10 Best Paul Dano Roles

10 Best Paul Dano Roles Originally a stage actor, Paul Dano started to creep his way into the world of feature films when he got a leading role in the independent film L.I.E. as well as a supporting role in the Sundance darling Little Miss Sunshine. From there, there was no turning back for the actor. Now, with a little less than two decades in between his screen debut and his first directorial effort, Dano remains a strong presence in the world of independent film. Born in 1984, there’s sti...
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Ronnie, Meredith and Dorothy

In The Wall Street Journal this week, I interviewed Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes for my "House Call" column in the Mansion section (go here). We talked about life in the suburbs of Connecticut, the wild animal that caused her to move from a house to a condo and the reason she started to cry during our touching interview. [Photo above courtesy of Ronnie Spector] Here's Ronnie and sister Estelle, left, and cousin Nedra, in November 1965 in the jukebox film The Big T.N.T. Show, singing their ...
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BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach taps 3 famous chefs for lineup

With Willie Nelson, Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead and Beach Boy Brian Wilson set to headline the 40-act lineup for the BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach May 3-5, organizers today announced the chefs who are headlining the SideStage, a 50-seat pop-up restaurant set up just a few feet from the music. The chefs cooking with a musical soundtrack include Michael Cimarusti, who appeared on “Top Chef Masters” and “Hell’s Kitchen” and runs LA’s Providence and Connie & Ted’s, Tin Vuong, the chef-owner ...
Tags: California, La, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, Brian Wilson, Willie Nelson, Music Festivals, Coachella, Grateful Dead, Providence, South Bay, Snoop, Willie, Manhattan Beach, Bob Weir

New BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach puts single-day passes on sale

If three days of music by the beach is too much of a commitment for you, you’re in luck because single-day passes just went on sale for the new BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach. Until now, only three-day passes have been available to see more than 40 acts playing at the 8.6-acre site that encompasses Seaside Lagoon and an adjacent parking lot May 3-5.  Performers include headliners Brian Wilson, Bob Weir and Wolf Bros. and Willie Nelson. Sign up for our Festival Pass newsletter. Whether you ...
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Popdose Exclusive Single Premiere: Mark Wilkinson, “Thought You’d Be Around”

  From a quiet cafe to a calming coast, acclaimed Aussie singer-songwriter Mark Wilkinson is searching nearly everywhere for healing – from the heartbreak of lost love on his melancholic new single, “Thought You’d Be Around”, set for digital release on January 25th, 2019.   The first track from his forthcoming album, Blue Eyed Girls, “Thought You’d Be Around” delivers a warm yet subtle sentimentality.  Popdose is pleased to present to you this exclusive listen.   Blue Eyed Girls comes on ...
Tags: Music, Australia, Brian Wilson, Popdose, Rob Ross, Singer-songwriter, London New York, Wilkinson, Peter Frampton, Popdose Exclusives, Buckinghamshire UK, Mark Wilkinson, Sydney Wilkinson, Blue Eyed Girls

Festival Pass: Coachella and Stagecoach passes for locals; BeachLife lineup revealed

Festival Pass is a weekly newsletter that lands in your inbox on Thursdays. When we cover festivals in the field, you get bonus editions, too! Subscribe now. Festival Pass for Thursday, Jan. 17 Last night I trekked to the Forum to see the big Chris Cornell tribute concert “I Am the Highway.” (I was there as a civilian with my Soundgarden superfan husband. Kelli Skye Fadroski covered the marathon show.) What struck me is how many different folks came together to pay tribute to the late singer. Mi...
Tags: Los Angeles, Sport, Things To Do, Soccer, Brian Wilson, Metallica, Music Festivals, Miley Cyrus, Coachella, Stagecoach, Jack Black, Adam Levine, Miguel, Cornell, Al Jardine, Chris Cornell

Red Bull Music Festival adds more events for February run in Los Angeles

A talk with hip-hop producers, a Valentine’s Day rap concert and film premieres are among some of the new events that have been added to the Red Bull Music Festival, a multi-day festival that includes a series of concerts, lectures and films inspired by gaming, skateboarding and photography. The Red Bull Music Festival runs Feb. 7-23 at various locations around Los Angeles. Included in the latest round of additions is the initial lineup for the Center Channel film series taking place throughout ...
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Tailgate Fest turns into all night party as it expands to two days and moves to Norco

Get ready to take your tailgating skills up a notch this summer when the festival that brings the concert to the parking lot returns with an extra day of music and a bigger place for country fans to party. Tickets are on sale for the second edition of Tailgate Fest, which pretty much turns into a 24-hour tailgate party as it expands to two days and moves from its inaugural home outside the Forum in Inglewood to a  228-acre space at SilverLakes park in Norco Aug. 17-18. Like last year, people can...
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Metallica talks beer as it launches its Arrogant Consortia Enter Night Pilsner at an intimate gathering in L.A.

Drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Rob Trujillo of heavy metal band Metallica showed up to hang out and drink with a few dozen friends and music industry folks during an intimate VIP launch of its all-new beer collaboration with Stone Brewing’s Arrogant Consortia at No Name on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles on Monday night. The Enter Night Pilsner is the result of six months of back-and-forth brainstorming sessions and tastings between the band and Stone co-founder Greg Koch “The guys were all very ...
Tags: Los Angeles, Sport, Beer, Things To Do, Soccer, Brian Wilson, Metallica, Jesus, Copenhagen, Hgtv, James Hetfield, Midwest, Lars Ulrich, Robert Trujillo, Huntington Beach, Anaheim

Why the Reverend Horton Heat is living a whole new musical life

This reverend has been preaching the rockabilly gospel for more than 30 years. The Reverend Horton Heat, the stage name adopted by singer and guitarist Jim Heath, is feeling better than ever about his long music career. The band, which also uses the moniker, just added two new young members, Texas drummer Arjuna “RJ” Contreras and rock pianist Matt Jordan from West Virginia, who are joining Heath and longtime slap-bass player Jimbo Wallace on the 51-stop national tour and bringing along a new vi...
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Styx kicks off City National Grove of Anaheim’s 20th anniversary celebration

On Sept. 4, 1999, rock band Styx became the first group to grace the stage at City National Grove of Anaheim, then known as The Sun Theatre. The yellow and tan-colored, multi-use entertainment venue, located off Katella Avenue in between Disneyland and Honda Center, is easy to spot with its giant branded water tower. The building along the northern edge of the Angel Stadium parking lot had briefly served as an awards show-themed restaurant, Tinseltown Studios, in 1998 but the concept failed to t...
Tags: Music, Glen Campbell, Los Angeles, Sport, Earth, Rock, Chicago, Things To Do, Soccer, Bryan Ferry, Brian Wilson, Willie Nelson, Fleetwood Mac, Wu Tang, Disneyland, Stevie Nicks

Goldfinger’s John Feldmann confirms the Back to the Beach Fest will return to Huntington Beach in April

After drawing a sold-out crowd of just over 30,000 patrons over two days at Huntington State Beach last April, the ska- and punk rock-fueled Back to the Beach Festival will return with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann at the helm. Feldmann took to Facebook on Monday to excitedly announce that the festival will take place Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, just steps from the Pacific Ocean and that the full line-up will be announced “very soon.” He also...
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Confirmed: Back to the Beach Fest will return to Huntington Beach in April

After drawing a sold-out crowd of just over 30,000 patrons over two days at Huntington State Beach last April, the ska- and punk rock-fueled Back to the Beach Festival will return with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker and Goldfinger frontman John Feldmann at the helm. Feldmann took to Facebook on Monday to excitedly announce that the festival will take place Saturday, April 27, and Sunday, April 28, just steps from the Pacific Ocean and that the full line-up will be announced “very soon.” He also...
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New BeachLife Festival in Redondo Beach taps Brian Wilson and Bob Weir to headline

Beach Boy Brian Wilson and Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir join previously announced Willie Nelson as the headliners of the three-day BeachLife festival, which brings its inaugural run to Redondo Beach May 3-5. The festival will feature a 40-band lineup and a “Side Stage” featuring several chefs collaborating in a pop-up restaurant next to the main stage. Other artists in the first group of bands announced by festival organizers Monday include Ziggy Marley, Violent Femmes, Los Angeles pun...
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Travel: No ship of fools for these cruise performers

Garry Carson has heard it thousands of times from cruise passengers before showtime: “I don’t like magic, but let’s see if the guy is any good.” Some entertainers would have bruised egos overhearing such comments, especially on a crowded elevator ride to the deck of the theater. But after 500-plus cruises over 22 years, the seafaring magician knows the life of taking an act on the road where there are no roads. “These people aren’t there because they love or even like magic,” said Carson, pointi...
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Aretha Franklin: Context, Intersectionality, and the Rock Canon

None Let's face it, the established canon of popular music, especially from the mid-20th century on, is dominated by rock and white male artists: the Beatles, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones. How does Aretha Franklin fit into this canon, and what challenges can she pose to it, as one of the few women of color whom it has unequivocally embraced? Franklin fits within a prescribed framework of artists of color and female artists, as tied to specific contexts, including social mov...
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The 10 Best Albums Of 2018 All Have One Thing In Common: They're Made By Women

Commercially speaking, 2018 wasn’t a great year for the representation of women in music. Once again, the top 10s – Spotify, Billboard and the like – are dominated by men. But some of the most interesting, most boundary-pushing, and best music of this year came from women. In our opinion, women made all the best albums this year; from Ariana Grande, who made the best album of her career thus far, to Cardi B, whose star shone brighter than any man in rap, to Camila Cabello, whose solo debut surp...
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Ley Line Unveils Brian Wilson Documentary, ‘Hugo Cabret’ Musical

Producers Tim Headington and Theresa Steele Page have unveiled Ley Line Entertainment with a Brian Wilson documentary and a “Hugo Cabret” musical in the works. Ley Line said it’s a content development, production, and financing company with projects spanning film, television, stage, and music. Headington financed and produced “The Young Victoria,” “Argo,” “Hugo,” and “World […]
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area

    Take a self-guided tour of the displays at L.A. Zoo Lights through Jan. 6 (closed on Dec. 24-25). (Photo by Jamie Pham/Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   City of Agoura Hills Holiday Boutique: Shop for handmade items made by local artisans, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Dec. 7. Ago...
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Composers Collaborate!

In the beginning of August 2018, I was in Montpelier, Vermont, preparing to give a talk to the students enrolled in the Vermont College of Fine Arts MFA in Music Composition Program. My talk was titled, “How Many Hats Can a Composer Wear Successfully?”. I looked out at my colleagues in the room. I knew what the response would be: one of beleaguered pride, the pride of a warrior who knows the score and has survived despite the odds against him or her. In that moment, I realized that I didn’t real...
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Beach Boys Legend Brian Wilson Being Chronicled in New, ‘Definitive’ Documentary

A documentary on Beach Boys cofounder Brian Wilson is nearing completion, producers tell Variety, after nearly three years of under-the-radar production that has involved collecting about 90 hours of fresh footage of the music legend talking about his life or working in the studio. Bruce Springsteen, Elton John and Nick Jonas are among the famous […]
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Nov. 30-Dec. 7

  Dor Gvirtsman and Suanne Spoke in Wendy Graf’s Exit Wounds play through Dec. 15 at Grove Theater Center in Burbank. (Photo by Ed Krieger)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   Harvest Festival Original Art & Craft Show: Find holiday gifts amid a decorated atmosphere, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Nov. 30; and Dec. 1; 10 a.m....
Tags: Local News, Art, Books, Christmas, Comedy, Dance, Hanukkah, Museum, Music, San Fernando Valley, Theater, Things to Do, Top Stories LADN

Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Nov. 23-30

  Performers move down Hollywood Boulevard during the 86th annual Hollywood Christmas Parade. This year’s parade is on Nov. 25. (File photo by David Crane/Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)     There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   CSUN Powwow: The Cal State University, Northridge American Indian Studies program and the...
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25 ho ho holiday concerts coming to Southern California this season

There are a lot of places to go and get your musical jollies this holiday season as numerous themed performances are happening  throughout Southern California in December. It’s that time of year when our favorite venues transform into winter wonderlands and big-name and legendary artists come to town to spread holiday cheer by cranking out renditions of songs we all know and to share the occasional original holiday contribution as well. Sometimes Santa Claus visits during these sets, there is fa...
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Music Modernization Act: What’s In It, Why Is It In There, Is It A Good Thing?

Enacted on October 11, the Music Modernization Act will have vast impact on the music business and how it is conducted in the US. Here we look at exactly what sort of changes this new legislation will bring about. ____________________________ Guest post by Stephen Carlisle of NOVA Southeastern University The enactment on October 11, 2018 of the Music Modernization Act will change a lot of things about the way the music business is conducted in the United States, at least from a l...
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Nov. 16-23

  L.A. Zoo Lights opens on Nov. 16 at the Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens. (Photo by Jamie Pham/Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   L.A. Zoo Lights: Self-guided tour of light displays including animal constellations, a disco ball forest, the Twinkle Tunnel and water...
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Nov. 9-16

  The Autry Museum of the American West presents an American Indian Arts Marketplace, a celebration of traditional and contemporary cultural expression in arts, crafts, dance and music, Nov. 10-11. (Photo courtesy of Autry Museum of the American West)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   Extreme mountain climbe...
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Nov. 2-9

  The American Heroes Air Show returns on Nov. 3 to the Hansen Dam Recreation Center in Lake View Terrace. (File photo by Gene Blevins/Los Angeles Daily News)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   Nights of the Jack: The Halloween event includes hand-carved, illuminated jack-o-lanterns in more than 20 theme inst...
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Oct. 26-Nov. 2

    Los Angeles Pierce College Theatre presents the 1982 play “Top Girls” by Caryl Churchill. (Courtesy photo by Lynn Levitt)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   Fright Fest at Six Flags Magic Mountain: Haunted mazes, roving characters, shows and scares zones. Hours: 10:30 a.m.-1 a.m. Oct. 26-27; 10:30 a.m.-11...
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Things to do in the San Fernando Valley, LA area, Oct. 19-26

      Nights of the Jack, illuminated jack-o-lanterns in more than 20 theme installations, at King Gillette Ranch in Calabasas. (Photo courtesy of Nights of the Jack)   There’s always something fascinating to do in the San Fernando Valley and greater Los Angeles area. Here is a sampling of entertainments this week and also save-the-date events to put on your calendar.   EVENTS   Calabasas Pumpkin Festival: Event includes children’s activities, carnival games, contests, pumpkin patch an...
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