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I Can’t Help You
Posted By Zócalo On April 30, 2009Los Angeles and Las Vegas Mirror Each Other
Posted By Zócalo On April 30, 2009
Of all American cities, Las Vegas may seem the one that most resembles a theme park. But if William Fox had to name the “first commercial theme park” of the country, the Strip wouldn’t be first in his mind.
“I always thought of it as being Forest Lawn here in Glendale,” Fox said to a laugh from the crowd at the Autry National Center. The cemetery, he noted, directly copied Italian buildings, long before the Bellagio opened.
Fox, Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art joined….
Hal Willner
Posted By Zócalo On April 29, 2009
Hal Willner knows his Charles Mingus. Not only did Willner, a veteran record producer and music director for “Saturday Night Live”, see every Mingus performance in New York from 1974 to 1977, he also had several chance encounters with the jazz great. When Willner was in college, he lived on the same block as Mingus. And when Willner first began working in music, he was sometimes surprised to see Mingus at parties for Led Zeppelin and Crosby, Stills & Nash. “You’d see him at these things, talking to people, so I thought there was some interest for him,” Willner said jokingly during Zócalo’s panel celebrating Mingus. The real story? “He came for the free food.”
Emory Holmes II
Posted By Zócalo On April 29, 2009
Emory Holmes didn’t take to Los Angeles easily. The journalist, a Nashville native, moved to the city when he was eight years old. “I was born in the segregated South,” he said. “When I came to California, the land of cowboys and vistas and all that, I thought the South was in the South and not here. But I found all the same difficulties in Los Angeles.” Holmes took to traveling, spending time in Micronesia, Hawaii, Montreal, and New York, only to return to L.A. “The thing I needed most was here,” he said. “A sense of home.”
Oscar Garza
Posted By Zócalo On April 29, 2009
Oscar Garza has his family to thank for his expansive musical tastes. “I have brothers who are 10 and 11 years older than I am, so from the time that I was a toddler, I was listening to music they were listening to,” said Garza, a former Senior Editor at the Los Angeles Daily News and Calendar editor at the Los Angeles Times. “I know music that I shouldn’t because of them.” But Garza took some time to get to jazz, picking up Duke Ellington, Thelonius Monk, and Charles Mingus in college. “You get an education,” he said, “And you start with the names you know.”
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