Nathan Cooke isn’t a miscreant. He isn’t a troublemaker or a misguided teen. He is a 26-year-old industrial design major in his final two trimesters at the pres
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If you’re like me, the peculiar selectivity of the ’80s revival has been a source of considerable perplexity and annoyance. Overlooking complex cultural touchsto
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Whenever a tourist cruising some stretch of Santa Monica Bay catches me
on the sand with rod and reel in hand, I’m always dumbfounded by that most predict
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Photo by Kasskara / DG
ESA-PEKKA IN EXCELSIS If anyone needed further confirmation of the strengths of Esa-Pekka Salonen, and his success in sharing those str
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FIRST FLIGHTS
At the Philharmonic, last week and this, the light of reason shines
bright. No brutality sullies the sonority. Trombones, tubas and triangles are
furlo
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