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TONIGHT! - REDMAN-MEHLDAU- MCBRIDE-BLADE – I think it was McBride playing a free concert many years ago at SMC (hey! SMC, why don’t you do that now? – you
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THE HOT CLUB OF LOS ANGELES – Breakneck, virtuosic 1930s Django-style swing music in the cozy Culver City dive, almost 75 years old with live music almost every night
California’s oppressive heat wave is predicted to ease this weekend and locals looking to emerge from their air-conditioned exile have options.
On Saturday residents can check out a pair
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THE HOT CLUB OF LOS ANGELES – Breakneck, virtuosic 1930s Django-style swing music in the cozy Culver City dive, almost 75 years old with live music almost every night
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TONIGHT! - LA PHIL, BEETHOVEN’S 9TH – When I was there at Disney Hall a few months ago for Beethoven’s Ninth, it was a privilege I will
The Santa Monica City Council has approved funding to enhance operating hours at the Santa Monica Public Library, including new Saturday service at the Montana Avenue and Pico Branch libraries.
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BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA – While the Rolling Stones (well, two of them) continue to amaze by performing into their late 70s, The Blind Boys were performing years before
Residents frustrated over reduced staffing and limited hours at local libraries see hope on the horizon this week, with all five Santa Monica Public Library branches in line for potential
88.5 FM
Has been my favorite LA radio station (remember radio? In your car?) for years. (Not my daughters, so that tells you something.) They jut won the award
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KAMASI WASHINGTON – The brilliant saxophonist brings old school into the 21st Century. How good is he? This show is completely sold out, so you will have to go
Santa Monica local and Journalist Andrew Dubbins has published his first non-fiction book, “Into Enemy Waters.”
The book tells the story of the World War II “frogmen” who became the
