by | Feb 28, 2009 | Los Angeles
from The LA Times A heightened profile for one of L.A.’s black pioneers Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times L.A. County officials are recommending that Negrohead Mountain be named Ballard Mountain, in honor of John Ballard, a pioneering black settler in Agoura. ...
by | Feb 16, 2009 | Los Angeles
from the LA Times The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens ACQUISITION: U.S. artist Reginald Marsh’s “ Red Buttons” (1936) is among works picked up by the Huntington. ART L.A. museums’ collections grow despite poor economy...
by | Feb 7, 2009 | Los Angeles
from the LA Times On a Los Feliz hill, murder — then mystery Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times The hilltop Los Feliz mansion where Dr. Harold Perelson killed his wife and then himself in 1959. It has sat vacant ever since. Inside a mansion, it’s as if...
by | Feb 5, 2009 | Los Angeles
from the LA Times POP MUSIC ‘Jonesy’s Jukebox’ runs out of nickels The demise of Indie 103.1 leaves Sex Pistol Steve Jones, host of the unorthodox but beloved show, without a day job. By Geoff Boucher, February 4, 2009 It’s come to this —...
by | Jan 15, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles
from The New York Times Injecting a Taste of the Flush and Flashy ’80s Into Sundance Van Redin/Senator Entertainment Mickey Rourke in “The Informers,” a film showing at Sundance that was adapted from a book of Bret Easton Ellis stories. By MICHAEL CIEPLY LOS ANGELES —...
by | Jan 11, 2009 | Los Angeles
Mickey Rourke wins Best Actor Golden Globe. Fantastic.
