Archive for Entertainment

100 Years of Paramount Pictures sponsored by Film Independent & LACMA

Jan 23, 2012 by

  100 Years of Paramount Pictures January 26 For the next five months, on the last Thursday of each month, Film Independent at LACMA invites you to a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Paramount [...]

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This Weekend’s Orange County Calendar

Jan 22, 2012 by

What’s up this weekend in Orange County? Plenty! And you’ll find it all right here,  plus new February events.   Welcome to Travelin’ Local’s round up of  Music, Arts, Sports, Children’s Programs, Community Events and more. [...]

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Orange County Calendar for this Weekend

Jan 14, 2012 by

What’s up for the weekend? You’ll find it all right here. Welcome to our round up of Music, Arts, Sports, Children’s Programs, Community Events and more. Bowers Museum’s Warriors, Tombs and Temples, China’s Enduring Legacy, [...]

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Orange County – Playground for Hollywood’s Famous and Sports’ Top Athletes

Jan 09, 2012 by

Recently we visited Orange County’s historic movie theaters. Some are thriving. Others are valiantly struggling. Then we explored OC movie locations, where  George Clooney, Tom Hanks, Tom Cruise and Reese Witherspoonll all worked. So, not surprisingly, Orange [...]

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Free Concerts from the World

Jan 05, 2012

In case you hadn’t heard, the Music Center downtown is offering free concerts designed to give you and your family a little taste of the world. Each concert brings a different country to light. This [...]

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The 18th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award Nominations

Dec 27, 2011

The Screen Actor Guild (SAG)Awards is the only Awards show that exclusively honors performers, and it presents thirteen awards for acting in film and television, including both individual performances as well as on the work [...]

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Orange County’s Movie History

Dec 23, 2011

Can we rewind and fast forward? That seems to be the movie question in Orange County. Right now Orange County has a small core of historic movie theaters that we recently explored, and a fresh [...]

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Los Lobos – Straight out of East Los Angeles

Dec 18, 2011

Although Los Angeles has had its fair share of musical bands and musicians originating and playing here, there’s always been a dearth of Mexican Rock’n’Roll bands that made it into mainstream Rock & Roll culture [...]

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Orange County’s Historic Movie Theaters

Dec 09, 2011

Step closer. Remember when the lights dimmed, the red velvet curtains parted, and the organist played the first notes in these historic keepers of movie magic. As I stood in front of the historic Bay [...]

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Sundance Film Festival Entrees Announced

Dec 05, 2011

Between all the Hollywood scmhoozing, partying, sex, booze and Rock’n’Roll serious distribution and acquisition deals are taking place at this years’ annual Sundance Film Festival. “Storytellers broaden our minds: engage, provoke, inspire, and ultimately, connect [...]

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Sing-a-Long Saturday–The Ventures, Wipe Out and Hawaii Five-0

Dec 04, 2011

In last week’s story we featured the Surfaris’ Wipe Out. However, another band, The Ventures, also recorded Wipe Out, and many think and feel that their version is much better. In fact, the Ventures, (although [...]

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“Soul Surfer”; The Bethany Hamilton Saga

Nov 29, 2011

This movie is based on the life and subsequent tragedy which befell upon a young, gifted and quite beautiful surfer, Bethany Hamilton, whose left arm was bitten off by a shark—a surfer’s worst nightmare—or for [...]

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Punk Rock – a Global, National and Southern Californian Rock Movement

Nov 21, 2011

After a dull corporate label driven decade of bad records and music ranging for most of the 70′s, rock and pop fans became legitimately disoriented to the music (Rock and Roll), that they had come [...]

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How Gaming can increase California’s Tax Revenues

Nov 16, 2011

Gaming is now an accepted and welcomed contribution to many cities and nations around the world. It’s also used as a way to meet different and varied lifestyles and preferences various types of people to [...]

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