Yoko Ono

Kim Kardashian, Kanye West caught in steamy embrace on mag cover

2013-02-26 11:55:00

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are getting steamy in a sexy nude photo for the spring cover of French magazine L'Officiel Hommes. Parlez-vous PDA?! The couple, who are expecting a baby in June, are caught in a passionate -- potentially coital --...

Celebrity wardrobe hits and misses of 2012

2012-12-30 00:00:00

Strike a pose If you're Madonna and you plan to stage the most fashionable Super Bowl halftime show in years, there's only one way to kick it off: Perform the 1990 smash hit "Vogue" as classic Vogue covers are projected on stage. The Queen of Pop's...

Happy 80th birthday, Yoko Ono

2013-02-18 13:03:40

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It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas

2012-11-23 08:00:00

It's word association time. Say the first word that springs to mind: "holiday ----." Did you think "season"? "Sale"? "Hangover"? How about "music?" This year, there are plenty of new holiday albums to pick from. Cee Lo Green, English pop-rocker Tracey...

The year of John Cage

2012-12-23 07:00:00

Once, when asked how he thought history would consider his work, John Cage responded that he had made so much, getting rid of it all would be very difficult. Twenty years after his death he has been spectacularly proven right. This year marked the 100th...

John Lennon's 'hot bod' inspires new collection from Yoko Ono

2012-11-26 08:07:00

Yoko Ono has designed a menswear capsule collection for Opening Ceremony that's slated to debut Tuesday. The designs are inspired by her late husband John Lennon's "hot bod," she says. The collection includes a jockstrap, knee pads with eyes on them and a...

John Lennon fans gather at his Hollywood star on 72nd birthday

2012-10-10 07:33:32

Hollywood Hills West home where John Lennon lived sells for $4.2 million

2012-09-18 15:27:00

A contemporary house in the Hollywood Hills West "bird streets" area where Beatle John Lennon once landed has sold, again, for $4.2 million. It had previously changed hands in April, also for $4.2 million. The seller, from the United Kingdom, had...

Pussy Riot and the politics of grrrl punk

2012-09-13 07:00:00

I wonder, as they sit in their separate cells, what songs the three jailed members of Pussy Riot sing to themselves to keep their spirits strong. My vote: “Resist Psychic Death” by the early 1990s punk feminist band Bikini Kill. The verse...

Stalinist tactics on Russian dissent could stumble in Internet era

2012-08-10 05:04:41

L.A. Film Festival: A musical mystery in 'Searching for Sugar Man'

2012-06-18 16:39:42

Scott Turow flashes back with the Beatles on KCRW

2012-06-12 16:36:35

In 1980, the Beatles' John Lennon was shot and killed outside the Dakota apartment building in New York City. It was far from the first or last high-profile incident of gun violence in America, but the memory is still painful.

2013-03-22 11:24:52

Yoko Ono turns 80 years old Monday.

2013-02-17 22:34:53

John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Manhattan in 1980.

2012-12-07 00:00:00