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Rock ‘n’ other roles

Entertainment | By John Albert | August 17, 2008

IN APRIL, Greg Graffin, a professor in the UCLA life sciences department, arrived on the campus of Harvard University to accept an Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, an honor that had gone to Salman Rushdie the previous year. Read more

Sunday, July 6, 2008

THE KIDS ARE UPRIGHT

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | July 6, 2008

ATORRENTIAL squeal will hit the Southland next week, when the Jonas Brothers play in Irvine and Anaheim, and there’ll be much parental chatter about how this latest craze is affecting our kids. Read more

Sunday, June 15, 2008

Nicaraguan singer-revolutionary bars government from using songs

World | June 15, 2008

A famous Nicaraguan revolutionary singer-songwriter has asked the government to stop using his music. Read more

Friday, May 16, 2008

The ideal accessory

Entertainment | By David Ng | May 16, 2008

HOW DO you add sparkle to a fatigued operatic war horse? Read more

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Singing film stars: Is this just an act?

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | May 11, 2008

THE VERY last scene of last year’s hit film “Juno” pointed toward one small path in music’s future: star Ellen Page sitting on a stoop, singing a song by obscure boy-girl folk duo the Moldy Peaches. Read more

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Hip-hop star dies in his hotel room

California | Local | By David Pierson and Richard Winton | December 5, 2007

Rapper Pimp C, an influential hip-hop figure credited with helping launch the popularity of Southern rap, was found dead Tuesday morning at an upscale hotel on the Sunset Strip. Read more

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

2 more grupera singers slain in Mexico

World | By Héctor Tobar | December 4, 2007

Authorities recovered the strangled body of a popular grupera singer Monday, just two days after the slaying of another grupera singer in her hospital bed, officials said. Read more

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Opera’s sexy makeover

Entertainment | By David Ng | November 22, 2007

“IT’S hot in here,” says bass-baritone Erwin Schrott during a recent rehearsal of “Don Giovanni” at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. Read more

Monday, November 19, 2007

The sisterhood of divas

Entertainment | By Ann Powers | November 19, 2007

Female pop stars who attain the attributes of goddesses – emblematic names, signature fragrances, the floating hair of Botticelli’s “Venus” – tend to share a few qualities. Read more

Monday, October 22, 2007

AFGHANISTAN

World | October 22, 2007

Taliban said to be using human shields Taliban militants used Afghan civilians as human shields during a battle with U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan that left 20 militants and one civilian dead and 11 wounded, officials said. Read more

Saturday, September 29, 2007

QUICK TAKES - Lyric Opera tells her to stay absent

Entertainment | By Chris Pasles | September 29, 2007

Lyric Opera of Chicago has fired Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu from its upcoming production of Puccini’s “La Bohème” for unwarranted absences from rehearsals. Read more

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Johnny Mercer wrote, but did you know he sang?

Entertainment | By Robert Hilburn | September 18, 2007

Johnny Mercer is one of the most celebrated lyricists in American pop music, and it’s no wonder when you consider just a fraction of his more than 1,000 songs: “One for My Baby (And One More for the Road),” “Come Rain or Come Shine,” “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby,” “That Old Black Magic,” “Moon River” and “Blues in the Night.” Read more

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

They’ve found his heart

Entertainment | By Robert Lloyd | September 12, 2007

It’s hard not to love Tony Bennett – it would be like hating enthusiasm, or disdaining laughter. Read more

Friday, August 24, 2007

Stressed opera stars bowing to pressures

Entertainment | By George Jahn | August 24, 2007

VIENNA, Austria – Stripping away opera’s glamour, singers are increasingly speaking out about a more sordid side of their world: increased drug and alcohol use sparked by relentless pressure to perform often and well. Read more

Thursday, August 23, 2007

QUICK TAKES - Tenor leaves ‘Jenufa’ for Met

News | By Chris Pasles | August 23, 2007

Los Angeles Opera has released tenor Joseph Kaiser, who was slated to sing in Janácek’s “Jenufa” from Sept. Read more

Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Farm-raised talent

Entertainment | By R and Y Lewis | August 14, 2007

Nashville IT isn’t easy being an aspiring recording artist in the iTunes age. Read more

Friday, August 10, 2007

QUICK TAKES - Pavarotti under care for fever

Entertainment | August 10, 2007

Luciano Pavarotti has been hospitalized, and is listed in stable condition, with a fever in his hometown of Modena, Italy, officials and his manager said Thursday. Read more