Glenn Miller

Carpenter Performing Arts Center announces 2013-14 season

2013-03-27 10:50:00

The Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach has announced its 2013-14 season, which will include a typically eclectic offering of dance, music, cabaret and more. The center is located on the campus of Cal State Long Beach. The season will feature...

Paul Tanner dies at 95; trombonist with Glenn Miller Orchestra

2013-02-06 21:23:00

Paul Tanner, a trombonist with the Glenn Miller Orchestra who became a prominent jazz educator at UCLA and created an unusual electronic musical instrument heard on the Beach Boys' classic 1966 hit "Good Vibrations," has died. He was 95. Tanner died...

Patty Andrews dies at 94; Andrews Sisters' last surviving member

2013-01-30 14:34:00

They were the swinging, sassy voice of the homefront for U.S. service personnel overseas during World War II, singing catchy hit tunes such as "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy" and "Rum and Coca Cola" that delighted Americans and catapulted the Andrews Sisters to...

Dorsey High's class of '42 shares 70 years of memories

2012-10-21 00:00:00

Time slips by so fast. One day you're in high school, the next squinting at faces, searching for traces of the long-ago teenagers you once knew. So few left now in the Dorsey High class of 1942, gathered for a 70th reunion lunch at the Marina del...

Tony Martin dies at 98; singer-actor in Hollywood musicals

2012-07-30 11:35:00

Tony Martin, one of the last of the big-name singer-actors from the golden age of Hollywood musicals, has died. He was 98. Martin, who toured for years with his wife, dancer-actress Cyd Charisse, died of natural causes Friday at his home in Los Angeles,...

Jim Carrey lists Malibu Colony beach house at $13.95 million

2012-06-24 00:00:00

Actor-comedian Jim Carrey has listed his place in gated Malibu Colony at $13.95 million. The two-story contemporary beach house features an open plan living room, family room, dining room and kitchen that lead to an ocean-facing deck. There are...

Disneyland princesses moving into new Fantasy Faire village in 2013

2011-08-23 18:31:00

Breaking a wicked stepmother's curse, Disneyland's fairytale princesses will be whisked away from their crowded one-room temporary home in 2013 and magically transported to a spacious new storybook village more befitting of their royal lineage. Blame...

Big-band leader Ray Anthony lists Hollywood Hills home

2012-06-05 12:39:00

Big-band leader and trumpeter Ray Anthony has put his home in the Hollywood Hills West area on the market at $5.2 million. Custom-built for Anthony in 1975, the 3,881-square-foot house contains a den, an office, a gym, two fireplaces, two bedrooms and...

An appreciation: Herb Reed helped R&B, pop soar with the Platters

2012-06-05 16:37:42

Billy Strange dies at 81; guitarist, arranger for Presley, Nancy Sinatra

2012-02-24 00:00:00

Guitarist Billy Strange once took the kind of phone call that thousands of musicians receive only in their best and wildest dreams. "I was staying at a hotel in Nashville in 1965 when my telephone rang and this unmistakable voice said, 'Billy, this is...

An Appreciation: Etta James

2012-01-20 16:36:10

Harry Morgan dies at 96; star of TV's 'MASH'

2011-12-07 10:23:00

Emmy Award-winning actor Harry Morgan, who played the crusty yet sympathetic Col. Sherman T. Potter in the sitcom "MASH" and the hard-nosed LAPD Officer Bill Gannon in the television drama "Dragnet," died Wednesday. He was 96. Morgan died at his home...

OCSO corporal Jason Robbins and Unmanned Aerial Systems pilot Glenn Miller (right) demonstrate the Dragonflyer X6 drone, during a press conference with Sheriff Jerry Demings, at the sheriff's office gun range in southeast Orange county, Friday, January 18, 2012.

2013-01-18 00:00:00

Your Health Insurance Shop individual product specialists Alicia Formica and Cristy Pritts along with VCS Group President Glenn Miller watch as manager of individual products Maureen Snyder shows how people can use the computers to compare plans.

2012-08-08 00:00:00

Members of the Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles Glenn Miller, right, and Curtis Wilkins perform at Glendale High School on Thursday, March 15, 2012. There are 215 members in the choir and was founded in 1979. They will be performing March 24 and 25 at the First Congregational Church in Korea town.

2012-03-15 12:20:08