Bruce Springsteen

Five things we learned from the Rolling Stones' last SoCal show

2013-05-21 10:06:00

The Rolling Stones rolled into Staples Center on Monday night for what Mick Jagger described as the band’s last show in Southern California -- “for a while, anyway.” Following an earlier Staples gig, two at Anaheim’s Honda Center...

'Star Trek' to hit warp speed. ESPN takes U.S. Open. CW upfront.

2013-05-17 06:22:00

After the coffee. Before the flight back to Los Angeles. The Skinny: Finally heading home after a week and a half in New York. Hope my cats remember me and didn't tear our place up. Friday's headlines include the weekend box-office preview, some...

Dr. Dre calls $70-million USC pledge a high point of his career

2013-05-15 08:43:00

Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are scheduled to announce Wednesday a $70-million donation to USC for a new academy that they say will give students new facilities and the tools they need to break into the rapidly changing music...

Dr. Dre, Jimmy Iovine to give $70 million to USC for new academy

2013-05-14 21:50:00

Hip-hop star Dr. Dre and music mogul Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC for a new academy that they say will give students the tools they need to break into the rapidly changing music industry. Scheduled to be announced by Dre (whose given...

Setting Times stories to music: From the Kinks to Sugarhill Gang

2013-05-10 16:34:00

Would you do a double-take if I said that that words were a recurring theme in this week’s Great Reads? Yes, beautiful language is a mainstay in these stories, but this week, two standouts focused on words. Exhibit A: The words “Los Feliz....

Review: 'Flashdance the Musical' breaks out leg warmers and '80s camp

2013-05-09 06:00:00

This review has been corrected. See below for details. "Flashdance the Musical" has its way over "Flashdance" the movie in at least one critical regard: The show's plucky heroine — as you'll recall: welder by day! nonstripping stripper by night!...

Tom Waits sits in with the Rolling Stones in Oakland

2013-05-06 15:44:00

As Times pop music critic Randall Roberts reported in his review, Gwen Stefani and Keith Urban made surprise appearances during the Rolling Stones' show Friday night at Staples Center, where the legendary English band kicked off a new North American...

For Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, Rolling Stones on new ground

2013-04-16 06:00:00

The 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones' birth in 1962 has had no shortage of commemorative activities: Last year the group was the subject of a retrospective film documentary, a triple CD survey of their recorded output and a handful of celebratory...

Ex-KPMG auditor Scott London is charged

2013-04-11 18:34:00

Prosecutors filed a criminal charge against disgraced former KPMG partner Scott London, saying he gave a stock-trading friend inside information about his firm's clients in exchange for cash, jewelry and expensive dinners. The criminal case filed...

In KPMG insider trading case, crime and blunders alleged

2013-04-11 18:10:00

It's the kind of audacious but small-stakes insider trading that normally wouldn't have merited much attention. Golfing buddies Scott London and Bryan Shaw netted just $1.3 million, a blip in a world where Wall Street kingpins pocket hundreds of...

Fernando Tatis shows Chan Ho Park who's not the bigger man

2013-04-23 13:35:00

There is pure class, and then there is Fernando Tatis. Tatis offers a perfect example how easily Twitter can be abused. Or how easy it is to make yourself look like a clown in 140 characters or less. Tatis is the St. Louis Cardinals third baseman...

Stagecoach 2013: Lady Antebellum looks for a good time

2013-04-28 09:51:00

INDIO — "Thank you, Coachella!" shouted Charles Kelley from the main stage Saturday night at Stagecoach — and, sure, he might've been referring to the desert valley in which the Empire Polo Club is located. More likely, though, was that Lady...

Natalie Maines, here with Ben Harper, left, and bluesman Charlie Musselwhite at the 2013 MusiCares salute to Bruce Springsteen, has released her first solo album, "Mother."

2013-05-08 11:33:15

This mixing board, though retired, has operated at 1st Mariner since it opened in 1962 (as the Baltimore Civic Center) with a Baltimore Clippers ice hockey game.

2013-04-22 00:00:00

1983 If all you know about this movie is the Tom Cruise underpants scene, well, OK, that's a pretty epic scene. But bonus! The movie is set in a Chicago suburb and the soundtrack is--in my humble opinion--still awesome: Bob Seger, The Police, Bruce Springsteen, Prince and the Talking Heads.

2013-02-28 11:39:00