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2024 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

Album of the Year Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again Kylie Minogue - Tension Royel Otis - PRATTS & PAIN Troye Sivan - Something To Give Each Other Best Solo Artist Amy Shark - Sunday Sadness Angie McMahon - Light, Dark, Light Again Dom Dolla - Saving Up Emma Donovan - Till My Song …

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1 month ago

‘Waiting for Godot’s’ opening-night bash at Geffen Playhouse: L.A. arts and culture this week

LA Times

The crowd was jubilant on the opening night of “Waiting for Godot” at the Geffen Playhouse last Thursday. Best bets: On our radar this week Faniswa Yisa, left, Billy Edward, Craig Leo, Carlo Daniels, Sandra Pinsloo and Andrew Buckland in “Life & Times of Michael K.” ‘Life & Times of Michael K’ Times theater critic Charles McNulty has been eyeing …

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1 month, 1 week ago

A new context for ‘There Will Be Blood,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

LA Times

“There Will Be Blood,” starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a ruthless oilman, will be screened Sunday in Los Angeles as part of a film series that asks viewers to consider the western genre through alternative lenses. We need both.” ‘There Will Be Blood’ in 35mm Daniel Day-Lewis, left, and Paul Dano in the Paul Thomas Anderson-directed “There Will Be Blood,” which …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Review: Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi lead a ‘Godot’ that’s well worth the wait

LA Times

Rainn Wilson, from left, Aasif Mandvi and Adam Stein in “Waiting for Godot” at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. What’s most surprising about the excellent Geffen Playhouse production of Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot,” starring Rainn Wilson, is how subdued the clowning is from two actors known for their offbeat comic talents. Rainn Wilson, from left, Conor Lovett and Adam …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Commentary: L.A. new-music groups tackle election angst with a chance to let it all out

LA Times

Sunday brunch, laugh, cry, reflect, bop along to the music, quietly listen or let it all out in a deafening collective primal scream Ahead of the 1952 election. In support of Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, Irving Berlin included the song “We Like Ike” in the 1950 Broadway musical “Call Me Madam,” with such lines as: “Harry won’t get out/He’s got …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi are waiting for ‘Godot’ at Geffen Playhouse

LA Times

Rainn Wilson, left, and Aasif Mandvi team up in Samuel Beckett’s “Waiting for Godot” at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood. Aasif Mandvi, one of the leads in a new production of “Waiting for Godot” opening Thursday at L.A.’s Geffen Playhouse, is sitting on a couch, recalling the dearth of roles for South Asian actors in 2003, when he played a …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

LACMA announces opening date for David Geffen Galleries: L.A. arts and culture this week

LA Times

The city now has its best view yet of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries. I recently took a 360-degree walk around the structure and was particularly struck by the way the part of the building that bridges Wilshire Boulevard frames Chris Burden’s iconic “Urban Light” sculpture. thestreetcarproject.com ‘Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Southern Section high school volleyball playoff scores and upcoming schedules

LA Times

Thousand Oaks rallied to beat Valley Christian in five sets and hosts Orange Lutheran in the second round of the Division 2 playoffs Saturday. HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALL Southern Section playoffs Thursday’s Results First Round DIVISION 3 Royal d. Rosary Academy, 16-25, 25-20, 19-25, 25-22, 16-14 Torrance d. Downey, 3-1 DIVISION 4 Dos Pueblos d. Santa Fe, 25-15, 25-23, 20-25, …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

LACMA announces opening date for 2026 as scaffolding comes down on Wilshire Boulevard

LA Times

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s new David Geffen Galleries will open to the public in April 2026, the museum announced Friday, as scaffolding is coming down around the Peter Zumthor-designed building, revealing the most expansive view yet of the 900-foot-long, poured-concrete structure spanning Wilshire Boulevard. LACMA’s new Peter Zumthor-designed David Geffen Galleries viewed from above, showing the La …

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3 months ago

J. D. Souther dead at 78: Singer-songwriter who penned hits for The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt passes away at his home in New Mexico

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Souther has died at the age of 78. The Detroit-born musical artist, who wrote country-rock songs for popular acts such as the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, passed away at his New Mexico home, a rep for the Eagles told the Los Angeles Times. Souther, who penned Eagles staples such as 1976's New Kid in Town and 1979's Heartache Tonight, and …

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3 months, 1 week ago

J.D. Souther, songwriter behind country-rock hits by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, dies at 78

LA Times

Souther, the singer-songwriter who co-wrote twangy yet debonair hits for the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt that helped define the Southern California country-rock sound of the mid-1970s, has died. Souther — whose best-known songs include the Eagles’ “New Kid in Town” and “Heartache Tonight,” Ronstadt’s “Faithless Love” and his own “You’re Only Lonely,” which gave him a top-10 pop hit in …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Review: Artist Olafur Eliasson’s thrilling new L.A. show whips up magic to pry open perception

LA Times

There are no secrets in Olafur Eliasson’s art. Like the warped fabric of Albert Einstein’s space-time continuum, the curvature also recalls the famous opening frames of Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” where the blinding white light of the sun seems to rise from behind the black orb of an Earth buried — and maybe even lost — within the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Review: Sara Porkalob sings her truth in dangerous ‘Dragon Lady’ at Geffen Playhouse

LA Times

Three generations of women are assembled in Sara Porkalob’s “Dragon Lady,” the first in her three-part series of musicals about what she refers to as her “Filipina American gangster family.” She’s not exaggerating. Sara Porkalob’s “Dragon Lady” delves into a family story marked by intergenerational trauma. The story of her fight to keep her first daughter, whom she names Maria …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Taylor Swift, Post Malone win big at MTV VMAs 2024: Check out full list of winners

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Taylor Swift and Post Malone took home the first award of the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards for best collaboration, handed to them by Flavor Flav and Olympian Jordan Chiles. Post Malone – Fortnight – Republic Records Artist of the year Ariana Grande – Republic Records Bad Bunny – Rimas Entertainment Eminem – Shady / Aftermath / Interscope Records Sabrina …

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3 months, 1 week ago

MTV VMAs 2024 full list of winners: Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and more

Hindustan Times

2024 MTV Video Music Awards: Sabrina Carpenter won the MTV Video Music Award for Song of the Year for Espresso. Victoria Monét – On My Mama– Lovett Music / RCA Records Best alternative WINNER: Benson Boone – Beautiful Things– Night Street Records, Inc. / Warner Records Bleachers – Tiny Moves– Dirty Hit Hozier – Too Sweet– Columbia Records Imagine Dragons …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

LACMA opening pushed to 2026; staff memo reveals plans for sneak peek inside empty new building

LA Times

Construction of the David Geffen Galleries, seen here in mid-August, is scheduled for December completion Sometime next year, we might have an opportunity for a sneak peek inside the David Geffen Galleries, the new permanent collection building under construction on the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Wilshire Boulevard campus. LACMA’s Ragheb wrote in her email to colleagues, “Once the …

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4 months ago

Review: The Tarell Alvin McCraney era begins at the Geffen with powerful ‘The Brothers Size’

LA Times

Playwright and Oscar-winning screenwriter Tarell Alvin McCraney was appointed artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse last year, but the McCraney era really began on Thursday night with the opening of a muscular revival of “The Brothers Size” at the Geffen Playhouse’s intimate Audrey Skirball Kenis Theater. The play, part of the acclaimed trilogy “The Brother/Sister Plays,” launched McCraney’s meteoric rise …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Taylor Swift leads 2024 MTV VMAs nominations with 10 nods

India Today

Pop singer Taylor Swift is dominating the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards as the leading nominee with 10 nominations, followed by Post Malone with nine. Check out the full list of nominations here: Video of the Year Ariana Grande – we can’t be friends – Republic Records Billie Eilish – LUNCH – Darkroom / Interscope Records Doja Cat – Paint …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

MTV VMAs nominations: Taylor Swift leads with 10 nods, Post Malone follows closely; see full list here

Hindustan Times

It's Taylor Swift's world, and we're just living in it. Full list of nominations VIDEO OF THE YEAR Ariana Grande – We Can’t Be Friends – Republic Records Billie Eilish – Lunch – Darkroom / Interscope Records Doja Cat – Paint The Town Red – Kemosabe Records / RCA Records Eminem – Houdini – Shady / Aftermath / Interscope Records …

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5 months ago

Eddie Rosenblatt, longtime president of Geffen Records, dies at 89

LA Times

Eddie Rosenblatt, whose 40-year career included work with Nirvana, John Lennon and Guns N’ Roses, has died. Eddie Rosenblatt, the longtime president of Geffen Records who signed John Lennon and built a roster of rock and alternative acts including Guns N’ Roses and Nirvana, died of pneumonia on Tuesday at a Santa Barbara hospital surrounded by family, his son Michael …

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6 months ago

Review: ‘tiny father,’ a new play about unexpected parenthood, is disappointingly minor key

LA Times

Fatherhood wasn’t in Daniel’s plans. The setting for “tiny father,” a play by Mike Lew that’s receiving its West Coast premiere at the Geffen Playhouse’s Gil Cates Theater, is a neonatal intensive care unit. Tiffany Villarin, left, and Maurice Williams in “tiny father” at Geffen Playhouse. “tiny father,” directed by Moritz von Stuelpnagel, charts the infant’s progress as days, weeks …

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7 months ago

Review: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio sculpture will forever change how you see L.A.’s sidewalk ficus trees

LA Times

Some of Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio’s sculptures are suspended from the ceiling or are hanging flat against gallery walls, the scruffy thinness of their sheets of rubber or latex material yielding an impression of flayed carcasses or maybe burial shrouds. Aparicio’s particular choice of tree, an ordinary feature of the city everywhere you look, turns out to be a global evocation …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Willow Smith, Will and Jada’s daughter, says nepo baby ‘insecurity has driven me harder’

LA Times

Singer Willow Smith, whose parents are Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, said in a recent interview that she doesn’t “need to prove s— to anybody.” Willow Smith has such big feelings about her music career — and perceptions that she’s a nepo baby riding on her Oscar- and Daytime Emmy-winning parents’ coattails. The 23-year-old singer, whose parents are “King Richard” …

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7 months, 3 weeks ago

Need a little hope? Geffen Playhouse magic show proves hope is more than an illusion

LA Times

Did the shattering year of 2020 actually happen? The show is “The Hope Theory,” the star is sleight-of-hand magician Helder Guimarães, and the director is Frank Marshall, the legendary producer of the “Indiana Jones” and “Jurassic Park” franchises. The Geffen has long been an incubator and supporter of Guimarães’ magical spectacles, beginning with a 2019 show called “Invisible Tango.” That …

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2024 ARIA AWARDS WINNERS

‘Waiting for Godot’s’ opening-night bash at Geffen Playhouse: L.A. arts and culture this week

A new context for ‘There Will Be Blood,’ plus the week’s best movies in L.A.

Review: Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi lead a ‘Godot’ that’s well worth the wait

Commentary: L.A. new-music groups tackle election angst with a chance to let it all out

Rainn Wilson and Aasif Mandvi are waiting for ‘Godot’ at Geffen Playhouse

LACMA announces opening date for David Geffen Galleries: L.A. arts and culture this week

Southern Section high school volleyball playoff scores and upcoming schedules

LACMA announces opening date for 2026 as scaffolding comes down on Wilshire Boulevard

J. D. Souther dead at 78: Singer-songwriter who penned hits for The Eagles and Linda Ronstadt passes away at his home in New Mexico

J.D. Souther, songwriter behind country-rock hits by the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, dies at 78

Review: Artist Olafur Eliasson’s thrilling new L.A. show whips up magic to pry open perception

Review: Sara Porkalob sings her truth in dangerous ‘Dragon Lady’ at Geffen Playhouse

Taylor Swift, Post Malone win big at MTV VMAs 2024: Check out full list of winners

MTV VMAs 2024 full list of winners: Taylor Swift, Post Malone, Sabrina Carpenter, Chappell Roan and more

LACMA opening pushed to 2026; staff memo reveals plans for sneak peek inside empty new building

Review: The Tarell Alvin McCraney era begins at the Geffen with powerful ‘The Brothers Size’

Taylor Swift leads 2024 MTV VMAs nominations with 10 nods

MTV VMAs nominations: Taylor Swift leads with 10 nods, Post Malone follows closely; see full list here

Eddie Rosenblatt, longtime president of Geffen Records, dies at 89

Review: ‘tiny father,’ a new play about unexpected parenthood, is disappointingly minor key

Review: Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio sculpture will forever change how you see L.A.’s sidewalk ficus trees

Willow Smith, Will and Jada’s daughter, says nepo baby ‘insecurity has driven me harder’

Need a little hope? Geffen Playhouse magic show proves hope is more than an illusion