From Where We Are – Page 4

A look-back at Roxy Music’s inventive start

Liz WarnerDecember 8, 2017

In this radio feature, Liz Warner takes a walk down memory lane with vocalist Bryan Ferry to talk about what went into the making of that first record, and how it sounds looking back from today....

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Comedians on Courts Playing Basketball

Ellen FordNovember 9, 2017

I came to Los Angeles fresh out of the undergrad rec-league basketball circuit, 22 years old, and knowing no one. Born and raised in Kentucky, where basketball ...

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Feature Filmmaking On a Dime

Thomas CarrollNovember 6, 2017

New technology makes it both easier and harder make a film. So, it goes in most fields when it comes to tech. But, as Tom Carroll discovered, feature filmmaking its own kind of beast – especially when the budget is $35,000....

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Punk’s Not Dead: X On Display at the Grammy Museum

Rosemarie AlejandrinoNovember 2, 2017

Forty years and seven studio albums later, iconic Los Angeles punk band, X, still tours with its original lineup. Such tenacity and popularity are celebrated in...

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Mona’s Room: Redefining L.A. Dance Parties

Bruno CorreaOctober 26, 2017

What does a women and artist-centric dance party on a Monday night look like? LA DJ Smiles Davis is taking on the traditional party atmosphere with her own special affair, Mona’s Room, an event that occurs every week for the past year in Silver Lake....

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Folk Singer Barbara Dane’s Message Still Rings True

Liz WarnerOctober 19, 2017

Barbara Dane is a revolutionary. For seventy years she has advocated for peace and civil rights through the power of her voice, her guitar and the songs she wri...

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Contemporary Art of the Caribbean: Beyond Hurricanes and Borders

Nazli GhassemiOctober 17, 2017

The Caribbean islands are environmentally vulnerable territories where the history of colonialism is a living legacy. A recently opened exhibition at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach confronts these issues in the works of 80 contemporary artists from 13 countries in the Caribbean and its diasporas....

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Self Help Graphics Brings the Day of the Dead to life

Leah RosenzweigOctober 3, 2017

Self Help Graphics spokesperson, Jennifer Cuevas, and associate director, Betty Avila, ahead of the East L.A. art center’s VIP opening for their PST-affiliated show: Día De Los Muertos: A Cultural Legacy, Past, Present and Future. ...

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