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LA Fashion Week Reporting March 2010

March 26, 2010

Welcome to LA FASHION WEEK! It may be spring time in California, but designers are showcasing their Fall 2010 collections. This week’s Cultural Cocktail includes: LA Millinery Guild’s first fashion show, Project Ethos in Hollywood,  BOX eight’s Fashion Refocus, and  Hope in the City’s Fashion…

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LA Fashion Week March 18- LA Millinery Guild featuring Anita Hopkins

March 26, 2010

Hats off to Millinery Guild’s “Mad Hatter” Fashion show– LA Fashion Week by Leticia Marie Sanchez All Fashion Photography ©2010 Leticia Marie Sanchez March 18, 2010- The L.A Millinery Guild hosted its first fashion show, kicking off LA Fashion Week to an…

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BOXeight’s Fashion:Refocus- LA Fashion Week- March 2010

March 26, 2010

Leitmotifs and Painting with Light; Fashion: Refocus at BOXeight Studios by Leticia Marie Sanchez All Fashion Photography: © 2010 Leticia M. Sanchez March 20– BOXeight Studios showcased Fall and Winter 2010 Collections from a unique vantage point: a behind-the-scenes look at fashion…

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Unsolved Art Mysteries: WHODUNIT?

March 7, 2010

The Case of the Pilfering “Policemen” by Leticia Marie Sanchez WHO: Two art burglars disguised as policemen WHAT: The greatest art heist in world history WHERE: Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum WHEN: October 18, 1990 WHY: $500 million dollars worth…

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Week of March 19

March 5, 2010

DA CAMERA SOCIETY Sat. 20 March 2010; 8 pm Voces Intimae Johann Nepomuk Hummel, Trio in F Major, Op. 22; Felix Mendelssohn, Trio in D Minor, Op. 49; Franz Schubert, Trio in E-flat Major, Op. 100, D. 929. Doheny Mansion. Pompeian…

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Jamming Django

March 4, 2010

Legend has it that prolific Jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt enchanted Andrés Segovia with a jazz crepuscule. After the captivating performance Segovia asked if he could take a peek at the sheet music. Django laughed and replied, “I just made it…

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This Weekend in LA: March 6-7

March 2, 2010

Villa Play-Reading Series: Euripides’ Helen Saturday March 6 3 pm; 8 pm Auditorium, Getty Villa. 17985 PCH. Pacific Palisades, California 90272 (310) 440-7300 http://www.getty.edu/ Photography by Leticia Marie Sanchez Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare Directed by Michael Murray February 27-May 21,…

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MOCA names New Director: Jeffrey Deitch

February 20, 2010

MOCA’s Board of Trustees named influential New York Gallerist, Jeffrey Deitch, as the museum’s new director. A prominent figure in the art world, Mr. Deitch has worked with such artists as Jean Michael Basquiat and Jeff Koons, in addition to founding…

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Gaze: Portraits of Artists and Composers

February 20, 2010

Musical Performance Fri. February 26 Performer Polli Chambers-Salazar links composers Scriabin and Hindemith to Jawlensky,  Klee, and other painters after Ingres. 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. TheaterNorton Simon Museum of Art.411 W. Colorado Boulevard Pasadena, CA 91105 626.449.6840 http://www.nortonsimon.org/

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News: LA’s Department of Cultural Affairs saved from budget slash…for now

February 20, 2010

Due to its dire fiscal straits, the LA City Council considered a bill this month that would have slashed the funding from LA’s Department of Cultural Affairs. The proposal re-evaluated the $1 tax per $100 in hotel room charges that…

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