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Miguel connects with the soul of R&B
Ask Miguel about the prevailing emotion he felt in the weeks before the release of his second studio album, “Kaleidoscope Dream” (RCA), and he’ll tell you straight up: “Nervous. I was nervous as hell, man. To tell you the truth,...
Tags: Music, Radio, Arts and Culture, Asher Roth, Bee Gees (music group)
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Life Out Here: Getting the bounce back
Back when I was a boy, practicing and playing basketball in the driveway under meager lighting at night, I loved the bounce. Yes, I’m referring to the basketball bounce, but I’m referring to the atmospheric bounce of AM radio, too. I was...
Tags: Basketball, Beck, Dave Matthews, Talk Shows (genre), Bruce Springsteen
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Interview: Robin Thicke changes tune on reality TV
Little known fact about R&B crooner Robin Thicke: He’s funny. It’s true. The “Lost Without U” singer frequently makes others around him laugh with his self-deprecating remarks and dirty sense of humor, not to mention his...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Paula Abdul, Jennifer Lopez, ABC (tv network), Television
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Walter Mosley, L.A.'s easy writer
You can take Walter Mosley out of Los Angeles — in fact, Mosley did so himself, moving to New York decades ago — but you can't take L.A. out of Walter Mosley. The master of several genres keeps the city present, from his Easy Rawlins detective...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science, Science Fiction (genre), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Literature
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Country star Martina McBride to sing national anthem at Indy 500
Grammy-winning country superstar Martina McBride will sing the national anthem during pre-race ceremonies at the 96th Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, May 27 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. A Kansas native, McBride is known for having one of the most...
Tags: Train (music group), Arts and Culture, Auto Racing, Indianapolis 500, Vocal Music (genre)
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Donna Summer died of lung cancer not related to smoking
Donna Summer died of lung cancer, but the singer wasn't a smoker, and the cancer wasn't related to smoking, her family's representative said Friday. Summer's family issued the announcement in the wake of how "various reports currently surfacing about the...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Bee Gees (music group), Music Industry, Health, Donna Summer
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Digging in the dirt, author Christopher Benfey unearths his family's story
Most memoirs are mush. Given the tender emotions, fragile reminiscences and flights of fancy that tend to flit and twirl within your average autobiography, the genre is known for its shifting, dreamlike core, not its steely spine. Christopher Benfey...
Tags: Mark Twain, John Cage, Colleges and Universities, Chicago Tribune, Robert Rauschenberg
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Flux Pavilion aims to inject dubstep with 'emotionally epic' songs
Josh Steele, better known as the U.K.dubstep songwriter and producer Flux Pavilion who has been championed by Kanye West andJay-Z, started out as an aspiring rock star. Guitars and drums were his preferred mode of expression in a handful of U.K. bands....
Tags: Afrojack (music group), Arts and Culture, Team Bayside High (music group), Music Industry, Nervo (music group)
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Grindhouse gets its due at Facets
The sound of the wah-wah guitar on the soundtrack to 1973's "Wonder Women" can signify only one thing: This movie means funky business. Nancy Kwan stars (happily slumming it more than a decade after she first gained notice in "The World of Suzie Wong"...
Tags: Documentary (genre), Grant Heslov, The Holocaust (1934-1945), Jai Alai, Julia Roberts
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Q&A: 'Brave' director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian
Given the chance to shoot a bow and arrow alongside “Brave” director Mark Andrews and producer Katherine Sarafian, I completely humiliated them. No, no I didn’t. The 43-year-old, Bay Area-based folks behind Pixar’s latest animated...
Tags: John Lasseter, Jennifer Lopez, Car Guides and Reviews, Pixar Animation, Robin Hood
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Gonzalo Rubalcaba and Ninety Miles ignite Cuban jazz
The music of Cuba stands at the very root of jazz, its rhythms and song forms intermingling with sounds that emerged in New Orleans as the 19th century slipped into the 20th. Today, when we think of Cuban jazz, we tend to look nostalgically back to...
Tags: Music, Concerts, Entertainment, Jazz (genre), Music Industry
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Video game creator Eugene Jarvis is Player One
The young guy in the trucker cap, skinny jeans and Air Jordans squeezed the trigger on the toy shotgun and his umpteenth round of “Big Buck Hunter” blasted to life. The guy was maybe 25 and so focused on bagging digital deer, the butt of the...
Tags: Bob Dylan, Arts and Culture, Nintendo Company Ltd., Newspaper and Magazine, Superman (fictional character)
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