Charlie Haden Gone

from The LA Times Appreciation: Jazz musician Charlie Haden spoke for beauty By CHRIS BARTON Charlie Haden founded the Cal Arts jazz program in 1982. His instruction made an impact on generations of jazz artists around the country, including Ravi Coltrane and Ralph...

Marilyn Beck Gone

from The LA Times Marilyn Beck, longtime syndicated Hollywood columnist, dies at 85 (Ron Galella, WireImage) STEVE CHAWKINS Marilyn Beck, a syndicated Hollywood columnist who for decades dished out delectable dollops on celebrities hooking up, splitting up and...

Spec Script Alive

from The LA Times Hollywood ‘spec script’ is making a comeback By Daniel Miller Independent producer Lawrence Grey sold the screenplay for “Section 6” for $1 million after setting off a bidding war between the major studios. Six months later,...

Nobody In Los Angeles Wears Panties

from The Star Tribune ‘Hee Haw’ honeys bared too much for the camera Article by: C.J. , Star Tribune If there are developments more astonishing than media reports of, gulp, “Hee Haw the Musical,” being, gulp again, Broadway-bound, it is that Harold Crump’s brain has...

The Most Beautiful Storage Building In The World

from Curbed LA LA’s Most Beautiful Storage Building Was Also a Speakeasy by Bianca Barragan The work of Los Angeles architect Arthur E. Harvey includes some of the city’s most recognizable and storied buildings (the Scientology Celebrity Centre [originally...

“A frenzied mustang stampede”

from The LA Times Rebirth of Jackson Pollock’s ‘Mural’ The landmark painting stands magnificently, no less so after the debunking of a myth regarding its creation Jackson Pollock’s “Mural,” regarded by some as the most important modern American...