Jo Dee Messina Bringing Country to the Alex
By Charly SHELTON In Southern California we are known for many things: sunshine, movies, Disneyland, beaches. While we are “southern,” country music is not something that leaps to the mind when you think California. And though the industry is growing here – evidenced by a couple of popular country radio stations in the Los Angeles […]
Stage and Screen Star and Children’s Author Julie Andrews at Flintridge Bookstore
Julie Andrews will be at the Flintridge Bookstore & Coffeehouse on Feb. 11 from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. signing “The Very Fairy Princess Follows Her Heart.” Julie Andrews has been a beloved and much-honored star of stage, screen and television for more than half a century. Today’s film audiences most recently saw her as […]
Love – and Music – Are Everywhere
By Ted AYALA Valentine’s Day is approaching and with it are myriad ways for musicians the world over to reflect upon love and sing its praises – literally. “If music be the food of love, play on,” the Bard of Avon famously wrote. Local musicians will be doing just that, presenting a dizzying array of […]
Jo Dee Messina at the Alex
Click here to see Jo Dee Messina in her music video for “Too Late to Worry” and click here to visit the Alex Theatre website, where you can purchase tickets.
It’s Oscar Time
By Charly SHELTON It’s Oscar™ time again and that means our Oscar Ballot Contest. CV Weekly is proud to present its fourth annual contest. Ballots can be found online and then returned by email, delivery to the office, post mail, drop box, Pony Express, carrier pigeon or any other viable transmission service you wish […]
Gallery: MENSCH Award
Gallery of pictures from the MENSCH For All Seasons Award presentation, January 29, 2013 and the gallery art of Robert Sutz.
OSCAR Ballot Contest 2013
By Charly SHELTON Its Oscar time again and that means Oscar Ballot Contest. CVWeekly is proud to present its fourth annual Oscar Ballot Contest to be found online and then returned by email, delivery to the office, post mail, Drop Box, Pony Express, carrier pigeon or any other viable transmission service you wish to use. […]
Much to ‘Uncover’ at PBS
By Charly SHELTON This week at the Langham Hotel in Pasadena, the Public Broadcasting Service – PBS – debuted its upcoming specials and ongoing television series that will come to screens in early to mid 2013. Normally when one thinks of PBS, it conjures images of “Sesame Street,” classical concerts and antiques shows. But their […]
Pasadena Symphony Presents Boyer, Sibelius and Brahms
By Ted AYALA The “Latin American boom” was a time of unprecedented growth and exploration in the literature of Hispanophone America; a time when writers like Julio Cortázar, Manuel Puig, Carlos Fuentes and Mario Vargas Llosa, among others, enriched their literary soil with an infusion of the modernism of the U.S. and Europe. It was […]