Movie Research Experience gets audiences involved in filmmaking
Imagine being able to determine the outcome of a film after simply viewing the trailer. Would Ferris Bueller have gotten a day off? Would Leonardo DiCaprio have survived “Titanic?” It’s audience input such as this that the UCLA Movie Research Experience is exploring in order to improve filmmaking. Read more...
Music
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July 18, 10:25 pm
Machine Project sounds out the boundaries of the museum experience at the Hammer with bells, guitars and houseplants
In the upstairs gallery of the Hammer Museum’s current “Outside the Box” exhibit, a line from composer and performer Meredith Monk’s lithograph collection reads, “I have always thought that sound and space were inseparable.” Yet despite this connection, museums have a long history of being stiflingly silent spaces. Read more...
Music
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July 18, 10:23 pm
Audiotistic Music Festival features an unusual roster of performers
Promise of pulsating beats and undeniably danceable tracks will reach this year’s “New Sound Festival,” the Audiotistic Music Festival, on Saturday at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. Read more...
Film & TV
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July 18, 10:21 pm
Modern Family’ series strikes a chord with students by having something to offer everyone
This evening at the Paley Center, Steve Levitan and Christopher Lloyd, cocreators and executive producers of “Modern Family,” will give a talk about their hit TV show. The event, to be held at the Writers Guild Theater at 7 p.m., is the second of three parts of a series the Paley Center is putting on this July called “Inside the Writers Room.” Read more...