Billionaire David Geffen’s latest idea does not involve movie scripts, signing the next Nirvana or acquiring a priceless painting. His newest brainstorm is to purchase the Los Angeles Times. Question is, can a billionaire who’s always made successful business decisions make the fourth-largest newspaper in the U.S. clear profit margins of more than 20%?
The Slip confuses me. One minute they’re Indie Rock, full on. Next minute they’re Tom Petty. Then they’re some kind of blues-rock jam band with harmonica solos. Don’t get me wrong, I love it when bands confuse the audience. Mr. Bungle used to do it. The Roots did it a little bit when they...
Lee “Scratch” Perry is not quite the anomaly I imagined him to be. After years of listening to his albums and CDs and reading countless magazine interviews, the mythic dub reggae performer had reached nearly mythic proportions in my head. His illusiveness, the alleged burning of his own studio in protest of the music...
Wynton Marsalis doesn’t like set breaks. “We just wanna play, but they ask us to do these intermissions,” Marsalis told the packed house at Zellerbach Hall in Berkeley this week. “If it was up to me, we’d just keep right on playing.” Marsalis is the award-winning artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center in...
It’s been more than twenty years since Frank Portman went to high school. As he walks into the Capuchino High School cafeteria in San Bruno, Calif, guitar case in hand, he has a flashback.
I’m no tech geek, but I do my best to keep up. THIS POST talks about how Google could have purchased the New York Times for the money it spent on YouTube. But they didn’t, cuz folks want their home videos, not what many feel is biased, spoon-fed news reporting. And as my LA...