It’s a rainy night in L.A., and artist Savannah Knoop welcomes her friends to ACP, a small gallery in a private home in Hollywood. It’s warm and steamy as a lock
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I enjoyed La La Land. As a jazz musician, jazz educator and sometime writer about jazz, I was surprised and compelled by director Damien Chazelle’s ambitious attem
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It all started with me looking around the room while playing a bill on a particularly white lineup. Because I work as a booker and curator as well, I had been design
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Even though maintaining a jazz orchestra these days is about as profitable as running Amtrak, the surplus of great musicians in Los Angeles assures that there will a
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One of my friends called me one day and was like, ‘We’re gonna call you Chachi,’” Compton rapper Problem tells me. He’s talking about Chachi Arcola, Scott
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Sometime last year, Natalie Mering lost her phone. For a month, the singer best known as Weyes (pronounced Wise”) Blood wandered around L.A. in a disconnected para
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It’s been my opinion for years that John Corabi, if not a better vocalist than Vince Neil in the abstract, was at the very least a better fit for Mötley Crüe. Ne
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Even before 2016 really went off the rails on Election Day, it was one of the worst years in recent memory, marked by violence, tragedy and toxic political divisiven
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New York–style Chinese food with Jewish roots: Man, we love America. Genghis Cohen, the long-standing American Chinese restaurant on Fairfax, is hosting a p
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