Prime Location. Prime Ribeye. Del Frisco’s Plants Its Flag at the Epicenter of Surf and Sand
Ahi tacos. Pesto chicken flatbread. Shaved prime steak sandwich. Santa Monica’s Ocean Avenue restaurant row just got a welcome addition to its dining scene with the splashy opening of Del Frisco’s Grille, where these signature items and others from the menu quickly disappeared from the trays that were generously being passed to guests that partied well into the night. Del Frisco’s has a prime location – across from the...
Realscreen West Brings Together the Best in Unscripted Programming and Industry Leaders
The 5th annual Realscreen West conference, held in early June at Santa Monica’s Fairmont Miramar Hotel is quickly rivaling its East Coast flagship event as the place to be at the cutting-edge of unscripted/reality television. For two content-packed days, Realscreen attracted a record 900 attendees, including top-level speakers, up a whopping 50% from last year, when about 600 people participated. Network...
Lupus LA & Sweet Relief Musicians Fund Sponsor A Night for Jolie
It’s not often that an event resonates on so many levels, but that was the case as a group of talented musicians played their hearts out to benefit Jolie Levine on the stage that was the site of the historic 1985 recording of “We Are the World.” Ms. Levine, who was Michael Jackson’s assistant and has been a music coordinator for more than 30 years, has been disabled by lupus, a disease without a cure...
Bringing Background Singers to the Forefront at SXSW: Twenty Feet from Stardom
“Rape, murder. It’s just a shot away. It’s just a shot away.” Think of that line from the infamous Rolling Stones song Gimme Shelter. Who sang it? Merry Clayton, one of the singers profiled in the stunning new documentary “Twenty Feet from Stardom,” which premiered at Sundance and was screened at South by Southwest, followed by a surprise performance that generated several standing ovations from the...
The Clive Davis Session at SXSW–Number One With a Bullet
From his beginnings as a record label lawyer to his status as one of the biggest hitmakers in history, not many people in the music industry – if anyone – can boast of a career like Clive Davis has had over the past 40 years. The legendary executive shared some of his stories over those decades during a packed session at the SXSW Music Conference at the Austin Convention Center in a conversation with Billboard’s Bill Werde....
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