A new generation of musicians is discovering the pioneering composer, professor, accordionist and feminist thinker who saw music as healing. Long Beach Opera is taking the radical risk of devoting ...

Long Beach Opera has a vision, and it’s not afraid to implement it. The opera house has embarked on a yearlong tour of the works of visionary musician Pauline Oliveros, an experimental and avant ...

Pauline Alice Young (Olszewski) passed away peacefully on Feb 16, 2025, in Woodinville, WA, with her daughter, Tina, by her side. Born Dec 30, 1934, in Long Beach, CA, she graduated from St ...

Sporting a garish sunburn, Nic Cage is always ready to deliver strong work, but thriller The Surfer can't keep up with its ...

“Here’s our slogan,” Long Beach Opera’s interim managing director proudly announces during a recent conversation about the company’s upcoming season, “We’re not the Met!” ...

Los Angeles is in the midst of a de facto chamber opera festival with productions across the region tackling the social and ...

She was raised by her parents Paul Vernon Smith and Joy Marvel Wheeler with help from her older sisters Joyce, Pauline and Barbara ... in the choir at Manhattan Beach Community Church until ...

The gruff-but-beloved Hackman was among the finest actors of his generation, appearing as both villains, heroes and ...

He was an early retiree — essentially done, by choice, with movies by his mid-70s — and ... as bank robber Clyde Barrow's outgoing brother. Pauline Kael in The New Yorker called Hackman's ...