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Marian the Librarian to tell all at CINECON 27 Aug 2013 | 01:21 am
We just learned that the lovely Academy-Award winning actress Shirley Jones will be honored at the 49th annual Labor Day-weekend event, Cinecon Classic Film Festival. The five-day foray into classic ...
Diavolo brings its own bowl to the Bowl 26 Aug 2013 | 01:09 am
The historic Hollywood Bowl band shell, the object of community affection and attachment, as well as architectural argument as it has been renewed and amended over the years, gets an ultimate homage w...
Koehler on Cinema: Clips 24 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
UCLA Film Archive’s edition of the traveling retrospective of Pier Paolo Pasolini (minus my favorite Pasolini, his oh-so-naughty n’ nasty “Teorema”) is rounding the corner and heading for home. If you...
Koehler on Cinema: Wong Kar-Wai’s “The Grandmaster” 3.0 24 Aug 2013 | 04:23 am
For the second time in a few weeks, a film with more than one director-approved cut is being released. Stranger things have happened, but right now, I can’t think of one. Similarities: In both cases,...
Fridita’s closet 22 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
I loved learning about the opening of the closet of Frida Kahlo at Casa Azul, the great Mexican painter’s home in Mexico City. Fridita died six months, to the day, before I was born! So I (like to) th...
Koehler on Cinema: Elmore Leonard’s True West 21 Aug 2013 | 05:40 am
The sad news of Elmore “Dutch” Leonard’s death this morning has prompted too many news headlines linking him almost equally with his novels and the movies adapted from them—despite the fact that he op...
Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” gets classical spin at Levitt Pavilion LA 20 Aug 2013 | 06:51 am
Music writer Chris J. Walker contributes this story to arts·meme: In terms of power, influence and sales from a rock perspective, Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon has only one rival—The Beatles’ S...
Mark Christian Miller by turns suave, touching at the Gardenia 19 Aug 2013 | 12:33 am
“It’s really a downer!” admitted cabaret singer Mark Christian Miller, half-smiling, in genial patter during his tight and artful set of jazz standards and high seventies pop at Hollywood’s Gardenia R...
Koehler on Cinema: Love in Texas, Wandering in Vienna 17 Aug 2013 | 09:42 pm
Los Angeles—like all American cities—tends to get so few of the exceptional films from the international festival circuit that when two arrive in the same week, it’s worth paying attention. The fact t...
Ballet & live chamber music paired in Da Camera Society performance 16 Aug 2013 | 11:43 pm
Looking forward to our first glimpse of the American Contemporary Ballet who provide the terpsichorean element to the Da Camera Society’s Music+Dance=L.A. this weekend. The newish ballet troupe, which...
