Yearly Archives: 2012

AT THE DANCING CLASSROOMS LA GRAND FINALS, LAUSD STUDENTS MERENGUE, RUMBA, FOXTROT, WALTZ, TANGO AND SWING THEIR WAY TO WIN AT THE COCOANUT GROVE Mandy Moore, two-time Emmy nominee, choreographer for So You Think You Can Dance, Phillip Rhee, martial artist, actor, director, producer, and creator of Best of the […]

Dancing Classrooms LA 2012 Grand Finals

June 26, 2012 in Dancing Classroom La by STAFF

On Tues. June 12, Lucy’s El Adobe, long a watering hole for political and entertainment industry figures, extended a muy caliente “Bienvenidos” to St. Vincent Meals on Wheels supporters and amigos. Owner Lucy Casado, whose Mexican eatery on Melrose across from Paramount Studios has over the years nurtured many a political […]

Garden Party At Lucy’s

June 26, 2012 in Saint Vincent Meals On Wheels by STAFF

Good Monday All – We had a busy time last week in B.B. King’s Bluesville. Rita Chiarelli was by to talk about her new documentary on Angola Prison…

Bill Wax Interviews Rita Chiarelli

June 22, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli by STAFF

I have finally found a great 2012 documentary to champion with Bruce McDonald’s “Music From The Big House.” It follows “the goddess of Canadian blues” Rita Chiarelli as she visits what is considered to be the birthplace of blues music: Louisiana State Maximum Security Prison (a.k.a. Angola Prison). What she finds is […]

‘Music from the Big House’ – an Exhilirating Musical Documentary

June 22, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli / Uncategorized by STAFF

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Hundreds of fifth graders put their best foot forward Tuesday night as they danced their way towards the finals in a LAUSD ballroom dance competition. Decked out in colorful costumes nearly 200 students from 19 schools danced foxtrot, merengue, rumba, waltz, tango and swing in hopes of […]

Strictly Ballroom: Hundreds Of 5th Graders Compete In Dance Finals

June 22, 2012 in Uncategorized by STAFF

Wanna know the secret to the tango? Fifth-grader Kai Land will tell you. It’s his specialty. “I have to say the secret of the tango is your serious expression,” he said, hamming it up. The look he gave was a cross between the pang of a brain freeze headache and […]

5th-graders twirl into finals at LAUSD’s first dance competition

June 22, 2012 in Dancing Classroom La by STAFF

Award-winning novelist (Across a Hundred Mountains) Grande captivates and inspires in her memoir. Raised in Mexico in brutal poverty during the 1980s, four-year-old Grande and her two siblings lived with their cruel grandmother after both parents departed for the U.S. in search of work. Grande deftly evokes the searing sense […]

Author Reyna Grande’s Memoir Gets Starred Review in Publishers Weekly

June 16, 2012 in Reyna Grande by STAFF

Around Cape Ann Gail McCarthy Canada’s “Queen of the Blues” comes to Gloucester Friday night to screen a film about a blues pilgrimage down U.S. Route 61 that led her to a state prison in Louisiana. What Rita Chiarelli discovered there led to the creation of a documentary that she […]

Around Cape Ann Canada’s-Blues Queen in Local Visit

June 7, 2012 in Uncategorized by STAFF

Fox 23 News Interviews Rita Chiarelli

June 5, 2012 in Rita Chiarelli by STAFF