Meet Henrik Schwarz: German House With Soul

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Published May 8, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.
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LAist: What do your DJ sets sound like these days? ... Henrik Schwarz: For the past few years, I’ve only play live, and don't do DJ sets anymore ... I have all my own productions, remixes and own tracks in thousands of little pieces on my laptop and recombine them in real-time into something new ... Whats an old favorite that regularly ends up in your live sets? ... Moondog “Jazzbook #2” (Henrik Schwarz Version)  ... What's your relationship with Los Angeles' electronic dance music

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Preparing for Los Angeles' Biggest Holiday Show, the 50th Anniversary Holiday Celebration

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Published Dec. 8, 2009 at 12:06 a.m.
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Holiday Celebration producers and directors listen to the Burbank Chorale during run-throughs for the 2009 Los Angeles County Holiday Celebration ... Photo by Ed Fuentes ... Assembling up to 1,500 performers and over 40 acts for the Music Center's six-hour Christmas Eve concert is no holiday. Add to that the challenge of having singers, dancers and musicians scattered all over the Southland and just two days for run-throughs, and you positively marvel that it comes together ... Somehow, though,

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Local arts organizations to get $420,000 in NEA grants

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Published Oct. 5, 2009 at 4:44 p.m.

The Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the city of Los Angeles' Department of Cultural Affairs will get a total of $420,084 in grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, it was announced Monday ...

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Los Angeles Politics Hotsheet for Thursday

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Published Oct. 1, 2009 at 4:00 a.m.

The Village to Village blog publishes a statement from longtime Valley activist Jill Banks Barad in support of Paul Krekorian for CD2. Barad notes that the winner of this election will be the chair of City Council’s Education & Neighborhoods Committee which oversees the City's system of ... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ...

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Final Menu: Ilan Hall's The Gorbals Opens at 5th and Spring

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Published Aug. 28, 2009 at 6:27 p.m.
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Photo by Rich Alossi ... With a bold menu some would describe as a head-scratcher, Top Chef winner Ilan Hall's new restaurant The Gorbals opens its doors to the public at 6:30pm tonight ... Hall, a resident of the Arts District, has been working to bring the space to the neighborhood for just under a year ... The Gorbals is named after a working-class neighborhood in Glasgow, Scotland, and the menu reflects a Jewish-Scottish mix that Hall ascribes to his mother's way of cooking ... Thanks to the

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L.A. Chamber warns that union retirement deal looks like Sacramento-style politics

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Published June 24, 2009 at 5:59 p.m.

Two days before the City Council is expected to vote on a crucial early retirement package for thousands of workers -- hoping to avoid the need for layoffs and furloughs -- Los Angeles' most prominent business organization warned that the ...

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Yellow Cab Hopes Dispatch Tweak Will Encourage Cabbies to Play Downtown

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Published June 11, 2009 at 6:21 p.m.
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A Yellow Cab waits at a Bunker Hill taxi stand in this 2008 file photo ... Photo by Ed Fuentes ... Los Angeles' largest cab company has approved a new program designed to encourage its drivers to take more short trips from Downtown's bars and restaurants ... By tweaking the rules on how incoming calls are dispatched, the company hopes that it can remove the penalty associated with accepting a lower-fare local ride ... Yellow Cab Senior Director of Sales and Marketing William Hebler explained the

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Counting On the Twits Running for Governor

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Published May 23, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
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Photos of Newsom announcing his candidacy on Twitter via Twitpic via Nate Ballard ... Late yesterday afternoon LA Observed's Kevin Roderick offered up some insight on the recent goings-on in local politics during his KCRW commentary ... In addition to taking a look at this week's winners and losers--err, in the context of elections--Roderick took a look at what may or may not be the pop culture litmus test for potential electoral success ... Yes, you guessed it: Twitter ... With San Francisco

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Tuesday Night Cafe in Little Tokyo

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Published May 20, 2009 at 12:43 p.m.
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Traci Kato-Kiriyama and Johneric Concordia host Tuesday Night Cafe in Little Tokyo ... Photo by Monk Turner ... Tuesday Night Cafe is one of Downtown Los Angeles' finest cultural gems. For the last ten years, the Aratani Courtyard at East West Players has been transformed into an artistic show-and-tell every first and third Tuesday of the month, spring through fall ... Event organizers Traci Kato-Kiriyama and Johneric Concordia have seen the night blossom from something that was originally

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Budget Cuts Mean Delays for Downtown Community Plans

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Published May 8, 2009 at 6:26 p.m.
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The Arts and Industrial districts, seen here in an April photo from City Hall, could be particularly affected by Community Plan delays ... Photo by Eric Richardson ... Buried in the middle of a five hour budget hearing last Friday was news that updates to Downtown's two major community plans will be delayed unless the Planning department receives more funding and can hire additional planners ... The impact of those delays would be felt quite differently in the two plan areas ... While

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