What does your weekend have in store? How about taking a walk downtown with a free public art audio tour! Continue reading
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Monthly Archives: January 2014
Proving it’s never to late…or early…to learn!
Six Levitt performers won big at Sunday’s GRAMMY ceremony! Big congrats goes out to La Santa Cecilia, Gary Clark Jr., Snarky Puppy, Mariachi Divas, Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience and Gregory Porter.
Find out more about their wins in the Levitt newsroom.
When Jimmy Webb performed his hit “MacArthur Park” in MacArthur Park on the Levitt L.A. stage, it did not cause a rip in the space-time continuum.
It was however, a very special night. In June 2013, the GRAMMY-winning songwriter performed his famous song for the very first time in the park.
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One of my favorite stories about Martin Luther King Jr. involves music. Or rather, comes back to an interaction between him and legendary gospel singer Mahalia Jackson during King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Continue reading
Cute, furry and polite…what’s not to love?
If you watched the Golden Globes last night, you saw director Spike Jones take home an award for the movie Her. Continue reading
London’s Southbank Centre
In November we wrote about the whitewashing of 5 Pointz in Queens, a graffiti mecca that will soon become a residential high rise with retail space. Over the past few months, a similar controversy has been brewing between London’s Southbank Centre and the skateboarders who have been a fixture of the building’s undercroft (considered architectural dead space) for over 40 years.
It was easy for passersby to mistake the seemingly decayed fashion ads as long, lost relics of an abandoned department store in downtown Buffalo.
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We can’t help ourselves. We love underappreciated brass instruments, especially when they’re played by super cool marching band Mucca Pazza!