Featured Portals to California Art:

American Film Institute - Los Angeles

William Shatner - EXODUS: An Oratorio In Three Parts - JMG

Pacific Western Traders - Folsom
__ Frank LaPena: Cycles of Songs & Stories, Paintings & Prints (review)

San Francisco Gay Mens Chorus: Home for the Holiday
Chanticleer - Let it Snow
Oakland Ballet- Ronn Guidi's Nutcracker
The San Francisco Lesbian/Gay Freedom Band: Dance Along Nutcracker
Gay Men's Chorus of San Diego: Holiday Toons
LA Phil and the Westside Ballet: Twas the week Before Christmas

The Mulholland Christmas Carol - Sacred Fools Theatre, Los Angeles
Norman Allen: The Christmas Foundling - Sierra Rep, Columbia
La Virgen Del Tepeyac - El Teatro Campesino, San Juan Bautista
Black Nativity - A Gospel Celebration of Christmas - San Francisco
Japanese New Year Bell Ringing Ceremony - Asian Art Museum

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
18th Street Arts Center - Santa Monica
University Art Museum, UC Santa Barbara
Shana Lutker, Anna Sew Hoy, and Brenna Youngblood:
CB08, the California Biennial
Hosted by the Orange Country Museum of Art
and exhibited throughout California, the 2008 California Biennial
also features the work of Bruce Conner, Mary Kelly, Tony Labat
Kara Tanaka, Ruben Ortiz-Torres and many others.

California's Living New Deal Project
Long Beach Museum of Art
__California, Seen: Landscapes of a Changing California, 1930-1970
Laguna Art Museum
__In Nature's Temple: The Life and Art of William Wendt
William Wendt (1865-1946) - Edenhurst Gallery
Japanese American National Museum- Los Angeles
__Twenty Years Ago Today
- the 20th anniversary of the California Community Foundation's
Fellowships for Visual Artists

KVIE Public Television- Sacramento
KCSM Jazz Radio - San Mateo

Cher
Los Cenzontles - San Pablo
El Chicano

Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles
Men Alive - The Orange County Gay Men's Chorus
Silicon Valley Gay Men's Chorus
Rainbow Women's Chorus - San Jose
Silver Bells - Sacramento Gay Men's Chorus

City Ballet of San Diego
San Diego Ballet
Smuin Ballet: The Christmas Ballet
California Riverside Ballet

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
San Jose Museum of Art
Sonoma County Gallery Group

Pasadena Arts Council
Marin Arts Council
Los Gatos Art Association
Merced County Arts Council

Alliance Francaise of Napa
Korean Cultural Center - Los Angeles
Croatian American Cultural Center - San Francisco
Zawaya - Arabic Music, Art, Poetry, Literature, Theater, and Culture

Gaetano Merola (1881-1953) - Wikipedia
Kurt Adler (1905-1988) - Baker's Student Encyclopedia of Music
Laurette Goldberg (1932-2005) - Berkeley Daily Planet
Joseph Wilbur Spencer (1937-2001)- The Musical Offering
David Nadel (1946-1996) - Ashkenaz

The Darius Milhaud Collection - Mills College
Lou Harrison Documentary Project
Bebe Barron (1925-2008) - Barry Schrader
Jim Horton (1944-1998) - Leonardo
Margaret Bonds (1913-1972) - The African American Registry

Jerry Garcia (1942-1995)
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996)
Richie Valens (1941-1959)
Mama Cass(1941-1974)

Michael Hedges (1953-1997)
Stephen "Lucky" Mosko (1947 - 2005)
Emily Bernstein (1959 - 2005) - LA Weekly

Kate Wolf (1942-1986)

Janis Joplin (1943-1970)
Sonny Bono (1935-1998)- CNN

December 2008

California Studies Blog
events, calendar, news, publications

"Carol Muske-Dukes appointed California's
Poet Laureate" - California Arts Council

Sarah Schrank
Art and the City: Civic Imagination and Cultural Authority
in Los Angeles- University of Pennsylvania Press

Scott MacDonald
Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an
Independent Film Distributor - University of California Press

Mark DeWitt
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California:
Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
The University Press of Mississippi

My Vocabulary Did This to Me
The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
edited by Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian
Wesleyan Univesity Press

Lyn Hejinian
Saga / Circus - Omnidawn

Adam David Miller
Ticket to Exile - Heyday

Lisa See
Peony in Love - Random House

Wayne Bonnett
Mt.Shasta Camera:
The Photographs of Charles Miller
Windgate Press

Tia Chucha's Cafe Cultural - Sylmar
Berkshire Books - Concord
Mendocino Stories

Isabel Allende
The Sum of Our Days - Harper Collins

James D. Houston
Bird of Another Heaven - Knopf

ALL: A James Broughton Reader
Edited by Jack Foley - White Crane Press

Allan Kaprow-Art as Life
Edited by Eva Meyer-Hermann, Andrew Perchuk, and Stephanie Rosenthal
Getty Research Institute

Haight-Ashbury in the 1960s

California State Library

Art California Archives - 2008

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