By Gordon Durich
On Friday June 7, The English Beat returns to the Canyon in Agoura Hills. I can’t wait. The band fuse ska, soul, reggae and punk rock into its infectious distinctive sound.
Formed in Birmingham, England in 1978, and...
By: Robert St. Martin
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 5/27/24 - Currently on screen at the Laemmle Royal Theatre in West Los Angeles and the Laemmle Town Center Theatres in Encino is Amei Wallach’s Taking Venice, an insightful documentary about...
By: Valerie Milano
Photos: Ana Maria Gill
Napa Valley, CA (The Hollywood Times) 5/27/2024 – The final day of the 2024 BottleRock music, food, wine and spirits festival belonged to Ed Sheeran.
The English singer/songwriter, whose boyish good looks belie his 33...
By: Valerie Milano
Napa Valley, CA (The Hollywood Times) 5/26/2024 – With so much music, food and wine flowing around us here at BottleRock, there is no place better to come and reset one’s bearings than the Hendricks Gin booth,...
By: Valerie Milano
Napa Valley, CA (The Hollywood Times) 5/25/2024 – If you have never been to a festival, it is difficult to imagine the organized mayhem that is opening day. The organizers are running amok trying to make sure...
By Robert St. Martin
Los Angeles, California (The Hollywood Times) 05/25/2024
Currently on stage at the Los Angeles Theatre Center with the L.A. Latino Theatre Company is Oliver Mayer’s new play Ghost Waltz. Developed in Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas playwriting...
By Valerie Milano
Napa Valley, CA (The Hollywood Times) 5/25/24 - In 2013, a historic event unfolded within its walls: 30,000 incarcerated individuals of Pelican Bay launched a hunger strike. The Strike, a new documentary from JoeBilll Muñoz and Lucas Guilkey,...
By Valerie Milano
Napa Valley, CA (The Hollywood Times) 5/24/2024 – Imagine, if you will, the following two scenarios:
First, you’re a 10-year-old girl and the murders of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery inspire you to write and perform a song...
Guest writer Peggy Phillips
Los Angeles, CA (The Hollywood Times) 05/24/20204 - He’s lived in three countries, learned a second tongue, moved halfway across the globe, and recorded one of the best modern rock albums in years. Vik Kovacs (VK) is taking his project, Telling...
BIG & RICH, GAVIN DeGRAW, HOME FREE, SCOTT STAPP (of CREED), TRACY LAWRENCE, THE OAK RIDGE BOYS, CRYSTAL GAYLE, LARRY GATLIN + DEBBY BOONE AND TY HERNDON + JANIE FRICKE TO PERFORM ON 'LEE GREENWOOD: GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.' AIRING EXCLUSIVELY...