By Ted AYALA If one were to think of traits that define what Latin American music means to audiences outside the region of its provenance, then surely it can be reduced to a single word: rhythm. Whether in popular music, in which dances have become known the world over, or in its take on classical […]
By Ted AYALA It’s not an uncommon occurrence to see a flurry of vehicular and pedestrian traffic wending its way over to Disney Hall on any night a concert is under way. But the sight that met the hall’s patrons last Thursday night was something else entirely. Slow traffic on Grand Avenue and its surrounding […]
Artistic director/conductor Matt Catingub will be joined by spectacular performers to conclude the Glendale Pops’ first season. Jazz great Dave Koz and vocalist Monica Mancini will join Matt Catingub and the Glendale Pops Orchestra for the final show of the GPO’s first season in “A Night At The Movies.” The performance takes place at Glendale’s […]
By Charly SHELTON Nicholas Sparks writes the stories every girl dreams of – lovey-dovey romance stories with the perfect man and the ordinary yet amazing girl that anyone can relate to falling in love and out of love and ultimately wind up living happily ever after. As a long time boyfriend, I have sat through […]
Season Finale at Dilijan: Somber Reflection of Armenian Genocide, Friends Lost By Ted AYALA Bittersweet was the mood at Zipper Hall on April 15 as the Dilijan Chamber Music Series closed out its concert season. This season finale was, as has been a tradition for Dilijan since its inception, a commemoration of the atrocities suffered […]
Last year we saw the reboot of every single DC comic title, starting at issue one, for the first time since the 1930s. The reboot followed Flashpoint, a short series from spring to summer that showed us an alternate reality centered on The Flash. And that’s not even counting Marvel’s comic arc of Spider Island, […]