By Susan JAMES Running through April 26, the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in Los Angeles is presenting the 22nd annual exhibition of Oscar-nominated costumes featuring all five Oscar nominees. In addition, costumes from 17 other hit movies will be on display, over 100 costumes in all. As with previous Oscar races, the […]
By Ted AYALA The triumph of modernism in music is usually designated to Arnold Schoenberg, to the post-tonal world he and the followers of the Second Viennese School embarked upon and mapped out beginning in the early 20th century. Yet as the 20th century recedes into the mists of memory, a path is seen that […]
By Susan JAMES Billed as ‘the greatest art heist in history’, ‘The Monuments Men’ is the story of the five million works of art looted by the Nazis in World War II and a small unit of historians and scholars drafted into the army and sent to Europe for the purpose of getting them back. […]
By Ted AYALA “Nationalist music,” writes José Antonio Alcaraz in his “Reflexiones sobre el nacionalismo musical mexicano” (Reflections on Mexican Musical Nationalism), “[carries] with it echoes of the sectarian, the limiting, the ensnaring. National music, however, consists of the most essential traits that make up the identity of a person.” “To describe Tchaikovsky as a […]
By Jason KUROSU “The Sandcastle Girls,” the 2012 novel authored by Chris Bohjalian, is the subject of Glendale’s One Book/One Glendale event. On Feb. 27, Bohjalian will speak about the novel at the Glendale Central Library. The event is free, open to the public (though seating may be limited) and Bohjalian will also be joined […]
By Ted AYALA The shadow cast over Russian Late Romantic music by the somber, larger-than-life figure of Rachmaninoff is difficult to escape. Not only for audiences –how many other Russian Late Romantics can you name besides Rachmaninoff? – but also for those Russian composers unlucky enough to be born around the same time as the […]
Award-winning playwright and screenwriter Josefina López has written a new play funded in part by a 2013 grant from The California Endowment. The play’s subject matter addresses health care and The Affordable Care Act. “A Cat Named Mercy” is a dark comedy about Catalina Rodriguez, a Latina licensed vocational nurse working at Elysian Estates […]
By Sabrina WALENTYNOWICZ Imagine a February filled with clouds, winter winds and torrential rainstorms. It might be wishful thinking these days, but back in 1978 it was reality for the Crescenta Valley. La Crescenta’s neighbors to the west in Tujunga were trying to stay dry indoors when on Feb. 9 the remains of 55 corpses […]
By Isiah REYES The Arcadia Performing Arts Foundation featured Air Supply in its inaugural season at the Arcadia Performing Arts Center on Jan. 25. The Australian soft rock duo, consisting of Russell Hitchcock and Graham Russell, played popular classics such as “All Out of Love” which got the crowd buzzing. The set list included a […]
The Kiwanis Club of La Cañada has raised $26,000 toward a five-year goal of $74,000 to eliminate child deaths from tetanus. The Kiwanis theme is saving the children of the world, one child at a time. The ongoing worldwide Kiwanis goal is to raise $100 million to eradicate neonatal tetanus, a preventable disease that kills […]