Ry Cooder

Southern California Close-Ups: Venice, Santa Monica, Malibu

2012-06-02 00:00:00

First published on July 31, 2011. Revised and expanded in early 2012. You could spend a solid year sniffing out cool spots for travelers in Venice, Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades and Malibu -- scores of hotels, hundreds of restaurants and bars, more...

A dance with Castro's Cuba

2012-11-18 00:00:00

HAVANA — "It's been 51 years since the event you Americans call the Bay of Pigs, but now Playa Gir�n is a popular beach destination for foreigners," the guide tells me. It is hard to imagine that the words "Bay of Pigs" could do anything but fill...

Los Angeles librarian is all over the maps

2012-09-20 00:00:00

Glen Creason is used to waiting at the downtown Central Library. At the reference desk in a large space four floors below 5th Street, he knows the questions will come. They always do. "There was a baseball field somewhere in L.A. in 1888 that only lasted...

Marking Supreme Court's Arizona ruling with songs about immigrants

2012-06-25 16:37:33

Video premiere: Robert Francis' 'Perfectly Yours'

2012-05-22 16:37:04

Chris Ethridge dies at 65; bassist in 1960s band Flying Burrito Brothers

2012-04-25 00:00:00

Members of the International Submarine Band chose a name for their new group that practically ensured it would never rise above cult status, and sure enough, that band disappeared with barely a trace after making a handful of recordings in the mid-1960s....

Kenneth Price dies at 77; artist transformed traditional ceramics

2012-02-25 00:00:00

Kenneth Price, a prolific Los Angeles artist whose work with glazed and painted clay transformed traditional ceramics while also expanding orthodox definitions of American and European sculpture, died early Friday at his home and studio in Taos, N.M. He...

Words & Ideas

2012-01-08 00:00:00

Book excerpt: from 'Los Angeles Stories' by Ry Cooder

2011-12-04 00:00:00

This weekend: Ry Cooder, holiday book guide

2011-12-03 16:34:38

Joachim Cooder hops a new 'Train'

2012-04-06 16:37:17

Jazz review: Anthony Wilson Trio with Jim Keltner at the Blue Whale

2012-04-13 16:33:38

Ry Cooder , bottom left, with Chieftains Matt Molloy, Paddy Moloney, Kevin Conneff, Sean Keane.

2010-02-12 11:03:32

"Buena Vista Social Club" (1999) Musician Ry Cooder seeks the living legends of Cuban music through the run-down, pulsing streets of Havana. Enter a world of music, motorcycles with sidecars, kids on skates, fabulous faces, dilapidated buildings and a woman with a cigar the size of a baseball bat.

2008-01-18 17:50:29