With the opening of EMP|SFM’s new exhibition, American Sabor: Latinos in U.S. Popular Music, Jazz in January 2008 focuses on Latin jazz. In Spanish, sabor means taste or flavor and is commonly used to refer to good music. Jazz is flavored with sounds drawn from many parts of the Americas, and Latinos have helped […]
If 2007 was a slightly disappointing year for new music then 2008 promises to offer at least a little more variety. Dance music, for example, for so long in the doldrums and reliant on one-off novelty hits for stupid people, co-opted indie bands (Klaxons) and dull remixes of mainstream chart hits, is showing signs […]
The museum is trying something different this year with Winter Legacies. Instead of spreading activities over three-day weekends in December as it has in the past, it’s concentrating them during the museum’s busiest week of the year, when attendance spikes to about 8,600. That compares with attendance during a typical week of 7,100, said Sara […]
Transformers was easily the best movie this year. BUT where is Superbad??? That movie was easily number 2. 1. Transformers 2. Superbad 3.
Now that people are sticking around for the often-celebratory conclusion of Celtics [ team stats ] home games, music fans can catch a concert as well. After the Cs take on the Washington Wizards Jan. 14, the Grammy-nominated Plain White T s will perform live. Who? You know, the band that did the Hey […]
ArenaNet, located in Bellevue, Washington, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NCsoft Corporation. ArenaNet has built a state-of-the-art interactive game network and develops premier multiplayer online games for dedicated game players. ArenaNet’s titles, Guild Wars, Guild Wars Factions(R), Guild Wars Nightfall(R) and Guild Wars: Eye of the North(TM) are global online roleplaying games that allow […]
Dunkirk girl receives mysterious musical gift By TIM LATSHAW OBSERVER Photo by Tim Latshaw Kaitlin Promber, 11, poses with her new guitar, “Lucille.” The guitar was purchased for Promber by an anonymous couple after they are said to have heard her playing it inside Crino Music. 12/24/2007 - OBSERVER Assistant News Editor Yes, Virginia, […]
The award-winning Orchestra are regarded as one of the finest in the UK, bringing international recognition to our region. With their own orchestral series in Kirklees, regular performances in Huddersfield and Dewsbury, as well as concert performances in Leeds, Newcastle and other major series they are sure to take Sheffield by storm The Orchestra’s […]
From the beginning, The Resistors have defied being pigeonholed into a musical genre. Listening to their 16-song CD conjures up comparisons to the sounds of Tom Petty and Heartbreakers and Bob Dylan. The songs run the musical gamut from country to rockabilly, with a heavy dose of three-guitar rock and roll thrown in.
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa named Olga Garay, formerly a New York producer and arts consultant, to head the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs. In 2008, Garay will oversee the development of the city’s first “cultural master plan” since 1991. Then, the controversial plan masterminded by former culture chief Adolfo V. Nodal demanded the equitable distribution […]